petitmiam

> The biggest issue for is that WSL2 is painfully slow accessing the local Windows file system.

This killed me after switching from WSL1 to WSL2. I missed the part in the notes where it said you should no longer store your files outside WSL. Finally figured it out eventually and the speed improvement was huge.

Same thing happened to me. When i contacted them about it, they claimed the emails were spam and not from them (despite the emails clearly mentioning contacts I had connected with!).

After numerous emails back and forth they eventually added to their "Do Not Contact" list. No emails since!

The price seems to have gone up considerably in the last 5 years. We used to eat kangaroo steaks and burgers regularly, but now we only consider it if it's on sale.

> There is NO EXCUSE for using POLi vs. just paying with your bank

POLi is instant. Bank transfer is anywhere from 1 - 3 days. Until banks finally implement instant transfers, POLi will still be useful to some.

Pokemon Go won't be out for Christmas 2015. The release date just seems to be "2016" at this point.

Arthur C. Clarke's 'The Hammer of God'

Valve have at least been thinking about that problem for awhile. Back in 2011 they were planning for CS:GO to have cross-platform play between Xbox, PS3 and PC. However, the idea got ditched in 2012.

>"In all cases the customer had said that the problem must be with our game because only our game was hitting these mysterious slowdowns."

This probably threw them off.

Thanks for the tip.

I added a security plugin last week. Since then, I've received one or two lockout emails per day. This morning I had 25.

The pdf in your link has a section titled "Further Acknowledgments for the Second Edition", so I think it's safe to assume it's v2.