* Posts by UnauthorisedAccess

32 publicly visible posts • joined 25 Jul 2013

'Could we please not have naked developers running around the office BEFORE 10pm?'

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Questions I wished you asked...

As an Australian, I wished you asked the following to Australian expats:

1. How's the surf? Beach options?

2. Can you still access Australian NRL/AFL/Union/Soccer (choose you code, and I'm ignoring Netball/Basketball/Hockey/Motorsport) at certain pubs?

3. Is there an existing Australian expat community that you can successfully avoid like the plague?

FREE PARTY for TEN lucky Australian Reg readers

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Was mine too highbrow?

If so, my other submission (to the tune of a certain Dr Dre classic):

Bridges ain't nothing but hops and clicks

Tick on these gets and suck the NIC

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There once was a man from the forum

Who wished to drink with the quorum

I'll even shout a round

In old Sydney town

And won't detract from the decorum

Seagate brings out 6TB HDD, did not need NO STEENKIN' shingles

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Re: RAID

I don't think you'll be a loony if you did, so long as you had two NASes rsync'ing. If one had a failed disk and was doing a week rebuild you could point everything at the secondary NAS to speed up rebuild times.

RAID != backup

You'll NEVER guess who's building the first Ubuntu phones in 2014

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Re: I'm excited!

I'm actually not excited for the first run of Ubuntu phones.

I'm excited about the second push of cloned Ubuntu phones that provide the phone-slash-desktop experience (as in, dock the phone, full desktop experience) that have slightly less polish and specs but are half the price. Fingers crossed that Ubuntu phones are successful enough that this second push happens shortly after the first push.

The future of storage: disk-based or just discombobulated?

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Re: RAID rebuilds

I've seen too many NAS units fail to trust anything on any device.

RAID isn't a backup.

A NAS rsync'ing to another NAS is a backup.

A NAS rsync'ing to another NAS offsite AND you actually get a success/unsuccessful email is a better backup.

Jokes of no more than 2 lines

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Why do data modelers never find true love?

One to Many relationships.

Rarin' to buy an Ubuntu phone? Maybe not until 2015, Canonical man says

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Re: Glad I bought my Jolla phone instead of waiting for Canonical

> so you want to be able to load new OS imanges AND be able to make calls and send text messages

Yes, just like people have been doing for ages via xda-developers.com. This isn't new stuff.

If this was my main phone then no, I wouldn't be installing alphas, betas or even RCs on it. If you're going to load a beta and expect everything to work perfectly you're going to have a bad time.

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Re: Glad I bought my Jolla phone instead of waiting for Canonical

My ideal phone would be something like the Ubuntu phone.

I want my phone to look like a phone (~5" screen) and, amazingly these days, take phone calls and send/receive SMS/MMS messages. I don't care if it isn't thin. I don't care if it doesn't look sexy. So long as it fits into my pocket I'm happy.

I also want to have full control of the phone as if it was something like a Raspberry Pi. I want to have root terminal access out of the box. I want to be able to easily load new OS images to the phone. I want to (but probably rarely) be able to write non-sandboxed software for the phone and run a large variety of 'full distro' applications (such as VLC, LibreOffice, TuxPaint for the kids) just like they were running on my Raspberry Pi. I want to (but probably only do rarely) connect to a monitor via a mini-HDMI output and use a bluetooth keyboard and use it as a normal PC / media consumption device.

I also don't want to pay big bucks. That last one probably means I'll be waiting a long time.

IT bods: Windows XP, we WON'T leave you. Migrate? Chuh! As if...

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SteamOS

I wonder if I can convince the the developers need this new Debian based distro for development.

GTA San Andreas: Now smack that disobedient hooker on your PHONE

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GTA San Andreas was (and still is, when I get nostalgic) one of the best games I ever played.

IMHO, Rockstar still haven't made a GTA that has that same RPG feel to your stats (if you can call it that) that San Andreas had.

Antidote for poisonous Aussie Red-Back Spider venom DOESN'T WORK

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...but he said "Things like Golden Orbweavers were more scary to me since they wove webs at face height in the middle of the night".

Golden Orbweavers weave webs during the day, where Garden Orbweavers weave at night (and only night).

Not that it really matters - I just wanted to check.

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> Golden Orbweavers

Do you mean Garden Orbweavers?

Golden Orbweavers are the ones that have really messy all-over-the-shop webs, and have been known to catch and eat small birds. They're visible throughout the day.

Garden Orbweavers are the ones that build massive (I've seen human sized ones) webs at night. They're little grey/brown furry spiders that rest in the day with one leg hooked on their web like a fisherman. They're cute, but no one likes walking into a human sized spider web at night.

