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  1. Shados

    [FOR HIRE] L1/2 Tech Support / Junior Sysadmin

    I'm looking for part-time work doing L1/2 tech support and/or junior sysadmin duties. I've spent the past two years working for a company that provides managed services & IT infrastructure to other businesses here in Australia, and have a lot of experience in customer support as well as...
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    Linux install continually fails. Any ideas?

    Looking at the error message you've posted it looks like Ubiquity's partitioning tool isn't handling one of the existing partitions (or the partition table itself) correctly. As such, your stated plan of re-partitioning the drive first with another tool will probably work, although I'd recommend...
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    Good VPS specs for remote desktop?

    If they're just using PulseAudio's in-built RTP streaming capabilities then the audio would be raw 44.1KHz 2-channel s16be, which takes ~1.4Mbps. Somewhat surprised they don't have compression going - it's not that hard to capture & compress audio from pulseaudio before streaming it, at least...
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    Microsoft confirms it will buy 'Minecraft' for $2.5 billion

    Never said it was good, just that they're likely to make money off of it, at least assuming they can get their shit together somewhat.
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    Audiophiles around here? Who is using a DAC?

    I can speak to Schiit being pretty awesome; I bought the Gungnir & Mjollnir combo last year after having the chance to try them out locally, very happy with them so far :3. 
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    Microsoft confirms it will buy 'Minecraft' for $2.5 billion

    Minecraft Realms == recurring monthly payments for well-integrated, dead simple 'official' server hosting, more or less. Which is what they should have done from the start, really, and will no doubt make a ridiculous amount of money.
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    The cesspit / chat thread.

     I am very likely down for one.
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    BlueVM's domain name was hijacked

    Quite a few high profile 'hacks' have happened precisely because someone convinced a DNS or server provider to disable two-factor authentication on their target's account because they'd lost their device or such. Of course, it ups the work required / difficulty involved on an attackers part...
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    Places to Get SSL Certs?

    StartSSL.
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    What do you use your VPS for?

    Wrote bespoke software that distributes content among nodes based on geographic popularity. Wouldn't be hard to extend it to account for more factors, but not really necessary given it's only running on a few boxes anyway.
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    I think we've all long suspected that KuJoe worked for the NSA...

    ...Except for anyone who's ever read a swords & sorcery novel or played D&D.
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    What do you use your VPS for?

    Web server, gitolite server, build & ci server, teamspeak server, monitoring server, remote development environment, backup servers, ghetto CDN, tunnel endpoints, game servers, occasional mirroring of open source services that are temporarily down, testbeds for various things, chat bots... Lots...
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    A Linux powered AR15 rifle

    Huh, kind of reminds me of the appearance of the crossbow back in medieval times: suddenly you have a weapon that is effective at range and requires comparatively no skill to operate. Unlike being a motherfucking knight.
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    Windows 9?

    It's also noticeably faster in W7, probably because your machine doesn't have to swap to a fullscreen app and then almost immediately back again.
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    [MXroute] 10%-20% off E-mail Hosting for Your Domain

    Knowing you guys run solid services I would use this, but my own government is marginally less likely to screw over my privacy than yours (and hey, at least then I'm getting fucked by the devil I know), so I'll stick with a more local host for now :P.
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    Alcohol of Choice

    Ouzo, probably. Baileys if I want something sweet, vodka martini if it's late and I need caffeine. For beer & cider I go more local - White Rabbit and Cheeky Rascal, usually. That said, I generally let other people buy, as a lot of my friends are licensed bartenders and will just make me random...
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    Post your workspace/workarea/job sites :D

    Too dark, can't see shit D:. That, or my eyes are going. Also possible.
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    ICANN suspends Brandon Gray Internet Services (AKA Domain Registry of America, DROC, etc)

    Especially given that Kuryliw's earlier charge resulted in over $700,000 in payments being seized from mail in transit and he was then only fined a paltry $30,000. Given the amount that was in the mail system at the time & that he'd been running it for a while, he made a shitton of profit.
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    Do you have health insurance?

    If it's a greencard marriage, why do they need to be hot?
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    Need a new keyboard

    Yes, the registration wall is something of a major uptake issue for them. It's also unfortunately not one they're going to be able to do much about (at least not unless they get really huge); a lot of manufacturers place legal restrictions in the form of a 'minimum advertised price' (MAP), and...
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