I've not checked if things have changed, but I seem to recall that Ubuntu only enable TRIM on known good drives. The reason being that there were a number of problematic drives that would result in data-loss if TRIM was used.
I use mine primarily as a wireless router, but also as a Transmission bit-torrent client, and there's also Apache and NodeJS running albeit not dealing with much traffic. Oh, and it's doing DNS duties too. My record uptime is almost 200 days... I decided to power it down before going on holiday!
Funny the things you notice running slow though - for me, it's how slow PHP syntax highlighting is in Vim. JS is fine, but with PHP you really notice it lagging.
I know it's not really a fair comparison, but it is interesting that MS have now released a freemium tablet/touch version of Office for iOS and Android, but not for Windows 8. Obviously, it does make sense for MS to produce iOS and Android versions first since Win8 does already have the full desktop version, and there really aren't that many Win8 tablet users (relatively speaking)... but on the other hand, how much market share does Surface need? The Surface 3's are solid machines, but they're unlikely to win on price-point over Android or on desirability (at least to consumers) over iPads. So MS *really* needs businesses to buy in to Surface. If they don't... then that'll be that I guess?
always use an address like yourid+companyname-year@example.com.
You don't think spammers can learn to strip out the characters between the + and the @ ? If I was a spammer, I'd do that automatically. Hell, I'd probably keep the original, but also create the stripped version, and then spam them both.
I have my own domain, and my personal email goes to a traditional firstname.lastname@domain.tld, but when I sign up for anything, I'd prefer to use a unique address, so I have a prefix for such things, let's call it "xyz" and then +supplier-name, so xyz+amazon@domain.tld. When I sign up for something, I add a white-list entry for that address. Anything not white-listed (e.g. xyz-foobar) goes straight to spam.
I *do* forget to add white-list entries sometimes, but that's fine because I do check and manually clear my spam. If anything is in spam, I know to be extra cautious.
Anyone removing the plus from one of my email addresses won't get anywhere because it won't be a valid address. Anyone replacing the bit after the plus with something random will end up in the spam bin, so I'll be more likely to spot.
The only snag is the bit after the plus does tend to be obvious, e.g. "amazon", so I prolly should use something a bit non-guessable. But in practise, spammers aren't being that clever so it's not been a problem for me.... thus far at least!
I can't help thinking, that just for the comedic value, it would be worth having a box full of AOL CD's just so you (and by you I mean *I*) could prank mail them to someone. Everyday. For a year! Oh the fun!!
and launched it from a giant bottle, they wouldn't have this problem.
Ironically, if you look at the initial explosion and then follow on explosions, you can see quite clearly that the cargo being delivered was in fact fireworks!
Wasn't unity supposed to be really relevant and outlast other similar products?
The hilarious thing is that XFCE seems to have come on in leaps and bounds and is probably better than Gnome 2 was when Ubuntu used it, and than Unity is now! (IMHO that is)
Makes me wonder if having all these heart rate monitors, and other sensors being added to consumer kit that is also connected to advertising networks is really such a good idea.
The article sounds like it was written by somebody who's never heard of "computer security" and is trying to wrap his head around basic concepts.
And also someone who is presumably not running any web-servers - otherwise they'd only need to check their own web logs. I've got hosting with Bytemark and DigitalOcean and both have had a hand full shellshock attempts amongst all the usual PHP/WordPress/MySQLAdmin/whatever attempts.
The only very moderately interesting thing I've noticed is that Shellshock attempts seem to only by IP address and not by host (I'm hosting multiple websites per VM), so presumably most shellshock-bots are just sweeping IP ranges rather than using a list of known hosts.
It's a little computer on a project board. Nice community college electronics course project, but front page Slashdot?
In fairness, the guy has done a really really neat job. I was expecting something humongous, ugly, and utterly impractical* as a watch. Also, the graphic effects (TE TR IS scrolling in opposite directions and the way the vertical lines gradually appear) is kind of neat too. It's generally got a nice aesthetic!
*Yeah, for certain measures of practical... but it is at least the right size, weight, thickness!
The problem for Scotland is they get screwed by the government based in London on a regular basis. It's always worse with the current lot in power (Tories). The only way they can be sure that will never happen again is by becoming independent.
Why, are you not going to have anyone in power? Or do you believe that having Scottish people in power will prevent Scottish people getting screwed?
I'm not saying that you shouldn't want desire independence, and keeping the existing system is best, but I'm concerned that because you've used the words "Tories" and "London", that you may be letting your heart make decisions.
The words "Tories", "Thatcher", "London" and "Westminster" have been consistently used by the Yes campaign to rally support. I think it's worth being rational and accept that who ever is in power is probably a total c*nt!:D
Totally agree. Just wanted to add how maddening it is hearing Salmond & co. demonising the "no"s, whilst essentially planning to rob the rUK of the ability to control our own currency.
