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by Hoff 17y ago
Apple also acquired the P.A. Semi folks in 2008, which means the Apple have processor design capabilities, and some familiarity with x86, ARM and Power designs.
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by Hoff 17y ago
A form of "public option" bank does exist: a credit union.
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by Hoff 17y ago
FWIW and per Google and CMU retrospectives, the vendor-published MTBF rates appear very optimistic, about 36% of large HDD populations failed with no SMART data logged, and only about half of impending HDD failures were reasonably predicted
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by Hoff 17y ago
Wonder what happens if (when?) the FTC disclosure requirements collide with non-disclosure agreements? NDAs can certainly steer public discussions and opinions, though in a more subtle fashion than "blogola."
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by Hoff 17y ago
Imagine if someone emailed confidential data to various of the folks involved in the court case, and then demanding its return under the same terms as this decision. This decision would then become a whole new form of denial of service.
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by Hoff 17y ago
If this means I won't have to deal with the indefatigable Charlotte bot ever again, I'll be a happy camper.
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by Hoff 17y ago
FUD and RAS being two of the basic tenets of marketing most anything in the enterprise IT space, after all.
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by Hoff 17y ago
Some recent news articles involving legal proceedings and executions in Texas: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1119362... http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-tc-nw-texas-execute-0...
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by Hoff 17y ago
GCD is an updated and up-rated scheduler for Mac OS X. The following does contain marketeering, but also has some decent technical details: http://images.apple.com/macosx/technology/docs/GrandCentral_...
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by Hoff 17y ago
Even in the best of emergency medical response systems, response delays can arise. If you are not already medically trained, consider attending an emergency medical technician class or the local equivalent; the better to attend to your you
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by Hoff 17y ago
Most any product that was aiming for the old NCSC/TCSEC Class A1 security rating would have inherently received the formal verification Class A1 required.
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by Hoff 17y ago
Bilski?
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by Hoff 17y ago
For folks looking at the decision process and at the CMS choices available here, have a look at: http://www.cmsmatrix.org/ In the local case, one of the key deciding factors turned out to be security. The CMS security history, the freque
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Ask HN: Google Search Omissions?
1 points by Hoff 17y ago|1 comments
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by Hoff 17y ago
Apple is moving from Cyrus to Dovecot with Snow Leopard Server.
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by Hoff 17y ago
Google hypes what looks to be a Linux thin client targeting netbooks? Call me back in 2010 or whenever GCOS arrives on the market, and I'll compare it to then-current Moblin and Linux distros and Microsoft Windows for the netbooks. (And GCO
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by Hoff 17y ago
This is the HTML variant of the Evil Bit. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3514.txt
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by Hoff 17y ago
Ask for referrals and talk to a (good) local lawyer. There are trade-offs. There are options. There are costs. There are details. More importantly, there are various (good) discussions and (key) decisions to be had among all of the (pote
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by Hoff 17y ago
The LLVM Kaleidoscope example might be interesting to you.
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by Hoff 17y ago
Nor has Citizendium and its expert-based formula gotten much article volume; they're (also) seemingly stuck between the likes of EB and the sheer volume (in multiple senses) of Wikipedia.
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by Hoff 18y ago
I was going to suggest a GED and early admission into college and such here (as others have, and that's a potential path I wish I knew about when I was your age), but there's another good option here. Continue to slog through school (and th
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by Hoff 18y ago
The stack is a great huge implementation detail, and doesn't necessarily work the way you want it to. With porting an operating system across processors or when performing significant changes and upgrades to an operating system and its inte
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by Hoff 18y ago
Nothing against GE or any other vendor doing R&D work here, but call me back when the format reaches mass market numbers and traction, and when the media longevity and reliability and pricing are all better known. The numbers of optical
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by Hoff 18y ago
Having been in attendance at various IETF committee meetings over the years, a standards committee meeting is a meeting that most everyone involved in related areas of nerdery should attend and experience. At least once. But that's anothe
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by Hoff 18y ago
"The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers."
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by Hoff 18y ago
The parallel with IE6 goes further than you might have expected. The Digg folks have managed to screw up the page rendering in at least one non-IE browser.
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Tech Review of Fairpoint Migration, Status(puc.nh.gov)
1 points by Hoff 18y ago|0 comments
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by Hoff 18y ago
Hire somebody that's good at this stuff; same as dealing with icons and images and such. Creating good color schemes and good icons is as much a specific skill as creating good code. If you're serious about a product, it's worth the investm
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by Hoff 18y ago
This scrip is already in circulation in some areas of the US. What are known as BerkShares http://www.berkshares.org/ are available in the Berkshire region of Massachusetts.
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by Hoff 18y ago
Given you don't reference what operating system is in use, you're probably using Microsoft Windows here. The implementation of virtual memory has common traits, but details vary by OS and even OS version. Physical address space and virtual

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