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Can't help but to comment...

Here's my weirdness when it comes to spiders (as an Australian); Huntsmans (or 'Freds' as their called by some Australian families - not sure if this is common) scare me. They're massive, move in darkness and some reason love turning up at eye level when you least expect it. They do this weird act of 'someone is near and the light is on - if I don't move then they won't see me'. If you turn the light off for a minute they'll be on the other side of the room.

The weird part: All other spiders don't bother me, even the deadly ones. I will try to overcome this as they truly are spiderbros.

Quick personal stories of huntsmans:

1. As a teenager, a coworker of mine stacking shelves at Coles had a huntsman jump on his face like a face hugger (leg span covered his face). It didn't bite, it just decided that his face was a good place to jump to.

2. Wife driving the car, felt something in her hair, pulled it out and it was a huntsman's body. The legs were going nuts. She just threw it on the passenger seat and kept driving. 30 minutes later I get in the car and she says "oh yeah, there's a pissed of huntsman in the car, don't annoy it". Thanks.

3. If you have one in the bathroom above the shower, please note that they'll loose their grip as the condensation increases. If they're above you, prepare for some help massaging that shampoo in.

You can't touch this: It's HAMR time for WD

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Re: 3Tb drives. Nice.

My solution, two NASes, primary rsync'ing to the secondary weekly. That way I can handle total NAS death, rather than just relying on RAID1 to save me.

Really important stuff, like photos, are periodically backed up to USB and stored off-site. I'm not as diligent at doing this as I should be - I'd prefer to rsync them to an offsite NAS (other security issues will have to be addressed).

Call yourself a 'hacker', watch your ex-boss seize your PC without warning

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WTF?

CEH'ers

What about Certified Ethical Hackers? Are we now also doomed as we've gone to the effort of achieving certification regarding our knowledge/abilities as white-hatters?

Surface 2 MYSTERY: Haswell's here, so WHY the duff battery life?

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Re: Battery life under Linux?

It's really personal preference. For me, as the device comes with a licensed W8.1 (and I don't have any spare licenses) I'd want to leave it where it is, especially as I know booting into that partition will give me 100% hardware utilisation with 100% of the memory (with the Asus T100, that's only 2GB RAM). The same kinda goes for Linux - I want it to have access to all of the hardware with minimal bloat behind the scenes, so that rules out virtualising Linux within Windows. Truth be told, I probably will run VirtualBox for some small VMs, things like terminal only CentOS that's only allocated 256MB RAM and resides on the microSD card.

Why triple boot with Android? Mainly so I can have access to a traditional sandboxed tablet for testing and certain Android only apps that are linked to my Google account.

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Battery life under Linux?

We'll have to wait for these puppies to ship, though I'm really interested in W8.1 tablets dual booting Linux (specifically Lubuntu). It will be really interesting to see if battery life improves using a Linux distro that's a bit round in the middle (Ubuntu) and again with a distro that's quite lightweight (Lubuntu / Debian + XFCE / etc).

I'm personally waiting on feedback about the Asus T100 (64GB) dual booting with Linux. If it can end up triple booting W8.1/Android/Lubuntu then I'll end up buying two.

Oracle, cocaine and death

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Oracle, cocaine and death

http://m.smh.com.au/nsw/cocaine-arrest-sheds-light-on-tweddles-fatal-end-20130928-2ul59.html

anyone see this? newsworthy?

Grand Theft Auto V: Violent, sweary and amazingly ambitious

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Re: PC version is on its way

> they probably push up console sales and may even get some double sales to people who have both

I'm one of those. I pre-ordered the Special Edition version of GTAV and will eventually pick up GTAV over Steam once I get a 4K monitor and something that can drive all of those pixels. Maybe in a year. So yes, I can see myself buying two copies of this game (one at full price, one during a Steam sale no doubt).

GTAV looks good on a 40" LCD, though it's (or at least their code is) pushing the limit of the PS3. It would be amazing with higher resolution, plenty of AA, better viewing distances, less 'disappearing props' (I've noticed non-important things like aircon ducts disappear as they approach the edge of the screen) and possible even better detail. Oh, and less "I parked my car on the street, run up a hill to shoot something, ran back on car has disappeared". Maybe someone stole my doorless, smashed, barely drive-able COIL...

Supercomputer hacker coughs to flogging DoE logins to FBI agent

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Re: Tsk, Tsk, Tut. Tsk...

