Nick_C

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by Nick_C 12y ago
Unfortunately, I can't recommend anything, but I'm not a wide reader on the topic so my knowledge is limited. Perhaps I was a bit hard on that book, my expectations were that it would be a deep, expert type of book. If that'
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by Nick_C 12y ago
I can't. I bought with some high expectations, unfortunately I knew almost everything in it from a couple of years of using ssh to my several VPSs. I was quite disappointed at the level of detail it had -- StackExchange level, I thou
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by Nick_C 12y ago
FreeBSD's jails have had a lot of work done on them over the last couple of versions. Now that 10.0 is out, could be worth another look.
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by Nick_C 12y ago
A friend of mine was a trader of some long term with a particular bank and, because of his length of service with the bank, had to receive a few month's notice of termination. They terminated him and made him come in to work to sit i
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by Nick_C 12y ago
Despite the other commentators' views, I completely agree. My Panasonic's YouTube app cannot ffwd or rewind . WTF! For a video streaming app! Unbelievable. What I do is fire up the XBox. It's a brain-dead app there too+
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by Nick_C 12y ago
> because it can't hold atmosphere easily But neither can Mars. Most of its early atmosphere was blown away and that will continue. There's nothing we can do about the lack of gravity. The problem with Mars is that it is cold
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by Nick_C 12y ago
That's neat, you could almost convert me. For Bash, M-# (alt-shift-3) puts a comment token '#' at the start of the current line and begins a new empty line. Handy if you are 150 characters deep in a command and realise you n
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by Nick_C 12y ago
Nah, having a "summer break + " that's extended a bit longer ;). I plan to do a crypto course at some stage. + Southern hemisphere
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by Nick_C 12y ago
Completely agree. I've done Scala, Algorithms, and one other and Dan's course stands out for its interest, enthusiasm and clarity. Plus it uses functional programming! What's not to like.
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by Nick_C 13y ago
> emotionally broken at some point in his early development Yeah, that was my first thought when I saw him interviewed. He had no empathy at all. He basically admitted he ran a shady business that monetises peoples' misfortunes, b
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by Nick_C 13y ago
I have four VPSs, mostly on different hosting companies. 99% of ssh attacks come from China, the rest are eastern Europe (mainly Romania or Ukraine) or Brazil. The Chinese attacks use a group of about 15 IP addresses, then, every so often,
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by Nick_C 13y ago
> Early horseless carriages didn't sell well Exactly. Henry Ford paid his workers very well, not out of altruism because he was the one of the most unaltruistic people you can think of, but because he wanted them to be able to affo
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by Nick_C 13y ago
> self-signed cert for all the people who can access the admin. This is what I do. The browser generates a warning on first use, and I then put the domain in the "ignore" list (since I trust my own domain). After that, it wor
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by Nick_C 13y ago
Well, in my case it was because I was a little uncertain of what the various classes meant. This was my pre-university days before I studied networks formally. My first router could only do the 192.168 range so I got in the habit of it. L
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by Nick_C 13y ago
One thing I do is put my router and network on a different Class C than the default, for example 192.168.56.0 .
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by Nick_C 13y ago
That's the actuality of it. It's all based on seniority.
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by Nick_C 13y ago
> DVR Which DVRs? Mine had better not be doing that.
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by Nick_C 13y ago
for arg instead of for arg in "$@" is gold. That is going straight to the pool room.
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by Nick_C 13y ago
A late reply for anyone still reading... I've been here for far longer than you and I'm still stuck in the 300 karma range. Why? Because of my timezone. Most people are asleep when I'm awake. It is virtually impossible for
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by Nick_C 13y ago
Hawaii did in the 70s when I lived there. Don't know what the current situation is.
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by Nick_C 13y ago
Do you know if either of those two methods do tcp-over-tcp, or is it tcp done correctly?
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by Nick_C 13y ago
Fines aren't a tax deduction.
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by Nick_C 13y ago
Ha. Not for a while now, though. Deckers has 95% world market share. I can remember the trademark battle a decade or so ago. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugg_boots
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by Nick_C 13y ago
Because I live in WA, I used to read The Australian to get Australia-wide news and decent political analysis. I don't bother any more, it is absolute rubbish now and has been for a few years.
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by Nick_C 13y ago
I'd say Malaysia, myself, with their growing radical Muslim extremists, and the instability caused by the institutionalised racist attitudes to Chinese and other "non-native" Malays. You could argue that Indonesia has a musli
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by Nick_C 13y ago
I map Ctrl-q to beginning of line in .inputrc. Control-q: beginning-of-line I know, I know, now we are remapping all over the place. But my muscle memory for Ctrl-a was too ingrained after years of screen usage.
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by Nick_C 13y ago
I use the Windows Menu key (the Windows key to the right of the spacebar) for that. Except I use yeahconsole, which is the same concept without the Gnome dependencies. Such a handy feature, isn't it. I would be lost without my drop-d
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by Nick_C 13y ago
That article is behind a paywall for me.
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by Nick_C 13y ago
I went the MSP430 route, it was essentially free (from memory about US$5 incl postage). If you are on a very tight budget, this might be better. There are a ton of free tutorials, forums, development tools available. The caveat is that s
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by Nick_C 13y ago
A little of both I suspect ;).

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