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by abbot2 13y ago
The web site misses one obvious sentence: "Pencil is a ...". I spent 60 seconds on the web site, did not understand what the heck is this thing, and closed the web site. Will never open again I guess.
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by abbot2 13y ago
To be honest "what's new" page looks, well, not very convincing: https://help.ubuntu.com/13.10/ubuntu-help/whats-new.html
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by abbot2 13y ago
Ex-russian here. This might be counter-intuitive to many people who never lived in Russia, but: mobile phone service contracts in Russia almost do not exist, entire market model for carriers is quite different. Carriers don't sell SIM-
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by abbot2 13y ago
If I were from NSA: 1. Go to linode (or your favourite hosting provider). 2. Make a snapshot of memory of a running VM. 3. Extract encryption keys from that snapshot. 4. Decrypt. The message here is: it does not matter which server setup yo
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Astrid shutting down
6 points by abbot2 13y ago|2 comments
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by abbot2 13y ago
Never store != never see
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by abbot2 13y ago
This would be against github ToS
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by abbot2 13y ago
I read it as something like this: "We really promise not to mess up your account. Really-really. Oh wait, our server has been hacked".
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by abbot2 13y ago
" Authorize Real World OCaml Commenting? The app Real World OCaml Commenting will be able to: Read your public information. Update your public repositories (Commits, Issues, etc). " WAT?
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by abbot2 13y ago
There is one good thing in UNIX shared library + package management model: security updates. You don't have to depend on some weird ISV to update his own copy of buggy openssl code in his own "app" in the Unix world. Good for sysadmins. Inc
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by abbot2 13y ago
Looks much like printer escape sequences.
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by abbot2 14y ago
I did a quick peek at their electronics schematics. Well, believe it or not, but it looks like designing a laser-cut custom wooden case for this phone took much more effort than the electronics part. So, returning to my analogy: you are bui
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by abbot2 14y ago
Actually it is not ridiculous. There is a project which is much more a DYI then this one. Enjoy: http://wush.net/trac/rangepublic (OpenBTS).
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by abbot2 14y ago
"Cellular connectivity is provided by the SM5100B GSM Module...". Meh. No way a DYI. It's like you assemble your desktop PC from pieces like motherboard and power supply and say that you built a DYI PC.
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by abbot2 14y ago
It is never a good idea to keep backup copies at the same place as the source data, so normally it should be not that common for an attacker to be able to wipe both original and backup. Regarding the offline optical disc backups, they are s
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by abbot2 14y ago
Do your daily backups using rsync+hardlinks (rsnapshot, dirvish or something similar) and keep a long history. This is slower than copy-on-write ZFS (obviously), but works reliably on any Linux/Unix file system and the storage cost is rough
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by abbot2 14y ago
Unfortunately many of us learn this simple truth the hard way: a mirror is not equal to a (daily) backup.
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by abbot2 14y ago
Yes, you can place a link. But the link, unlike the page range , points only to the place, not to the scope .
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by abbot2 14y ago
"As show on pages 105-107" looks much better than "As shown in sections 4.5.4, 5.1 and 5.1.2". Really. You don't have the first option with HTML and/or sphinx. Oh, and can I have some bold italic text please?
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by abbot2 14y ago
I don't argue that TeX is good for typesetting thesis. I doubt that sphinx, even with some plug-ins is good for that. Also don't forget that reStructuredText has its own problems (not found in HTML and LaTeX). Can I have some bold italic or
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by abbot2 14y ago
Why not to go the other way round in this case? Typeset your thesis in semantically correct, searchable, beautiful HTML5, and then just add some specific CSS to get the hard print copy?
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by abbot2 14y ago
As someone who did typeset his thesis not too long ago to forget all that lot of tiny tweaks I had to make to get a perfect print out from LaTeX, I would say that this project has a lot of issues. Some of them a more or less easy to fix, bu
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by abbot2 14y ago
M-x doctor: No such command: doctor. You should just call that "yet another online editor", really.
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by abbot2 15y ago
I guess, the next notable iteration would be: "Google is working on integrating Emacs into Chrome". Oh well.