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mlapida

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https://mike.lapidak.is

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mlapida··on JetKVM – Control any computer remotely
A few things: 1/ the system doesn’t need to be connected to a network, or can be on a private/secured network. 2/ You can make changes to BIOS and other elements of the system that the OS can’t “see”. 3/ If the system is sleeping or shutdown, JetKVM can send a wake-on-LAN signal/magic packet.

I’d say for many use cases, it’s not better than RDP/VNC, but if you’re looking access that is independent of the network and state of the system, JetKVM can’t be beat.

mlapida··on An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email
Check point 5 on the post.
mlapida··on An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email
My thought process was if you search your primary email, you'll quickly see all the breaches with that email. Using a different email per service reduces the surface area (lateral movement). Security through obscurity has nominal value, but the reduction in ability to correlate has a much higher value.
mlapida··on An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email
Thanks for sharing! I totally missed this.
mlapida··on Yahoo resetting usernames that have been inactive for over 12 months
Was your credit card still valid? Most cards aren't good for longer than 4 years, and chances are you had a few years on it when you signed up for Steam.
mlapida··on The great California Exodus
There are also numbers that suggest the more conservative states, such as Texas, are becoming more liberal over time. I would almost wager that Texas, at it's current growth rate, could be a swing state by the 2020 Presidential Election.
mlapida··on Google Zeitgeist 2012
Does anyone find it completely insane that the iPhone (4/4S/5) doesn't show up in the top 10 for Consumer Electronics? A little bit of massaging going on there?
mlapida··on Site44 turns Dropbox folders into websites
Super basic Pelican site I made as a test a few weeks back: http://mlapida.site44.com/
mlapida··on Nigerian scammer gets a laptop from me
The shipping address?
mlapida··on Introducing Pulse for Web
Requiring facebook connect is a deal breaker. My corporate intranet blocks all facebook request (and I do as well with Ghostly). Please place the facebook connect JavaScript at the bottom of the page.
mlapida··on Why are some movies in iTunes in the Cloud missing?
Hi all, I'm the author of this entry. I wrote this hoping someone a little bigger than myself could dig up some more answers. I'll continue digging though.
mlapida··on Snapjoy (YC S11) unveils Flickraft, one-click migration for Flickr users
giving it a whirl now. thanks!
mlapida··on Snapjoy (YC S11) unveils Flickraft, one-click migration for Flickr users
On the surface I love this idea. Flickr has been stagnant for years and starting to worry me. I don't mind paying for a photo sharing service but the market sure is saturated. I'll be looking for a little more than a pretty, overpriced UI over Amazon's S3.

Wouldn't it be great if a company came around and offered front ends for S3. One for photo sharing, one for docs. You could switch them out like skins. Your data is in one place and never moves. If a competitor comes along with a better front-end, you could change to them.

That would also be nice, because then you could have one monthly fee for all of you online storage needs. Let's be honest, they're all hosted by Amazon anyway.

mlapida··on [dead]
Yeah, it's been in there since at least Chome 12. I've been using Click to Play for as long as I can remember.
mlapida··on Give me spark
Can anyone explain to me how 37signals got all the way up on the high, preaching horse? Aside from a handful of well designed web apps that are used primarily by web dev's and designers, what makes their wisdom worthwhile? I'm sure this will get down-voted into oblivion but I am genuinely curious.
mlapida··on The next SOPA
My thoughts exactly. While cutting out watching movies on Netfilx and TV is going to be difficult, I most definitely wont be purchasing any movies on iTunes, at Best Buy or going to a theater to watch them. If the tech community could band together to boycott these three huge money makers for the MPAA, we might see better results.
mlapida··on Show HN: AutoGlance is the Hipmunk for Used Car Searches
Doesn't seem to work, at least in my area. I'm getting zero results on some pretty common cars.
mlapida··on Reeling MPAA declares DNS filtering "off the table"
Yesterday SOPA was "shelved", today DNS filtering is "off the table". I'm not sure I follow.
mlapida··on Apple Store App knows when you walk into an Apple Store
Don't be like that.
mlapida··on Instapaper’s (anti-)social network
I've been using Instapaper for at least two years, and I've been following a handful of people since Twitter integration was implemented, but to this day I very rarely check the social sharing of articles on the service. There are already sites for sharing articles. Does anyone use the sharing features?
mlapida··on AeroFS (YC S10): It’s Like Dropbox, But It Runs Inside Your Firewall
It is poor, to say the least. Good point.
mlapida··on AeroFS (YC S10): It’s Like Dropbox, But It Runs Inside Your Firewall
It sounds like a great idea, but I'm curious how it will perform along side a traditional file sharing system. I'm not sure users will find the benefit. Windows allows cacheing of shared drives already.