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by ajtaylor 14y ago
You beat me to it! The Galaxy S was an ok phone, as it came stock. OK that is, if you liked waiting - a lot! But once I flashed a custom firmware onto it, I would have sworn I had a brand new phone! Then I read more about RFS, which only ma
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by ajtaylor 14y ago
We've recently done a redesign for a site at $work, but it's not using any sort of framework like Bootstrap or Foundation. Is it possible to add in Bootstrap after the fact? I would kill to have all the various UI elements available to me,
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by ajtaylor 14y ago
We've been using HipChat for several months now and have been quite happy with it. I'm using it to manage several remote contractors. The pricing is very reasonable. And it has an XMPP interface should you need it as well.
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by ajtaylor 14y ago
After some more digging, I suspect we'll be giving filepicker a try at $work. The value add looks very compelling, especially being able to do things like crop & resize. Our users have been asking for image resize functionality for year
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by ajtaylor 14y ago
This sounds like a fantastic feature! So much easier than checking logs and running explain manually. Plus it also looks like something you can trivially run in production. Is there any close equivalent for mysql, which we use at $work? The
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by ajtaylor 14y ago
Thanks for the link. I've added it to my watch list. IMHO, you can't get much better than BBC documentaries. Especially when it comes to my favorite - Sir David Attenborough.
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by ajtaylor 14y ago
Thanks for this! I'm downloading it and the Kindle Previewer now. I don't yet have a Kindle, but my birthday and Christmas are coming soon. And of course I have the Kindle app on my Android phone. :)
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by ajtaylor 14y ago
Huey Lewis rocked! I heard the opening bars and I couldn't help grinning.
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by ajtaylor 14y ago
I used a VPN to watch some of the Olympic coverage on the BBC's website. While the video playback sometimes failed, I was simply blown away by all the options they provided. One aspect I never dug into much at all was on the data side. The
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by ajtaylor 14y ago
I too used Fop at my last $job to generate PDF files. As you said, the source was extremely tedious to write but you can't beat FOP for the precise control. I would first look to other solutions, since they can be faster, but FOP will alway
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by ajtaylor 14y ago
I'll soon be implementing image upload support where the images live on S3. It would be fantastic to be able to have the user's browser directly upload to S3 rather than go through the web server. If you were to open source your code I'd lo
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by ajtaylor 14y ago
Finally, someone gets it! Some people will always pirate, but I honestly believe a lot of people would rather use legal means (even if they pay a reasonable amount). It will be interesting to see how this plays out. I can only hope that mor
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by ajtaylor 14y ago
I read with great interest the write up on Anchor's work for the new Github architecture, so I meant no disparagement to the employee's skill. The problems I was referring to were simply the ability to keep from falling over at random times
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by ajtaylor 14y ago
I always love reading the wiki versions of the "What's New" because they actually show me how I can benefit and how to use the new feature. If only I could switch $work DB from mysql to Pg...
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by ajtaylor 14y ago
According to my bosses who have done the research when setting up their web hosting, the Australian hosts are 1) uniformly VERY expensive and 2) not as reliable as hosting providers elsewhere. As someone else said, bandwidth is expensive an
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by ajtaylor 14y ago
Nice work! I'd love to see the addition of a volume control. With my headphones, even at the lowest volume level above mute, the music is still louder than I'd like. This seems to be a common issue for me with a lot of the embedded music pl
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by ajtaylor 14y ago
I read more Encyclopedia Brown books than I can count. One at a time just wasn't enough. This reminds me that I need to see if my daughter is interested in reading them... Sorry to see you go Mr. Sobol, but thank you for the wonderful books
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by ajtaylor 14y ago
Indeed there are. I _want_ to reward the authors of technical books, but there's no way I'm going to pay the outrageous prices Australian distributors want. It's still much cheaper to buy from Amazon and pay shipping from the US/UK to AU th
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by ajtaylor 14y ago
Sorry, my response to the problem was to leave the US. But I still wish those of you living there (including all my family) good luck!
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by ajtaylor 14y ago
When I moved to Australia last year, I simply couldn't believe the prices for books. A simple trade paperback would likely set you back 15-30 AUD! And don't even get me started on technical books...
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by ajtaylor 14y ago
I wish the EFF good luck with this case. They are certainly going to need it! The change in US government attitudes regarding spying on its own citizens (at least publicly) during the last 10 years is chilling to say the least.
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by ajtaylor 14y ago
I lived in Charlotte, NC when Hurricane Hugo came through. IIRC we didn't have power for over a week, perhaps closer to 10 or 14 days. Our front yard and general neighbourhood looked like a battle ground. Trees and limbs were everywhere! It
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by ajtaylor 14y ago
"To say they’re adding liquidity is like saying spitting in a thunderstorm is adding liquidity." Best quote of the whole article!
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by ajtaylor 14y ago
I hadn't though of using Github as a straight web server before. Will consider it for future projects.
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by ajtaylor 14y ago
Trello might be a good fit as well.
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by ajtaylor 14y ago
You've convinced me! I'll be picking up an RB751U this week. Now I need to return the piece of junk Linksys that stopped syncing to my DSL line this week. The best part? The MikroTik is cheaper but better!
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by ajtaylor 14y ago
This is perfect timing. I need a new router at home, and my experience with Tomato in the past has been excellent. The real-time bandwidth graph (and historical graphs) were my favorite feature. Well, that and it Just Worked! Now to find th
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by ajtaylor 14y ago
I've also looked at the ReadyNAS products in the past, but couldn't justify the cost for home usage. X-RAID is pretty neat!
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by ajtaylor 14y ago
The ability to add new, differently sized disks with RAID-Z is the killer feature of ZFS. I wonder how Linux ZFS performance & stability compare with the FreeBSD ports? In the past, I've considered using something like FreeNAS for my ho
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by ajtaylor 14y ago
Rental markets are still strong for landlords. Too many people wanting a place to live, and not enough stock to fulfil the demands. The local governments are speeding up the permit process, but it's going to take a long time to catch up. Pl

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