Well, my significant other uses a cobbled-together desktop PC. It's an oldie, but with an SSD, Windows 8 runs actually pretty well because it was already slimmed down (as compared to 7) and would with with 1 GB RAM. Removal of these features means she'll get longer usage out of her PC.
Heh, I just came here to post how you shouldn't add too much space:)
My experience with closets is that you will fill them with things. Stuff you have but don't really need. If you won't fill it, then your SO will. We live on 1022 square foot, with one child and one woman and in my opinion, that's enough.
At one time I got a broken MagSafe power supply, the ones that Apple ships with their laptops. Since I was curious how these switched-mode power supplies work, I cracked it open and somehow shorted the big capacitor. These temporarily store up to 400 volts but it wasn't that much left. I still got quite a zap, though:-)
Anyway, I got a big crate of broken ones from a local Apple dealer in town. I found out that they usually didn't work because the wire would break close to the adapter. eBay sold replacement cables and I started fixing the power supplies. Cracking them open, replacing the cord, testing them, glueing them shut as neat as possible, then selling them for 25 bucks.
It was fun but with a kid on the way, I had no room for a separate table for my soldering iron, electronics stuff etc. and I stopped doing it. Cleaning up every time you want to do something small isn't fun.
If I could give some advice to my past self, it would be to immediately start living on half of my income. That way, I could have paid off debt immediately and started saving.
I wasn't interested in finances back then, but great blogs have cropped up since, like Mr. Money Mustache.
It's about early retirement and I'm not so much interested in that. But after ten years of working for the Man, I wanted to start freelancing. Turns out that if you have a family, you want to have quite a bit of money stashed away when starting.
So I kept working in a job I lost interest in, just to save half a year of income. Only then could I make the step towards starting a business for myself.
The researcher who discovered the flaw, Pedro Vilaça, said the vulnerability can be used to (some examples) that is invisible to the operating system in the writeable flash memory
So to summarize: as a user, you can sometimes write to EFI memory.
That's currently all there is to it. There's no rootkit, there's no malware, etc. Just this space where you can hide and survive an OS wipe and reinstall.
I'm sure some will come up with a payload that uses this space to hide itself, no doubt about it. But currently, this is all there is to it.
After a long break in research I've been doing client work again. This client is pretty big, a small European airline company. For some reason they have a lot of trouble getting the Jira suite of products to run stable. Stash is offline complete afternoons. I find this quite bizarre. But is this really the Jira software, or does it have to do with the client's sysadmin team?
If you have switched to SSD for either personal or business use, do you follow the recommendation here that spinning-disk media be used as backup as well?
So how do backups help you? Except for ZFS and btrfs (?), no file systems check for data integrity. You're not going to detect the bitrot taking place, and you'll happily send that rotten data to your backup until the corruption is noticed in some other way.
I really like the Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic. Marco Arment has a nice review from 2013. He recently compared it to a Matias Ergo Pro.
Note that I'm a Mac user (yeah LOL Apple, I know right?) but with the right freeware, you're able to map, for example, the Caps Lock key to Escape. I used to work on an awesome Sun keyboard that had the escape key right there, for vi and all that good stuff.
The amount of misinformation in this topic is staggering.
There's enough cool stuff in the App Store that take a lot of the hurt away. I'm using iCab Mobile, an alternative to Safari that has many options, ad blocking one amongst them.
As for the comments that all browsers are just reskinned versions of an older Safari version, as far as I know the new WKWebView component makes it possible for alternative browsers to have equal speed compared to Safari.
I own a 10-person tech company in Canada and I have never made my employees work overtime. Ever.
That is commendable. But hasn't it ever occurred that you promise a client to deliver a certain date, and you made a mistake in planning? I could imagine that rather than disappointing the client, you try and work overtime to make good on your promises. Obviously you didn't do that, so how do you solve those problems?
i wonder how this compares to 4K monitors. It seems this 1920 resolution has a relatively low DPI. I can get a 5K iMac, the whole 1920x1920 thing comes across to me as rather outdated?
I do understand the complaints made. Sometimes it feels limiting that a constant connection is required.
However, I'm just happy they are finishing the project. I have many happy memories of playing Elite in my youth. In this day and age, creating a video game is a massive and complicated project, and they seem to have succeeded. I pitched in a hundred pounds, and they're also going to release it on the Mac, which is currently my most-used platform.
