Nick_C

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by Nick_C 14y ago
The other annoying thing is that he is assuming every DNS request comes from a browser. Imagine the cock-ups when you are writing a web tool and you are relying on valid DNS msgs for your app's logic path.
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by Nick_C 14y ago
For anyone trying this, there's a typo in the URL, it is actually http://stratigery.com/cpup4.c
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by Nick_C 14y ago
For those with RSI problems, I used to get it very badly. I completely stopped it by changing my mouse hand every several weeks. It only takes a few minutes to get used to the new hand.
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by Nick_C 14y ago
Has anyone tried the PaperTrail service? I'm tempted except for the tiny window for queries, only a week. I'd like, say, a month at least.
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by Nick_C 14y ago
Banner and VersionAddendum. Defaults to "none" for both. [Later] Actually, those two have no effect on my remote Debian 6 VPS. Possibly a Debian "fine-tuning".
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by Nick_C 14y ago
Actually, it fails the Luhn check, so it's not even a valid number.
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by Nick_C 14y ago
Is that still the case for FreeBSD? I thought they did some work this year to help speed it up. Also, the Linux emulation under FreeBSD was always slow for mutex (did you test under Linux emulation or native?), but they have implemented f
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by Nick_C 14y ago
Also, almost by definition the rocky planets are the small inner ones. If they had rings and there was also a gas giant, the gravity perturbations from the giant would probably disrupt the rings fairly quickly. [Probably too late, but for
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by Nick_C 14y ago
> No good source for mutton Got a halal butcher near? They might have mutton. I was in the same boat as you until I found out that a muslim butcher a couple of suburbs away sells it. (Actually,it is what we call "two-tooth", hogget,
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by Nick_C 14y ago
I like Chris Siebenmann's blog. He writes daily about unix sys admin on a university network, mainly using Solaris, RHEL and ZFS. It's interesting to see the tools he uses and the problems he encounters, useful when you do some amount of a
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by Nick_C 14y ago
rsh or ssh? All my VPSs have rsh disabled.
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by Nick_C 14y ago
If your consumer law is anything like Australia's, this requirement is false. All you need is proof of purchase: the receipt. Dick Smith used to pull this all the time in Aust before they got pulled up over it. I always told them "sorry,
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by Nick_C 14y ago
Yeah. I've dropped my bikes three times over 20 years -- every time was at less than 10mph.
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by Nick_C 14y ago
My memory is that they did occasionally reverse, with the vacuum column buffering the tape to avoid too much tension. It was 30 years ago though, so don't quote me. This seems to indicate back-spacing, although it doesn't mention the trans
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by Nick_C 14y ago
Off the top of my head, I can't think of a case where a user script absolutely needs change_user to return quickly. Sounds like change_user should be modified to return only after a delay, say 1 second.
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by Nick_C 14y ago
I like hiawatha for low-spec boxes. I run it on a couple of tiny VPSs I have. http://www.hiawatha-webserver.org/
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by Nick_C 14y ago
I run OpenBSD with a desktop on an iMac G4, mainly as a hobby machine to continuously loop through and display photo slideshows. But I take your point about its real role. Oddly enough, I switched from NetBSD as when its iMac support for X
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by Nick_C 14y ago
Nothing happened. Prior to that we were mobile hunter-gatherers in very small groups. Hard to get an archeological reading from that. It is not that something happened 6,000 years (actually more like 10,000 years) ago, it is that we left
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by Nick_C 14y ago
> "addSome" button should be removed and replaced with drag and drop Please, no. Some of us don't use desktops and don't want drag-n-drop dependencies. (I know this is currently built for Cocoa, but the project's goal is cross-platfor
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by Nick_C 14y ago
> it is an accurate statement of the defamation law of Commonwealth nations such as Australia. It's not accurate for Australia. Truth is a defense here.
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by Nick_C 14y ago
There's no lying or fraud. Company B (the production company) agrees to pay Company A (the studio) $X for services. Done, price agreed. Of course, both companies are owned by the studio, so it is just transfer pricing as far as the stud
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by Nick_C 14y ago
> not that long ago we didn't know that we live on a sphere Actually, the ancient Greeks knew it was a sphere, and everyone knew by the Middle Ages. Surprisingly perhaps, given their other astronomical work, the Chinese were the last h
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by Nick_C 14y ago
I wonder if this might be a game changer for software like Matlab, SAS, et al. A licence would buy you the right to one install locally and one on a cloud server. (Although last time I had anything to do with Matlab licensing and user neg
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by Nick_C 14y ago
Interesting. Any comment on how they get the "front of stage" and "back of stage" effect? I used to not believe this was possible, until I listened to a good recording on good speakers and could place the bass player clearly to the left a
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by Nick_C 14y ago
It's not too bad. There are a couple of pipes and routes, not all go through Telstra. I usually get about 225 ms pings between west coast Aust to west coast US (~9,500 miles). It's fine for regular internet including downloads, but gamer
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by Nick_C 14y ago
Those using cron hacks to check on previous cron jobs might want to take a look at Matt Dillon's cron (as opposed to Paul Vixie's cron), which is the crond that Slackware uses. It has named cron jobs, @noauto and AFTER keywords, which let y
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by Nick_C 14y ago
It used to be, but they changed it quite some time ago, a decade or two if I remember right.
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by Nick_C 14y ago
I've held a plastic bag of raw Australian diamonds -- they look like dirty grainy sand. Almost all of the Kimberley pipe's output is industrial quality, not gem quality, although the pink gemstones are very nice. Australian gem quality out
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by Nick_C 14y ago
[OT] Apropos the recent discussion on third-party requests and Adblock Plus, Ghostery and NoScript: Wow, just wow. This website pulls in requests from 28 third-party sites and wants to run javascript from 21 third-party sites. This abu
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by Nick_C 14y ago
On the other hand, I've had two domains at DH for years and, apart from the well-known problems in 2006, have never had an issue. One of the sites got hacked because of a buggy WordPress plugin and DH support were great in helping fix it. I

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