Comment Pathetic. (Score 1) 205
I have no words except these: fare ye well.
Journal Journal: Diagnosing ssh problems 1
Crazy war stories, indeed.
http://mina.naguib.ca/blog/2012/10/22/the-little-ssh-that-sometimes-couldnt.html
Comment Re:Datacenter Super sized. (Score 2) 114
Almost like they'd need a national broadband network to pull it off.
Comment It's phenomenally rubbish (Score 1) 484
Noone would be trying to watch this without the Streisand effect. I can't see how anyone could take such a terrible piece of filmmaking seriously. Hell, it doesn't even make fucking sense most of the time, it's just so disjointed and jarring. Blocking it worldwide would be doing humanity a favour.
Comment Re:I have everything in FLAC too (Score 1) 4
Yep. I rip to Vorbis as well, so that I can easily scp music to my work computer without having to transfer the full FLAC file over my relatively slow ADSL line. The extra 10% storage it uses is essentially insignificant.
Journal Journal: Vindicated 4
My decision to rip all of my audio losslessly to FLAC has been vindicated. I rip to Vorbis as well, but I always thought it was worth having the lossless originals around too. That way, if a new codec arrived on the scene at a later date, I could rerip to that without any further loss of quality. That codec is now here. Hello, Opus!
Journal Journal: Javascript 1
I'd forgotten how much I hated Javascript. I very much appear better suited to server programming than to web programming...
Comment Into the wild? (Score 4, Informative) 76
And by "into the wild", they mean they're now letting it run on other people's sites.
Comment Re:It's not whether you're paranoid... (Score 1) 3
I have a backup server at a second independent data center
As do I
Journal Journal: On the merits of redundancy 3
Some people think I'm paranoid. I wouldn't say so. It's just that I pay more attention to the potential worst case outcome that some. So when it comes to storage, I have a mirrored RAID array in my home server. The contents are backed up to a separate disk in the same machine. I also have an offsite backup in a datacentre.
Comment The sad part (Score 3, Informative) 152
The really sad part is how far Microsoft has fallen. They can't even do FUD well anymore.
Comment Louise Mensch (Score 4, Informative) 99
For an example of her (lack of) grasp of politics, or indeed common sense: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WvAkhW-XNI
Comment Re:Awesome (Score 3, Informative) 710
It already exists:
http://www.amazon.com/Hank-Greens-2D-Glasses-Headaches-Discomfort/dp/B004X4L1UC/
A friend who gets headaches loves these.
Comment Awesome (Score 5, Informative) 710
I love this. They charge a premium for 3D that half of everybody hates. Now they'd like to charge another premium for 3D that will suck a bit less.
I look forward to the next article bleating about the mysterious decline in box office attendance. What could it possibly be?
Comment 71, 57, 43 percent? (Score 1) 380
So, they asked 7 people?
