simonblack

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by simonblack 12y ago
Shhh. For God's sake don't tell my desktop and laptops. They've been running Linux (and UNIX before that) for over 20 years.
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by simonblack 12y ago
I have gone through the 'make it smaller' phase of mobile phones from when they were relatively large heavy bricks that ruined your clothes (or could only be carried in your hand) down to the small chocolate bar size where you cou
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by simonblack 12y ago
There is other history apart from European history. I see no confirmation from Arabic, Russian or Chinese history which would certainly show a 'sudden jump' over the years which were supposedly invented.
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by simonblack 12y ago
The only "Halt and Catch Fire" I'd heard of before was from the satirical computer instruction set from the 70s(?): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halt_and_Catch_Fire
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by simonblack 12y ago
Mainly so the airline can hire out an iPad for in-flight entertainment. They hold your credit card until you return the iPad at the end of the flight.
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by simonblack 12y ago
When enough people boycott the content-providers for their heavy-handed actions. BDS can be used against companies just as much as against countries.
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by simonblack 12y ago
Facebook problem? (many of us think Facebook IS a problem.) This content is currently unavailable The page you requested cannot be displayed at the moment. It may be temporarily unavailable, the link you clicked on may have expired, or you
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by simonblack 12y ago
Brand-Names have such a hold in the US that it's often quite difficult to find out what the chemical (or 'generic') name for a drug really is, even using Google. This is a problem for them overseas because the brand-names oft
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by simonblack 12y ago
"If you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear".
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by simonblack 12y ago
Sometimes the lo-tech approach works the best. Shades of the 'Windtalkers', who used Native American language during WW2 as a form of unbreakable code.
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by simonblack 12y ago
It's a very special place: it's called a Bookmarks file. You can even have folders with subfolders so that you can find what you want very quickly.
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by simonblack 12y ago
It's supposed to be a secret, so please keep it quiet, but FEMA is rounding up all the UUIDs with a starting '51d4' and incarcerating them in special concentration camps.
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by simonblack 12y ago
The modern armies rely too much on technology. Yes, it gives you an edge, but it is also a two-edged sword. That's why the old-fashioned insurgent armies of men with human eyes and an AK47 often outfight the soldiers with all the bells
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by simonblack 12y ago
The first thing I thought of was the grave robbers who plundered the pyramids and other royal burial chambers looking for valuable metals. There are quite a few nice pieces of valuable metal making up that clock. I give it even less than 50
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by simonblack 12y ago
The thing about the disruption is that it wouldn't happen if it were predictable. (If it were predictable, the companies would have done something different, and they wouldn't have been disrupted.) So, while predictions can be mad
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by simonblack 12y ago
ALL water has been recycled pee at some time or other over the last four and a half billion years. And a lot of tap water already has some pee in it from birds and animals (as well as the occasional human).
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by simonblack 12y ago
Looks a little like the XFCE Window Manager (the underlying distro could, quite literally, be anything) but I feel the video is too poor to identify anything properly.
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by simonblack 12y ago
Very Novice user, and coming from a MSDOS background, I habitually logged in as root, even though I had heard dire warnings not to do that. I had lots of dot-directories in /tmp and my disk didn't have a lot of space left. So I ty
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by simonblack 12y ago
Was that -40 F. or -40 C. ? <grin> Now -40 K., I'd like to see that!
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by simonblack 12y ago
Nothing that you do not control yourself can be considered secure. If you must use a 'cloud storage', consider it to tantamount to be 'in the public domain'. In other words, don't put anything in 'cloud storage
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by simonblack 13y ago
"Bomber" by Len Deighton.
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by simonblack 13y ago
First world problem. Just appreciate the fact that there IS toilet paper.
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by simonblack 13y ago
I dropped Dropbox completely two years ago because I considered them to be insecure and unsafe. (Like all the rest of cloud storage.) I have since set up my own personal cloud. It's more secure and nobody else has any control over it.