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I use Namecheap and I generally like them. However I was having a repeat issue for several months using them for DNS with DNSSEC enabled. Basically, validation would fail because they'd let their records expire and "forget" to resign them. I'd notice my domains failing to resolve, and had to manually create a new record and delete it to force all my records to be resigned. Support seemed clueless, and I stumbled across this workaround by accident.

I opened multiple support tickets with them, and each time the issue would re-appear in 1-3 months. Went on for probably a year or so and I was just about to move to a different DNS provider when it stopped happening.

FreedomPop sells AT&T SIMs. The phones they sell are for Sprint. I have accounts on both. I use the free AT&T SIM in my car and get 1GB free/month, which is more than sufficient for my Google Maps/Earth and directions usage.

Hmm, I ensured the mei driver was loaded (lsmod confirms it), but I get: "Cannot open /dev/mei: No such file or directory"

dmesg shows: "[ 18.233688] mei_me 0000:00:16.0: Device doesn't have valid ME Interface [ 18.233700] mei_me 0000:00:16.1: Device doesn't have valid ME Interface"

So I'm guessing I'm not vulnerable. I suppose Supermicro replaced it with their own IPMI interface.

The Linux kernel does the same thing. Run htop and run a single threaded workload. You'll see it migrate around between all the cores.

The problem is even if you have an Gsuite account added to your phone, it disables a lot of things. For example, I have my university Google account added to my phone. That automatically disables keyboard backup and sync to my personal account. I can somewhat understand the rationale here, because you don't necessarily want private corporate data being stored in the keyboard on a personal account. But Google doesn't make a distinction between Edu accounts and Business accounts for this. For Edu accounts it's a stupid restriction, and should be something the domain admin can override, but can't.

Had a similar issue with a PowerMac G5. It was the liquid cooled variant, top specced version, paid around $3500 for it in 2004. Just after the 2 year mark, the o-ring failed and leaked coolant onto the logic board, obviously frying it. It was a documented known issue with the first run of G5s (they changed o-ring manufacturers shortly after they started production), and the o-rings were failing and leaking coolant.

Absolutely refused to fix it, wanted $1500 to replace the logic board and the liquid cooling system. I've refused to buy Apple ever since.

Verizon and Sprint CDMA is technically a 3G technology, not 2G.

Sprint has 3x3 deployed on band 26 in some boundary areas of the ibez. There have been some sites spotted in Columbus, Ohio along the ibez boundary that are 3x3 instead of the 5x5 Sprint has deployed everywhere else that's not within 100 km of Canada or Mexico.

The Audi navigation works well sometimes, and I really like the integration into the car (using the most up to date maps, they give free map updates for 3 years).

However, the routes are not the most efficient, and although it supposedly uses Sirius for traffic, the data isn't very accurate. Google Maps often gives me a much more efficient route that can be twice as fast given current traffic conditions, but is more "unusual".

Audi's GPS likes to stick to main roads that become heavily clogged. And even though I have an update that came out within the last 2 months, it still doesn't have a major construction project that has been completed for a year added, and always tries to route you around it.

So basically I use Google Maps for navigation within the city or areas that I'm familiar with, and Audi's navigation for long trips (ie inter city highway trips) where the route will mostly be the same on both systems.

That being said, the GPS in my car ALWAYS gets an accurate lock right away. My phone (Nexus 6P) has an awful GPS that doesn't work in hilly areas or around tall buildings and constantly loses the signal. It barely works inside the car, and even then the accuracy isn't great. Guess the all metal phone really kills the GPS signal, since the Nexus 6 had an amazingly good GPS with high accuracy in the same conditions.

This is a pretty annoying move for anyone who has their own CA they use to sign internal domains. I wonder if they will also have Chrome not trust them...

This is exactly why I won't buy anything except Nexus phones now. The updates are completely independent from the carrier (well, carriers can withhold OTA updates, but you can always flash the current system image from Google).

How do you do this on stock Android?

Privoxy is awesome.

I was using it for a while in place of AdBlock because of the memory issues associated with the Chrome AdBlock extension (Gmail would regularly and quickly balloon to 1-1.5GB of memory usage).

I recently moved over to µBlock to give it a shot, and pages seem to load faster than through Privoxy (plus I can use QUIC on Google services since there's no proxy), but I haven't had an opportunity yet to test the memory implications.

I had a raspberry pi on my network via ethernet and saw it had accumulated a ton of IPv6 addresses. Ended up just disabling privacy extensions on it. If your machines reset their network connection (ie wireless reconnects) then they'll flush their IPv6 privacy addresses.

Your machines might just have a long timeout before they use a new privacy address. You can find more info here: https://home.regit.org/2011/04/ipv6-privacy/

That's the premise behind Whonix (https://www.whonix.org). It adds a little overhead running 2 VMs, but it's worth the extra 256MB of memory for the piece of mind.

Agreed, I make almost all my purchases with my Amex card (mostly because of unlimited 2% cash back on everything). It's usually smaller independent restaurants that don't take American Express. It's something that I never really understood, because American Express in my experience charges lower transaction fees than Visa/Mastercard. When I had an Amex merchant account they charged a flat $7/month fee with no per-transaction fees, though our volume wasn't very high.

