Posts by Happy Hippy

REVEALED: The gizmo leaker Snowden used to smuggle out NSA files

Re: Root password, sure, but why wasn't the data encrypted?

Purchase Ps2 cards, mice and keyboards. Bung up usb ports with epoxy. Remove cd/dvd writers. Lock cases. Encrypt data. Encrypt data. Encrypt data.

Climategate 2.0: Fresh trove of embarrassing emails

FFS look at the data - the climate is changing at a rate never recorded before.

Go ahead, shoot the messengers.

Skype hangs up on users yet again

Alternative...

Thanks Vic for the advice.

During the outage decided to buy a gsm gateway and a voice/data modem. Didn't relaise how much I was spending on skypeout. I'll probably stick with them for lanline voip - until the next blackout....

Ughh

Any thoughts on an alternative?

Australia cuts solar subsidies, and not before time

Feed in tarrif

The "feed in tarrif" is working. Two years ago an installed 4 kWp system cost well over £20K , now it's down to £11K. This system saves me about £500/year in electricity, and I get another £1800/year in tarrif money. A total no-brainer.