Maakuth

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by Maakuth 12y ago
It's the same in Finland, at least in universities. If you don't pass your courses, the state stops paying the student benefits[1], but you can stay at the university. There is another, very low number of courses you need to pass
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by Maakuth 12y ago
It's not a floppy drive per note, but per channel. Every drive maps to a MIDI channel.
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by Maakuth 12y ago
The best Mac classic demo I've seen is this one: http://www.unrealvoodoo.org/projects/three-and-a-half-inches...
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by Maakuth 12y ago
I wonder if the Down probability is connected to the age of eggs or the womb? I mean, does using frozen eggs make the effective risk comparable to the age when the eggs were harvested?
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by Maakuth 12y ago
Indeed. It's kind of weird there's no package manager beyond setup.exe in Cygwin. There's even a port of rpm in the package collection. I wonder if Cygwin misses some bigger piece of functionality that is a requirement for rp
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by Maakuth 12y ago
My biggest gripe with Cygwin (aside performance on some syscalls) has been package management, which used to require setup.exe to add or upgrade packages. That was nicely mitigated when I found out about apt-cyg[1]. It's a apt-getish f
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by Maakuth 12y ago
That would be a solid line of thought if this would be some shady adware from some unknown company. But Dropbox is valued more than $10B, that's more than twice the market cap of all Bitcoin. Even if everyone at Dropbox went criminally
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by Maakuth 12y ago
I suspect a lot of this comes from OS X apps all shipping with most of the library dependencies, so there's no way of deduplicating libraries that are loaded in the memory. In Linux, shared libraries are used, at least with software in
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by Maakuth 12y ago
They do, and it seems to date back to IBM days. http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problem_with_unauthorized_Mini...
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An IoT dashboard(dashboard.sidlee.com)
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by Maakuth 12y ago
I thought so too, but my recent experience with a Zenbook has changed my view. WiFi drivers were so bad it took half a year after my purchase before the connection became stable (not dropping every 15 minutes requiring a reboot). Touchpad d
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by Maakuth 12y ago
The bogomips is a really bad estimate of performance (hence 'bogo'). There's considerable difference in the bogomips calculation even between different ARM subarchitectures. There was a good article about the issue recently i
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by Maakuth 12y ago
I feel like http://archive.org/ deserves a mention here for their efforts of preserving digital history. Personal photos or other data are not in their scope, but they do wonderful things with web pages and other stuff that
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by Maakuth 12y ago
This was in the nineties, no PXE back then.
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by Maakuth 12y ago
See also Tintin's moon rocket's propulsion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explorers_on_the_Moon#Rocket_e... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NERVA
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by Maakuth 12y ago
How about an IP address of a user posting something criminal?
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by Maakuth 12y ago
I can see the practical value of this, but the net neutrality side worries me. Will this lead to specific SIM cards for Facebook, Google, Amazon, etc? On the other hand, this is a nice piece of evidence (along with Kindle 3G) that it is act
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by Maakuth 12y ago
User agent provides further evidence, mine reports to be Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/40.0.2214.89 Vivaldi/1.0.83.38 Safari/537.36
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by Maakuth 12y ago
I wouldn't call it a replacement, as it uses ssh for authentication and strives to not reinvent the wheel there. That is actually what makes mosh so nice - if you have your hosts in .ssh/config and your public key installed to you
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by Maakuth 12y ago
Would it be possible to populate it just by indexing everything tracked in DHT? There was a research paper featured here recently, but I can't find it right now. They had a way of getting a decent chunk of all the DHT torrents and did
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by Maakuth 12y ago
fsn[1] seen in Jurassic Park brings that kind of metaphor to the file system. I don't think it's that practical, but it sure looked wonderful in the movie. I guess we better stick to 2D interfaces as long as we don't have 3D
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by Maakuth 12y ago
Most of these anecdotes cry RAM issues. Broken memory creates weird issues in pretty much all operating systems, that's why you want to have ECC RAM in places where you don't want weird stuff.
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by Maakuth 12y ago
Somewhat different set of slides[1] was linked in the comments here, it appears the latest chipsets uses SPARC indeed. 1: http://recon.cx/2014/slides/Recon%202014%20Skochinsky.pdf
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by Maakuth 12y ago
What, SPARC and Java in Intel motherboards? Is this some elaborate gag on Sun/Oracle? I hope they'll demo it by running Solaris there for good measure.
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by Maakuth 12y ago
>> Even a regular user with limited privileges can launch it, allowing it to intercept traffic and run commands on infected machines. >Huh, how do they do that? They must have some pretty powerful zero-day vulnerability they'r
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by Maakuth 12y ago
I had similar experience, but I only visited a single store in downtown San Francisco (near Westfield mall). I thought my sample size was just too small, surely the whole chain couldn't be so lame. It's sad to hear that place wasn
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by Maakuth 12y ago
It's a Windows application though, what are you going to do with it if you can't run exe?
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by Maakuth 12y ago
Well, that is bound not to be the binding legal document here, there must be quite a long contract that actually defines the terms. Nothing to do with Microsoft necessarily, that's just how lawyers are.
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by Maakuth 12y ago
In what world does WinRT have a ton of apps? Most of the Windows Store apps are of quite questionable quality, and the selection isn't good either.
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by Maakuth 12y ago
That isn't necessarily very easy thing to implement. If the data is accessible by one application, how could it not be available by some other application running with the same credentials? Maybe some "vault" daemon running a

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