I'm fucked if I'm going to have "a foreign country" having a say in our currency if they get independence... especially since I don't get a vote in this.
Possibly I am naive, but I do broadly think this is a good idea. What does concern me however is if everyone is driving cars that automatically stop when faced with an obstacle in the road, then it suddenly becomes very easy for anyone to hijack/rob any vehicle.... so driving somewhere quiet, on a dark night, becomes a very bad idea.
Daytime in a busy area and it's great though! There *will* be less deaths as a result and this part of it is a good thing.
So does that mean that instead of affected organisations needing to fix the internal naming, now, every single piece of software that does a DNS lookup, now needs to check not only for not-found, but also 127.0.53.53 because it's magical?!
Or is this actually a good idea? It looks horrible to me.
It looks like mayor of Munich is the one complaining about Limux, while the entire city council is united and calls it "sachfremde Einzelmeinungen", which translates into 'a single opinion from someone who's talking out of his arse'.
And in other, completely unrelated news, MS has announced that it's moving it's German HQ to.... yes, you guessed it.... Munich!
I wonder... I wonder who contacted all these news outlets.... hmmmmmm.
Limux is a project which, up until 3 days ago, has been widely reported as successful. It's been going on for 10 years for god's sake.
Now, all of a sudden, out of nowhere, it's a failure - according to one politician.
This is a single politician in the german government trying to derail the project for personal gain.
Indeed. My feeling is that more governments are starting to question IT costs/suppliers particularly in light of NSA / US spying allegations, so "funding" must have been allocated to sway decision making. And undermining a FOSS flagship like Munich and Limux would make sense.
You'd have to imagine that the reason for MS dropping support for older IE versions is to save on bug fixes for IE, and compatibility fixes for HTTP based products.
So it would probably make better sense for them to work to enable newer IE versions on older OS versions. That said, what's logical, and what MS actually do often ain't the same!
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I've not checked if things have changed, but I seem to recall that Ubuntu only enable TRIM on known good drives. The reason being that there were a number of problematic drives that would result in data-loss if TRIM was used.
So.... maybe Apple are being cautious?
How did they know the harpoons would be able to remain lodged in the target?
Like moons are made from cheese, comets are made of whale-meat.
I use mine primarily as a wireless router, but also as a Transmission bit-torrent client, and there's also Apache and NodeJS running albeit not dealing with much traffic. Oh, and it's doing DNS duties too. My record uptime is almost 200 days... I decided to power it down before going on holiday!
Funny the things you notice running slow though - for me, it's how slow PHP syntax highlighting is in Vim. JS is fine, but with PHP you really notice it lagging.
I know it's not really a fair comparison, but it is interesting that MS have now released a freemium tablet/touch version of Office for iOS and Android, but not for Windows 8. Obviously, it does make sense for MS to produce iOS and Android versions first since Win8 does already have the full desktop version, and there really aren't that many Win8 tablet users (relatively speaking)... but on the other hand, how much market share does Surface need? The Surface 3's are solid machines, but they're unlikely to win on price-point over Android or on desirability (at least to consumers) over iPads. So MS *really* needs businesses to buy in to Surface. If they don't... then that'll be that I guess?
always use an address like yourid+companyname-year@example.com.
You don't think spammers can learn to strip out the characters between the + and the @ ? If I was a spammer, I'd do that automatically. Hell, I'd probably keep the original, but also create the stripped version, and then spam them both.
I have my own domain, and my personal email goes to a traditional firstname.lastname@domain.tld, but when I sign up for anything, I'd prefer to use a unique address, so I have a prefix for such things, let's call it "xyz" and then +supplier-name, so xyz+amazon@domain.tld. When I sign up for something, I add a white-list entry for that address. Anything not white-listed (e.g. xyz-foobar) goes straight to spam.
I *do* forget to add white-list entries sometimes, but that's fine because I do check and manually clear my spam. If anything is in spam, I know to be extra cautious.
Anyone removing the plus from one of my email addresses won't get anywhere because it won't be a valid address. Anyone replacing the bit after the plus with something random will end up in the spam bin, so I'll be more likely to spot.
The only snag is the bit after the plus does tend to be obvious, e.g. "amazon", so I prolly should use something a bit non-guessable. But in practise, spammers aren't being that clever so it's not been a problem for me.... thus far at least!
And a load of smaller sites that I can make exceptions for 'cos they're small businesses and all... but that said, their web-devs are still crap.
I keep meaning to build a plus-address name and shame website just to highlight the amount of derpy devs there are.
It's limited to displaying peppers though. If you like viewing your peppers with hardly any bezel, then this is your lucky day!
I can't help thinking, that just for the comedic value, it would be worth having a box full of AOL CD's just so you (and by you I mean *I*) could prank mail them to someone. Everyday. For a year! Oh the fun!!
and launched it from a giant bottle, they wouldn't have this problem.