Never, ever, testify against yourself. Even in the case of a college, it's foolish.
Why am I here professor? Is it because of the assignment? It's all a big misunderstanding. She invited me over to work on the assignment and perhaps I thought too much of it. But she never clearly said "no", so you naturally understand..
I've seen this at my college as well. CS students graduated without actually having programmed.
Colleges actually encourage this with their way of teaching: - Massive classes without any real contact with teachers - Weird focus on working in project groups
Doing everything as a project with small assignments often has one student both leading and finishing the assignment. Other students then get demotivated.
The obvious solution is to do like companies do. Companies like Toptal vet their applications via Codility. They'll do a Skype session and have you finish a couple of small assignments.
Obviously, this isn't always applicable. But when students hand in their assignment on, say, networking, then the teacher could ask each student for a very minor change in the assignment. And see how he's doing.
It seems to me that people without a strong sense of identity are finding something to give them one.
Even those with a strong sense of identity sometimes need comfort, or vent a bit, or be thankful etc.
Personally I pray to the classic Greek pantheon. Of course I know it's not real. But it's as good a way as any. So I thank Hera for the fact that I've got a healthy daughter, and I thank Hephaestus for a good day's work.
I don't give a shit that it's all imaginary. Thanks to science, I know that thankfulness and praying is proven to make people happier. And unfortunately, with my normal mood naturally below average, I do a lot of exercises like that.
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Well, my significant other uses a cobbled-together desktop PC. It's an oldie, but with an SSD, Windows 8 runs actually pretty well because it was already slimmed down (as compared to 7) and would with with 1 GB RAM. Removal of these features means she'll get longer usage out of her PC.
Heh, I just came here to post how you shouldn't add too much space :)
My experience with closets is that you will fill them with things. Stuff you have but don't really need. If you won't fill it, then your SO will. We live on 1022 square foot, with one child and one woman and in my opinion, that's enough.
Awesome :) he could've completely recreated the presentation in the mean time, but this is much cooler :)
At one time I got a broken MagSafe power supply, the ones that Apple ships with their laptops. Since I was curious how these switched-mode power supplies work, I cracked it open and somehow shorted the big capacitor. These temporarily store up to 400 volts but it wasn't that much left. I still got quite a zap, though :-)
Anyway, I got a big crate of broken ones from a local Apple dealer in town. I found out that they usually didn't work because the wire would break close to the adapter. eBay sold replacement cables and I started fixing the power supplies. Cracking them open, replacing the cord, testing them, glueing them shut as neat as possible, then selling them for 25 bucks.
It was fun but with a kid on the way, I had no room for a separate table for my soldering iron, electronics stuff etc. and I stopped doing it. Cleaning up every time you want to do something small isn't fun.
If I could give some advice to my past self, it would be to immediately start living on half of my income. That way, I could have paid off debt immediately and started saving.
I wasn't interested in finances back then, but great blogs have cropped up since, like Mr. Money Mustache.
It's about early retirement and I'm not so much interested in that. But after ten years of working for the Man, I wanted to start freelancing. Turns out that if you have a family, you want to have quite a bit of money stashed away when starting.
So I kept working in a job I lost interest in, just to save half a year of income. Only then could I make the step towards starting a business for myself.
FTFA:
The researcher who discovered the flaw, Pedro Vilaça, said the vulnerability can be used to (some examples) that is invisible to the operating system in the writeable flash memory
So to summarize: as a user, you can sometimes write to EFI memory.
That's currently all there is to it. There's no rootkit, there's no malware, etc. Just this space where you can hide and survive an OS wipe and reinstall.
I'm sure some will come up with a payload that uses this space to hide itself, no doubt about it. But currently, this is all there is to it.
After a long break in research I've been doing client work again. This client is pretty big, a small European airline company. For some reason they have a lot of trouble getting the Jira suite of products to run stable. Stash is offline complete afternoons. I find this quite bizarre. But is this really the Jira software, or does it have to do with the client's sysadmin team?
Even though this sounds reassuring, I started creating par2 checksums for my family pictures (and then back up the whole bunch, of course).
