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(Also, would you want to run corporate infrastructure on BIND? Hmm.)-f0dder (February 06, 2013, 07:01 AM)
I heard it's been attempted. And it's not worth the effort based on everything I've ever read about it by those who tried - and failed.-40hz (February 05, 2013, 04:31 PM)
The present setup you're describing is absolutely doomed to failure. As in epic. No two ways.-40hz (February 05, 2013, 04:31 PM)
Holding out false hopes only gets your client pissed off. Best just let it happen and skip the science fair projects. Once it really tanks on them they'll let you fix it correctly.-40hz (February 05, 2013, 04:31 PM)
...As shown by the fact that at least in my case, I'm more pissed at the local business associations now after their 'success'.-wraith808 (February 05, 2013, 11:29 AM)
I remember in the late 70's, the CD's the military used were about the size of a garbage can lid. And I don't think they stored as much information as a regular CD does today.-Tinman57 (February 04, 2013, 07:29 PM)
So a 1/4 acre is a ~52' square .~104', it's a square-Stoic Joker (February 04, 2013, 12:00 PM)-AndyM (February 04, 2013, 01:04 PM)
if you divided the world's population of 7 billion into families of four, and gave them each 1/4 acre to live on-CWuestefeld (February 03, 2013, 07:53 PM)
Ww seemed to work end of last week...-TheMen (January 28, 2013, 05:45 AM)
I heard about a program that would require a pendrive to unlock the PC during the initial startup-hulkbuster (February 03, 2013, 07:32 AM)
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It don't get funnier than real life~!-Renegade (February 01, 2013, 08:34 AM)
As a 25 year old, I just missed the online/technology social revolution.
The main thing I notice is that young people (and a lot of older ones) don't get the concept of criticism and mild insults.
People get so used to disconnecting/blocking any negative that they can't don't know how to deal with it properly, AND then are scared of giving a negative comment in fear of being deleted.
So people are used to a diet of 'likes' and no longer know how to turn criticism into a joke and deal with it.
Which leads to emperors new clothes scenarios, everyone too scared to say anything but the person is actually totally useless.
This is written without any qualifications and shouldn't be considered a critical study unless you agree with it.-Fred Nerd (January 30, 2013, 08:12 PM)
I'm not a gamer so I can't really speak to that but I've never forwarded any ports to my torrent client yet it seems to work just fine.Well, as long as you're only interested in leeching, and are dealing with well-seeded torrents, sure. But if you want to give a bit back, or are dealing with something where you need the protocol's "tit-for-tat" to kick in effect, you really do want to be able to accept incoming connections, not just initiate outgoing.-Stoic Joker (January 31, 2013, 06:45 PM)
Keep in mind I'm only talking small home networks here - I definitely wouldn't want UPnP on a business network or something connecting a public wifi hotspot.-f0dder (February 01, 2013, 03:25 AM)
It's still a pointlessly dangerous protocol IMO. Because anything that shows up on/from a web page is already on the LAN, and this "service" is just begging to be exploited. How many people really need to open a port that often?? Damn few I'd suspect.Show me how to do nefarious things with UPnP via JavaScript, and I'll reconsider-Stoic Joker (January 30, 2013, 03:20 PM)-f0dder (January 30, 2013, 03:44 PM)
Need to open a port? Whenever I start my torrent client, actually (randomized port range). Often when installing a game or some application. The crappy web-based GUI of my router is bad enough that I take the lazy way... and for "normal" people, who don't set MAC-based IPs and are tech illiterates, it's a wonderful protocol - even if has security implications-f0dder (January 30, 2013, 03:44 PM)
SaaS? Kill it with fire. Then roast the inventors over a slow fire. Then torch the term out of existence.-f0dder (January 31, 2013, 03:12 PM)
Eew. If they're in that bad of a shape that someone feels the need to remotely monitor all that, then Give Someone a "Jerb" (HomeStarRunner) and hire an Assistant Home Health Care Aide to live in the house. Because someone who needs to be monitored if they left the house needs someone to wipe up the spilled cereal that will sit there for weeks because the Schmancy monitoring system doesn't have a setting for "cat puke" after the cat decided to scavenge it.-TaoPhoenix (January 30, 2013, 09:52 AM)
I get where you're coming from but I think there is plenty of room between the extremes for this type of solution. Remember just because the folks aren't that agile anymore - Help I've Fallen... - Doesn't mean that they're automatically daffy as well.-Stoic Joker (January 30, 2013, 03:27 PM)
This is an ideal solution for the folks that need help standing up to use the restroom that are still sensible enough to drive an assistant into medical leave on suspicion of mental instability.
These are people who still know what they need to do, just they are physically incapable of reliably doing it by themselves. The device would let them call someone when they need assistance, but spares the expense and stress of having assistants on site 24/7.-SeraphimLabs (January 30, 2013, 03:44 PM)
Eew. If they're in that bad of a shape that someone feels the need to remotely monitor all that, then Give Someone a "Jerb" (HomeStarRunner) and hire an Assistant Home Health Care Aide to live in the house. Because someone who needs to be monitored if they left the house needs someone to wipe up the spilled cereal that will sit there for weeks because the Schmancy monitoring system doesn't have a setting for "cat puke" after the cat decided to scavenge it.-TaoPhoenix (January 30, 2013, 09:52 AM)