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by rowanseymour 14y ago
I also live in Rwanda and whilst I don't agree with my friend's argument that playing football with a piece of trash is as much fun as playing with a real ball, I do agree with his conclusion that this a solution looking for a problem. Ther
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by rowanseymour 14y ago
> I've always viewed whois protection as a huge scam Private registrations allow you to anonymously register a domain. That's still a useful service for a lot of people.
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by rowanseymour 14y ago
1. Download Eclipse for Java developers ( http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/ ) 2. Try Oracle's Java tutorials which are surprisingly good ( http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/ )
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by rowanseymour 14y ago
No hash is impossible to reverse but I think the strength of these systems is that the final password isn't something you need to remember. It can be as long and as complex as the website allows. Even weak hash functions like SHA-1 are un
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by rowanseymour 14y ago
I haven't checked what the hash function and length used in PwdHash is but I use PasswordMaker which is kinda the same thing except you can specify exactly how the hash is generated from your master password. Because you don't have to remem
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by rowanseymour 14y ago
And http://passwordmaker.org/ (website down right now?) which I think supports more platforms than either of those. I use the Firefox/Chrome extensions and one of the [not so great] Android apps I'm definitely an advocate of password gene
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by rowanseymour 14y ago
I definitely second both of these. The nature of my work means I end up using my computer in all sorts of places. Even just one day of trying to type on a desk that's too low, too high or too far away (i.e. there isn't room to get your legs
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by rowanseymour 14y ago
Here in Rwanda we keep hearing how we have the 3rd fastest internet in Africa according to Ookla, but it's kinda nonsense because Ookla measures speed to the nearest Ookla server. In Rwanda the internal infrastructure is great and there's a
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by rowanseymour 14y ago
That's out of date. Try http://manypossibilities.net/african-undersea-cables/ which has cables planned up to 2014
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by rowanseymour 14y ago
Ah ok. I agree. Generalizations about Africa are generally wrong. There's a world of difference between Cairo or Cape Town or somewhere deep in the jungles of the DRC. There's really good map of planned and existing submarine cables to Afri
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by rowanseymour 14y ago
The post is from Zimbabwe so do you mean Southern Africa?
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by rowanseymour 14y ago
10 hops to plus.google.com but 30 to facebook.com. I imagine Google must have servers in Nairobi, Kenya
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by rowanseymour 14y ago
In Rwanda here - can't say I notice much difference between Google+ and Facebook. The Facebook website is significantly more usable than the Facebook Android app which doesn't work at all... but I think that applies the world over.
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by rowanseymour 14y ago
Great to know I'm not the only one - I had figured it was my third world internet connection. I've pretty much given up on it because it takes so long to display anything. Often if I click a link and come back to it then it goes back to loa
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by rowanseymour 14y ago
> you cannot sue for infringement of a copyright work unless it is registered as a federal copyright with the Copyright Office. I'm having a hard time understanding what it means to have automatic copyright when a work is created... but
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by rowanseymour 15y ago
I'd say lack of Microsoft Office is the another big issue. LibreOffice/OpenOffice has come along away but is nowhere near as polished, and never quite displays a document the way it was meant to be. That's what kept me dual booting until I
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by rowanseymour 15y ago
It takes a complex issue and reduces it to a product that people can purchase. It's the same thing that we saw with Save Darfur, 1Million t-shirts etc. Africa's problems become the "white man's burden" and he's told that if he will just buy
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by rowanseymour 15y ago
I would not recommend Heart of Darkness to a beginner on the Congo. Yes it deals with the brutality of Belgian colonialism... but it's dated and has it's own racist portrayal of Africa as the dark continent with primitive peoples. I would t
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by rowanseymour 15y ago
I live in Rwanda and like a sizeable portion of Twitter's userbase, have very slow internet. When Twitter switched to their new design it got a lot harder to open their site... I kept using the old version until they removed it. I don't und
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by rowanseymour 15y ago
This is fantastic - making all my students read this. English is a third language for most of them so I'm always trying to decipher the most cryptic method and variable names.
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by rowanseymour 15y ago
Surely the largest part of the "blame" has to lie with the US authorities for putting such sensitive cables somewhere where so many people (Bradley Manning being only one of them) could access them?
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by rowanseymour 15y ago
I've given up on trusting any site to protect my password, so now I use passwordmaker.org to create my own hashed site-specific passwords.
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by rowanseymour 15y ago
@2 By "playing nice" do you mean taking over? Can I export any of the information I put into Facebook into different sites? Can I use my Facebook email address with a different client?
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by rowanseymour 15y ago
Very interesting and sheds some light on the weird latency issues I see here in Rwanda, where 3G issues aren't limited to being on moving trains. Sometimes pinging shows crazy return times of 30000-60000ms. Other times they're only 200-400m
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by rowanseymour 15y ago
Something tragic about watching the live twitter feed on their own product launch page mostly criticise this phone and MeeGo. I suppose censoring it would send a worse message.
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by rowanseymour 15y ago
In theory we are connected to this here in Rwanda (via Uganda). In practice it seems the ISPs are unwilling to pay for the bandwidth so our connectivity ranges from ok to unusable. Having said that, things have improved enormously over the