Lan

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by Lan 2y ago
I would assume the launch of the Switch successor is why they are clamping down. It's likely very similar architecturally to the Switch. Nobody knows how long it would take to hack it, someone could be silently sitting on an exploit th
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by Lan 8y ago
Consider a scenario where you have a log file and in the log file is an IP address (172.217.5.14). You are not sure whose IP address it is. So you run the following commands: # dig -x 172.217.5.14 +short lga15s49-in-f14.1e100.net. ord38s19-
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by Lan 8y ago
Visual changes are an easy feather-in-the-cap for both front-end developers and for management. A design overhaul is immediately obvious to everyone. It's something you can show off. It's something you can add eye-candy to. Change
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by Lan 9y ago
There are already a plethora of fly-by-night Javascript frameworks. Outside of hobby projects, I'd wager that most people prefer not to use frameworks that lack an established track record. For a business, the cost of switching framewo
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by Lan 9y ago
Not a whole lot. The fastest CPUs will net you less than 100 MH/s [0]. The fastest single-card GPU configurations will net you around 1,000 MH/s [0]. The current total hash rate is around 5,000,000,000,000 MH/s [1]. WannaCry
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by Lan 9y ago
You could try an all-in-one solution like iRedMail[0] or Mail-in-a-Box[1]. Those supposedly do most of the leg work for you and set up a commonly used stack (Postfix, Dovecot, SpamAssassin, Roundcube, etc). I've never used either of th
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by Lan 9y ago
To be honest, if he was that disoriented it sounds like your dad should have been calling 911 and not Uber. I have no idea how you could expect anything short of an ambulance with trained medical personnel to provide the requisite support t
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by Lan 9y ago
Consider the three most common authentication factors: * Something you know * Something you have * Something you are A conventional password-based login implements "something you know" (i.e. your password). A password-less login i
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by Lan 10y ago
>He found no evidence it was copied and reported his findings in a piece titled ‘Did Bill Gates Steal the Heart of DOS?‘. More supporting evidence that any title that ends in a question mark can be safely summed up as 'No'.
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by Lan 10y ago
Until you convince those CAs to start signing for code, they still cost $400+. And remember, that's per year. The driver will continue to function after that year, but they will either need to cough up another $400 the next year, or ce
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by Lan 10y ago
Actually, my complaint is that if you go through the effort of manually disabling driver verification checks at boot time, Microsoft should respect your decision and allow you to persist that decision for that driver, even if you reboot and
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by Lan 10y ago
I disagree. I think Microsoft's current driver policies are unreasonable. Most end-users don't want to run their PC in testing mode, and will look for an easier way around it. This has a negative effect on free and open-source sof
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by Lan 10y ago
Windows 7 has extended support through January 14, 2020[1], so even if he was forced to do so for some reason, it likely wont be years. And with the rate things are changing, who is to say that Windows will even be a requirement for him in
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by Lan 10y ago
Bitcoin mining is done with clusters of specially designed ASICs these days. GPU mining, let alone CPU mining, isn't viable by a long shot. I'd be shocked if you got any payout at all from a mining pool with it.
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by Lan 11y ago
>You could, however, install a proxy or a router inside your private network Sounds like a good way to get fired depending on how strict their policies are.
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by Lan 11y ago
Look for cables made by Volutz. I had never heard of the company before I tried them, but their cables are incredibly durable. They're also 24/20 AWG and I've never seen USB cables that thick sold by anyone else.
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by Lan 11y ago
$599.00 is the official price before tax and shipping.
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by Lan 11y ago
Another cheap rPi alternative that doesn't solve any new problems. What I'd like to see is one of these with a few SATA ports and ECC memory. Then you'd have a viable low-cost, low-power server, in a market that is sorely lac
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by Lan 11y ago
There were notable instances of benchmarking suites being compiled with ICC. So even if most applications didn't exhibit the issue, reviews for AMD processors did. And it was a prominent enough issue that a tool was written to search y
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by Lan 11y ago
>That's not how WiFi works. They cannot know for a fact that these WiFi hotspots are within the convention space, they could and likely are, blocking WiFi located outside of that space. To play devil's advocate, some APs suppor
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by Lan 11y ago
How long it takes to switch services depends on how long you have your TTL set on your MX records. If he set it to expire after days or weeks, it would take days or weeks to switch services. Usually the default is a much lower value, but th
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by Lan 11y ago
Browser fingerprinting fails for cases where a computer is shared. That includes both home and public terminals. Not to mention it creeps people out and lacks any type of security.
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by Lan 12y ago
I usually find that sites that implement it place form above functionality. Sure, they look nice, but it's usually much more difficult to find information. If you intend for that page to be an art exhibit that's one thing, otherwi
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by Lan 12y ago
I can see this causing some issues with users that have multiple email addresses. It may cause panic if they log in, see that it is successful, but do not see any of their normal account data. They may assume that their account has been del