kano
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I saw some people saying that Dollar-tree was selling LED bulbs. It sounded extremely unlikely, due to the complexity in manufacturing such things. But then I found a 2-pack at a hardware store for $2.90! They look great; the only question is how long they will last...
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A few months of you are lucky..
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Its crazy though. How could they possibly be making profit on a $1.50 LED bulb? I mean, they're freaking complicated devices. There's a AC-DC converter, voltage step-down electronics, and that's not even the part that emits the light! Then we have phosphors to give you the natural color (which this DOES provide). It actually looks like an incandescent, though I know its not, because its made of plastic and touching the bulb doesn't give me severe burns.
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probably 'made in china' on the cheap.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/12/19/ham_radio_app_bad_review/ New feature for TDM?
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The saga continues! Apparently this wasn't the only guy...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/12/21/amateur_radio_fans_drop_hammer_on_hrds_blacklist/
Its so funny to see the company change their tune, when the backlash starts to build...
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You have to admit that the customer support was paying attention with laser focus.
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I could totally do that at my job, but I'd be killing your whole internet access to your house. Would never do that though, but I could.
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Got my hands on a screaming fast 256GB USB flash drive that reads at 400 MB/s and writes at 150MB/s... pure awesomeness. They do actually make a model with even faster writes, but the capacity is lower (due to over-provisioning?) This makes a great mobile Linux drive though.
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That sounds really good. Does it work with a standard USB drive?
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What's the make and model?
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http://www.securityweek.com/backdoor-found-many-sony-security-cameras Isn't it funny how gaping back doors like this only exist in products where they pose a threat to the consumer, and not in products where they pose a threat to the profits of the company that designed them, e.g. the ps4? Priorities...
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I'm a freak. I have *two* holes in each of my ears. One is up about an inch above the ear canal. Now that's not the problem, the problem is that it occasionally itches like crazy, and when I squeeze it, this weird stuff comes out. Anybody else have (or even ever hear of) this?
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My guess:
If the stuff is the protein liquid that the body generates when it is fighting the inflammation, it will not generate if the sealing of the pit will stop the hole from getting inflamed.
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Better not make guesses with coffee predictions and go to the nearest doctor.
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This should be in off-topic.
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Its always better to learn the smart way today, than the hard way tomorrow... If you are going to mess with luks encryption, back up the header before its too late!
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The header is a single point of failure at the start of the partition, and if it gets damaged, the encrypted partition is FUBAR. So, make an extra ~1 meg partition at the end of the disk, and put a backup compressed header there.
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Aren't there supposed to be rules against conducting mass unwarranted searches like this? http://gizmodo.com/yahoo-secretly-scanned-users-emails-for-the-nsa-and-fbi-1787401845
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Doesn't it make you mad when the best part of the music in a series is not on the actual soundtrack album? Hint: If you are going to call it a soundtrack, all of the music featured in the material needs to be presented on said soundtrack.
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Vizima at night, Vizima outskirts.
For Witcher 3 swamp for orphans, Novigrad slums and Hindersfjall. There's a couple more but those are my favourite.
Manual sun rise needed to get those.
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Well, since you know the names of the song, I guess you were able to find them otherwise
In the opposite case I would help you to find them out, since I really missed the brzeg song from witcher (
), which weren´t included in the OST as well. I haven´t yet properly played Witcher 3, so I can´t help you with those. Although I must say that OST to W3 (and W1) is brilliant. -
Sorry for the multiplied posts.
I found them alone of course.
Witcher 2 has the most complete OST if you're interested in that.
Witcher 3 is brilliant as well in it's own way.
Though imho the story has weak points. If you want to I can send you a resume of a debate on why that is the case (in comparisson to previous games).
Theres's also great fan inspired music. Great, great frnachise. Captures something through post modernism that Ga...
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Got an email from my (now former) ISP, informing me that the $25, 1.5mb/s Internet service will go up to $35, starting in October. Yeah, that's right, $35 for wired Internet service that can't even cope with a 720p stream. Capitalism is wonderful.
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Time to change ISP if your able to then, even $25 for a 1.5mb connection is taking the royal piss!
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Call most any ISP over here and they'll want at least $20 for 1.5mb/s service. We have a saying for American Internet; "The only thing that goes up is the price!" Maybe its because spying on everyone is so expensive, or maybe they just don't want to overload room 641A. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
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Stuff just gets more fascinating by the day. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/08/19/snowden_docs_shadow_brokers_nsa_exploits/
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brain-damaged bug of the day: I want to install encrypted Linux. The installer force-exits because "unsafe swap is detected". There are zero swap partitions on the disk, zilch, nada, nothing. Yet it still will not let me pass. The obvious conclusion is that the module for compressed memory is being detected as swap space, when it is no less safe than the rest of the memory in the machine. grrrrr
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This is why as developers, you should warn the user about potential problems and not just out-right force close the program if an undesired condition is detected.
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For anyone else who encounters this, the workaround is to pop open a terminal BEFORE launching the installer and run swapoff -a. Yes, even if there are no partitions on the disk.
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Score! I found a i7 2670m laptop with 8gb and a Radeon 6730m at a thrift shop for $100... It features 2 500GB HDDs, one of which was dying. That was the one with the Windows install. So I of course substituted it with a 128 GB SSD. At first I thought the hinges were breaking, but it was just a loose screw.
