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10y ago
1) No local Admin rights. 2) Chrome + uBlock Origin w/ Malware filters. 3) Sophos Home[1] which has the bonus feature of being cloud-managed and not providing any control to the local interactive user. 4) Sophos XG Firewall Home Editio
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> The other problem was that the CE UI was not adapted for mobile I had the AT&T flip-phone pictured in the article and it is my favorite phone ever. The CE shell and bundled apps for non-touch devices were extremely well adapted to
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10y ago
I still have some of my mail going through one of their VPS on an employee account. FreeBSD 4.7. shudder The BSDi stuff pre-dated jails but was effectively the same thing.
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10y ago
Those who haven't read the Monad (Powershell) Manifesto[1] are doomed to keep repeating Unix's failures. [1] http://www.jsnover.com/blog/2011/10/01/monad-manifesto/
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10y ago
"Are you taking notes of a criminal conspiracy? What are you thinking?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBdGOrcUEg8
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10y ago
Somehow about a month ago r/powershell convinced me that I needed to give VS code a look. There aren't any free / cheap multi-purpose editors that handle Powershell IntelliSense worth a damn, so given all the effort Microsoft
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10y ago
IME, Waze's journeys down non-primary roads probably aren't making my driving experience less frustrating and probably don't save any time. Invariably it sends me down a series of side streets with stops signs and dumps me ba
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10y ago
Nothing in there about Forbes learning a lesson with regards to sensationalizing someone's "net worth" when their assets are composed solely of sheets of paper with limited liquidity? Heck, can they even support this new $0 n
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10y ago
So if I set /etc/systemd/logind.conf KillUserProcesses=no the current behavior will be preserved whenever this change finds its way downstream?
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10y ago
Oooooh, what I'd give for something that could be a transparent Java-free gateway to all those IPMI / stand-alone KVM interfaces...
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10y ago
> Ignorance of the law is not an excuse Supreme Court says otherwise, if you're a cop. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heien_v._North_Carolina
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10y ago
But "Avoid jamming your finger in the trigger area" is very solid advice for guns. That has got to be the leading cause of NDs while drawing a firearm but someone does it with a Serpa and everyone is blaming the holster. Had my Se
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If you keep pressing into your draw, WITH YOUR FINGERTIP. That's not how the release button is intended to be used. When someone NDs with a non-Serpa nobody blames the holster -- they blame the idiot user for doing it wrong. The Serpa
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11y ago
With XP SP2 you're going to encounter a combination of sites disabling SSLv3 in the aftermath of POODLE and SHA-2 support not being available until SP3. It is possible to run VB6 / VS6 on later versions of Windows. http:/&#x
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11y ago
I can't believe Apple launched a smart watch without solving the problem of making them fashionable. The higher end bands are nice but they're still attached to something that screams gadget nerd. Maybe I'm a watch snob, but
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Ever watch one of those YouTube videos of RWD cars on proper winter tires out-tractioning AWD cars on summer / all-season tires? I survived the Atlanta snow storm a couple years ago turning a 35 mile commute into 50+ miles due to detou
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I'm been replacing ASUS RT-N16s with RT-AC56Rs. $50 refurbs in-store at Microcenter, $75 new from Walmart.com, well-supported by all the firmwares that have ARM builds. If you can't buy them that cheap the TP-Link Archer C7 has be
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11y ago
Flickr killed Pro several years ago, removed restrictions on the Free tier, offered paid options to go ad-free or add a second TB of storage, then later killed those options and brought back Pro as stats and no ads. Flickr's free tier
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Servers affect data. That's kind of the whole point of servers. Maybe a multi-SAN setup with synchronous replication would have prevented the data loss. Maybe not. Not enough information has been provided to know if the cause of the da
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Yet you suggest DO should be using SANs when there isn't enough information provided to know if it would have made a difference in the outcome.
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SANs aren't magical boxes incapable of losing data.
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My iTunes library has made several round-trips across platforms and I've never encountered anything like that. My music, apps, books, and podcast files all have consistent, readable naming schemes.
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| You clearly never used iTunes for Windows. IME, every terrible thing about iTunes applies equally to both platforms.
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| - expensive and limitation of option plans This stopped me from becoming a paying customer for years. I had 20GB of free space from referrals and it's a big leap from not quite enough space for nothing to too much space for a $10
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11y ago
Research paper on VMMs by three of the people who later founded VMware.
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Disco: running commodity operating systems on scalable multiprocessors (1997) [pdf]
(research.cs.wisc.edu)
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With the ubiquity of virtualization today it's easy to forget how magical this was in 1999. "I'm running another computer within my computer! At (close enough to) FULL SPEED!" Thank you chipx86 and everyone else who brou
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I've been using a Dedibox XC SSD for the past six months. Can't beat the value for the, uh, Euro.
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It has been attempted on a lottery where only ~7 million tickets needed to be purchased, but they only managed to buy ~5 million. http://www.nytimes.com/1992/02/25/us/group-invests-5-million...
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11y ago
The beauty of the spreadsheet is that people don't even realize they are programming.
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