Ironically, if you look at the initial explosion and then follow on explosions, you can see quite clearly that the cargo being delivered was in fact fireworks!
Wasn't unity supposed to be really relevant and outlast other similar products?
The hilarious thing is that XFCE seems to have come on in leaps and bounds and is probably better than Gnome 2 was when Ubuntu used it, and than Unity is now! (IMHO that is)
But Balmer is no longer in a superposition. Satya Nadella got that job!
Makes me wonder if having all these heart rate monitors, and other sensors being added to consumer kit that is also connected to advertising networks is really such a good idea.
The article sounds like it was written by somebody who's never heard of "computer security" and is trying to wrap his head around basic concepts.
And also someone who is presumably not running any web-servers - otherwise they'd only need to check their own web logs. I've got hosting with Bytemark and DigitalOcean and both have had a hand full shellshock attempts amongst all the usual PHP/WordPress/MySQLAdmin/whatever attempts.
The only very moderately interesting thing I've noticed is that Shellshock attempts seem to only by IP address and not by host (I'm hosting multiple websites per VM), so presumably most shellshock-bots are just sweeping IP ranges rather than using a list of known hosts.
It's a little computer on a project board. Nice community college electronics course project, but front page Slashdot?
In fairness, the guy has done a really really neat job. I was expecting something humongous, ugly, and utterly impractical* as a watch. Also, the graphic effects (TE TR IS scrolling in opposite directions and the way the vertical lines gradually appear) is kind of neat too. It's generally got a nice aesthetic!
*Yeah, for certain measures of practical... but it is at least the right size, weight, thickness!
Brilliant! Thank you!!
Stackexchange has a link for anyone who wants to patch their own servers... I've been following it here: http://apple.stackexchange.com...
Does this work fine with Snow Leopard does anyone know?
priceless excerpt: |The US DoD network in question is the 215.0.0.0/8 range, with approximately 16.7 addresses."
They're still using IPv2.1 - and it's maxed out!
The problem for Scotland is they get screwed by the government based in London on a regular basis. It's always worse with the current lot in power (Tories). The only way they can be sure that will never happen again is by becoming independent.
Why, are you not going to have anyone in power? Or do you believe that having Scottish people in power will prevent Scottish people getting screwed?
:D
I'm not saying that you shouldn't want desire independence, and keeping the existing system is best, but I'm concerned that because you've used the words "Tories" and "London", that you may be letting your heart make decisions.
The words "Tories", "Thatcher", "London" and "Westminster" have been consistently used by the Yes campaign to rally support. I think it's worth being rational and accept that who ever is in power is probably a total c*nt!
Totally agree. Just wanted to add how maddening it is hearing Salmond & co. demonising the "no"s, whilst essentially planning to rob the rUK of the ability to control our own currency.
I'm fucked if I'm going to have "a foreign country" having a say in our currency if they get independence... especially since I don't get a vote in this.
Anyone who isn't familiar with this debate might be entertained by this video; Andrew Neil grilling Nicola Sturgeon on currency earlier this year.
Possibly I am naive, but I do broadly think this is a good idea. What does concern me however is if everyone is driving cars that automatically stop when faced with an obstacle in the road, then it suddenly becomes very easy for anyone to hijack/rob any vehicle.... so driving somewhere quiet, on a dark night, becomes a very bad idea.
Daytime in a busy area and it's great though! There *will* be less deaths as a result and this part of it is a good thing.
So does that mean that instead of affected organisations needing to fix the internal naming, now, every single piece of software that does a DNS lookup, now needs to check not only for not-found, but also 127.0.53.53 because it's magical?!
Or is this actually a good idea? It looks horrible to me.
It looks like mayor of Munich is the one complaining about Limux, while the entire city council is united and calls it "sachfremde Einzelmeinungen", which translates into 'a single opinion from someone who's talking out of his arse'.
And in other, completely unrelated news, MS has announced that it's moving it's German HQ to.... yes, you guessed it.... Munich!
I wonder... I wonder who contacted all these news outlets.... hmmmmmm.
Limux is a project which, up until 3 days ago, has been widely reported as successful. It's been going on for 10 years for god's sake. Now, all of a sudden, out of nowhere, it's a failure - according to one politician.
This is a single politician in the german government trying to derail the project for personal gain.
Indeed. My feeling is that more governments are starting to question IT costs/suppliers particularly in light of NSA / US spying allegations, so "funding" must have been allocated to sway decision making. And undermining a FOSS flagship like Munich and Limux would make sense.
MS staying classy as ever!
Yes. NT6 was the turning point when Windows became more useful than Linux for me.
Vista? Really? I mean, if you'd said 6.1 then that would seem more plausible!
You'd have to imagine that the reason for MS dropping support for older IE versions is to save on bug fixes for IE, and compatibility fixes for HTTP based products.
So it would probably make better sense for them to work to enable newer IE versions on older OS versions. That said, what's logical, and what MS actually do often ain't the same!