DEinspanjer

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by DEinspanjer 18y ago
Sorry for the confusion. I was referring to the percentage of average daily Firefox usage by country. e.g. 27% of Firefox usage originates in the US, 11% from Germany, etc. The numbers you are quoting are the percentage of a sampling of a
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by DEinspanjer 18y ago
We would have been delighted with a larger sample size as well (although I think we got some great answers out of the number of responses we did receive). Of course, the most important factor for our implementing this survey was to not anno
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by DEinspanjer 18y ago
Opera has several different levels of cloaking, and it can really through a UA parser for a loop. Opera can declare itself solely as Opera, or as IE but still mention that it is Opera, or as Firefox but still mention it is Opera, or as IE o
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by DEinspanjer 18y ago
Yep. Germany is the second largest country for Firefox usage. US 27% Germany 11% France 5%
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by DEinspanjer 18y ago
That is an interesting issue, and one I've never considered before cause I just took the data from MaxMind for granted. I work for Mozilla crunching numbers. There isn't any way I could share any IP addresses of course. If you pull down t
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by DEinspanjer 18y ago
I met him at ROFLCON in Boston and spent a while chatting with him about career stuff. Sadly, I suspect that the thing they mentioned about Boston might have been some people I put him in touch with. I never followed up on what happened t
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by DEinspanjer 18y ago
Several people have mentioned running ssh in a loop. Here is an example of that: http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/357/ssh-tunnel-wi...
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by DEinspanjer 18y ago
Bah! Silly BevHills holds nothing on Schenectady, NY. http://benfry.com/zipdecode/
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by DEinspanjer 18y ago
I am a lender to the tune of a few thousand dollars. I actually recently pulled all my cash out of it in a transaction that completed on the 24th. Still have a lot of outstanding loans though. I was doing pretty well, I got hit by one bi
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by DEinspanjer 18y ago
How far away from a cell signal are you? You might want to invest in a directional antenna mounted on a pole high enough to paint the cell tower. A good cell signal repeater using that antenna can pull three bars of signal strength down in
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by DEinspanjer 18y ago
You might do well to find someone who is active in OSS communities, ideally, someone who has contributed code. This allows you to see the quality of their work and communication skills, and (in my opinion) it gives some indication of their
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by DEinspanjer 18y ago
Sure, if you are a member of the two parties that make up the US political system. If you are not a member of those two parties, your vote holds no worth within the political system. The two major parties normally dismiss or deride issues
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Are you a Linux sysadmin interested in trading time for bandwith?
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by DEinspanjer 18y ago
I disagree. I think the better analogy woudl be: "I saw an unlocked vehicle today and I think its important that all vehicles remain locked. Since they didn't come running out when I told them to lock the car, I [opened] the car and left a
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by DEinspanjer 18y ago
But you didn't tell us what you decided on! Those of us who did well have to be able to brag! ;)
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by DEinspanjer 18y ago
Yeah the link I supplied actually had a few people selling used copies. I got a first edition of it a while back and I still love to pull it out and go through the problems to freshen up my brain. :)
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by DEinspanjer 18y ago
I suggest something light and something out of the ordinary to counterbalance. You'll never know for what type you are in the mood. Here are two that I love: How to Solve It -- by G. Polya http://www.amazon.com/How-Solve-Aspect-Mathemat