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I work entirely remote for my main job, so that wouldn't be different. :) That's pretty much what I'm looking for. What job groups? I know of Freelancer.com, Upwork.comf (formerly oDesk), and Fiverr.com, and I see stuff pop on careers.stackoverflow.com from time to time. Aside from those, I haven't ...

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I've been wondering where someone could find part-time tech work. Something besides the normal Geek Squad work.

There is always chauffeuring pizza around, but I'm looking to utilize or expand my skillset.

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Are they PoE cameras? You'll need a PoE switch, or injectors, to do this if they are. You'll need a laptop, Ethernet cable, and a unmanaged switch. Set a static IP on the laptop which is in the same range as the cameras. Plug everything (laptop, camera(s)) into the unmanaged switch. Figure out if yo...

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Is there any android device that has been able to run the current releases for 5 years like Apple devices have been able to? No. 2 years is considered a good run. Google Nexus, Motorola Moto X Pure Edition, or Motorola Moto X (unlocked) are the phones to check out. The Motorolas don't have much cus...

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Switching to something like Google hangouts, Slack, or some internal server is probably a better solution for office communications versus SMS.

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I've been using f.lux and redshift to shift the colors temperature on my monitors, and they seem to help with eyestrain.

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Those 27" seem alright, I doubt my system could drive three of those, but it should be able to handle two. Is there any advantage of using something higher than a 60hz refresh? 2x 2560x1440 or 4K monitors are going to give you a lot more real estate then three 1920x1080 monitors. I have two 19...

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Any thoughts about moving it over to http://rtbrackets.247sports.com/?

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I'll toss one of mine into my PC and boot a 16.04 LiveCD...if it shows up, I'll let you know. I expect it'll be flawless since Marvell drivers, in the past 2-3 years, have gotten very mainstream. That's very good to know. I had still been avoiding Marvell in general, due to a couple of so-so experi...

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I'm so sorry to hear about losing your furry thing.

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It's been a while since I benchmarked FreeBSD. Time and dd are there in the base system, bonnie++ is in ports, and sysbench is in ports as well. Checkout /usr/ports/benchmarks or http://www.freshports.org/benchmarks/ for more tools.

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It's just FreeBSD underneath, so you could SSH into it.

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This is their livelihood, so they should take some pride in it. To me that doesn't matter if it's posted on the internet, printed in a magazine or newspaper, or read aloud on TV or in videos. (edit: those links are all from today. I didn't have to look hard to find horrible "professional"...

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What I didn't know before I started this is I cannot pass through the raw disk through to the VM unless it's a SAN. There are a lot of guides and not a lot of consistency. So, what is the easiest way of getting access to the full 4TB? Passing in a raw disk isn't a use case VMware really supports. T...

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Flatland_Spider: Droid Life routinely breaks Android stories, particularly when it comes to Verizon-exclusive devices. They bear more responsibility than the typical "fan site" in that regard, so they should at least try to write properly. They post everything from their phone? I either h...

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Systemback is just a tarball on Sourceforge. You could untar it, and put the files where they need to go. This glosses over the step where you have figure out where it wants everything and fix any Debianisms they hardcoded in.

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Plus a site like "Droid Life" really has no pretense of high quality journalism in the first place. Now a company like Gawker Media who does all of these things plus much, much worse... now that really bothers me. Droid Life is probably more of a fan site then anything approaching serious...

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FWIW, WiFi adapters which use a Ralink/MediaTek chipset seem to be the smoothest sailing on Linux. They are about as cheap as Realtek-based ones, if you can find them. In the past, Tenda WiFi adapters have tended to use MediaTek chipsets in my experience. I've heard good things about the Ralink bas...

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I took a quick look at the driver tarball on the Edimax website, and it's a mess. It looks like they were blackout drunk when they put it together. The chipset is possibly a rtl8192cu, and it's supposed to have a driver built into the kernel. Although, I did find something that said the 4.4 kernel w...

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Is the driver a .ko file?

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I've heard about Plan 9 on and off. It's something I'd like to try out, but I never get around to it. I will check this out. Does it say in any of the links that Plan 9 was named for the movie, 'Plan 9 From Outer Space'? No, but the Wikipedia page on Plan 9 says it. I think the official documentatio...

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I've been pretty happy with the Anker stuff I've bought.

Anker PowerPort 2 5v, 4.8a
(https://www.anker.com/products/A2141121)

Anker PowerPort+ 1 5v, 3a
(https://www.anker.com/products/A2010111)

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They really don't need that much power, but moving to the ARMv8 architecture helps with OS support.

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Let's put it this way, when the likes of SUSE and even Oracle themselves use it as their default and recommended filesystems on their enterprise linux distro's already, it is ready to use. It is certainly a better option than using the likes of XFS, EXT3/4, UFS, NTFS, etc. It depends on what they a...

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Still, that advise applies really to any filesystem. Even filesystems that have been deemed "production ready" have had a history of some serious bugs that could lead to data loss after the claim was made. True. ext4 has had some major bugs, but ext4 is also feature complete and doesn't a...

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They are the two flagship RPM based distros, and they are similar. They're not as close as Debian and Ubuntu, but they're closer then RHEL and Debian.

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What we do need is a loose confederation of distros, pulling from a solid upstream, with an agreed-upon and maintained LSB level. And then there's linux - how many linux distros are there, all slightly different, some more confusing than others? For the average person, that has to be confusing. Wha...

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That doesn't mean the TP-Link's firmware isn't suspect. A lot of problems are because of crappy OEM firmware.

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Last time I looked into the possibility of switching to a next-gen file system (which was probably a couple of years ago), the consensus seemed to be that while the core implementation of btrfs was solid, a lot of the supporting tools still had rough edges. So here I am, still on md + ext4... I've ...

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GNOME 2 was great. Ubuntu's shift to Unity and GNOME 3 pissed me off; that's what prompted me to check out KDE/Kubuntu. While initially painful, KDE 4 seems to have matured to the point of being tolerable (just in time for KDE 5 to debut... :lol:), and it turns out that KDE is configurable enough t...

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