Splognosticus

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by Splognosticus 13y ago
Oh man. The alt text. I want that so much now. When I think of how much more useful support forums would be if the first post in the thread were basically a wiki...
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by Splognosticus 13y ago
You forgot Surface 10.1 Home and Student, which reserves the top quarter inch of the screen for a message reminding you that you're not allowed to use it for work.
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by Splognosticus 13y ago
That's ridiculous. What cat needs a laptop? They can already sleep on yours.
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by Splognosticus 13y ago
The actual report's at https://www.soluto.com/reports , but it seems a little slanted to me. The Aspire seems something like twice as reliable, but the Mac wins because it boots 4 seconds faster? Crashes/wk: Aspire: 0.74 Mac: 0.88 Hangs/wk
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by Splognosticus 14y ago
Also bash has a built-in incremental history search. http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html#Searchi...
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by Splognosticus 14y ago
It's the part where he writes, "...Kansas City's support for Google's network went well beyond deregulation to outright corporate welfare," that I found striking. Maybe it's just a poor choice of words but it seemed to me like it set the to
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by Splognosticus 14y ago
Yeah. From the agreement: 6. Obligations of Google (g) Provide the services in Section 4(a) to City for up to a total of three hundred (300) locations and other governmental buildings throughout the City, to be identified by City. When such
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by Splognosticus 14y ago
Where else would it be? I wasn't aware there even were any other Usenet archives out there.
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by Splognosticus 14y ago
It seems to me like a lot of ostensibly technically-literate people are installing Windows 8 and not realizing that it's asking them to create a Live account instead of a Windows account. Is the option to create a normal account difficult t
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by Splognosticus 14y ago
The bug was filed by no less than YHWH Himself. I've heard of cases where people tried to sue God, but this is the first time I've seen the reverse. Can't He just smite them?
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by Splognosticus 14y ago
Probably. It's the "if it bleeds it leads" mentality. What I wonder is if their user base will assume the company's doomed due to all the news about their stock price and move their stuff to Google+ or whatever the next Myspace clone is gon
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by Splognosticus 14y ago
N-E-S-T-L-E-S, Nestle has the very best chocolate. Back in their van. With the windows blacked out.
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by Splognosticus 15y ago
If that were the case they'd accept it and just remove the +spam_source before selling the address.
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by Splognosticus 15y ago
Well $someapp_i_just_downloaded pretty much has free reign to do whatever it wants anyway since it's running locally, and probably even had admin rights at some point during the installation process. If it were malicious then it's already t
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by Splognosticus 15y ago
That's kind of the angle I was coming from as well. In order to effectively rewrite something you first need to know what the existing code actually does. If you don't know that yet, then figuring it out is usually a lot harder than fixin
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by Splognosticus 15y ago
If your legacy code has no tests, how do you know its replacement works correctly?
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by Splognosticus 15y ago
Still I endorse his efforts to prevent Justin Timberlake from starting an acting career.
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by Splognosticus 15y ago
I don't think that the learning curve could really be said to be the problem when you're talking about a word processor that deliberately deletes three days worth of saves when it crashes.
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by Splognosticus 15y ago
Surely there are more straightforward ways to see pictures of women showing their ankles.