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  1. souen

    The cesspit / chat thread.

    Heads-up for US voters: http://www.csoonline.com/article/3018592/security/database-configuration-issues-expose-191-million-voter-records.html
  2. souen

    ARM has legs. Real world use.

    @raj: how's video playback (and video editing, if you do any basic edits) on it? Are you using a micro SD card? Any caveats as a desktop machine one should be aware of? I'm happy with the C1 and thinking of getting the XU4 as a desktop replacement. Wished it had a little more RAM, but the...
  3. souen

    The cesspit / chat thread.

    No cheese ... scam! Chargeback!
  4. souen

    Globalfrag SCAM (Switch & Bait Tactics)

    Whatever issues you're having, hope they're resolved very soon. Good luck! :)
  5. souen

    Globalfrag SCAM (Switch & Bait Tactics)

    (cough) x-post on another forum (cough) Welcome to VPSB. You might want to follow up your review with proof, someone will probably be along soon to check. It looks odd for a first post. Also doesn't look good for both providers involved to be having an altercation on a public forum with...
  6. souen

    The cesspit / chat thread.

    lol Brie's delicious, though admittedly I'm not much of a connoisseur and tend to go for the milder fresh cheeses. Can't really go wrong with feta on almost everything.
  7. souen

    The cesspit / chat thread.

    So much for "safe" ... hope nothing twisted/sore! Let us know if dinner with the cheese was worth it.
  8. souen

    CloudatCost is run by CON ARTIST, AVOID AT ALL COST!!!

    @Munzy: haha, believe it or not, it came to 55 MB/s 1-2 times, 18 also but yeah, most days it's between 6-9.  Network seems to have hit the gutter today. Sampled in December 2014: $ wget freevps.us/downloads/bench.sh -O - -o /dev/null|bash CPU model : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU L5520...
  9. souen

    CloudatCost is run by CON ARTIST, AVOID AT ALL COST!!!

    I've commented about the provider before, but a few thoughts fwiw. Got one of their one-time Developer 1 plans for about 1.5 years to date. It has gone through 2(?) major outages (lasting over 48 h), one was storage array failure, forgot the details of the other incident.  Network speed has...
  10. souen

    Is it okay to ask customers to review your services on forums or social media?

    There's a difference between asking for testimonials/endorsements and reviews. A feedback survey or testimonial (typically 1-5 sentences) can be more quickly done than detailed review with benchmarks and stats, so it depends on what kind of "reviews" we're talking about. It's fine for providers...
  11. souen

    Is it okay to ask customers to review your services on forums or social media?

    If I've a spare moment, I don't mind leaving a positive note for a good provider if they email customers asking nicely (once or twice at most for the duration of service). For forums a full review would require a bit more effort (provide POP, do benchmarks, etc.) so it's understandable...
  12. souen

    Happy Birthday HalfEatenPie

    Happy Birthday, @HalfEatenPie Not half-eaten, but ...
  13. souen

    Crissic has been acquired by Quadranet

    When Patrick from INIZ replied to the person who brought up the issue that he should've gotten a contract, the other didn't clarify or correct him. My guess is in that instance there was no rental contract and was more a good-faith arrangement. If that were the case, would the person still have...
  14. souen

    The cesspit / chat thread.

    Wasn't me if that's what you were asking? It's a post from clowwindy, shadowsocks developer. Apparently he was asked to drop development and remove the code from Github. Among other tools, Shadowsocks is often used to bypass the GFW. I figured some people here or on LET might be using it and...
  15. souen

    The cesspit / chat thread.

    "Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop working on this." Just a heads-up for people to make backups as needed while files are still available.
  16. souen

    Google introduces new parent company, Alphabet

    Yeah, it's just odd, of all the names they could've picked.
  17. souen

    Google introduces new parent company, Alphabet

    Latest twist: apparently BMW owns a trademark to "Alphabet" and the .com domain. Potential for confusion with car fleets and self-driving cars?
  18. souen

    Website and Forum on Linux VPS

    Not sure if I understood your question, you want to visually put a border around the video? In that case, how about using CSS to assign the video's background to the border image? Something like the second example here: http://dereksemmler.com/2008/07/25/how-to-frame-your-images/ (replace...
  19. souen

    Crissic has been acquired by Quadranet

    I think the news would've gone down better if it was announce first then move (website, client portal, etc.) It gives people some time to decide if they need to take action, less people worrying if/when there will be downtime for the migration. OT, had something similar happening with another...
  20. souen

    Crissic has been acquired by Quadranet

    Mostly speculation at this point from lack of details, right now it doesn't look like welcome news for Crissic customers. Customers not informed about acquisition, some only found out because website redirected to billing, came to forum to ask what happened. Crissic former owner mentioned email...
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