However, you have to setup the American Express account separately, which probably has a lot to do with why many mom and pop type restaurants don't take it. But now that a lot of new restaurants seem to be using processors like Square, this is a complete non-issue.

Works fine for me with OpenVPN on Android (4.4.2 on a Galaxy S4 and Nexus 7). It will only prompt to accept the VPN the first time it's run. If you leave it running in the background it will re-establish the connection whenever it needs to.

That being said, I also have an Xposed module to get rid of the confirmation prompt entirely (I use Tasker to enable the VPN automatically when my phone connects to unsecured wifi networks).

I can't speak to how Apple does it, so maybe it's just an OpenVPN vs IPsec thing. If you setup your own IPsec VPN you could possibly have it activated automatically. There was a post on HN a few months ago with a script to basically setup an IPsec VPN automatically for you.

Which script in /etc/acpi/ corresponds to the thinkvantage key?

All the federal government would have to do is threaten to cut all federal funding and subsidies to the state. An example would be funding for interstates, but there are many many more. I can't remember when exactly, but I'm pretty sure they've played this card before.

I can't think of a single state whose politicians would not back down from such a threat.

I complete agree. More and more items are showing up as Add-on Items, even things that didn't used to be (at the same price too). At least give me the option to explicitly pay for the shipping.

Works on Linux (Ubuntu 12.04) for me with Intel graphics, Chrome 31.0.1650.63 (current stable). Maybe your card isn't supported by WebGL? Test it: http://get.webgl.org/

What utility is it?

Hmm, interesting. Android by default notifies apps that it's on a limited data connection, and they restrict background updates and such. For example, I can install apps from the Play Store on cellular, but they won't auto-update themselves. Same with apps like Pocket, Currents, Google Music (different bitrates for cellular and non-cellular backed wifi, pre-caching), etc. Gmail won't download images/attachments automatically on cellular, but will on wifi. For all of these though, you can usually override this in an individual app's settings, such as telling Google Music to always stream high quality or Gmail to always download attachments.

My tablet barely uses any data (with syncing enabled) in the background on cellular data. This despite having background syncing turned on and quite a few apps that use it. I take it with me most places and do casual browsing on the cellular connection (public transit and airports mostly), and the most I've used was 150MB/month. It just waits to do anything bandwidth intensive until it's back on wifi.

I'm really surprised Apple hasn't done this yet. I guess that's the reason why carriers complain iDevices use so much data.

Doesn't the iPad have some way to limit data usage on mobile networks like Android? I can even tell it that certain wifi APs are using mobile data and to conserve bandwidth when connected to them. It works very well, I would imagine Apple has something similar.

It also works on any 3G tablet that supports T-mobile's frequencies. I successfully activated a SIM on my 2012 Nexus 7 (no LTE) and got the 200MB free per month. I'm not a current T-mobile customer.

I was using AT&T prepaid for 250MB/month. At least where I am in the Bay Area, T-Mobile actually had a better signal and speeds that were twice as fast. Good deal all around.

I really like SpiderOak https://spideroak.com

I have mine set to backup every 4 hours. It versions the files as well so you can restore to a previous backup.

I still use XP, but only in a VM for those few apps I use that either don't work in WINE or don't have a Linux port (Quickbooks is a big one).

I see no reason to use Windows 7 in a VM for this since it has a larger install footprint and uses more memory.

The company Zeo made a product that did this (Zeo Mobile). It was a headband with 3 sensors on it, and it connected to your phone via bluetooth. It works great. Unfortunately they recently went out of business and took their site down, but you can probably still find them on eBay.

Really? I plug mine into ethernet whenever I can. Even on 5Ghz the unpredictable latency can really impact things, particularly NFS. For example, rsnapshot backups that take 10 minutes on ethernet take upwards of 5 or 6 hours on wifi. It's not a bandwidth issue, it's appears to be latency with lots of small files.

Note: I'm using an 802.11ac router and a laptop with a Centrino 6300 chipset. I have the 5Ghz spectrum all to myself. For bulk transfers I get consistent speeds of close to 100Mbit.

Yeah our school basically had one big LAN (everything got a publicly routable IPv4 address, but nothing within the university was firewalled from anything else). There were networked printers though in the computer labs, some of these labs being on the first floor of the dorms. If you needed to print slides before class (and professors always posted the slides only like an hour before class), you had to go to the lab, hit print, and wait 15 minutes for the printers to get to your job in the queue and the staff to actually fetch it and lay it out. Definitely added to the time it took to get to class.

Since I was already accessing my dorm computer via Samba in the labs (I know, dumb idea in hindsight, even with a password, but this was 2004), I decided to figure out a way to print directly from my room and then just grab it on the way to class. Long story short I ran a port scan on the computer lab to find the printer IPs and had my network port turned off within minutes (I had the IPs though!). Ended up having to go to some office and explain what I was doing. Got turned back on a few days later.

The upside was that I eventually was able to print from my room as long as I converted whatever it was to postscript first. The downside was that I didn't need to know the printer IPs after all (the university's unix server already had the printers setup... just piped it through ssh to it).