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I was looking at a company getting mentioned over on LET currently for being offline with clients. Struck me as odd that their site contains random bastardized wanna be Lorem Ipsum Latin. 2nd VPS text block translates --> First , however, we hardly optimistic 3rd VPS text block --> For those...

Buzzfeed covered a protest outside of Facebook headquarters in California: http://www.buzzfeed.com/rossalynwarren/heres-why-having-to-use-real-names-on-facebook-is-putting-so "On Monday morning, hundreds of drag and burlesque performers, LGBTQ people, Native Americans, and survivors of...

Do we have any rogue Chromebook owners who have unlocked their device, installed real BIOS and a Linux OS they are using successfully? Still shopping for a kick around small notebook for off grid and outdoors.   Chromebooks 13-14 with the 2955U processor have caught my eye as acceptable.  That...

At midnight tonight, June 1, 2015, Patriot Act Provisions expired!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/01/us-usa-security-surveillance-idUSKBN0OG0RF20150601

Since the TWC + Comcast deal was killed, now Charter has stepped in to do a TWC deal. Link: http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=112298&p=RssLanding&cat=news&id=2053012 "... have entered into a definitive agreement for Charter to merge with Time Warner Cable. The deal values Time Warner...

Posted over there by Mike Spears: http://lowendtalk.com/discussion/53805/gvh-head-jonny-nguyen-arrested-on-suspicion-of-ddosing-his-school-district Connect the dots, this is on the GVH website: https://portal.gvhclientarea.com/announcements.php?id=11

IRS is confessing that its "customers" were scammed by hackers. More than 100,000 taxpayers info was disclosed to hackers / organized criminals. Here's to a ruined future to the 100k likely credit dependent folks just hit...

Growing season is up and going strong at this point.   Weather has stabilized even in the most rugged northern environments. Folks out there tending their gardens?  What are we growing this year?   I haven't ground seeded yet.  Still cleaning up gardens and getting things in place.  

Collective intelligence gathering for hardware recommendation (hint we need a hardware section on here). Looking for a cheap beater netbook - older / used models are fine.  Should have good battery life (using in off grid environment with outdoors / dirt / sub optimal computing environment)...

I have another company that is hiring for their customer support team. This is an immediate availability.   This is a weekday work schedule with working hours of 23:00 - 07:00 GMT. Some weekend work will happen as the team shares the weekend workload. Pay will be once per month and...

Did a mistype earlier into laggy browser.   Google is ever so helpful. My life wasn't meaningful until Google tried to make sense of my randomness. Google Maps tried to tell me where fucking was.   Indeed, it's a place.  Fucking, Austra. Austria also has Fuckersberg. The Germans, not to be...

Add to the dysfunction of Lizard Squad the inability to woo young lasses... On Wednesday, a Canadian 17-year-old pleaded guilty to 23 charges relating to swatting calls and other false police reports, many of which had targeted his online opponents in the video game League of Legends...

MAY 12, 2015 CFPB Takes Action to Obtain $120 Million in Redress from Sprint and Verizon for Illegal Mobile Cramming Companies Will Also Pay $38 Million in Fines for Unauthorized Charges on Customers’ Mobile Bills WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau filed...

I just was doing some research and saw an ad for Vultr: Now this after Vultr dropped 3.5? Ghz CPUs and is pushing out 2.4Ghz CPUs to customers. Really pushes the boundaries of false advertising and false claims if you ask me.   Whoever is cooking up these sorts of claims as ads is going to...

The FTC recently slapped hosting giant Network Solutions for deceptive advertising and defrauding unhappy customers who cancel.  Simply said, Netsol promised 30 day money back guarantee, but read the fine print at the bottom of the page which takes you elsewhere that says if you cancel, such...

I run Linux on the desktop.   For a long while I kept one workstation for dealing with Java needed things.  That workstation is no more as "security" blocks Java due to old version and potential for holiday at the waterpark that would ensue. Needing to run Java (yeah I hate it and always have)...

I know a lot of the folks around here were fans of Crunchbang distro... for older hardware, minimalist GUI, etc. Crunchie tossed in the towel earlier this year.  For a long time the dev and releases were really delayed. Someone else has picked up Crunchbang and running with it for the future...

One of those ha-ha moments... 

I am working on a bigger extended LAN project - think neighborhood level. Trying to find something that does VOIP-like calling, ideally without a central server. Peer to peer would be ideal.  Something with calling ability, missed call notification, maybe text chat. Platform here is Linux, but...

So I am late to the systemd circus.  Updated a Debian box today with cronjobs that need to fire. This new systemd appears to make cronjobs no longer run.  Been depreciated and such should be in systemd mess. Can someone point me to some how-tos or  simple instruction on where stuff formerly...