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by Uplink 4y ago
That can be used for good: avoid embarrassment and prevent an unnecessary stop. But it can also be used for evil: cancel a valid stop that someone commanded and hope they don't notice.
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by Uplink 4y ago
One would think this situation would be better documented by vendors, instead of relying on obscure incantations. But one would probably be told by Customer Services that this defect is not covered by warranty (if you still have it) and you
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by Uplink 7y ago
Gooey could use a GUI that generates the Gooey config at the press of a button.
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by Uplink 7y ago
The closest thing I can find to this story on Google is this: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn26019-what-to-do-when... It doesn't involve Windows as far as I can tell - they don't say what the cause of
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by Uplink 7y ago
Thus the quotes around "relevant". I find the "relevant" ads to be so far off the mark that my head hurts.
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by Uplink 7y ago
I never understood why advertisers insist on giving me "relevant" ads. I find it better if the ads are diverse and all over the place, as I discover new things. The "relevant" ads are usually about stuff I just bought, s
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by Uplink 7y ago
I use "Should I Answer?" for this purpose. I don't have to give them my data in order to know who's calling me most of the time. It could block calls, but I don't use that feature.
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by Uplink 8y ago
How does your setup work with a second monitor that comes and goes? Use case: I have a laptop that I take everywhere for me, but I plug into a second monitor while at work. I also use multiple desktops, and this pattern is sometimes causing
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by Uplink 8y ago
I'm nitpicking, but is there a reason why you use the numeric signal number in Linux? On my machine "kill -SIGSTOP" works as expected, and I don't remember a time when you couldn't use signal names like that.
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by Uplink 8y ago
Who do I tell my brand new, bright idea about IDN attack prevention? It goes like this: Display characters that are out of range of your selected language's character set in a different colour than the characters of your language. That
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by Uplink 8y ago
THANK YOU! I had the ideas used in this project in my head, but I've been putting off the work forever now. I LOVE YOU FOREVER for using transactions as the central operation rather than double entry accounting, and I love you even mor
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by Uplink 8y ago
Timestamps. How do I know when the other messages I'm seeing were posted? Maybe those people have long gone and I have no idea I'm talking into thin air.
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by Uplink 9y ago
Did everybody get a takeaway shop's fan duct stuck to their wall like at my last rented flat? It took me ages to understand why I was so stressed out until one evening I noticed things going peaceful all of a sudden. After that I becam
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by Uplink 9y ago
Not sure what this means, but while I'm mining Monero on the CPU with xmr-stak the PoC is thwarted. First, the "Direct physical map offset" comes back wrong in Demo #2. Second, if I use the correct offset, the reliability is
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by Uplink 9y ago
I for one was wondering if they spoke to their Google Go (Golang) team when they named the Go edition 'Google' app 'Google Go'. There will be some very confused users when they search for 'google go' from now o