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Niiiice!
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Nice find man!
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Here's the laptop. It runs TDM on modest settings.
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So I drempt that I was in a Thief/Darkmod mission last night. It wasn't any of the published missions though, it was something new. It was like a giant manor, but on wheels and moving! The setting was changing from day to night as I snuck around, and at one point I was afraid someone would come in the room that I was in while light was coming through the curtains!
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From experience I can say, my best built areas were those taken directly from a dream. Dreams somehow have their own emotional visual language that works.
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It seems for most people it's usually areas they frequented often or had some emotional connection with in the past in their memory. It is definately that way for me.
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Try to analyse your dreams, by using dreamsymbols and some sites like dreammoods or dreamscloud.
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I wonder if Microsoft made it so that Windows Update just waits for two hours if you're updating a Windows 7 machine, just to punish you...
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Ohhh No!!! Apparently "This Windows computer is infected!", even though its not running Windows at all. I just love the shady things that random websites on the Internet try to pull, which is exactly why I prefer to browse in Linux... less risk of getting hit by Cryptolocker and friends. Still makes me laugh, though.
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hmm If Win10 goes subs based more of us will be using Linux as our desktop OS.
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I got a phone call from someone claiming to be from microsoft who said that I needed to give them access to my computer over the internet, as it was about to explode. lol
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@Stumpy, you should have run with it pretenidn to give them acess etc etc just to see how far that would hang themselves... been there done that.. free entertainment..
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Today I clobbered a Linux partition with "dd" while the machine was booted and running from that (mounted) partition, just for fun. I wanted to copy another image over it anyway. It was funny because it would not shut down, because those scripts got nuked. It didn't actually hang, though.
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I am pleased to report that Pulseaudio no longer makes me want to throw the computer off a bridge. It finally "just works" correctly. Latency is low in TDM (it used to lag for a second or two), it works with Wine, and it solves the issue of switching audio devices on the fly and recording the audio output in audacity.
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WOOT!
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nice.
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Finally!
Thanks for sharing :-)
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I think you guys should start showing "suggestions" on the missions memu. You can be like Microsoft and show games or apps the player might like. /s We're not allowed to call them "ads", so we call them "suggestions". https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=windows+10+suggestions+in+start
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If we suggest anything, it should be to come to the forums. One of our advantages is we can be a lot more 2-way (through forum discussion) than the 1-way force-feeding of corporations to their audience.
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Gameplay reminders and suggestions are a cool idea though, and update notices.
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Suggestions for missions, OK. But no add's please!!!
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Its funny how there's usually a simple solution to a mechanical problem. I got a used case where one of the holes for screws on the expansion slots is ruined. Standard screws will not go in, and bigger ones won't either. So I just used one of the million MB standoffs on the backside to give it something to screw into. Problem solved! It doesn't even block any ports on the video card.
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I've got craploads* of screws and MB standoffs in bags. Its funny because this solution didn't come to me yesterday, but it smacked me right in the face as soon as I woke up this morning. I was actually looking at new cases online last night, but I would really rather stay with this one because its freaking huge and super quiet.
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I have drawers full of all different bolts, screws, washers, etc. that I've accumulated over the years. It's funny how something you might have just tossed because it was 'extra' at the time comes in handy years later.
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It really is incredible how badly modern software is designed. I'm on a web page and I want to copy the comments into a text document for easier reading. When I select the few thousand of them, the thing starts lagging like crazy and saying that "scripts on the web page are taking a long time". This is on a 6-core 3.5 GHz machine with 24 GB of memory. How do they engineer something so poorly?
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Perhaps its just a Firefox thing. They are moving backwards. Options that you would expect to be in preferences, like blocking image loading or Javascript were intentionally removed, and the browser constantly gets bigger due to more stuff being added that many people never use or asked for.
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Yeah it's annoying that they remove options like that, they're still in the browser:
Go to about:config, search for this option "permissions.default.image" change to 1.
Possible values:
0 -- always load the images
1 -- never load the images
2 -- dont load third images
I know they think that everyone has internet fast enough to not worry about loading a 100 images on a page, but it would be nice if the option was GUI accessible.
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Holy spam explosion, batman!
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I don't really get the point of spam bots anyway.. has anyone in the past 5-10 years ever seen a spam link in a forum and followed it and bought a product? it just seems like a waste of time
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Indeed. I really don't get this, too.
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The spammer is still here, though silenced... all day long
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For anyone who still thinks the idea that this is going on is bulls***: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/17/silverpush_spyware_in_android_apps/ (Garrett voice) "Creepy"
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I was under the impression though that a lot of the speakers in consumer gear can't actually produce ultra-sonic sounds. I figure it costs more to make equipment that can do that, and since you can't hear such high frequencies anyway, why bother?
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I got a nice (huge) computer case for $20, but the power switch is busted. I wired the reset switch to act as power, and I 3D-modeled a substitute part last night to fix the broken power switch. I wonder if it will work? I paid attention to measurements of the broken part. (a clip snapped off)
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They picked perhaps the worst time to do this. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/03/amazon_kills_fire_os_encryption/
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While everyone is talking about Apple vs the government, Amazon just pulls the feature entirely. Its like they *want* bad publicity... ha ha
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Well they did a 180, and will continue to ship the feature after all. It turned into a PR nightmare, which made them go back on the initial call to remove it.
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