Jem

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by Jem 18y ago
ALA allows its authors to republish their work providing they wait 2 months to do so. Mr Boulton obviously ran out of fresh ideas for thinkvitamin this month ;)
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by Jem 18y ago
Should "Your site has queued." be "Your site has been queued."?
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by Jem 18y ago
Get to grips with HTML and CSS before you start worrying about anything else.
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by Jem 18y ago
Worm, trojan, whatever - I didn't read the links, I left that for you to do :) > You simply need to have common sense. I ran Windows ME (of all things) for several years with no AV, using just common sense. So, you don't "need" AV in Wi
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by Jem 18y ago
Yeah, perhaps I should have read the links instead of just relying on the title. Oops!
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by Jem 18y ago
Ouch. A tad naive. http://www.sophos.com/pressoffice/news/articles/2006/02/maco... http://louisgray.com/live/2008/08/i-got-mac-os-x-virus-and-i... Just 2 from a quick google search: http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=mac+os+x+virus
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by Jem 18y ago
If the guy's mum needs that much help with using a computer - assuming she has zero knowledge on computing at all - buying a Mac isn't going to get her any further along.
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by Jem 18y ago
> When I used Windows I never used Outlook. I didn't actually think other people ever used it. Even though it was built-in, I just assumed that Windows pre-installed software was roundly worthless. You're confusing Outlook with Outlook
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by Jem 18y ago
I don't fear change. I fear change for the sake of change.
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by Jem 18y ago
I'm happy with my tabs. If Firefox loses tabs, Firefox loses me as a user.
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by Jem 18y ago
This was discussed in pg's original submission on why things had been slow lately. Do we need this separate submission?
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by Jem 18y ago
My thoughts are with the family at this time. Despite having lost someone to suicide myself, I can't even begin to understand what they must be feeling - the 'not knowing' and helplessness - it must be awful.
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by Jem 18y ago
Already done so :)
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by Jem 18y ago
This is the second time in as many days. Sigh.
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by Jem 18y ago
This is anecdotal evidence, obviously... Case 1 Background: my partner is an IT technician. He works in the school that I attended when I was younger. We originally met when I was still in school. About 9 years ago, before I was in any way
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by Jem 18y ago
I use Windows, and I enjoy it (mentally prepares for mass downvoting... ;)) I recently (a few months ago) started trialing a few distributions of Linux. I am of the opinion that I cannot possibly state that I prefer an OS over another witho
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by Jem 18y ago
I honestly can't believe that people still use Norton in this day and age, let alone that it was doing something dodgy.
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by Jem 18y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=510087
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by Jem 18y ago
I don't necessarily agree with the numbers in this article. I bought a few seeds last year and grew tomatoes, courgettes, runner beans, etc - about £40 worth of veg all in. I didn't spend any extra on water (collected rain water) and so I m
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by Jem 18y ago
Only yesterday, Jeff was agreeing with someone on reddit that HN is "sterile"; that people here are "on their best behaviour", and yet now he's recommending HN like he's used it for years? I don't 'get' the backtracking.
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by Jem 18y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=396485
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by Jem 18y ago
> I do recall seeing a url shortener which enabled additional tracking to the initiating user I think you mean http://cli.gs ? :)
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by Jem 18y ago
I have no idea, but the <noscript> tag will show to anyone with JS disabled. http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_noscript.asp
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by Jem 18y ago
Never mind - ignore me; I'm running the NoScript plugin and although I'd allowed for duckduckgo I'd not done so for yahoo. Might want to add a noscript javascript required warning though :)
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by Jem 18y ago
> What more do you want? An indication when there are no results. I did a vanity search and ended up with a long blank page.
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by Jem 18y ago
I allow 255 max in my various databases (varchar(255)), although in reality I've never come across an email address longer than 50 characters.
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by Jem 18y ago
I've obviously been hiding under a rock; last I heard they were closing down. Ahh yes, the 'goodbye' speech is now subtitled "(The following article is not real. The words you are about to read are part of the "great prank" of Feb 2009)"
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by Jem 18y ago
Already posted: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=501410 :)
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by Jem 18y ago
I'm beginning to think I'm the only person who dislikes these sites that regurgitate other people's content into a list.
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by Jem 18y ago
CODE injection, and SQL injection are two different things. I am talking about injecting malicious JavaScript etc - XSS attacks primarily.

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