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Comment 16GB for work, 8GB for the home box... (Score 1) 543

The work laptop is maxed out, Precision M6400 with 16GB DDR3 and dual 256GB Samsung SSDs.

The home box is also maxed out by 2002 standards...

System Configuration: Sun Microsystems sun4u SUNW,Sun-Blade-1000 (2 X UltraSPARC-III+)
System clock frequency: 145 MHZ
Memory size: 8GB

Love this beast, even if it's noisy.

Comment Re:good (Score 1) 933

...I have BS and MS science degrees from good schools. I haven't been able to find a job since finishing grad school - almost two years ago."

Your degrees in Geology are not exactly that useful, unless you actively try to market yourself to companies such as the oil & gas business. Have you tried that?

If not, the first thing I'd suggest is to fix your resume. That 'Jr Indiana Jones' pose is not helping you. Familiarize yourself with both MS-Word and PDF formats, and make an effort to make your resume presentable, rather than 'spending lots of time organizing your photos'.

You're obviously doing OK, if you're visiting places like Bangkok, London, etc., so if you haven't been able to find a job, I'm just going to blame you.

Comment Re:Nothing to see here. Move along. (Score 1) 133

I think the original claim of QC went something like this:
zomg Quantum Computing will be done eventually and then they'll be able to trivially break most/all modern ciphers, even if implemented in a perfect way! There will not even be theoretical security! I know, lets take this old, unbreakable cipher and invent a method of key distribution that is perfectly secure in theory! That way, by the time QComputing is invented, QCrypto will have rendered it moot.

Executive summary: "provable security using real world hardware" was never a goal.

Comment Re:What's going on Vimeo? (Score 3, Informative) 85

Hi!

You may not upload commercials, infomercials, or demos that actively sell or promote a product or service.

        * Exceptions: independent production companies, authors, musicians, non profits, churches, artists, and actors may show or promote the work they have created.

From here. Arguably, a 'indie'/solo-guy developer that wants to show his game falls under under this exception.

Can you tone it down just a tad, please?
 

Comment Use DomainKeys.. (Score 0) 263

SPF records are easy to implement, but also easy to subvert (as one of the other posters already mentioned in his comment's link).

You should really look into implementing DomainKeys instead, which (while a little more difficult to set up) are almost required if you do any kind of significant email volume.
Yahoo, Gmail, MSN/Hotmail, and AOL pretty much require that you have DomainKeys implemented if you want to email their users, otherwise you'll find yourself on the wrong end of a blacklist someday.

Postfix can easily be set up with DomainKeys support using dkimproxy, check it here: http://dkimproxy.sourceforge.net/

Good luck!

Comment Re:What (Score 5, Informative) 570

You're right. The submitter didn't read the article (or lacked the reading comprehension to understand it).

The article says that "the networked Playstation 3s can process 4 million passwords per second, cutting down on the time necessary to find the correct combination.". Nowhere does it say that a single PS3 can do that.

Comment Re:Discoverable URLs (Score 1) 314

Say you want to learn about Safari. You go to apple.com/safari, as you'd expect. What if you wanted to learn about Internet Explorer? You need to go to microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/default.aspx

Really? You really think so? Funny, it worked just fine for me.
Try it. Just type in http://microsoft.com/ie in your address bar, press Enter and see what happens.

Who could have guessed that without a search engine?

Obviously not you, since it seems you didn't even try it.

Comment This might be new in the desktop OS market... (Score 5, Informative) 394

... but it definitely isn't in other areas.

A number of NAS and SAN vendors ship products with features disabled on the OS until you pay a 'licensing fee' to unlock the features. NetApp, Isilon, and EMC/Clariion are just some I can think off the top of my head that do this.

Technically, it isn't quite the same as say, unlocking Windows 7 Ultimate from the Home version, but it's fairly common practice in the enterprise world.

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