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by omh 15y ago
I'm using the new version on the same (32-bit x86 XP SP3) and I don't see the issue. Everything works as expected.
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BBC Worldwide to offer TV episodes to rent for the first time on Facebook(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by omh 15y ago|3 comments
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by omh 15y ago
The issue here is the mixing of new features and security updates. As a sysadmin, I would happily (and do!) roll out periodic security updates without significant testing, for the reasons that you outline. But when the software is deliberat
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by omh 15y ago
Or two clicks for your corporate sysadmin to force it :-)
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by omh 15y ago
Why does the iPhone talk to anything on the data port without entering the passcode first? It seems like this is reading the encrypted data and then brute forcing it, but there's no need to give access to even the 'secure' data without aski
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by omh 15y ago
There are disadvantages to constant, automatic updates. I had a call from someone who'd been using Chrome to regularly print a web page, and one day it just stopped working. The site hadn't changed, but for whatever reason the latest versio
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by omh 15y ago
It could be useful for corporate laptop users. I can imagine using this so that I know the IP address and connectivity status of remote users to use when they call in with issues.
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by omh 16y ago
This only works for projects that Oracle can't see a profiy in. VirtualBox should be fine, maybe even MySQL, but Solaris and Java might be a bit tougher...
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by omh 16y ago
But to be fair to RIM, the conversation seems to have been more like: India: Give us access to your secure messaging service RIM: Sorry, that isn't technically possible India: Give us access to your secure messaging service RIM: Sorry, that
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by omh 16y ago
Corporate firewalls aren't about trust, they're about box ticking and support contracts (and if you're lucky, you get some protection in there too)
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by omh 16y ago
I'd say it's no better or worse than any other group scheduling app like Outlook I'm a Notes/Domino admin for a small company and I'd have to disagree. The number of bugs, and the way that they interact, is just ridiculous in Notes. The l
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by omh 16y ago
if the meeting is global, use zulu time Do you really use this in conversations/emails etc? I can't imagine many non-technical people being happy to deal with describing meeting times in this way. Of course software can (and generally doe
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by omh 16y ago
most notably Lotus Notes Some people, when confronted with a calendaring problem, think "I know, I'll use Lotus Notes". Now they have two problems
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by omh 16y ago
both have history in NextOS/Openstep But OS X basically is NextOS isn't it?
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by omh 16y ago
the important thing is that you don't lay down to fools Is this really a good idea when the fools are the government? Refusing to comply with actual laws makes it quite likely that you'll be sued or arrested, which isn't a great idea for
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by omh 16y ago
I understand what you did, but the mathematician in me cringed at the word "proof" in that comment.
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by omh 16y ago
And vice versa! As a sysadmin I wouldn't want to give the private key to someone with the knowledge of how to use it for interception of the traffic it's protecting ( and possibly the opportunity!)
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by omh 16y ago
Does Japan have a DMCA-style law? Even if it does, I'd guess that SCEA has a better (bigger?) team of lawyers than SCEJ when it comes to this sort of case.
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by omh 16y ago
For "Windows-style" ssh, where I just need a prompt, I use psexec: psexec \\computer -u administrator cmd A true SSH service would be useful in lots of other situations though.
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by omh 16y ago
My problem with the HTPC is it was a full Windows stack so it included all the headaches of antivirus, updates, configuration, and UAC prompts required a keyboard be nearby. This was my main problem with an all-in-one HTPC. It was amazing
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by omh 16y ago
According to the media there is going to be £1,500 of funding/incentives for startups as part of this project, but I haven't quite figured out if that is launched yet, or whether it means those offers and the other bits on the page (which
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Revisiting the Home Theater PC(codinghorror.com)
35 points by omh 16y ago|45 comments
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by omh 16y ago
If it causes that much irritation, have you considered making your own CA, adding it to your browsers, and then using that to sign your temporary certificates? It's quite straightforward to do this with openssl.
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by omh 16y ago
Really? I use gvim on Windows all the time. It looks fine - a little 'unixy', but that's practically a feature with Vim.
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by omh 16y ago
But what will happen to those that don't work? If they're permanently damaged (and perhaps difficult to replace?) then that might cause more problems than just rolling blackouts.
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by omh 16y ago
In many cases we could get into the definition of 'need'. But consider something like legal/regulatory requirements. Perhaps you don't know about some law at the moment, but you should be complying with it. I have a product that fixes thi
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by omh 16y ago
Absolutely. So they can need it but not want it. And as barefoot says above, you can want a product without needing it. Need/Want may be correlated, but they certainly don't imply each other, in either direction.
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by omh 16y ago
You could consider that the whole battery backup etc. means that it isn't lying about fsync. It says that it's been permanently written, and then it makes sure that is has. It might not have been burnt to spinning metal, but the system as
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by omh 16y ago
Enterprise hard drives might lie about fsync with caching turned on, but they generally let you disable caching and behave correctly. Of course that completely shafts your performance, but hopefully you were expecting that.
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by omh 16y ago
> An unofficial blog... I subscribe to this blog rather than the official Google blogs for this reason. I get to hear about the interesting new features, but none of the marketing spin from Google themselves.

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