not only did I realise that both my TV and RPi will work as HDMI CEC endpoints, so I can use the TV remote to control raspbmc (instead of getting up to use the keyboard), I also got my Ethernet-over-power adapters.
so I can now finally put the TV/RPi/PS3 on the same subnet as the rest of my gear
right now I'm having to bridge the two networks via a pair of DD-WRT routers... it's ugly as hell
but really, every house should come with cat6 in the wall, and at least one socket per room.
a friend of mine has a really sweet setup - the dado rail around his living room conceals some trunking in the wall, which you can feed (and cable manage) wiring through. every so often there's a bit you just push a key into (just a metal peg really) and it opens an internal hinge, and you lift it up to get at the cables.
so all of the AV / networking stuff goes through the walls. it's sweet.
@Polynomial my parent's house had an attic that spanned the whole building, so I drilled a 12mm hole in the ceiling of several rooms, and ran ethernet cable via the attic.
back in the days before wifi we ran the eth cable out the back of the living room, ran it up the external wall, then back into my bedroom. polyfilled the holes afterwards, so the cable was sealed in.
@Polynomial this was before I discovered that you could crimp your own cables, which would have made things easier, plus would have made smaller holes possible :P
@lynks we're trying to do the same, but it's hard to save when most of my money goes to the house, and the remaining <10% is all I have left for things like going out and actually enjoying myself.
@lynks If I want to buy a small family house over here (or build) I'd need to lend an additional 250k euro to be able to pay it, that would end up having to pay about 1400 euros a month to the bank for the loan
@Polynomial couldn't you sell it to the bank that you will make a product out of it and sell it in a fund which you repackaged about 15 times before putting on the market :P
@lynks it's not as bad as you're making out. if your property is valued at, say, £500k when you mortgage, and you put in £20k of equity, and then the property is worth £450k, you have £18k of equity still. you lost £2k of equity, but you still have £450k worth of mortgage to throw around (assuming you reset the period) and the £18k that you paid off.
compare that to rent: you'd have thrown £20k (likely more due to rent disparity) in the bin.
so yes you might get less house than you paid for, but you at least have some equity.
@Polynomial yeah I'm just trying to work out how the hell people get into negative equity. Even with pretty extreme figures I can't derive anything negative.
@Polynomial but in your example, you have a 500k loan, of which you have paid off 20k. so you owe the bank 480k. if you sell your house for 450k, you still have to fork out 30k to move on..?
@Polynomial by transferred do you mean the difference is added to your next morgage? So if you wanted to downsize to a 300k house, you would need a 330k mortgage?
@lynks if you went from a £500k mortgage to a £300k mortgage they'd likely just change the mortgage entirely and use your existing equity as the deposit.
when you downsize they just downsize your payments to cover the disparity.
@Polynomial and then ran the smaller box for a few days, sat outside the smaller box but inside the bigger (failsafe) box, got out of the failsafe box, also taking out the smaller box, then got in the smaller box to go back a 'few days' more?
I spent a long time wondering how they managed to make him look that skinny. Just figured it was clever camera angles, make-up, prosthetics, etc. Turns out he actually just starved himself down that skinny for the movie, and nearly died doing so.
actually the heat doesnt bother me as much anymore, I rarely go out without the A/C...
@RoryAlsop you didnt like inception???
source code was gawdawful, and I still dont get where they got the name from...
@LucasKauffman I think you're not taking into account all the expenses that go with owning a house, that you wouldnt be arsed with if you were renting.
I had to drop a few grand on waterproofing last month... and the basement apartment I'm renting out needs to be redone - plaster, paint, wallmold and such - probably did not make much profit off the past few months.
then there is gardening / landscaping, upkeep, improvements, etc
some places the renter doesnt pay real estate taxes, and the owner does.
@TildalWave It is mad suspicious. The breeder said she left for a few days on vacation (she never told us she would, how nice) and that her brother was taking care of the cat. He said nothing happened to her. Yeah, right.
Then, she was mad because we wanted our money back. Well, fuck you I'm not paying 3k for a cat I don't even have yet.
@Simon c'mon they don't just break a hip out of nothing... they'd break it on birth then if they had some genetic disorder, not as pups crawling around, even falling from some reasonable heights
> A woman in McArthur, Ohio, about 70 miles south of Columbus, said a bank mistakenly cleared items from her home, confusing it for a foreclosed house across the street, then demanded receipts when she asked to be compensated for her missing possessions.
@RoryAlsop really? I thought most of that was opposite. Damn good plot, thought out ridiculously well, executed surprisngly well, and decent acting (for the most part).
@RoryAlsop I was working on my mates's 2011 STi yesterday. The car is so damn well-made. You need to do an oil change? Just take off the plastic plate and he filter + oil pan will be easy to reach!
@TerryChia me neither :p very impressive city though, never met taxi drivers which were this correct (he let me choose the route) especially that skyscraper with the garden at the top
@Polynomial "Afghanistan" is the name of the country, which is fictitious because it has been created only as a neutral zone between the British and the Russian in the late 19th century.
Anyway, there was a "restaurant afghan" near my school in Paris.
Salted lassi is kind of hard to swallow, in my taste, but the rest was fine.
Don't know if it still exists, though.
@Simon We cannot know if any specific application is vulnerable. But explaining in general terms what could work is possible. It would still be a poor answer to a bad question, though.
What is the purpose of the "secret" that is displayed when you take the picture of the QR code to set up 2 Factor Authentication on a non-Google site?
Why would you need it?
If you save it, doesn't that defeat the whole purpose of 2 Factor Auth because anyone with the secret can get a login code?
@lynks Hehe, reminds me of something funny I saw in the Java documentation.
> Returns the cause of this throwable or null if the cause is nonexistent or unknown. (The cause is the throwable that caused this throwable to get thrown.)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Godley "Private Godley held the bridge single-handed under very heavy fire and was wounded twice. Shrapnel entered his back when an explosion near him went off, and he was shot in the head. Despite his injuries he carried on the defence of the bridge for two hours while his comrades escaped."
shot in the head
@Polynomial I actually dug these up while trying to find the name of a different badass soldier I had read about.
a guy meets an old pirate, very stereotypical - wooden leg, hook for hand, eye patch, the whole deal. Guy: "So, you must have some real stories to tell! How'd you lose your leg?" Pirate: "Oh, twas a big sea battle, matey, the Her Majesty's fleet were comin at us from all sides, we fought them off but a cannonball landed not 2 feet from me and took my leg." Guy: "That's horrible! And how did you get the hook?" Pirate: "Oh, twas a stormy day, and the bullets were flyin' ever'where, damn cap'n took my hand with his cutlass right before being thrown into the' sea."
@AviD It's like that joke of the pirate with the steering in the front of his pants. A guy asks him why in the world he's got a steering wheel in the front of his pants as this must be very annoying. To which the pirate replies: "Aye matey it's driving me nuts "
What is the purpose of the "secret" that is displayed when you take the picture of the QR code to set up 2 Factor Authentication on a non-Google site?
Why would you need it?
If you save it, doesn't that defeat the whole purpose of 2 Factor Auth because anyone with the secret can get a login code?
