joenathan

More overhead, CPU, data encapsulation, etc...

The article has zero technical content, it's like a sandwich that's all bread and no meat. It's a shame too because it is a very interesting topic.

Just left my host for a similar issue, Arvixe shared Linux server. One of the shared users apparently installed some utility called siteapps, which some how effected my side of the server, not certain what it all does but it started showing 'badges' on all my pages saying 'this site has been optimized by siteapps'. I found a way to turn that off in cpanel but the siteapps was still injecting JavaScript code into all of my pages. I could not see any visual changes to the pages but found this unacceptable.

I tried to contact support only to find out the company had been sold recently and the new owners saw fit to fire all the support staff and do away completely with telephone support for technical issues. Tried chat and after waiting, no joke, three hours for someone to show up in the chat was told that the problem was with my code. Even after telling the agent I could upload a blank page and the code would be injected into the page.

Long story short, I am now hosting on my own server. Now looking for a good host I can point my customers to, one that won't try to nickle and dime them like godaddy.

Practically nothing in this case. In the case of a phone like the S6, Samsung detects if the fuse is blown, indicating modification by the user, and will disable certain features, fingerprint reader, Samsung Pay, etc..

Netflix is an example of a trend that I hate, where it is hard to find the sign in button. One other offender that comes to mind is Crashplan, I actually had to google "Crashplan login" to find the page. Lastpass does this too where you actually have to cancel toward the end of the installation to proceed because the installer assumes you are a new user.

Maybe not directly related but when you go to download Chrome from chrome.com it forces you to watch an animation first, very unnecessary and frustrating.

Onboarding should take existing users into consideration and let them easily log right in.

I'm running Tomato firmware on my router(ASUS RT-AC68P) using an adblocking script. It will resolve known ad servers IP's to itself and serve a 1x1 transparent png instead of the ad. It's a combination of a DNS blacklist and pixelserv. All the devices on my network are ad free.

Probably not enough test cases, from what I read this seemed to effect non-reference cards, overclocked from the OEM.

I'm a sysadmin, I deal with malware on a very regular basis, saying MS software is malware is an absurd statement. Equal to saying black people are all criminals and then quoting incarceration reports.

This is way a Neo Nazi or KKK member would describe people of color, cherry picked 'facts' to build an absurd argument.

I almost lost faith in my abilities through the ordeal. I love building, picking every single component, I love having the latest hardware.

This particular build was setup to be primarily a Hyper-V host, for the VM drive I chose an Intel 750 PCIe SSD. The drive is amazing, super fast, makes traditional SSDs look like spinning disk. Choose the EVO to save a few bucks for the customer, as the server OS wasn't going to doing any heavy lifting. I never imagined that a hard drive could be incompatible with an OS.

I'm not a programmer but a Sysadmin. I ran into an issue a few months ago that nearly drove me crazy. I was custom building a new server for a customer, very nice build, Xeon E5 10 Core, 64GB DDR ECC RAM, Windows Server 2012 R2, SSDs, etc...

Everything is going well, update and configure bios, install Windows, install drivers and software. Then start configuring the server, sever needs to reboot, reboots to a blue screen of death. Can't get it to boot up normally. Ok must be bad software, driver, etc... Time for a clean install, everything is going fine and then reboot -> blue screen. Look up the bug check code, no help. Another clean install, this time no extra software, no drivers, same problem after a reboot. Finally figure out that it is only happening after I make the computer a domain controller. After Googling with this new information, I find one thread on some forum where people are having the same problem, turns out it was the solid state drive, if you use a Samsung 850 Evo SSD with Windows Server 2012, it will blue screen if you make it a domain controller. I never thought a problem like this was possible. Sure enough changed the installation drive and no more problems. Nearly drove me crazy, took me two days of troubleshooting.

You can upgrade, it'll just have to be a clean install.

If you have no knowledge of the games plot going into this article then there are big parts of the article that are incomprehensible, the author mentions events and characters from the game without explaining who or what or why; and why we should care if they were changed or if they did or didn't appear.

This is very poorly written, if you don't already know the plot to Destiny then this article isn't for you.

My cameras are all x264 HD IP cameras, I have 2x 720p Tenvis IPROBOT3s, 1x 720p Foscam C1, 1x 1080p Foscam C2, and 1x ELP 720p Mini IP camera.

The app I made is a webview wrapper based on this project https://www.ipcamtalk.com/showthread.php/93-I-made-a-better-...

I have three of these, and they don't use the old Amazon tablet interface, they pretty much look like stock android.

I bought three of them. I use two as monitors for my home camera system, I have 6 IP cams and use Blue Iris software as DVR and web streamer. I created a web app I loaded on the tablets and they show a rotating view of each camera for 4 seconds before switching to the next, and if there is motion on a camera it'll switch and stay on that camera until the motion stops. The tablets are set to never sleep, but I use an app to automatically dim the screen at night. I have one mounted to the wall in my room, and one mounted on the wall next to the font door. They are cheap enough that if they die after a year or three, I'll just order more up.

I've been getting regular emails from Facebook saying "sorry you've been having trouble logging in to your account". I haven't been trying to login to my account, I deactivated it years ago. Don't think there is anything I can do about it.

It's not a different OS it is an upgrade, and the scary red "X" is valid and not a scare tactic. I deal with people on a regular basis that are still running XP, which leaves them vulnerable to attack and infection.

In the always connected world that we live in, automatic updates are a very necessary fact of life.

If my FF extensions break I'll probably switch to Edge, it's faster and will be using the same extension API. The only reason I use FF is the extensions that can't be found anywhere else.

I've installed countless of these for small businesses(N66U & AC66U & AC68Us) and haven't had any issues, some with over a year of uptime.

Is it just me or do the three dots on the lower left do the same thing as the hamburger menu at the top?

The writing in this article is very difficult to understand.

>"At a restaurant with friends, a delicate choreography will have one person carefully select a few choice morsels from the common bowl and place them on a neighbor’s plate. It is a small, perfect gesture."

A "perfect gesture"? What does that even mean?

And this paragraph:

>"Take, for instance, the Beijing tradition of man zǒu. Man means “slowly” and zǒu means “walk,” or colloquially “walk slowly.” Man zǒu is the tender goodbye offered from every small shopkeeper I have visited in Beijing. It is usually spoken in a quiet voice, and somehow sounds so much more sincere than “Have a nice day.” Sometimes I will make the trip to my neighborhood laundry with a single shirt for cleaning, just as an excuse to hear the “man zǒu” when I leave the shop."

What is "man zǒu"? A spoken farewell? If so what is the significance of saying "walk slowly"?

Plex has completely replaced it for me but ymmv.

What are you talking about? What claims?

Title isn't misleading. So you can support the Pebble Smartwatch, you just can't tell anyone about it?

I have customers from Latin America and negro in Spanish simply means black.

Why would I ruin my day and relationship with someone by taking offense to a word when there was no malice intended?

I am black and would not be offended if someone referred to me as a negro, if they mean no offense, then I take no offense.

I've been referred to as African American, Afro American, colored, person of color, black, negro, etc. It makes no difference to me personally. Unless intended otherwise, it's just a point of reference.

I already do this exactly, in the case where it's one woman it would be humorous to use that statement and would lighten the mood.

If someone is looking to be offended then they will find a reason no matter what is said or how it's said.

Intent is the thing that should be judged, anything else is a foolish way to live and you will constantly find yourself offended.

One would hope they were mature enough to understand an idiom, and not so delicate that they would need to be handled with kid gloves.