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Comment Old tenants (Score 2) 217

We've lived in our current place for about 3 years now, and we still get at least 1 piece of mail each month for old tenants who rented our place before us!

We've gotten everything from drivers license renewal notices, vehicle registration notices, taxation letters (Australian Tax Office), voting enrollment notices, even had debt collection letters and for a few weeks even phone calls from debt collectors! (They stopped once we advised the debt collector that the old person no longer lives at the address, we don't know them and we had forwarded the matter to the police as we constitute what they are doing to us is harassment - that was after daily calls for 3 weeks asking for the person at ungodly hours, eg calls at 6am, 9pm, 6pm. The police actually did follow the matter up and advised them to stop calling/contacting us once they verified our own claims. I asked for charges to be laid, but they would only do so if they called again once the police asked them to stop).

Mind, not as bad as my mother-in-law. She has received a Christmas card for the last 20 years for the person that lived in her house prior to her. And she and her husband bought their house 20 years ago!

Comment Solaris 11 (Score 1) 413

Latest move was to Solaris 11... yes, yes, I know we all hate Oracle...

My migration path over the years has been:
DOS 3.3 -> 6.22 w/Windows 3.1
Windows 95 / OS/2 (dual boot)
Windows NT4 / Red Hat Linux
Windows 2000 / Red Hat Linux / Mandrake Linux (dual boot)
Windows XP x64 / Crux Linux / FreeBSD (dual boot)
FreeBSD / Arch Linux (dual boot)
OpenSolaris (back when it was still SXCE/SXDE)
Solaris 11 (Desktop) / Arch Linux (netbook)
    and have about 8 OSes in VMs currently for testing...

The above doesn't include all the others tested over time, eg BeOS, QNX, MenuetOS, a bunch of hobby stuff, etc.

Comment Re:Compatible with Windows 7? (Score 1) 73

Actually it's probably not the CPU core, but the GPU included. The last Atoms to be produced (N570) had a GPU still largely based on the i945G chipset, and the other crop had a GPU done by PowerVR (no Linux support). Either way, great for 2D, no good for 3D. IIRC, the new Atoms will have a newer GPU core based on the same GPU core as SB? (could be horribly wrong, but it's a new GPU based on an existing Intel design).

Let's not forget most netbooks have a 1024x600 display, and MS mandated displays with at least a 768 pixel height for Metro applications. Mind you I have seen personally Win8 running on a netbook, but had problems with Metro because of the screen resolution. But in desktop mode it worked fine...

Anyway, Smells like someone is drinking too much Koolaid...

Comment What about Verisign, Comodo, etc stop Certificates (Score 1) 507

What about Verisign, Comodo, etc stop authenticating certificates, or even flagging certificates as fake or revoked?

Despite a few webpages going down, this will stop most e-commerce, online banking, etc, basically stopping the flow of MONEY via the Internet. This will bring worldwide attention to the issue, and possible get other governments involved.

Also could Verisign, etc be targeted by SOPA, as by issuing certifcates used for encryption could be used by pirates to hide their information transactions...

Also what would happen to sites like github, sourceforge, codeforge codeplex, etc, since they all host projects that could potentially be used by priates, crackers, etc... Could all our favourite opensource hosts become quiet?

Handhelds

Submission + - Palm no longer offers PDAs. (palm.com) 1

MobyTurbo writes: "Palm's official website, which sold the entire range of Palm products, now no longer offers or mentions, outside of some accessories, Palm PDAs. Only their Treo and Centro phones. The new website is spruced up to prepare for Nova, a new Linux based OS for phones, reportedly to be announced at CES tomorrow, but part of the "Newness at Palm" apparently is to no longer sell PDAs. Oddly, the company reported that PDAs accounted for about 15% of their sales, a significant figure for most businesses, even though their last PDA, the Palm TX, was created in 2005."

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