RexRollman

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by RexRollman 11y ago
I disagree. IMO, every feature addition Twitter has made in the few years have done nothing but muck up what was once a elegantly simple and beautiful thing. I think your suggestions are just more of the same.
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by RexRollman 11y ago
I have come to the conclusion that commercial operating system vendors can no longer be trusted. They are destroying computing autonomy of users by tying online accounts into their products. They include built in search tools that leak info
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by RexRollman 11y ago
That was my understanding and I see no problem with it.
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by RexRollman 11y ago
Putty is a fine piece of work. All respect to Simon Tatham for his efforts.
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by RexRollman 11y ago
I am an ardent supporter of copyright laws but there needs to be some kind of middleground. Copyright lasts way too long.
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by RexRollman 11y ago
Doesn't NetBSD use PAM? It might behave the same way.
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by RexRollman 11y ago
Thank you.
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by RexRollman 11y ago
As a user of Chrome on iOS, I absolutely do not want this. Is there a way to turn this "feature" totally off? I've been looking through the links and didn't see a mention of it.
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by RexRollman 11y ago
I recently started the effort to learning Ed. I kind of like it but I found myself wishing that it had been compiled against Readline (I like Bash's command line editing and the ability to CRTL-L to clear the screen).
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by RexRollman 11y ago
I have historically collected and owned my own music. That said, I have really enjoyed streaming music with Rdio, especially on my iPhone. The only downside I have observed is that songs come into and leave Rdio's library constantly du
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by RexRollman 11y ago
Do as I say, not as I do.
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by RexRollman 11y ago
Without a doubt, the classic BIOS needed improvement, but we didn't need this. The situation reminds me of IPv6, which is also grossly over-engineered.
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by RexRollman 11y ago
UEFI is simply over-engineered.
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by RexRollman 11y ago
Thank you.
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by RexRollman 11y ago
Honestly, I am not sure what you can do about this, other than request users report it when noticed.
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Ask HN: Cataloging Files on the Command Line
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by RexRollman 11y ago
"Think of the childern" is a common refrain of the coward who values safety over freedom.
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by RexRollman 11y ago
I just want to take a moment and say "thank you" to youself and the entire team at Open Whisper. I appreciate your efforts. Sadly, the march to "Safety Fascism" continues unabated.
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by RexRollman 11y ago
Considering that Oracle's current efforts against Google could bring down the software industry as we know it, I wouldn't touch any product of Oracle's with a ten foot pole.
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by RexRollman 11y ago
Thank you!
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by RexRollman 11y ago
I am not familiar enough with the models to recommend one over the other.
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by RexRollman 11y ago
It will.
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by RexRollman 11y ago
I personally have no problem with people smoking but for two things: smokers often smell bad and many of them seem to feel that the world is their ashtray.
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by RexRollman 11y ago
Googling brings up a ton of hits for "linux + T430" and these two pages seem to indicate that it should mostly work: http://www.linlap.com/lenovo_thinkpad_t430 http://blog.burntsushi.net/lenovo-thi
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by RexRollman 11y ago
I was going to try Oberon Native again (for the first time since 1996) after getting 9Front to work VMWare Fusion but couldn't find the installer images. I went to the following site: http://www.oberon.ethz.ch/downloads
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by RexRollman 11y ago
One nice thing about Firefox is that you can turn off the display of favicons via about:config. This is nice as I personally find them to be annoying and unneeded.
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by RexRollman 11y ago
His daily reaction to the appearence of his aging wife, and his own aging appearence, must be interesting.
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by RexRollman 11y ago
"the financial industry has made the consumer the victim, instead of the financial institution." I honestly love this point. It's never occured to me.
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by RexRollman 11y ago
Agreed. I have read all six but only still own the first one.
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by RexRollman 11y ago
SystemD is a Linux cancer that continues to grow uncheked. If this keeps up, a base Linux system will be nothing more than the Kernel, Systemd, and Bash.

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