* Posts by pLu

14 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Jul 2015

Sage accused of strong-arming customers into subscriptions

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stunnel

The customers can probably work around the TLS problem with stunnel but it's not really about TLS anyway.

Seagate demos hard disk drive with an NVMe interface. Yup, one with spinning platters

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Re: Server simplification, really?

https://www.mouser.com/pdfdocs/M2ConnectorBrochure201412181.PDF

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No vertical M.2 bracket set in the box? But you've got two normal NVMe M.2 slots too.

https://rog.asus.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/X99-Deluxe-M2-Bracket-set.jpg

OnePlus founder scores $7m from iPod inventor and other investors for audio startup

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Re: Stray observations:

> What was that sodding weird yellow Tolberone-shaped audio player that was tied to a high-def music download service, and punted by Neil Young a couple of years back?

PonoPlayer. Neil Young clearly doesn't understand how audio in the digital domain works.

You spoke, we didn't listen: Ubiquiti says UniFi routers will beam performance data back to mothership automatically

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Re: "In other words, you ain't got no choice."

> Home users: DD-WRT works a treat. Check 'em out :-)

Or OpenWrt, which the UniFi AP firmware actually is based on.

RDP loves company: Kaspersky finds 37 security holes in VNC remote desktop software

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Re: KVM

VNC clients like Remmina let you configure an optional SSH tunnel.

OpenStack 2018: Mark Shuttleworth chats to The Reg about 10-year support plans, Linus Torvalds and Russian rockets

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Re: Beardbait

https://youtu.be/V10cgn_avJE?t=88

Patch your Android, peeps, it has up to 14 nasty flaws to flog

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I enrolled in the Oreo beta during the summer and got an OTA update. Had to exit the beta though to get the security updates.

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> sigh. still stuck on 7.1.2 (Aug 5 2017 update) on my Nexus 5x

I just got the Oct 5 2017 update for 8.0.0 on my Nexus 5X.

Drunk user blow-dried laptop after dog lifted its leg over the keyboard

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Re: Good on Jim

Urine is not sterile, not even in the bladder.

Chap 'fixes' Microsoft's Windows 7 and 8 update block on new CPUs

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Re: Works for stalled as well as new

Might as well install the big Convenience Rollup Update for Windows 7 SP1 (KB3125574) while you're at it.

http://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/search.aspx?q=kb3125574

WTF is your problem, Netgear? Another hijack hole found in its routers

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Re: Recomended SoHo router

PC Engines APU2 + UniFi AP AC.

Why your gigabit broadband lags like hell – blame Intel's chipset

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Re: Other Intel Chip

I had to turn off all kinds of offload features (except checksumming) to make I217-LM behave in Linux.

Neil Young yanks music from streaming services: 'Worst audio in history'

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WTF?

Re: Bizarre And Inexplicable Opinion.

> Take a listen to some of the HD samplers on 2l.no.

The difference between the FLAC 24/96 and 24/192 files is that the 24/192 files are filled with high frequency noise from the DXD sampler, so FLAC 24/96 is really the better choice.