I think it should reinforce that black hatters should be anon at all cost. There will always be the greedy ones and the ones that are out for a name for themselves (though their name is just a nick, big bloody deal). So long as they never give up their details (either willingly or by not taking appropriate steps - insert 7 proxy statement here) they can still belong to some swanky group of lowlifes without too much risk.

For every black hatter caught by big naming themselves or going after some coin, I'm sure there are at least that many that are doing it quietly behind a keyboard purely for self interest. Doesn't make any of it right mind you, though it still happens.

Doom guy teleports into VR startup Oculus Rift

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Looking forward to this...

When it comes to the next revolution in gaming, I think this is it.

I was previously entertaining a car sim cockpit though that would have been a one trick pony. This might also reduce my desires for a better monitor as well (was looking at 120hz gaming monitors) as I can quickly see myself favouring full immersion games via the Oculus.

The Virtuix Omni (http://www.virtuix.com/) is obviously going to be a big part of this full immersion setup.

Samsung Galaxy Gear smartwatch: Cloak lifted on secret details

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Re: Out of left field...

> I suspect your one of, oh, 100's worldwide!

Very true. Worst case I'll write the app myself as a pet project. Code name: "Wrist Humper".

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Re: Out of left field...

> I like the idea of learning Morse specifically for this purpose :)

I know it sounds stupid though I would actually jump on the smartwatch bandwagon for this.

If I find out learning morse code is actually harder than I thought then I retract all previous statements.

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Out of left field...

One thing I'd love to see is a morse code app for smart-watches so that incoming emails/SMSes from nominated sources (spouse/close friends/boss) can be 'vibrated' into your wrist.

With practice you could feel messages without having to hold the watch up to your face or painfully reach for your mobile. Great for meetings, driving, 'on the job', covert work etc.

Please note that I don't know morse code though I'm willing to learn for this very purpose!

Tor fingers Firefox flaw for FAIL but FBI's also in the frame

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Big Brother

Re: if you've ever used TOR for anything illegal

...or more specifically, if you've ever used the TOR Browser Bundle that uses Firefox 17 on Windows, had javascript enabled, used it during the period where the FBI had implemented the malware on some onion sites, were also doing things that were illegal (and those illegal things are the ones that the FBI are targeting) then you are fucked.

Note that if the intended targets are the peddlers and consumers of child exploitation material, then great, I'm all for it (though I wish they could employ different methods)!

Tor servers vanish as FBI swoops on kiddie-smut suspect

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Re: Is Tor really secure?

> Am I wrong on this? I've avoided using the Tor Browser Bundle recently for this reason. Not that anyone would be even slightly interested in reading any of my communication, but still it seems kind of a bad idea to place stuff directly into the government dragnet like that.

Use Tails in LiveCD mode, rather than the TOR Browser Bundle.

For hardcore mode, use Tails in LiveCD mode without a HDD installed in the laptop, a USB wireless dongle that you purchased using cash from a camera less kiosk, change MAC address anyway, wardrive for internet connection while keeping the laptop suspended over a bucket of saltwater. Slowly roll a cyanide capsule around your mouth and be prepared to bite down on it at anytime.

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Re: oh boy

A large number.

At the exit nodes the data is decrypted so that it can be sent to its final location. While the FBI et al cannot work out the sender (unless they're accessing a service that gives that away, such as gmail etc, though those details might be limited) they can work out what the sender is doing (in some cases at least, unless you're engaging in encrypted communications and using TOR as the backbone).

Google Glassholes to be BANNED from UK roads

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Car mode?

Similar to 'airplane' mode, can't they implement a Car Mode so that you can get navigational aids, speed etc though anything that could 'pop up' is disabled?

Hard to prove though when you get pulled over...unless it also records what you see similar to the dashcams.

New in Android 4.3: At last we get a grip on privacy-invading crApps

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In-app Ads

Another feature that can go alongside the permissions menu - I'd like to know if an App has and in-app ads.

An app might tick all the boxes regarding permissions, though if it has in-app ads I'll be removing it and searching for an alternative (paid or unpaid).

Google's new Chromecast spills its simplistic guts

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Re: Can't be arsed to check...

> But it's probably easier and cheaper to just buy a Raspberry Pi

...and that's exactly what I'm doing (well, I already have my Rpi). It's amazing that they both share the $35 price point. Yes, you need to buy a few more items to get the Raspberry Pi running (HDMI cable, SD card, USB wifi stick) but it's much more flexible.

WD: Enjoying our $630m, Seagate? Let's ruin your day with our results

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Re: Oh, and SMART is anything but.

"There's something terribly wrong with your hard drive, you should backup immedi.........aaaaaaaaaand it's gone".