Posts by Lyle Dietz

Re: Odd.

There'th no excuthe for thlapdath needlework, not matter the thircumthtantheth.

Re: NCNR for chips? I'll sign...

Hot fresh meals delivered to my door that I can organise for the next several months? Sounds like a good business idea, someone needs to make that happen.

Re: Omnisec

You have some very interesting comments there; do you have a newsletter that one could subscribe to by any chance?

Re: A dumpster fire in the making

I see two problems:

1. Define political speech.

2. Define religious speech.

Both will make a bushfires look like a lit match. One man's religious speech is another man's hate speech.

Also, nice of you to ignore legally resident immigrants, and the rest of the world.

Re: Only in Oz...

I know you're joking, but the thought still terrifies. Who knows what would happen, we could end up with an emboldened ScoMo, or a spineless Albanese, both of which scare me.

Re: Crashplan refugees are always welcome at rsync.net ...

I like boring. I have had far too much excitement at work over the last couple of months.

My own backup system at work is very similar. Rsync to internal server, and then an external server rsyncs the really important stuff to itself.

I don't have snapshots though. Probably could add them, but it currently isn't a business requirement.

Re: That explains something...

I got something similar, saying there were lots of failed attempts to log into my account, and my account could get locked. It also asked me to turn on 2FA. I ignored them because I wasn't too worried about that account, and the password is unique.

Now I'm curious, and I'll have to check the link that was sent to me in the email to see if it was a phising attempt.

Re: I so believe this

I want the Russians* to lift data about our pollies through a TCN mandated back-door and then publish it somehow. Bonus points if it's Christian Porter, Mr Potato-head or AFP top brass.

* or anyone but the Chinese, because if its China the chuckle-heads in Canberra will just blame hardware back-doors from Chinese kit.

Re: Google security researcher Andrey Konovalov disclosed 14 Linux USB flaws

I wasn't until you posted that, and now I hate you.

Take your upvote and get out :P

Re: SEP = Standard Essential Patent

Is that anything like an Outside Context Problem? If so, I'm going to go and gibber in terror.

Where it went wrong?

I can answer that with one word: hubris.

But then, I'm not the one that's making the mistakes, so I don't have to put a pleasant sheen on it.

Re: Odd that

Even stranger, that's how I keep typing it, and it isn't even on purpose.

Could be stuff that is hard/impossible to replace and/or has sentimental value. Probably some clothes as well.

Re: Yawn

You got the Linode pricing wrong, it's $10/month for the 2GB plan, which is probably why Linode isn't worried. I'm certainly going to stick with them (once I'm ready to start a server up again).

Re: Harold Holt

You forgot to mention that it's a naval facility.

Because without the other drugs it might impair their ability to turn out passable copy by the deadline.

I also "don't mean coffee, tea or tobacco".

"Australia, why the metric monkey fuck do you keep electing these douchecanoes? Get a third party in play and flush the lot of these xenophobic bastards into the sea."

I'm trying damnit, but too many of my countrymen keep putting the majors as first preference.

In the Senate my first choice was the runner up to get a place at the last election. Hopefully the double-dissolution will create some^Wmore chaos in the Senate, for a couple of years at least.

A better fix is that software shouldn't start burning more cycles just because the system time is 45 years out.

Has anyone tried using this hack to set the year to 2038 or beyond?

VR is more than just 3D. If it was only about 3D I'd probably be happy with my nVidia's 3D Vision. VR is about immersion. It gives you a wide field of view that tracks your head movement, giving you the impression of actually being there.

I wouldn't show you a 3D movie, because that would be pointless and insulting. I would show you VR because while it might not blow you away the same way as everyone else, you can enjoy it.

Re: Elop ?

It's funny, because when I heard about this when I got to work this morning I was thinking the same thing.

Re: ..because, statistics.

Maybe, but it is interesting when you have Telstra cable running at 100Mb/s that you can struggle to watch Netflix without it constantly stopping to buffer, yet everything else worked just fine.

You're thinking of trademarks. You don't lose copyright because you don't pursue violations.

Re: Hilarious

The funny part of that is that even on Telstra Cable you get a shit-house Netflix experience.

Re: Too good to last

For consumables like this, then yes, recycling should be high on the list goals; or if you can't make it recyclable, at least make it biodegradable.

Re: "Surprise: lightning and copper don't mix"

Actually, they mix quite well for as long as the lightning is there; it is often whatever is at the end of the copper that doesn't mix well with lightning.

I actually lost a COM port to a nearby lightning strike, the modem was fine, and there was nothing wrong with the rest of the computer, I just was never able to use that COM port ever again.

and Queensland.

I'm actually more than a little annoyed that I get 5Mb/s at home living in Brisbane, and I'm hard pressed to saturate it, and yet my mother lives in the country and gets 9Mb/s and I can fully saturate her link easily.

I'm fairly confident that I live closer to my exchange than she does to hers.

You are dense

Providing the information that this US court has requested involves someone in Ireland breaking Irish law.

Breaking the law is illegal.

Therefore this is an illegal data grab.

In addition, this isn't a valid search warrant. You can't search an Irish property with a US warrant. Well, you could, but someone could break your legs for your troubles and probably walk off scot free.

The other US companies are right to be scared. If I hold sensitive data on a service provided by an Australian subsidiary of a US company, and these shenanigans are allowed, than the US can seize my data at any time they wish without consulting an Australian court.

Naturally this isn't something I like the sound of; therefore I will not put my data at risk in this manner. Now, I might be a small drop in a large ocean, but these US companies are already looking at losing their foreign markets because of the NSA actions, and this is another nail in that coffin.