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Living Room / Re: Be prepared against ransomware viruses..
« on: June 27, 2015, 08:40 AM »
While there are lots of things you can do to protect yourself from being attacked, one thing all of us who regularly make backups should do is keep external backup drives DISCONNECTED except when being used to update our backups.

I like to keep more than one set of backups (so at any time there is at least one set offline) -- though one set is older than the other.

Perhaps it would also be good to verify that the just-made backups are sound -- and possibly on a different machine (but for many set-ups, may be that's not so practical).  Non-restorable backups don't seem so useful...

After backing up, I disconnect the source drive (so it's now a backup) and start using the drive that's just been backed up to.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: CHS on Linux
« on: June 24, 2015, 09:59 PM »
I've tried some of mouser's software using Wine and my experience is usually that it almost seems to work, but not quite.  May be if enough of us bug him often enough he'll consider Wine as an official target :)

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Living Room / Re: The End of my Macbook Pro Experiment
« on: June 23, 2015, 05:02 PM »
One of the features I appreciate about Macs is (was?) the reliable functionality of booting from external media.  I haven't tried recently, but from what I gather this still works pretty well.  I find this type of thing helpful for trying other operating systems and performing maintenance.

My experience with PCs (at least for notebooks) has been that this functionality doesn't tend to work that reliably if it works at all.  Of course it may just be the hardware I've been using :)

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Living Room / Re: The end of the hard disk
« on: June 23, 2015, 04:47 PM »
I appreciate the speed, noise, and power characteristics of SSDs, however...

My impression has been that the failure characteristics of SSDs leaves something to be desired -- catastrophic loss of everything with no chance of recovering even a small amount seems unfortunately much more likely than common HDD failure scenarios (admittedly I have no numbers to point to).  In the consumer area I haven't found it easy to find things with functionality such as power loss protection (the one SSD I own does have this apparently).

Another aspect I'm wary of has to do with wiping data.  With HDDs it seems clearer that one can blank things appropriately before resale, reuse, disposal, etc.  With SSDs, my impression is that the jury is still out so-to-speak.

What do you think?

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FWIW, the posted article says the original mention is in issue 449.

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Living Room / Re: Open Computing Platform
« on: June 19, 2015, 03:16 PM »
He he -- not transparency of us, but them of course! ;)

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Living Room / Re: Open Computing Platform
« on: June 18, 2015, 09:46 PM »
That seems to answer that question... or am I misunderstanding?

Was being cautious in interpreting the article :)

In fact if you follow from the link you posted, down at the bottom under projects that fall under OSH, i.e. https://en.wikipedia...ce_hardware_projects, OCP is listed there.

Hadn't seen the link to the list -- thanks!

In any case, more and enough transparency would be appreciated in both hardware and software.

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Living Room / Re: Open Computing Platform
« on: June 18, 2015, 05:37 PM »
I didn't gather from the article what kind of relationship there is with:

  https://en.wikipedia...Open-source_hardware

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From the 7.1 Changelog (bottom of https://www.freefilesync.org/):

Accept Explorer drag and drop from MTP devices
Support showing MTP files with Explorer
Support opening MTP files with default application
Preselect active MTP folder in folder picker dialog

From the "Which features make FreeFileSync unique?" section of the FAQ:

Synchronize MTP devices (Android, iPhone, tablet, digital camera)

Have yet to try though :)

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FWIW:

In an effort to address a number of concerns we have been hearing from
the media and community at large, we at SourceForge would like to note
that we have stopped presenting third party offers for unmaintained
SourceForge projects
.

While we had recently tested presenting easy-to-decline third party
offers with a very small number of unmaintained SourceForge projects,
we discontinued this practice promptly based on negative community
feedback.  At this time, we present third party offers only with a few
projects where it is explicitly approved by the project developer, or
if the project is already bundling third party offers.

via https://sourceforge....pt-in-projects-only/

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Living Room / Re: 2014-2015: Best tablet specs for ebook reading
« on: June 15, 2015, 08:48 AM »
Got to try the Sony Digital Paper (DPT-S1) today.  Hope to post more after more experience.

