rythie

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by rythie 11y ago
Citation needed on the Innovator's Dilemma point. I can't find anything that backs up your point. As I remember from reading the book, most of the companies mentioned in the book went bust, so there is no way they could have domin
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by rythie 11y ago
Presumably, this is the reason that most phones can't be upgraded to the later Android releases?
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by rythie 11y ago
It's $120/GB/year with Digital ocean, not what I'd call cheap (Yes, you get more CPU and disk, but you don't need it).
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by rythie 11y ago
It's interesting that because the OS was ahead in one key area, probably only for a couple of years, they spent 18 years using it.
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by rythie 11y ago
I'm not sure that it does to be honest. UI effects can be disabled on older machines. Cameras, Cars, Microwaves, Washing machines & DVD players all last 10 years or more easily. A 2006 Macbook had 512MB (upgradable to 2GB) and 1.8G
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by rythie 11y ago
It's not apathy or incompetence that means people are using these old OSes, usually it's that you can't upgrade (and the users don't have the money to upgrade the hardware). Windows 7 won't run on a typical XP machi
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by rythie 11y ago
Pocket for iOS does this too.
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by rythie 11y ago
Implementing caching servers and horizontal scaling is complicated and requires talented people who typically need to be on call. It's lot of complicated moving parts, which can easily go wrong outside office hours when a site unexpect
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by rythie 11y ago
Translation: at some point after putting one hack on top of another at high speed, we will clean up the mess and do it properly.
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by rythie 11y ago
Leaving the security issue aside for a moment, they are re-implementing package management. For example: - What version do I have, how to I roll back to a version that works? - What packages do I need for this and where's the log for w
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by rythie 11y ago
It's the standard ". No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame. " response. http://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases-ip...
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by rythie 11y ago
I really doubt Apple is going to do anything radical like that with it's Intel based products. To do so would be massively expensive, dwarfing the revenue from it's Intel-based products, let alone any benefit. Apple's Intel b
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by rythie 11y ago
Unless we start paying for online content, this is going to not only continue, but get worse.
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by rythie 11y ago
To allow remote management tools to run. If there's one thing that'll make your systems insecure, it's letting everyone manage their own boxes. SSHd allows you to restrict particular users to IP ranges and of course you can u
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by rythie 11y ago
I've been disabling by default for a few weeks, though many sites still use it, for example: - Facebook (videos) - Twitter (bizarrely uses it for gifs in Firefox) - YouTube - BBC news - The Independent and most of UK press
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by rythie 11y ago
...meanwhile we still have flash video because HTML5 isn't good enough to replace it yet.
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by rythie 11y ago
This seems pretty common in British newspapers, even outside facebook. Videos often appear on newspaper's own sites instead of embedding the YouTube video. For example this from the Guardian ( http://www.theguardian.com/
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by rythie 11y ago
Obviously it needs to be a lot easier than that - the fact that it's difficult right now is the problem. It needs to easy to manage like a smart phone or tablet is.
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by rythie 11y ago
It doesn't seem a big leap to have a small UPS at home ($42 gets you 37mins@20W) or even a rechargable battery in the router and mail server. Further resilence could be handled by partering with another device at a trusted person'
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by rythie 11y ago
If you read the findings, it's basically a 3 page "case study" (i.e. advert), the last page of which is a screenshot of "TSO Logic" - which claims to solve this. One reference is from 2008 and another is TSO Logic&#
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by rythie 11y ago
There is a long standing technical solution, though it's not widely implemented, WPA-enterprise. With WPA-enterprise I have my own personal key and I am automatically logged in. In the UK, "The Cloud" service offers this, whi
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by rythie 11y ago
Products with ongoing pricing turn out very expensive in the end. A product that is $10/month will often workout more than one that it is $100 upfront. I prefer iOS apps that you either pay or upfront or, even better, a one-time fee to
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by rythie 11y ago
Sourceforge's mirrors are a complete miss-use of the term mirror. A mirror should be an exact copy of the source and should be approved by the original project, which I doubt any of these 'mirrors' are.
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by rythie 11y ago
Even if 240ms was fast, is it still that fast on old iPad, budget Android phone or old computer?
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by rythie 11y ago
Much like YouTube was originally or Uber is now?
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by rythie 11y ago
Ultimately the main difference between the vendors is performance and availability - you pay a lot more to increase either of those. If you don't need either even a consumer style synology nas can work.
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by rythie 11y ago
What if they replaced the cat gif with a some objectionable content? e.g. a beheading, surely this could scar you for life?
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by rythie 11y ago
What about confidentiality of the package downloads though? e.g. Snoop the traffic, notice they are downloading a fix, they probably don't have it, automatically attack them before they apply it.
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by rythie 12y ago
Do you have a specific example where you need unencrypted packets? What exactly are you claiming you can't see? Encrypted (SSL/TLS) connections still have packets and flows, also there are IP addresses, port numbers, sequence nu
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by rythie 12y ago
I've come to the same conclusion. It needs a set of junior consultants to do more basic stuff for a decent amount, leaving the main person/people as the highest cost per day - and only called in if necessary. Someone to setup fund

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