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by wila 10y ago
Time Machine backups are great for a lot of use cases, but beware to not trust your virtual machines to Time Machine [0]. You might end up disappointed if you do. [0] https://kb.vmware.com/kb/1013628
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by wila 10y ago
The ESXi servers by default regard your SD card as read only media, so normally they should not fail easily.
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NSA-leaking Shadow Brokers lob Molotov cocktail before exiting world stage(arstechnica.com)
3 points by wila 10y ago|0 comments
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by wila 10y ago
Yeah, I think you are right, sorry about that. Transventure appears to be the company offering co-work spaces. Guess that explains why there are so many companies on that address. The suspension from ICANN for cyber squatting appears to be
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by wila 10y ago
and then there's this: http://domainincite.com/18797-freenom-suspended-for-cybersqu... edit: They are also the company behind the .tk domain. http://www.dot.tk/en/index.html?lang=en
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by wila 10y ago
If you do a whois on the IP, you'll get an address in Amsterdam. From that same address suddenly a whole list of companies pops up. Euro ventures b.v., carwrap, dreamteam internet project management, transventure, verotel, safety futur
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by wila 10y ago
Pale Moon, because it does not break all the plugins that have been developed over time and is not trying to copy chrome.
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by wila 10y ago
DataFlex - used for business apps, gets plenty of use in medical, accounting and banking and some web integrations. Delphi - crossplatform development, tools SQL - see above C++/C# - tools bash - scripting, mostly for managing servers
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PHP htaccess injection cheat sheet(github.com)
2 points by wila 10y ago|0 comments
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by wila 10y ago
Claiming it is a responsible disclosure, because of a post at a forum somewhere does not make it responsible. Edit: I should probably clarify that it is the 1 day timeline over Christmas that I think is irresponsible.
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by wila 10y ago
Argue all you want, I do all my work and browsing in virtual machines and those usually just have between 1 and 2 Gb RAM and 1 CPU core. Works just great.
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by wila 10y ago
Guess I simply do not share your view. My customers are not locked in, in fact I will go out of my way to make it easy for them, their employees or even another consultant to continue on any work of the work I do and have done for them in t
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by wila 10y ago
There's also 8) the phone line to skype voip bridge 9) a static phone number for your voip that you can answer anywhere in the world 10) reasonably affordable subscriptions for the phone line to skype bridge. 11) Simple hardware you ca
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by wila 10y ago
>Microsoft refuses to provide numbers but vaguely claims “our trade-in program for MacBooks was our best ever.” But wasn't it the first time they ever offered a trade-in for Macbooks? I just googled it and was not able to find old o
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by wila 10y ago
The customer doesn't know about or understand technical debt. Any improvements you make down there are just racking up on time spent that makes the bills higher which they will notice. They do not see your improvements, but they will n
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by wila 10y ago
Saw this pass by on twitter and thought it was fake news. So searched a bit further and turns out that it is indeed true. It's unbelievable. The Brussels website [0] has a note about this, it is indeed talked about in a pdf [1]. [0] h
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Authorities in Brussels hit nightclubs with tax on dancing(telegraph.co.uk)
2 points by wila 10y ago|1 comments
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by wila 10y ago
All drinking water from the tap in Curacao has been from a huge desalination plant for many years, see also [1]. There's a shortage of water alright, but not drinking water. I don't know anything about this story, but when I just
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by wila 10y ago
interesting, thanks!
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by wila 10y ago
This is great news and I am looking forward to be able to use MSSQL from within linux and macOS. Hopefully the client support is going to be cross platform too. The one thing in the article that puzzled me is: Thanks to its support for
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by wila 10y ago
Same with Thai-English, curious to see if it is any better now.
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by wila 10y ago
Indeed, either replace with family or another alternative. Replace with work/career also appears to be popular.
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by wila 10y ago
Works fine here too, but you are correct that this is a serious issue that people are bumping into. Here's a quote from the product line marketing manager from VMware Fusion on this topic [0] <quote> We're really sorry about
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by wila 10y ago
All of the Skylake i7 mobile CPUs can handle at minimum 32GB and at most 64GB [0] [0] http://ark.intel.com/products/codename/37572/Skylake#@Mobile
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by wila 10y ago
That someone usually is the product manager.
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by wila 10y ago
Almost, it would be a better idea to block incoming telnet traffic. I am having trouble coming up with a good reason for having telnet open to the internet.
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by wila 10y ago
That might be so, but the macbook air is the ultrabook series and the mac book pro should be the work horse series.
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by wila 10y ago
That makes sense. Perhaps TS should try and get a job at one of the big companies like google, apple, facebook etcetera. Being blind and have programming experience might be an asset for working on an accessibility team like that.
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by wila 10y ago
Guess it helps that apple does employ at least one blind engineer. [1] [1] http://mashable.com/2016/07/10/apple-innovation-blind-engine...
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by wila 10y ago
That is indeed a very good idea. I have been blind in the past for months due to an accident when I was a kid. Fortunately I was lucky enough that a brilliant professor was able to restore partial eye sight. Enough for me to be independent

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