Hacker News: nezgar

New comment by nezgar in "Rogers Canada, please fix the damn internet in Canada"

nezgar — Sun, 10 Jul 2022 03:21:18 +0000

*EDT

New comment by nezgar in "Wireless is a trap (2020)"

nezgar — Fri, 13 May 2022 02:44:10 +0000

Wired ethernet resolves most of my own teams/zoom/webex etc anxiety that any glitches in anyones meeting video or audio are probably NOT caused by my own connection....

New comment by nezgar in "When hits were stored on floppy disk and created with an Atari ST (2020)"

nezgar — Mon, 02 May 2022 02:04:32 +0000

The STe came pretty close with DMA stereo audio playback, though only at 4 sample rates so software resampling and mixing was still required. I did a lot of my own tracking on an 8Mhz 1040STe then later a 16Mhz MegaSTe.

At 16mhz I could do 25Khz playback with full software mixing, or with the 50Khz playback mode the playback routine would "cheat" by just alternating the samples for the two channels per speaker which used less CPU but produced a high frequency squeal that was easily filtered by turning down the treble on your stereo :)

New comment by nezgar in "35mm cinema film and digital audio"

nezgar — Wed, 06 Apr 2022 00:35:37 +0000

Dolby Surround aka ProLogic, was later enhanced with Prologic II which provided a higher bandwidth and rear left+right matrix.

New comment by nezgar in "Ukrainian “Snake Island” Troops Reportedly Alive"

nezgar — Fri, 04 Mar 2022 18:09:14 +0000

This is a good article on the topic I came across today: https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/cbc-pronunciation-kyiv-ukraine...

Boils down to that the Ukrainian vs Russian pronunciation is now political...

New comment by nezgar in "Ukrainian “Snake Island” Troops Reportedly Alive"

nezgar — Sat, 26 Feb 2022 21:09:06 +0000

Well... Ukrainian is Ukraines official language, so it makes sense to me to use the spelling derived from the official & most widely spoken language of the country.

Unlike Switzerland which has three official languages.

New comment by nezgar in "I tested four NVMe SSDs from four vendors – half lose FLUSH’d data on power loss"

nezgar — Wed, 23 Feb 2022 19:17:32 +0000

already already

New comment by nezgar in "Apple’s profit is always the priority–no matter the cost"

nezgar — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 03:16:05 +0000

*iOS

IOS is Cisco's router OS. Apple did license it though, to prevent any potential lawsuit...

New comment by nezgar in "The IPv4 Cleanup Project"

nezgar — Fri, 19 Nov 2021 07:59:59 +0000

I can kind of relate to the feeling of IPv6 being "new and scary" to back in 1995 when I barely grasped IPv4 routing... everything becomes clear eventually with experience and exposure... hopefully eventually I'll understand more IPv6 concepts with time. I "want to believe". :)

But I do fully get that firewall without NAT is perfectly fine (great) in an IPv6 world - but may be necessary in simpler multi-ISP routing scenarios...

New comment by nezgar in "Ask HN: What was it like to use BBS?"

nezgar — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 14:52:12 +0000

Hehe yeah... 2400bps modems ran at 1200 baud. 33.4Kbps modems ran at 3400 baud (at most)

New comment by nezgar in "Canada calls screen scraping ‘unsecure,’ sets Open Banking target for 2023"

nezgar — Thu, 19 Aug 2021 01:51:17 +0000

It's not secure at all, as some services (PayPal!) Allow password reset via SMS to your regitered mobile number. So if someone even has control of your mobile number via sim swap for 5 minutes they gain full control of your paypal acct. Heard of enough incidents of this earlier this year through one of the Canadian prepaid mobile flanker brands...

Paypal makes it hard to remove a mobile number from your account once it's on there too...

If a bank "MUST" have a phone number, I lean towards providing my good ol landline number since in theory thats a "little" harder to instantly take over or port out.

Worthwhile to "test" what it takes to reset a password on your various critical services...

New comment by nezgar in "The PDP-11 Basic Analysis Project"

nezgar — Mon, 09 Aug 2021 03:31:12 +0000

"PDP" being an initialism of "Programmed Data Processor" should also be capitalized along with the acronym BASIC...

New comment by nezgar in "Clock Synchronization (2020)"

nezgar — Mon, 09 Aug 2021 03:23:06 +0000

... "local LAN" is a tad redundant. :)

New comment by nezgar in "Purelymail – cheap, no-nonsense email"

nezgar — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 22:51:56 +0000

You can setup a receive connector on exchange online to trust mail from specified souce IP(s) (ie your onprem mailserver) with no need for additional mailbox licenses... good for alerting/reporting/MFP's etc

New comment by nezgar in "Microsoft should just admit defeat and give Windows 10 keys away for free"

nezgar — Sun, 18 Apr 2021 20:37:52 +0000

Grey market Win10 keys like this are probably a part of it: https://www.ebay.com/itm/373546396164

Edit: After reading article, indeed above method is noted. Also many people will never need to enter product keys since they're embedded in their hardware by OEM's...

New comment by nezgar in "FCC finally starts tackling America's robocall scourge"

nezgar — Wed, 14 Apr 2021 23:57:45 +0000

Most people don't know you can just dial ##004# to remove all conditional call forwards that normally default to voicemail. Or if the network doesn't unset it, you can set it to a deadend like * 004 *0000000000# - or some other fun automated line...

New comment by nezgar in "Email from Jeff Bezos to employees"

nezgar — Thu, 04 Feb 2021 15:13:44 +0000

I suspect a Hanson Guitars received a cash offer they couldn't refuse for their domain. ;-)

New comment by nezgar in "Email from Jeff Bezos to employees"

nezgar — Thu, 04 Feb 2021 15:07:01 +0000

Heh, like the msexchange manager icon on your microsoft exchange server... :D

New comment by nezgar in "The Amiga 1000, Still Receiving New Peripherals 35 Years Later"

nezgar — Fri, 08 Jan 2021 20:01:50 +0000

Commonly solved on modern upgrades with voltage level converting components... 5V to 3.3V and vice versa.

New comment by nezgar in "YouTube Class Action: Same IP Address Upload Pirate Movies and File DMCA Notices"

nezgar — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 03:19:11 +0000

I think you mean "risqué"