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  1. drmike

    Cord Cutters TV Option for Android

    I'll note here that Mobdro is free.  There is a paid upgrade for additional features, but those are not pay for channels, but actual features. Not every station works, but it's so many more and so many that work unlike other TV apps I've tried.
  2. drmike

    Holiday 2015 "Special" Purchase Regret Confession Thread

    The privacy issue = baking Amazon into the desktop :) ?  They're doing a current 180 degree turn on that bad choice. I'll give Pidora a look.   Still partial to the Debian family since there is so much how-to out there that just works.
  3. drmike

    Cord Cutters TV Option for Android

    I am a long time cord cutter. Officially I've never bought cable or satellite TV.  Amount of programming I find interesting in any given year I can count probably on one or two hands.  Single programs mostly. Sooooooooo my TV is basically PBS and whatever the antenna pulls that day and...
  4. drmike

    Linode Hacked

    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ THIS ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ HAS ME LAUGHING ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ouch Linode.
  5. drmike

    Scaleway out of servers and IP's

    11 million IPs... bahahha wowzers
  6. drmike

    Linode Hacked

    Oh boy :) Faith in Linode declining... "... discovery of two Linode.com user credentials on an external machine..." What does that even mean?  Could be user accounts seen the wild, which come on, hackers do that routinely...  Looking forward to Linode's customer database...
  7. drmike

    ARM device with decent disk performance?

    I know it sounds silly, but have either of you @willie or @wlanboy @TheLinuxBug  tested USB tethered drives on speed?   I haven't yet (don't have much to go playing with at current on USB drives).  Some of the newer flash drives have some serious speed claims.    Wondering if ARM platform is...
  8. drmike

    ARM device with decent disk performance?

    Thanks for that...  I keep dinging that Mid Western Mac site lately with projects and search... 
  9. drmike

    ARM device with decent disk performance?

    Which benchmark / link?  Blindness happening... I'll schedule a task / reminder with details my end so it gets done :)  ... I have a few devices I can run it through to see difference in various gear too...  Doing a lot of documentation this week so setups are there in my records for reference...
  10. drmike

    ARM device with decent disk performance?

    Newegg has the 64GB cards now at $19.99 shipped :)  Going to give one a try.  Thanks for the recommendation on this brand.
  11. drmike

    Psychz/Photon VPS Question

    I know we have providers here using them as their upstream. Lately I am hearing good mostly.   Some issues with filtering out in LAX - probably blips in service under attacks. Psychz has been aggressive with their pricing since late summer.  Decent deals.
  12. drmike

    ARM device with decent disk performance?

    SD cards have never been very thrilling on ARM devices.  Tons of issues if anything.  Never had the luxury of NAND or eMMC.. both were expensive and not aftermarket choices, so I avoid. I have an unused A20 here with this...
  13. drmike

    191 Million US Voters have been Outted in Public Seen Database

    Mystery Database Owner Exposes 191 Million US Voter Records Online A security researcher has discovered a database of 191 million American voters including personal information unprotected on the internet due to misconfiguration, according to media reports. On December 20 DataBreaches.net...
  14. drmike

    How visitors can trust on your hosting business?

    VPS is mostly the same, tons of lemons.  It's issue of lack of skills of many owners, lack of proper sysadmin, lack of automation, lack of monitoring and usually a ton of server oversubscribing vs. the physical resources.
  15. drmike

    ARM device with decent disk performance?

    The OLinXino seems mighty similar to the CubieBoard2, except for the lack of NAND on the Cubie. I have a Cubie Router board disassembled in parts heap, so maybe I'll drag that out and experiment :)
  16. drmike

    ARM device with decent disk performance?

    Are you seeing good disk IO out of the NAND flash or SATA or other on that board?
  17. drmike

    Happy New Year

    We've all made it another year :) Congrats and here's to this one being a good one for everyone!
  18. drmike

    Scaleway out of servers and IP's

    That's my take on it too.  I remain interested in Scaleway, if they can build out what they have, take on new growth and keep it stable. I am not holding my breath though, they seemed to have hit the brakes on this experiment hard and sudden. I view ARM as financially destructive at this...
  19. drmike

    ARM device with decent disk performance?

    I continue to monkey with ARM platform.  One area I am meh with gear I have at this point is disk performance.  My Pi's, Odroids, etc. all are SD card installations.  SD cards are rather meh as general purpose disk at this point in history. Looking for some recommendations.  Does anyone...
  20. drmike

    Livestream got Leaked.

    Catching up on email pile (I read email monthly it seems): Dated December 24th.  Looks authentic.
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