Current impression is "quite impressed" -- with usual caveats regarding speed of redisplay.

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Living Room / Re: 2014-2015: Best tablet specs for ebook reading
« on: June 09, 2015, 05:11 PM »
Have used a 10.1 inch tablet for some years now and am still not quite happy with A4 / Letter -sized (both? one or the other?) viewing.  Suspect that some of it has to do with the seemingly extraneous whitespace (e.g. from margins).  The cropping feature in some readers seems to help sometimes but also leads to awkward experiences at others.

Hopefully the upcoming 13.3 inch experience will further enlighten :)

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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"
« on: June 09, 2015, 04:58 PM »
True History - Wikipedia,

Looks pretty nifty!

FWIW, there are links to an English translation and an audio book via:

  https://en.wikipedia...story#External_links

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Living Room / Re: 2014-2015: Best tablet specs for ebook reading
« on: June 02, 2015, 09:28 PM »
In researching alternatives recently, I noticed that there are now some 10.1 inch tablets that are noticeably lighter than the Galaxy Tab 10.1 - 565 g (1.25 pounds) - he he, just me being out of touch :)

Some noteworthy ones:

  Sony Xperia Tablet Z - 494 g (1.09 pounds)
  Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 10.1 - 477 g (1.05 pounds)
  Sony Xperia Tablet Z2 - 439 g (0.97 pounds)
  Sony Xperia Tablet Z4 - 389 g (0.85 pounds) - supposedly to be released this month (2015-06)?

For comparison, the Sony Digital Paper is apparently around 358 g (0.79 pounds).

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Living Room / Re: 2014-2015: Best tablet specs for ebook reading
« on: June 02, 2015, 05:56 PM »
Sure -- may be a few weeks before I get to interact with it though :)

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Living Room / Re: 2014-2015: Best tablet specs for ebook reading
« on: June 01, 2015, 09:31 PM »
Forgot to mention that it was only close to checkout that I realized there is an additional (close to) USD 70 tax involved...



FWIW, someone on the mobileread forums claims to have gotten a refurbished one for around USD 600 via:

  https://www.cdw.com/...EM-BSTK/3704285.aspx

( see http://www.mobilerea...42&postcount=216 )

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Living Room / Re: Peer Review and the Scientific Process
« on: June 01, 2015, 08:03 PM »
Nice find :)

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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"
« on: May 31, 2015, 06:28 AM »
Not a fix, but allegedly restoring access to the Messages.app (until crashed again?):

  https://thehackernew...hone-Crash-text.html

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The pain in my eyes convinced me to order one...



Not noticing xtabber's informative posts had nothing to do with my eye pain ;)

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Living Room / Re: Programming/Coder humor
« on: May 29, 2015, 01:51 AM »
There are only 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't.



There are only 10 types of people in the world: those who understand ternary, those who don't, and those who mistake it for binary.



More fun here... https://en.wikipedia...ki/Mathematical_joke

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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"
« on: May 24, 2015, 09:18 AM »
How to wipe your phone or tablet before you sell it - CNET
-Arizona Hot (May 23, 2015, 06:58 PM)

On a related note...

  http://thehackernews...d-factory-reset.html

If you’re planning to sell your old Android smartphone then you need to think again because there is a weakness in the Android Factory Reset option that could be exploited to recover your login credentials, text messages, emails and pictures even if you have wiped its memory clean.

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Am finding the Force Media-Type extension (source code) to be handy for viewing text files in a browser window instead of having to save them first and view via other means.

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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"
« on: May 22, 2015, 01:58 AM »
Indeed, looks like one of those.

Interesting that this is on MSN...

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Living Room / Re: Tindie
« on: May 21, 2015, 08:08 PM »
I wonder if they provide some way of gauging interest in potential projects...

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