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by mrbill 10y ago
I've got most of these already (from owning the "CD Bookshelf" products ORA put out years ago) but $15 for everything is just too good a deal to pass up, especially since it has a copy of ESA in there (one of my well-worn dog
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It would have been interesting to see how the QuickTransit[1] tech would have evolved, had IBM not bought and basically killed it. Apple used it (as "Rosetta") to run PPC binaries on x86, but it supported other CPU architectures,
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Or the built-in ability to run 16-bit DOS/Windows apps on NT4 running on MIPS Magnum R4000. I had one for a while and it was rather nifty at the time... And then, as you mention, FX!32 for running 32-bit apps (slowly) on NT/Alpha
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For a few years, any time I got a new camera I'd use the ATT/SBC central office here in Houston as my test subject for comparison shots: https://www.flickr.com/photos/mrbill/418219038/
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by mrbill 10y ago
He mentioned getting an update from Honeywell.
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I don't know of any phone vendor that offers a warranty against accidental damage (that doesn't cost extra). By the way: "Google and uBreakiFix offer walk-in repairs for Pixel and Pixel XL" http://www.androida
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by mrbill 10y ago
Or, "Don't buy the Pixel through Project Fi with no intention of activating Fi service, just so you can get the phone shipped to a reseller quicker".
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by mrbill 10y ago
Along similar lines (someone grabbing on to an email address and blaming the recipient for their problems), from a few years back: the city of Tuttle, OK vs. CentOS http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/24/tutt
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by mrbill 10y ago
I've used screen for darn near 20 years now. Have tried to switch to tmux, but even with screen-like keybindings, I end up running into something[0] that makes me switch back because screen is just muscle memory for me at this point.
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Edgerouter X runs around $50, and the Edgerouter Lite is under $100 ($88 currently on Amazon). Both run Ubiquiti's fork of Vyatta/VyOS on top of Debian, on MIPS-based CPUs. https://www.amazon.com/Ubiquiti-EdgeRout
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by mrbill 10y ago
Definitely. One of my favorites.
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https://support.google.com/onhub/answer/7168220
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by mrbill 10y ago
UAP-AC-Lite and UAP-ACs and UAP-AC-LRs are available next-day-delivery from Amazon... I recently bought a UAP-AC-LR (to compare against my OnHub) and had it two days later via Prime. They now even allow basic AP config via an Android/i
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by mrbill 10y ago
Surprised nobody's mentioned the filter manufacturer in Conroe, TX that was still using an IBM 402 and punched cards as recently as three years ago. http://www.chron.com/news/article/xx-4459714.php https:&#x
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by mrbill 10y ago
I used one of their earlier boards, an ALIX 2D3, a few years ago before needing >100Mb throughput. http://www.pcengines.ch/alix2d3.htm
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by mrbill 10y ago
Both the ERL and ERX have hardware NAT offloading as of 1.8.5 (current firmware is 1.9.0), but the ERL also has ipsec offloading. https://www.reddit.com/r/Ubiquiti/comments/4owurp/erl_vs_erx...
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by mrbill 10y ago
I have yet to find a better piece of hardware/software than the Edgerouter Lite / Edgerouter X for near-gigabit NAT, for the price. Sure, I could build something x86 that uses more power and costs 2-3x the price, but it's nic
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by mrbill 10y ago
Here's what the local CO looks like in my hometown (~6K people). It was still a SxS switch when I was in high school (early 90s) but has since been upgraded; I presume most of the building is empty at this point and it's just use
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by mrbill 10y ago
cPanel now supports LetsEncrypt natively: https://blog.cpanel.com/announcing-cpanel-whms-official-lets... Disclaimer: I work there
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FYI they don't filter inbound OR outbound port 25 if you're a Comcast Business customer; in fact I think the only ports they filter for business customers are a couple of ports only used for remote attacks on MS Windows boxes.
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by mrbill 10y ago
I've been doing so for years. Having spent almost a decade in the ISP industry, I don't trust other providers for anything but transit. I have a 50/10 connection from Comcast Business with five static IPs. One of those host
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by mrbill 10y ago
I would rather pay $200 for a refurbished Thinkpad t420s and then $150 in SSD /RAM / wifi card upgrades than $750-1K for a brand new laptop. My last Mac Mini went 4 years before I upgraded to the current model, and honestly there&
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by mrbill 10y ago
BTW I found the article in the first place when it came up on a friend's FB feed, he recognized the picture, and let me know.
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by mrbill 10y ago
Those click bait and fake news sites can be a pain. About a month ago, I discovered that one of them had taken a pic of me and used it in an article about a Canadian guy with a micropenis being denied euthanasia (!). Through reverse image s
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by mrbill 10y ago
For the Dash, surely it can't be that hard to replace the soldered-in battery with a couple of spring terminals so it can be easily replaced in the future..
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by mrbill 10y ago
I signed up back in the $9 days, and currently have ~7k bookmarks on onboard (flawless import of my delicious data, too). It's one of my everyday tools, and would pay a monthly fee if it ever gets to that. A perfect example of "do
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by mrbill 10y ago
Heck, I bought one of the $28 quad-core S905-based Android media player boxes off Amazon just to see how bad it could be - and it's got Kodi latest installed with a bunch of these dodgy plugins. Otherwise, it's pretty amazing for
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by mrbill 10y ago
Last year I worked for a Dropbox-like service, and PayPal was continually giving us grief over using them as a payment service as well. I don't recall them asking us to monitor every user's traffic, though.
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by mrbill 10y ago
See also: Quarter-Price Books in Houston. Love the place, and the owner (while not quite as Book Nazi as this guy) is equally crabby. Just don't go there during the summer. It's not airconditioned well.
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by mrbill 10y ago
One of my strange life experiences: I was working for an ISP that was based in San Antonio and the 55th WorldCon was being held in SA that year ('97). The boss and some coworkers wanted to go, so I tagged along - it was either that, o

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