thepacketrat
Re:Trolling a Windows support scammer
on Friday January 27, 2017 @10:17AM (#13500234)
I did have other things to do... (I'm the author.) Also, I fumbled on the VM setup with VirtualBox—should have just used my vSphere Windows 10 instance, but it was already set up for sandboxing malware.
Re:Ask HN: Is the UK's Ministry of Defence Still Using Windows XP?
on Friday November 27, 2015 @10:04AM (#10637568)
Yes, the UK government is paying Microsoft a ton of cash for XP support, so this is possible.
Re:PHP desktop GUI framework with HTML5 Chrome/IE engine
on Friday November 21, 2014 @09:43AM (#8641437)
Is anyone actually using this?
Re:Running a South Pole data center
on Friday November 07, 2014 @09:19AM (#8572555)
They're hiring a webmaster. But I think it's in a different cold place: Madison, Wisconsin.
http://icecube.wisc.edu/jobs/show/webmaster
Re:NSA’s Internet taps can find systems to hack, track VPNs and Word docs
on Friday August 02, 2013 @02:53PM (#6148869)
By VPN startups, they mean initiation of a VPN session. Specifically, this means they can grab the credentials at the beginning of a PPTP VPN session, and then decrypt it. PPTP has been known to be vulnerable to this sort of attack for some time.
Re:The new Google Hangouts will not support XMPP
on Thursday May 16, 2013 @05:41PM (#5721358)
They're still supporting client-to-server XMPP, so third party apps can always just connect as a client rather than doing federation.
Re:Aaron Swartz commits suicide
on Saturday January 12, 2013 @03:57PM (#5048865)
Having lost my brother to suicide just a year ago, I can empathize deeply with your loss. My thoughts are with your family.
Re:Andreessen: ‘The Dot-Com Bust Was Basically A Mistake’
on Friday November 02, 2012 @11:53AM (#4733185)
Oh, yeah, because Pets.com would have worked so much better as a mobile app.
Intel researchers put WiFi inside—the processor, that is
.blog, .lol, .foo: Google, Amazon top list of global TLD applications
Re:Coolest jobs in tech (literally): running a South Pole data center
on Tuesday April 24, 2012 @02:26PM (#3885555)
With the contract switching from Raytheon to Lockheed, the general NSF support contract should have a bunch of IT positions opening up next research season, I'd think.