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Re:[Answered] How to gain 1 karma point on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @06:08AM (#13704652)
Happy? :)
Re:Ask HN: What book(s) do you wish existed? on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @11:46PM (#13595833)
Necronomicon?
Re:Ask HN: What book have you given as a gift? on Sunday August 07, 2016 @08:06PM (#12244515)
This is true, however I think its safe to say that most of his work was from primary sources, he kept extensive journals during the period and was also lucky enough to talk to several generals of OKW and get access to their journals. Not to mention that he also gained access to the Nuremberg trial records and German records (very well documented) after the war. Well worth the read.
Re:Ask HN: What book changed your life in 2014? on Monday December 08, 2014 @01:46PM (#8718199)
Atlas Shrugged - by Ayn Rand
Thanks for this, I am starting a small side business and this looks like a nice solution for what I need.
This would be great for Pizza!
Re:Why Aren't There More Women Programmers? on Wednesday August 21, 2013 @08:33PM (#6254301)
Totally and wholeheartedly agree, I do not think gender has anything to do with it. It should be more about a willingness to learn and an interest in the subject.
Re:Storage for Photographers on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @09:45PM (#6024016)
I did some on the side admin work for a Photographer once, a real big name. He was in the middle of making up exactly what this was, however he came up against the same issues everyone has. Firstly space costs money, Hardware costs alot too, not to mention bandwidth, this guy would easily do 100-200gb of photos in a couple shoots. all very high res shots (talking about for big company ads) his idea is to sell a server with a software suit that people can dump into a datacenter or at home and upload photos to it, personally I liked the idea but local storage and hardware failure + the ability to grow the storage was a real killer for his idea.. (not to mention that your playing with peoples businesses and lives if you lose those photos)
Re:“Why did you shoot me? I was reading a book” on Sunday July 07, 2013 @09:45PM (#6004609)
It is actually kind of sad, coming from Australia, Police are usually seen as a force of good. Granted we do not have as much corruption in this sense as America does but sadly these sorts of positions are built on power and violence (eg non compliance) I think the question you have is if the police stop protecting their own people when they are trying to do their jobs how will they attract new police? as a profession where you will have someone that will be in that sort of job for 10-20 years+ getting sacked does not really mean you will be able to get into another police force (quite the contrary) you will most likely end up in a very low end security position.

This is not really a justification of all the shit they do rather an attempt to explain the insanity.

Re:The Paris Time Capsule Apartment on Sunday April 28, 2013 @07:17PM (#5623233)
Truly a treasure for the world, the Portrait is stunning! thanks for sharing.
Re:Ask HN: how did you learn the command line? on Sunday March 10, 2013 @05:22PM (#5353525)
Seriously use it or lose it, it's really that simple when you don't know what you need to do just check out the man pages or,google your little heart out.
Re:How I Fired Myself on Wednesday February 27, 2013 @02:19PM (#5294243)
What I want to know is, why didnt the guy who canceled the database backups get fired also?
I wish these guys would just go away, they should be using their time to change the world, not troll it. half the shit they do is completely pointless. Sure it may bring some notice to public but honestly it dies down just as fast as it gets put up.
Re:Julian Assange to run for Australian Senate on Wednesday January 30, 2013 @05:25AM (#5138847)
I doubt he would actually get into senate, the ranks and file,would just use his evasion of litigation as volatile ammunition to make sure his stay in politics is a quick one
Re:Favorite Unix Commands on Monday January 07, 2013 @10:50PM (#5024780)
Alt Sys Rq o - useful if you need to shut down a system and your kvm is not working.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key

Re:Samba 4.0 released on Tuesday December 11, 2012 @05:40PM (#4907371)
When people start mentioning price for these sorts of things I get a little confused, volume licensing for a bunch of hyper-v servers running 20-30 windows guests is actually quite cheap (you only have to pay for each licensed host server) I also have seen mention of a per user cost for ad? not sure where you got that from... I think exchange goes for about 6 bucks a user or so.. the next office setup ill be looking at will be three beefy hyper-v servers and running most applications on windows core... windows is now getting to the point where the only time I need to do any work is for weekly windows updates.
I remember back when I was doing a network engineering course the guys could crack a windows password in minutes offline, simple matter of grabbing the database from the machine. I think once you have the machine offline unless you encrypt the data your pretty screwed regardless..
Re:160 Mac Minis, One Rack on Sunday December 09, 2012 @05:31PM (#4896457)
Sorry, my Aussie is showing again...
Re:160 Mac Minis, One Rack on Sunday December 09, 2012 @03:50PM (#4896080)
Considering you only really have to pay around the 60 dollar mark for the OS now, I dont think its much of a big deal, I use one of these at home as a mini fileserver/wiki it draws sweet FA makes little to no noise and has HDMI connector direct into my tv. I would happily deploy one for our company marketing team or small scale offices.
Re:Raided 9-Year-Old Pirate Bay Girl Came To Save Us All on Sunday November 25, 2012 @06:14PM (#4829623)
I love how I am getting down voted because people don't believe in paying for what is due, personally down vote away, I consider it a compliment.
Re:Raided 9-Year-Old Pirate Bay Girl Came To Save Us All on Sunday November 25, 2012 @05:30PM (#4829522)
Your twisting my words now, people pay for headlines with advertising and what not, we are talking about music or perhaps even movies, these people produce and create these forms of entertainment expressly for money, not for your enjoyment or for your friends enjoyment, them make it and package it.

Then someone comes downs rightfully buys it and enjoys the fruits of others labours.

What is not right is to reward artists by telling them that their hard work is just information free to be handed out to everyone, seriously call it what you want, you are stealing from these people. They don’t want you to give it to your friends or random people off the internet, they want you to pay for it.

If you really don’t like it, go and create your content and release it under creative commons and stop watching and listening to commercial movies/radio.

Re:Raided 9-Year-Old Pirate Bay Girl Came To Save Us All on Sunday November 25, 2012 @04:17PM (#4829316)
Here is the thing, someone has gone ahead and spent time and effort to create and sell something, someone then has gone on out of their way and attempted to steal it.

That being said with any form of piracy it is in effect stealing. If one were to go down to the local store and steal a product from the shelves and make a run for the doors, you will also be caught, brought up to the police, charged and taken before the courts.

Now is the methods being used by the record companies correct? probably not. But do they have a right to try and protect their profits from looters and moochers of the world? they sure do.

I think digital media is the way of the future, especially being able to access it from anywhere in the world with little or no effort.

I just think that piracy in this sense has been taken for granted for much to long and we should work towards naming it as it should be named and stop getting up and arms about it as much as we do and just pay for what we use instead of running off to the local torrent site and downloading the shit out of it.

Re:Do not register a domain name with your hosting provider on Tuesday November 20, 2012 @12:04AM (#4807813)
I work for a hosting provider, there are actual rules for registrars preventing things like this happening, I dont know what happened to you in the past but its very unlikely to happen, Registrars essentially risk their business doing this, here is a copy of the rules for .com.au namespace..

http://www.auda.org.au/policy/current-policies/

The fact that they are relying on an external mail vendor, and had passwords in their emails is a very sad practice.
Re:The Future Role of the SysAdmin on Monday May 28, 2012 @06:13PM (#4035143)
What a bit of drivel, as long as there are systems to be managed there will be sysadmins, I work at a hosting shop and you roughly need one sysadmin for every ten or so servers regardless of what they are, things just need to be taken care of.

Mail queues need to be monitored and cleared, kernels patched, customer issues need to be escalated. When you start getting into the size of a company with over 100 non-technical staff you will find you need at least one or two admins just to keep up with issues that come up.

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