* Posts by Happy Hippy

5 publicly visible posts • joined 11 May 2011

REVEALED: The gizmo leaker Snowden used to smuggle out NSA files

Happy Hippy

Re: Root password, sure, but why wasn't the data encrypted?

Purchase Ps2 cards, mice and keyboards. Bung up usb ports with epoxy. Remove cd/dvd writers. Lock cases. Encrypt data. Encrypt data. Encrypt data.

Climategate 2.0: Fresh trove of embarrassing emails

Happy Hippy

FFS look at the data - the climate is changing at a rate never recorded before.

Go ahead, shoot the messengers.

Skype hangs up on users yet again

Happy Hippy

Alternative...

Thanks Vic for the advice.

During the outage decided to buy a gsm gateway and a voice/data modem. Didn't relaise how much I was spending on skypeout. I'll probably stick with them for lanline voip - until the next blackout....

Happy Hippy

Ughh

Any thoughts on an alternative?

Australia cuts solar subsidies, and not before time

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Feed in tarrif

The "feed in tarrif" is working. Two years ago an installed 4 kWp system cost well over £20K , now it's down to £11K. This system saves me about £500/year in electricity, and I get another £1800/year in tarrif money. A total no-brainer.