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> I live in a remote place. Getting stuff shipped here is very hard and finding "Ubuntu-friendly hardware" is simply not an easy option, at all. I find it odd that Ubuntu is purpor…

For me as a heavy linux user. I went to the store and Tried OS X for around 20 minutes. At the time I really wanted a macbook. I actually hated the OS experience. While the hardwar…

And what would happen to people like my grandmother who can barely afford their property taxes now. She has lived in the same house for 50 years

didn't know of HSTS, thanks. where would one keep up with stuff like that other than keeping up with new rfc's?

Can you search wiki's yet?

It all depends on how good of a HS education you got. It also depends on the fun and relationships you are having outside of your school work. For me that was the best part

I have tried a few from low end box before. They aren't very reliable.

Looking for a cheap and realiable vps service. Not looking for linode or a cloud provider as they are too expensive

Season 2 of The Wire has to deal with the Docks. 3 and 5 deal with Politics

I use lavabit. It's cheaper than $10 a year and has a far superior web interface to googles. It uses squirrel mail.

I'm a sys admin too, just one with a CS degree. I don't think you need a degree to do well but it certainly does help. You were right in that many companies have strict education r…

College is not beneficial to all people but to many it is critical. At least in America the state of elementary, middle and high school is simple failure. Students are graduating w…

This came up in another post and I wanted to know how sites like pocket, read it later, readability and others make money? Instapaper is the only service with a semiclear business …

How do they make money?

looks nice but without google or facebook accounts how can I use?

Instapaper lately has been having many messed up conversions. I use instapaper because they have a pretty clear business model. They make money from subscriptions and app sales. Po…

pinboard is great What i'd like now is a better version of instapaper or the alternatives.

which others? doesn't do it on sendmail or postfix

Giving a facial imprint is very risky for the user. I think it's wrong to add this to the system and force users to give this information. Good luck though

The biggest threat to this is that it's a 4 digit code to unlocked on the phone. A stolen phone would allow access to everything. Figuring out that 4 digit code is super easy from …

What font is that, it's great.

That only works with gmail.

I thought perl regex was much much slower. Atleast according to Russ Cox,

So the userspace driver uses the same syscalls or they need to do the work around. I guess I am most interested in the workarounds.