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Re:I had a perfectly nice domain and then the Taliban ruined it on Wednesday February 28, 2024 @11:22AM (#39540061)
That's the entirety of my point. ccTLDs being the only way to get "nice" domain names that don't end in .com is a global snafu.
Re:I had a perfectly nice domain and then the Taliban ruined it on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @03:26PM (#39529368)
A piece I wrote about my frustrations with having my vanity domain taken away from me by a change in government and why we shouldn't use ccTLDs for prime internet real estate.
Re:How to get actionable leads from Twitter in real time on Wednesday February 18, 2015 @10:30AM (#9068974)
"You'll need to download the code from Github, create a Twitter application, register a free account with AYLIEN, generate an app specific password for your Google account if you're using 2 Factor Authentication, make a copy of this spreadsheet in your Google Drive, and update the constants in the code. The whole process won't take more than 5 minutes!"

This is your problem. Right there.

i.e.: Everyone seems to be focusing on whether it's a security risk to use fingerprints for authentication, but there's been very little discussion of the implications of combining a positive biometric auth with reliable location data.
Re:Common MySQL Queries on Thursday September 12, 2013 @08:31AM (#6373582)
This seems quite useful!
Re:App.net’s new direction on Tuesday February 26, 2013 @10:43PM (#5290395)
Elaborate?
Re:App.net’s new direction on Tuesday February 26, 2013 @10:42PM (#5290390)
There are over 40k users as of today.
Their main complaint about games is that they don't allow sleep mode. Brilliant.
Re:Announcing MoSQL on Wednesday February 06, 2013 @08:02AM (#5176105)
Can you be more specific about what you mean by that?
Re:Broken by Design: MongoDB Fault Tolerance on Sunday February 03, 2013 @09:47AM (#5159797)
Ironically, whatever this is linking to is throwing a 500 error.
Re:Announcing the App.net File API on Monday January 28, 2013 @04:58PM (#5130937)
The question is - would paying them prevent them from mining your data, or just stop showing you ads?
Re:Wifi performance and the new iPad on Tuesday November 27, 2012 @10:02AM (#4837388)
It seems that the autoswitching has gotten good enough to trust that it's making better decisions than you are about whether the 5GHz network is superior.
Re:Wifi performance and the new iPad on Tuesday November 27, 2012 @10:01AM (#4837381)
I have not in this case, but I've found in the past that the appropriate channels tend to shift with other usage in the area, and leaving it on automatic allows it to compensate for that, while hardcoding a channel can work for a while and then stop being the best.
Re:Wifi performance and the new iPad on Monday November 26, 2012 @02:53PM (#4833639)
I will run some other tests when I get a chance. I've done #2, with no effect.

I don't think the Airport Expresses have anything to do with it - I've had some reports of other people being able to replicate my results without that.

Re:Wifi performance and the new iPad on Monday November 26, 2012 @01:31PM (#4833178)
That really depends. It's completely untrue for, say, TVs:

http://prolost.com/blog/2011/3/28/your-new-tv-ruins-movies.h...

Re:Wifi performance and the new iPad on Monday November 26, 2012 @01:04PM (#4833050)
I agree. Hence the warning.
Re:Wifi performance and the new iPad on Monday November 26, 2012 @01:02PM (#4833041)
This airport extreme is connected directly to outside (cable modem). There are several airport expresses extending the network (I have no idea how to tell if the client devices are connected directly to them, and I'm not sure it matters). There is a second airport extreme bridged to that one, which is running a dedicated 802.11g network to keep those devices off the same network as the faster devices.
Re:Wifi performance and the new iPad on Monday November 26, 2012 @01:00PM (#4833032)
Are you sure? I don't have an iMac, but I've tested with two MBPs. They will always use the 5GHz network if it's available. This may have something to do with how good your connection to the airport is - does your signal quality say Excellent?

I can't say that this configuration change will help for everybody - I'm just reporting what I'm seeing.

Re:The Decline of MySQL? on Saturday August 18, 2012 @08:36AM (#4400976)
This page gave me an error connecting to the database. Ironic twist, or was there some other point?

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