Viewing profile — classic959

The technique I've used to fill a balloon with rice: - Take a small plastic drinks bottle. - Cut the bottom half off to make it like a funnel. - Remove the lid, and stretch a ballo…

If a balloon is made of a thin neck and a round body, you're chopping the neck off near the bottom of the neck. You're then left with a round rubber pouch for the contents (rice). …

I helped administer the CheckPoint commercial version of this before 2010 in a large enterprise (Checkpoint Integrity it was badged as). Really good product though we did have some…

Depends what you mean by Dark side! In traditional definitions, Far side = Dark side If, when you say Dark side, you mean the side not receiving sunlight, then you're using a less …

I think we call it "dark" because the term was coined when the English language was used in a more poetic sense - at least it seems like that to 21st century-me. "Dark" = "it has n…

"Dark side" is used to describe the part we never see from earth's vantage point, not a part that gets no light from the sun. Definitely confusing for the uninitiated though.

Oh yes - run Frigate on a mini PC or home server. It runs best in Docker. And it should work with any cameras that support RTSP and provide H.264 video. I'm not affiliated btw, but…

You can also stream Reolink video to a Frigate box (free software) and access that from wherever. No cloud involved if you run your own VPN. Or even better, _just a little_ cloud i…

If you're plotting primes, all the coordinates where you're not plotting are non-prime - so every 2nd coordinate will be blank. As will every 3rd and every 4th, 5th, 10th, 11th. et…

I think relying on the internet to have a trust mechanism built in is a bit like relying on our road-builders to ensure our vehicles are safe. While the average internet user will …

I drop photos (from whatever device) into a folder on my NAS and they get automatically sanitized of EXIF data, and resized/bordered ready for posting to the internet. It's simply …

Using kdenlive for video editing on Linux has served has a good reminder many times to save often. Cloud and mobile apps are often very good at taking this task away from a user, b…

The interactive guide on that page is an effective way to visualise the components in relation to the attacks. Does anyone know what this would have been built with?

Exactly what I was thinking. I'd expect it to be quite high (deaths per TWh) while the technology is new or advancing fast, both because the energy production will be low, and beca…

Wow, this comment just got me thinking. If I've got good at taking well composed photos, according to common photography techniques, might they have less of that time-machine, memo…

I think this may have been the result of banking malware (e.g. Zeus back in the day) which was hooking OS calls to capture keyboard input and steal passwords. I'm not sure whether …

I have 4 RPi's in frequent use. The one in my kitchen (music player, Pi 2 model B) needs a clothes peg to squeeze the SD card into the reader otherwise it won't boot. So that's a 2…

I used the 'slug' (NSLU2) to run my first NAS. For me, that was a great introduction to setting up useful linux devices on my home network. (A wee pang of nostagia there when I saw…

I can see some benefit, even if it's just keeping their brand visible to the market. It shows they're not going away any time soon and might just help keep momentum. As a multiple*…