* Posts by gringo guy

4 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Aug 2011

Canonical ARMs Ubuntu for microserver wars

gringo guy

OpenWRT?

Would the OpenWRT toolchain work at all in this scenario? For what little I've used it (so far) it was a very easy setup under Ubuntu 10.04 for building both x86 and ar71xx bits. As I understand it, the Cotrex is an ARMv7 chip. Should work then, no? Or am I missing something basic?

http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/techref/buildroot

Google+ bans real name under ‘Real Names’ policy

gringo guy

'Til they poo on you...

Remember Google's an entire infrastructure. On another site I read post that claimed, after creating a Google+ account with a fake name, the person's name on other Google services was then changed to match. Sorry, I didn't keep the link to the post.

gringo guy

You know...

I always wondered why people didn't simply decide to pronounce that strange symbol he chose as "Prince." Much simpler, no?

Better ATM skimming through thermal imaging

gringo guy

Some do...

...such as over here in Costa Rica. US$ 100 is CRC 50,000, so for a hundred and fifty bucks you type a lot of zeros. And yes, there's a zero in my pin.

By the by, I always cover the keypad and cough loudly when entering my pin, in case anyone's using AV gear. Seems a lot more likely then thermal imaging, IMO.