heypete

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by heypete 5y ago
Indeed. I wish this was not so.
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by heypete 5y ago
While I can get on board with restricting 2-stroke engines in most cases (there’s still many situations where there’s no viable substitutes), I’m puzzled how they expect to have gas-powered generators be zero emission. That seems to defy th
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by heypete 6y ago
Would you mind expanding on this? I've read both books and am curious what you mean.
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by heypete 6y ago
I got from central Switzerland to Japan on about 10W on 20m once using JT65 or JT9 (I can't remember which). The antenna was a random length of wire tied a rock and tossed out of my fourth-story apartment window into a field below.
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by heypete 8y ago
I've purchased unregulated 80% lower receivers (they're only legally "a gun" if more than 80% of the machining work is complete. At or below 80%, they're just considered a chunk of metal.) and machined them using no
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by heypete 9y ago
How would Signal working with Microsoft to implement the Signal protocol in Skype somehow kill Signal? Signal (the organization) has worked with other companies, like Facebook and WhatsApp (owned by FaceBook, I know), to implement the Signa
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by heypete 9y ago
Plus the fact that as the source of electricity to the grid changes, so too does the cleanliness of all the vehicles. Sure, things today may be a wash in terms of overall emissions in many areas, but as time goes on and dirty power plants a
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by heypete 9y ago
As much as I love LibreOffice -- and I prefer to use it whenever I can for several reasons -- the UI is just painfully awful. My university and one of the journals I publish in require Word (docx) files for papers and other documents, so I&
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by heypete 9y ago
I'm the same way with electronic components, though I tend to buy certain often-badly-counterfeited parts (e.g. logic-level MOSFETs, TTL-to-RS-232 converters, etc.) from reputable sellers like Digi-Key since I've run into a lot of
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by heypete 9y ago
I use CrashPlan on Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X. Works great for me. Saved my bacon a few times (e.g. accidentally deleting my wedding photos, tax information, etc.). Worth checking out. (Disclosure: I'm a paying customer of CrashPlan,
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by heypete 9y ago
I run one of the many keyservers. I have various checks running regularly to make sure everything's fine, both on my own server, some selected other servers, and the pool in general.It's rare to have an issue, and bad servers get
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by heypete 9y ago
That's what password managers are for. Just remember the password for the manager, plus maybe one or two critical accounts (e.g. email) and you're good to go. Let the manager deal with the complexity of generating and remembering
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by heypete 10y ago
EGNOS and WAAS use the same frequencies and same protocol. They're essentially two implementations of the same thing. As far as a receiver is concerned, they are identical. My Garmin eTrex 20 receives both without issue.
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by heypete 10y ago
NAT != stateful firewall.
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by heypete 11y ago
pool.sks-keyservers.net is a round-robin pool pointing to several dozen synchronized keyservers (including the MIT server). It's usually the default option for most PGP clients. See https://sks-keyservers.net/
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by heypete 12y ago
While I doubt neither the veracity of your claim nor your reaction to Gandi's actions (if such a situation happened to me, I would certainly not want to give a company my business going forward), I have had a very different experience
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by heypete 12y ago
I seem to remember that being the case with Network Solutions back in the early days. Gandi seems to hide your handle these days for certain domains if you have whois privacy enabled: my .com/.net names with Gandi don't show the h