If you run OS X on the desktop, it installs nicely via Homebrew:
$ brew install par2
Then use as follows:
$ cd familypics
$ par2create par2file *
And to verify:
$ cd familypics
$ par2verify par2file.par2
It takes about 5% of extra storage. If you run Linux, you can get that back by using btrfs and mounting it compressed.
FTFS:
If you have switched to SSD for either personal or business use, do you follow the recommendation here that spinning-disk media be used as backup as well?
So how do backups help you? Except for ZFS and btrfs (?), no file systems check for data integrity. You're not going to detect the bitrot taking place, and you'll happily send that rotten data to your backup until the corruption is noticed in some other way.
I really like the Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic. Marco Arment has a nice review from 2013. He recently compared it to a Matias Ergo Pro.
Note that I'm a Mac user (yeah LOL Apple, I know right?) but with the right freeware, you're able to map, for example, the Caps Lock key to Escape. I used to work on an awesome Sun keyboard that had the escape key right there, for vi and all that good stuff.
The amount of misinformation in this topic is staggering.
There's enough cool stuff in the App Store that take a lot of the hurt away. I'm using iCab Mobile, an alternative to Safari that has many options, ad blocking one amongst them.
As for the comments that all browsers are just reskinned versions of an older Safari version, as far as I know the new WKWebView component makes it possible for alternative browsers to have equal speed compared to Safari.
Sometimes it
Sometimes it -- what? Did someone attempt to hot-swap your CPU again? (-:
I own a 10-person tech company in Canada and I have never made my employees work overtime. Ever.
That is commendable. But hasn't it ever occurred that you promise a client to deliver a certain date, and you made a mistake in planning? I could imagine that rather than disappointing the client, you try and work overtime to make good on your promises. Obviously you didn't do that, so how do you solve those problems?
Hahaha wish I could mod this one up!
unexpected technical issues
Is this true? I often get the feeling from the gaming industry that Q&A gets ignored and execs simply launch the game for whatever reasons.
Either way you cut it, it's just another tax that gets paid by the end consumer
Exactly. Basically the headline could say "mobile internet tax much higher than estimated: $34 billion dollars".
i wonder how this compares to 4K monitors. It seems this 1920 resolution has a relatively low DPI. I can get a 5K iMac, the whole 1920x1920 thing comes across to me as rather outdated?
Single-player didn't get dropped.
One feature got dropped from this massively successful project. We've seen much bigger problems with Kickstarter projects.
That's completely over the top and you know it.
I do understand the complaints made. Sometimes it feels limiting that a constant connection is required.
However, I'm just happy they are finishing the project. I have many happy memories of playing Elite in my youth. In this day and age, creating a video game is a massive and complicated project, and they seem to have succeeded. I pitched in a hundred pounds, and they're also going to release it on the Mac, which is currently my most-used platform.
Never, ever, testify against yourself. Even in the case of a college, it's foolish.
Why am I here professor? Is it because of the assignment? It's all a big misunderstanding. She invited me over to work on the assignment and perhaps I thought too much of it. But she never clearly said "no", so you naturally understand..
What? No, I didn't copy the answer.
I've seen this at my college as well. CS students graduated without actually having programmed.
Colleges actually encourage this with their way of teaching:
- Massive classes without any real contact with teachers
- Weird focus on working in project groups
Doing everything as a project with small assignments often has one student both leading and finishing the assignment. Other students then get demotivated.
The obvious solution is to do like companies do. Companies like Toptal vet their applications via Codility. They'll do a Skype session and have you finish a couple of small assignments.
Obviously, this isn't always applicable. But when students hand in their assignment on, say, networking, then the teacher could ask each student for a very minor change in the assignment. And see how he's doing.
Dude, this is why I visit slashdot. Great info, thanks a lot.
It seems to me that people without a strong sense of identity are finding something to give them one.
Even those with a strong sense of identity sometimes need comfort, or vent a bit, or be thankful etc.
Personally I pray to the classic Greek pantheon. Of course I know it's not real. But it's as good a way as any. So I thank Hera for the fact that I've got a healthy daughter, and I thank Hephaestus for a good day's work.
I don't give a shit that it's all imaginary. Thanks to science, I know that thankfulness and praying is proven to make people happier. And unfortunately, with my normal mood naturally below average, I do a lot of exercises like that.
Fact sheet positive psychology (PDF)