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by prosaic-hacker 6y ago
A couple of month Pre-pan our Computer Support vocational training department intercepted 2 dozen Dell E5420 with i5-2520M CPUs on the way to electronic recycling. We upgraded them to 1TB SSD and 16GB memory, half Win 10 half Debian 10.5. P
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How and why I stopped buying new laptops(lowtechmagazine.com)
80 points by prosaic-hacker 6y ago|100 comments
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by prosaic-hacker 6y ago
It may not directly pay but his reputation as Security Expert is enhanced. I don't know if "Big Internet" (ICANN, IANA, IETF, RIRs) does not have its own security group like the Commercial companies do (Project Zero, various
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by prosaic-hacker 6y ago
That is what I have done since my first cell phone over 20 years ago. My Nokia 3310 series lasted 8 years, a Samsung slider 5 years both phone cost up front and pay as you go.(there were 2 to other short term hand me down due to dropped pho
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by prosaic-hacker 6y ago
The model of limited versions seem to be common to other tools like this. There is the Liberty Basic($$)/Justbasic(Free) duo www.justbasic.com http://www.libertybasic.com/ They are Windows only although once upon a ti
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by prosaic-hacker 6y ago
Not a simple general intro to pointers A useful gentle intro to the C type feature of pointers to arrays. The C language has more than one way of accessing arrays. Other languages don't. In the classic 80s teaching language Pascal if
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by prosaic-hacker 6y ago
I have the same info need in spite of the fact I have been in IT for decades as a developer and system admin I have never been exposed to the day to day network needs of the enterprise. I am unsure of even the questions to ask as I have unk
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by prosaic-hacker 6y ago
To a degree that is proportional to their ability to make use of it. If the the request is "do it for me" its not likely to happen more than once. If it is show me how to ... and they learn this is good. A elderly relative not to
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by prosaic-hacker 6y ago
I have ask this half baked question many time in many places and I have received the lower tier answers all the time. Driving on a multi-lane highways with no traffic (yes it can happen, eg upstate NY Adirondacks overnight ) you can straigh