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  1. My wife's a teacher too. Everyone has laptops and phones and stuff. MythTV has been a part of our lives.

    However the gaming machine's aesthetic is still highly incompatible with the spaces downstairs.

  2. Re:Well, obviously on Valve's "Room Scale VR Survey" Finds a Lot of People Play In Their Bedrooms (itworld.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    might be preferable to admitting you are married and have your desktop computer in your bedroom.

    I hadn't considered there might be shame associated with being married and having a gaming machine in the bedroom. What other not-actually-shameful things should I be ashamed about? Is my TV is too small? Is my brand of skillet not elite enough?

  3. ..Or by children and adults in a larger home where neither they nor their spouse want the common areas cluttered up with piles of gear.

    Bingo!

  4. Re:Well, obviously on Valve's "Room Scale VR Survey" Finds a Lot of People Play In Their Bedrooms (itworld.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    When you live in your parents' basement, your gaming room is also your bedroom. And it's hard to get enough space for VR with that damn washer and dryer in the way.

    I live in my own house with my family and my gaming machine is still in our bedroom because it's a big ugly box that doesn't look good in the living room. That and I don't want people to see I'm running windows.

  5. Re:Not an equal comparison on 802.11ac WiFi Router Round-Up Tests Broadcom XStream Platform Performance (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    I ran that software once to configure it. If you need it again, you can reinstall it. There's not much configuration for an AP beyond SSIDs, passwords, security requirements and some wacky 11e settings if you're on drugs.

  6. Re:Buy APs, not Wireless Routers on 802.11ac WiFi Router Round-Up Tests Broadcom XStream Platform Performance (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Yup. That's what I use. Ubiquiti is pretty good gear and they make the right product. Not Frankenstein combo wifi, router, cable modem, kitchen sink boxes.

    Ideal for our 3 story house with a business downstairs. It does a good job of separating the open wifi from the closed wifi on the internal network.

  7. Re:Buy APs, not Wireless Routers on 802.11ac WiFi Router Round-Up Tests Broadcom XStream Platform Performance (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure I follow. Most home "routers" also have wifi capabilities. They allow you to connect to your ISPs modem, connect several LAN computers to the modem, as well as connect WiFi devices.

    How would your setup work? Do you have a LAN router that connects to the WAN modem, and then a separate AP for Wifi devices? That seems expensive, and not easy to maintain.

    That is exactly how WiFi was designed from day 1. As APs connected to a LAN.

    WiFi Routers came later.

  8. Re:Reporters should have exercised Open Carry on Tesla: Journalists Trespassed At Gigafactory, Assaulted Employees (teslamotors.com) · · Score: 1

    >When there is close to zero chance of weapons involved, the big people break the heads of whomever they want. You may argue that "well it's not a death". Casualties are casualties.

    You describe a world that is completely unlike the world I live in.

  9. Re:Just don't use the routing? on 802.11ac WiFi Router Round-Up Tests Broadcom XStream Platform Performance (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    I like the Ubiquiti APs with PoE. So less clutter.

  10. Re:Buy APs, not Wireless Routers on 802.11ac WiFi Router Round-Up Tests Broadcom XStream Platform Performance (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm talking about the security issues of all-in-one wireless routers.
    OTS routers are bad enough. OTS routers with WiFi built in are a worst case scenario.

  11. Buy APs, not Wireless Routers on 802.11ac WiFi Router Round-Up Tests Broadcom XStream Platform Performance (hothardware.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Wireless routers are a security disaster. Public interface combined with the front door and back door to your network.

    Get access points. They don't run out of memory because they aren't doing all that routing and firewall stuff.
    Have a separate router.

    Don't mix to two. Just don't.

  12. Re:Highest Profit on Ask Slashdot: What Non-lethal Technology Has the Best Chance of Replacing the Gun? · · Score: 1

    The one with the largest arms industry uses guns.

    Point taken.

  13. Re:Highest Profit on Ask Slashdot: What Non-lethal Technology Has the Best Chance of Replacing the Gun? · · Score: 1

    A wooden stick works well in many places around the world.

    Not in Battombong it doesn't. ;)

    You would think, given the proper application of the journey method in that place, they would remember where they put the stick.

  14. Re:Highest Profit on Ask Slashdot: What Non-lethal Technology Has the Best Chance of Replacing the Gun? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The one with the highest profit margin.

    A wooden stick works well in many places around the world.

  15. Re:CVS or Subversion on Ask Slashdot: Selecting a Version Control System For an Inexperienced Team · · Score: 1

    SVN doesn't work. If you think it does, it because you have never used a real VCS. Linus explained this quite way back in 2007. That was 8 years ago. There is no excuse for using a tool that literally can't do proper version control, when there has been a kickass tool available for free for close to a decade.

    You neither understand my problem nor SVN. It works just fine. It does what it says on the box. It maps to our problem well.

  16. Re:CVS or Subversion on Ask Slashdot: Selecting a Version Control System For an Inexperienced Team · · Score: 1

    Yup. Branches should be from the trunk and should go right back there.

    If you don't do that then you must enjoy complexity.

  17. I'm so sorry.

  18. Re:CVS or Subversion on Ask Slashdot: Selecting a Version Control System For an Inexperienced Team · · Score: 2

    Branching works fine in SVN.

  19. The hardware company I work in has all the usual languages and tools available. It's up to the engineers to use the right tools for the job.

  20. Re: Great, another idiot on Twitter To Begin Layoffs (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I had one as a neighbor. I don't think he enjoyed it, but he took the work. He freed many Tektronix employees from the burden of employment.

  21. Re:Portland.. on In Midst of a Tech Boom, Seattle Tries To Keep Its Soul · · Score: 1

    That's why I said "Why not try?" . I experimented with a few diets until I found the one that works. Different people react differently to different diets. I think research that indicated chiled exposure to excess fructose can damage the POMC cell in the VMH in the brain which makes you carb intolerant is a common cause of Western obesity problems.

    Of course more research is needed to fully verify this. But the evidence currently doesn't contradict that hypothesis.

  22. Re:Great, another idiot on Twitter To Begin Layoffs (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    The layoffs will most likely affect multiple areas of the company, including the engineering and media teams, according to the people with knowledge of the plans.

    So, cut everyone except the management positions. What's left? NOTHING.

    And I hope he becomes CEO of Facebook in a few years, too.

    Well you get the manager to fire everyone below them.

    Then, you fire the manager.

    If you fire the manager alongside everyone under him, it will be a major clusterfuck.

    That's what you hire hatchet men for. You put them in a management position with the task of shutting things down and firing people. It's part of the deal that they go away at the end.

  23. Re: Will Use Neither on LogMeIn To Acquire LastPass For $125 Million (lastpass.com) · · Score: 1

    +KylePass for my macbook.

  24. Re:Portland.. on In Midst of a Tech Boom, Seattle Tries To Keep Its Soul · · Score: 1

    Trying reading the paper. It's very interesting. It's also interesting how I lost 50lbs and my cholesterol numbers were fixed and my dental health improved while on such a diet. To further test it, I tried going back to a traditional Western diet and the weight came back, the cholesterol numbers went back and my dental health deteriorated. So I'm going back to the diet. By meat I actually meant animal products .. meat, fish, egg, dairy, coffee with very little plant matter.

     

  25. Portland.. on In Midst of a Tech Boom, Seattle Tries To Keep Its Soul · · Score: 1

    Portland isn't a tech hub. Washington county to the West of Portland, across the West hills is.