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by Hoff 15y ago
The Mac OS X command open allows this directly: $ open -a macvim filename.ext which permits: $ alias mvim="open -a macvim" as a shortcut.
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by Hoff 15y ago
It's certainly possible to have that control via assembler, where folks are programming in that. So strictly speaking, yes, your "may" can be true. For C or another language, here's some related reading on that topic, and where you can get
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by Hoff 15y ago
It is entirely possible to have a virtual memory design with less virtual address space than physical address space (eg: 32-bit virtual, 34-bit physical), and virtual addressing would still be useful in this context.
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by Hoff 15y ago
Possibly. I'd rather see more data before predicting the future. Death isn't a single nor simple event; it's a progression. Hypothermia, for instance, has seen changes in training and protocols. Changes in geriatric procedures and medicine
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by Hoff 15y ago
There are differences among the laws and norms of local and national jurisdictions, and among pre-hospital and hospital providers. Depending on local laws, US emergency services field providers usually don't officially declare legal death,
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by Hoff 15y ago
STM and locks have some interesting clean-up and (as is cited in the article) you really need for it not to crash and not to deadlock or go all priority-inverted on you. Message-passing, on the other hand, doesn't need particular locking an
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by Hoff 15y ago
"HP Upline" was that service: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2286656,00.asp and it was discontinued in 2009: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2341804,00.asp
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China Reveals Solar Sail Plan To Prevent Apophis Hitting Earth in 2036(technologyreview.com)
3 points by Hoff 15y ago|0 comments
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by Hoff 15y ago
Think through the implications of those numbers you've posted, and particularly think about what that might imply about the distribution of wealth in the US. The bottom 60% of the US population has around 5% of the aggregate wealth. That's
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by Hoff 15y ago
Beyond an approach based on steganography and on obfuscating the traffic, re-using and extending the work developed to harden botnet command and control channels would seem a good model for robust communications. If this re-use has not alre
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by Hoff 15y ago
It's not just the "underclass" that benefits, BTW. The "overclass" (continuing with your phrasing) is also dependent on various forms of social welfare. Most recently through socialized business losses and corporate bailouts (qv: TBTF, zom
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by Hoff 15y ago
Which then implies issues with replication and scale and consistency. That many of the devices are different, with different UIs, different firmware, different sets of cryptic icons and different and obscure buttons. Unfortunately, some of
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by Hoff 15y ago
Ah, VMS PHONE. Where the other party's typing skills (or lack thereof) are on full display. As for the character-at-a-time display, iChat can provide something like that. On Mac OS X circa 10.6, select iChat > Accounts > select an
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by Hoff 15y ago
I've attended dozens of deaths over the years, and many hours of medical training. Yes, some folks do appear to die peacefully. And some folks don't sleep through it. And some folks will die through particularly ugly and unpleasant proces
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by Hoff 15y ago
"However, the Constellation program, including Ares V was canceled in October 2010 by the passage of the 2010 NASA authorization bill."
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by Hoff 15y ago
Apple has gone to the same general distribution scheme for Java as they've implemented for themselves with Lion, Xcode, and many other pieces. Download it when you need it, and download the newest bits. (The Java download is certainly not
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Last.fm web site primary and failover down(last.fm)
51 points by Hoff 15y ago|22 comments
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by Hoff 15y ago
That's not the way that patent cross-licensing works.
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by Hoff 15y ago
Use whatever is appropriate and suited for your needs. GUI. Text. Front-panel register toggle switches. Wire wrap. Jumper boards. Whatever. Each of these has its adherents, of course. A single problematic XML configuration editor is
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by Hoff 15y ago
telnet gein.vistech.net Login: games / pressplay A ADVENTURE The original Collosal Cave adventure B BLIND Escape the unseen maze C BUNNY Destroy the man-eating bunny rabbits D CATCH
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by Hoff 15y ago
Most any overlap between your "secret" identity and your "normal" identity can provide an opening. This might involve (erroneously) shared contacts. Shared VoIP numbers. Shared MAC addresses, or shared IP addresses. Shared passwords. IR
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by Hoff 15y ago
Four sections. The iPad plan has its own login hidden off to the side.
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by Hoff 15y ago
If this had happened for email, we would have had to deal with a myriad of different clients, servers and 'interworking' gateways. That was the networking prior to the wide adoption of IP and SMTP. There were DECnet mail clients, and cli
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The WikiLeaks of Money(foreignpolicy.com)
11 points by Hoff 15y ago|1 comments
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by Hoff 15y ago
http://kittyrescueandadoption.org/how_to_help.html "The shelter depends entirely on the generosity of others to sustain our efforts. There are no paid personnel and all monies/donations are used to care for our cats. KRA is a non-profit 5
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by Hoff 15y ago
The "inter" in "internet" designated a way to route among disparate networks. There were many network stacks back in the 1970s and 1980s, and even into the 1990s. uucp/uucpnet. Fido. DECnet. OSI. X.25. It wasn't at all clear which one
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A risky currency? Alleged $500,000 Bitcoin heist raises questions(feeds.arstechnica.com)
7 points by Hoff 15y ago|1 comments
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by Hoff 15y ago
HP is also aiming for that same private-cloud target, building that with operating systems including Windows, WebOS, Linux, HP-UX, OpenVMS and others, with "cloud-mapped" applications from HP and partners, with the rack-n-stack hardware and
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by Hoff 15y ago
And prior to that, Digital Equipment was using "the network is the system" back the late 70s. But then ideas and slogans are rather cheap, and neither DEC nor Sun are around any more. Apple is still around, and Apple is still executing on t
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The International Space Station and the Docked Space Shuttle Endeavour(nasa.gov)
1 points by Hoff 15y ago|0 comments

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