| 2012/4/26-6/4 [Computer/Networking] UID:54371 Activity:nil | 4/26 I see that soda has an ipv6 address but ipv6 traffic from this box
doesn't actually work (ping6 <DEAD>ipv6.google.com<DEAD>, ping6 http://www.v6.facebook.com
Is this expected to work?
\_ Soda doesn't have a real IPv6 address. The IPv6 addresses you see
in ifconfig are just link-local addresses; any IPv6-capable machine
will autogenerate these, whether or not it's connected to an IPv6
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| 2010/11/1-2011/1/13 [Computer/Networking] UID:54002 Activity:nil | 11/1 I'm moving from a home in Fremont to another home within the same ZIP
code in Fremont, and AT&T customer service says I cannot transfer my
DSL service because DSL is not available at my new home. Is that BS?
Are they just trying to push me to subscribe to their more expensive
U-verse service? I'm not asking for any lightening-speed connection.
\_ could be
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| 2009/5/22-29 [Computer/HW/Laptop, Computer/HW/Display] UID:53032 Activity:low | 5/22 Are LED monitors much better than LCD monitors?
\_ OLED is still too new to know. They're direct emitters, so don't
have a backlight, and can turn completely off, hence better black.
The early news was that blue pixels burn out relatively quickly.
\_ FWIW, Zune HD will use OLED.
\_ Dunno, but I saw a very nice LED TV for just $2K. Wouldn't that
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| 2009/5/2-6 [Computer/HW/Laptop, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:52933 Activity:kinda low | 5/2 I have a 1Gbps switch. It is connected to a SANS RAID-1 with
two WD Green 1T that takes 1Gbps connection, as well as a laptop
that is also 1Gbps. Online benchmarks show *sustained* transfer
rate of about 1/2 of 1Gbps with the WD Green... cool!!! But
in practice, I'm only getting 68Mbps (read SANS->PC file transfer),
far below what I expected. The switch says both devices are using
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| 2008/6/25-7/14 [Computer/SW/Security] UID:50380 Activity:nil | 6/25 some XCF or CSUA person had a web page about a project they were
working on where I set up a machine, and you set up a machine
somewhere, and they both passively back each other, i believe with
an encryption key so i can't read your backups. when your disk
catches on fire, i just give you a copy of your data. anyone remember
the name of this?
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| 2008/6/9-12 [Computer/SW/Languages/C_Cplusplus, Computer/SW/Security] UID:50194 Activity:nil | 6/8 CSUA code guru please help. I need to see my random number
generator with a good seed (I just need random 18 bit
identifiers). The usual time(NULL) is OK, except my program
might be invoked faster than once a second, and seeding using
time() produced the same result. I tried clock() but it seems
to return 0. My program needs to be run in Linux/DOS (Watcom
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| 2008/4/21-5/2 [Computer/SW/Security] UID:49787 Activity:nil | 4/21 Yahoo Instant Messenger is not encrypted. Are there chat programs
that are a bit more secure than YIM?
\_ what OS are you using?
\_ What are your goals? Corporate security, or preventing your wife
from eavesdropping on you? If you're using IM for internal company
communication, you shouldn't be using anything where you don't
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| 2007/9/11-13 [Computer/SW/OS/FreeBSD] UID:48016 Activity:nil | 9/11 Hi does anyone else run linux/freebsd on their Desktop?
Do you encrypt your home directory? How does that play nice
with hibernation/suspend? Do you have to enter in a secret
key when you log in? Could you give a short summary of how
this all works? thank you!
\_ I'm a FreeBSD user. I do not encrypt my home directory
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| 2006/10/27-30 [Computer/SW/Security] UID:45013 Activity:low | 10/27 Anybody tried the "PDF decryptor" or "PDF password delete" type of
software? I have a PDF form file that won't let me save. I'm
considering getting one of those type of software to unlock the
file. I really don't want to pay to try it out though. Are there
free open source PDF unlock programs? Thanks.
\_ I've used Elcomsoft's (of "Free Dmitry Sklyarov!" fame) PDF
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