Posts by Bronek Kozicki

Re: About Time!!!

I love my BB classic both because of its physical keyboard (can't stand touch ones) and because it's software works very well for what I'm using it (messaging mostly, plus few less intrusive apps)

@iOS6 user

thanks I wasn't aware that kvm has been ported to illumos . Does it also support vfio (i.e. device passthrough)?

Re: Who's laws would they be breaking?

@An0n

I'm pretty sure I wrote "require consent of all parties". Whatever the owner of Lenovo laptop agreed to, the other side (e.g. bank, journal or a blog) did not, since T&C were meant for laptop owner only and other party was were never presented with it.

Re: Wow BT is getting faster at responding to user problems

"regular" FTTC is capped by BT at 40Mbps, you might want to fork for "premium" to fully utilize the bandwidth. No idea what's the market-speak at BT for this option.

However, instead I suggest that you simply switch to an ISP who is honest about this 40Mbs cap, see here http://www.aa.net.uk/broadband-premium.html. Yes, you still need to pay extra to have the cap removed, since it applies to BT wholesale.

Re: Irrespective of any MITM issues

money, money, money ... makes the world go round.

Software companies sell your security and privacy for few bucks more from the advertisers.

Re: The Blackberry Classic...

Ditto.

My wife has Sony Z3 Compact - hardware close to perfection, very light and amazing battery live. However every time I do something on my BB Classic she mentions "it's so simple on your phone, I wish I could do that".

Re: I don't think this is what it is all about

My thinking exactly. If you need to have exactly reproducible setup, build from sources yourself (in case of Debian, IIUC that involves dpkg-dev ) and maintain your own repository, otherwise such guarantees are rather pointless

Re: @Iain Thomson

I have 10yo Toshiba Portege, a very nice machine running Mint and new SSD with PATA interface. Agreed, it's a very nice way to revitalize an old machine, if only the screen was better.

Re: First Direct

Do not forget to also uninstall their root certificate.

Re: This or HP MicroServer

FreeNAS makes no sense (or worse, will corrupt your data, due to way ZFS cache works) without fair amount of ECC memory. Few old desktops support this.

EDIT: Looking at HP website I do not see MicroServer supporting ECC memory either HP MicroServer seems to support ECC memory, from

The server supports dual-rank, PC3-10600E/PC3-12800E (DDR3 ECC) DIMMs operating at 1333 MHz or 1600 MHz speed.

.. now very tempted to build a FreeNAS myself :)

Re: Can't be right

Yes but that would only happen if blackhole was actually surrounded by matter to devour. It is indeed expected that some blackholes are in the center of galaxies (or other dense objects) where there is matter in proximity which would create messy ring around the blackhole (accretion disk caused by drag from the rotation of blackhole), but it is also expected that there will be some blackholes with very little matter left around to be sucked. These will look just as pictured.

Re: @Ragequit

Hey @jake, are you watching over Linus's shoulder, as he's typing alleged "... and won't be anytime soon"? Because no reply to Jiri's message is seen on LKML list, at this moment.

Re: Not too happy about this :/

There is no need to implement cryptography inside the chip; hardware acceleration for cryptographic primitives will be sufficient.

Re: Those "idiot programmers'

... which is exactly why HUGE fines, capable of taking the company to brink, are needed. Anything less will not teach idiots in upper layers of mismanagement that actually, they do not have a choice but pay good money for good security, and the only alternative is going bust.

Re: Pix or it doesn't xist

Nice animation at ESA’s IXV reentry vehicle mission

Re: one way out of this mess

Talk about shooting oneself in the foot. Or both feet.

Shame, I was considering getting Oculus Rift for this, some day.