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by sengork 9y ago
FireWire used to be a similar basket case. Don't think the firmware/drivers got fixed, instead it became an obsolete hardware port and replaced by TB/USB/etc...
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by sengork 9y ago
Makes me wonder what Tanenbaum thinks of the arguably most common MINIX deployment. Considering that their conference has been cancelled [0] it would seem that this OS is largely unexplored and by extension not thoroughly audited. [0] - ht
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by sengork 9y ago
It is interesting to observe that this teardown has been carried out down under (in Australia). Maybe it had something to do with the timezones and release date.
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by sengork 9y ago
You won't notice any performance loss as long as you choose DNS servers which are relatively close to you (low latency). For example your own ISP's servers should do fine.
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by sengork 9y ago
Interesting photo of the burned down buildings considering the trees/bush plants immediately surrounding the two buildings are completely intact.
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by sengork 9y ago
This might be a good time to switch off main SSID and exclusively use Guest SSID which is a feature in many routers. At least it would help to isolate wired computers away from the common wifi network. One could then safely use weird comput
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by sengork 9y ago
Spoofed yes but they're hard to guess in advance without prior knowledge of the device's MAC address.
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by sengork 9y ago
Here is a good summary of the situation right now: https://www.alexhudson.com/2017/10/15/wpa2-broken-krack-now/
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by sengork 9y ago
Extensions are the new "Let's play find the download button on a webpage" that's been around for years. [1] So many users download replicas of uBlock and find it hard to install the original uBlock Origin extension. Coun
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by sengork 9y ago
This is the illustrated version of the discussion: http://www.projectcartoon.com/pdf.php?CartoonID=2&PaperSize=...
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by sengork 9y ago
This reminds me of AWK Music http://kmkeen.com/awk-music/
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by sengork 9y ago
For anyone interested in multi cloud deployments at the IaaS layer I recommend looking at https://libcloud.apache.org/
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Wristwatches made out of HDDs(hddwatches.com)
2 points by sengork 9y ago|0 comments
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by sengork 9y ago
Yes, tools like Comodo firewall by default are set to be quiet and prevent end user prompts as much as possible. Regardless the amount of components (whether it be OS, software or website elements) which attempt connecting is overwhelming f
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by sengork 9y ago
Interesting to see Melbourne Australia in some of the maps.
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by sengork 9y ago
Hierarchical web browsing navigation is something that's been around in NetSurf for a while, more browsers need it: http://www.netsurf-browser.org/documentation/guide.html#Hist... https://pbs.twimg.com&
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by sengork 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korea_under_Japanese_rule
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by sengork 9y ago
Interesting nevertheless, appreciate your reply. This is the first time Apple have given in to OLED displays and wireless charging (and a standardised one even) - both relatively old technologies [1] which were at their disposal during Ste
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by sengork 9y ago
Things become really fun when you're trying to figure out why that command fails when you've copy/pasted it from another application window. Often it's the quotes which have been silently (automatically) converted to a v
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by sengork 9y ago
Would genuinely love to know the reasoning behind the negative votes. Steve's departure has certainly changed the company in the past.
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by sengork 9y ago
I am guessing this had something to do with Steve Jobs no longer being there. More freedom for choosing technologies.
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by sengork 9y ago
I find it fascinating how hard Apple make it to find the battery capacity (mAh or Wh) for iPhones. My understanding is that they do not want people to make a direct mAh capacity comparison to competing phones on the basis that iPhone can &q
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by sengork 9y ago
In Australia this concept is widely recognised as 'fair go'.
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“Oracle laid off all Solaris tech staff in a classic silent EOL of the product”(twitter.com)
753 points by sengork 9y ago|387 comments
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by sengork 9y ago
With the higher density flash cells on the same surface area, one wonders about the heat dissipation (especially in mobile phones). This and the associated workload (read vs write) ultimately determine the lifespan of these cards.
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by sengork 9y ago
This is to some extend implemented in Samsung's screen edge feature found on phones with curved screens (although it is not context aware by default): http://www.samsung.com/us/support/answer/ANS00047881&
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by sengork 9y ago
I feel that recognisable and consistent tactile feedback is so important for developing and executing muscle memory. Today on most devices this element is largely overlooked (eg. compare a walkman with physical buttons to an music applicati
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by sengork 9y ago
I guess if one was interested in monitoring traffic of example their mobile phone, one could fix the phone to connect at 2.4GHz only. This would allow a capture to be made using this device. Regardless 5GHz would have been handy to include.
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by sengork 9y ago
Energy efficiency relative to the same compute power for newer devices has been a major factor for not using old computers to perform computations. Maybe this principle carries over to low powered mobile devices, certainly some basic econom
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by sengork 9y ago
It's worthy to note that the buildings of the Volkswagen factory near Bratislava were build during the old eastern bloc days (BAZ) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Bratislava_Plant VW would have moved thei

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