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by akent 16y ago
Was there some newsworthy reason this rather old video was resubmitted?
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by akent 16y ago
No big surprise here really. So when are we all going to get serious and start using public key cryptography on a mass scale, even if we "don't have anything to hide"?
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by akent 16y ago
Any media outlet tempted to use a "you've never heard of" headline should seriously reconsider. Guaranteed to irritate everyone who HAS heard of it instantly.
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by akent 16y ago
I must be missing something... doesn't the iPod do all the things he lists as being killer features for a "podcast player"? What's so horrible about using an iPod for podcasts that there is or could possibly be a need for a dedicated podcas
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by akent 16y ago
Maybe with proper code review these kinds of ridiculous problems would get caught early and stomped on rather than turning into actual problems.
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by akent 16y ago
If you're someone seriously considering upgrading a device you paid upwards of $500 for less than a year ago ... because of a new CASE... sit down, get a large mirror and take a good long hard look at yourself.
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by akent 16y ago
Seems like a solution in search of a problem to me.
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by akent 16y ago
tldr: Don't panic, stackoverflow.com is not changing, it's just the name of the company they are changing to "Stack Exchange Inc."
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by akent 16y ago
BSD / OS X has native support for superpages. From version 2.6.38, Linux will get native huge page / superpage support too. http://lwn.net/Articles/423584/
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by akent 16y ago
"We released a storage software update that introduced the unexpected bug, which caused 0.02% of Gmail users to temporarily lose access to their email. When we discovered the problem, we immediately stopped the deployment of the new softwar
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by akent 16y ago
Misleading subject line on the email from Twitter about this: "Important information about your Twitter application" (emphasis mine). Turns out it wasn't about my application at all, it was twidroyd. Way to get my attention though.
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by akent 16y ago
http://www.nokiaplane.com (seriously!)
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Bedroom painted and decorated to look like Super Mario Brothers(somegeekintn.com)
2 points by akent 16y ago|0 comments
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by akent 16y ago
The "Rocklea (wide view)" one is particularly striking.
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by akent 16y ago
A solution might be to have the CarKit wired in to disarm the engine immobilizer, much like car key security fobs do already. This would let you then leave a "normal" non-security ignition key in the car without too much worry.
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The Coolest Server Names - Recently undeleted(serverfault.com)
16 points by akent 16y ago|21 comments
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by akent 16y ago
You might want to consider something a bit more lightweight than a full blown media wiki instance, say, Tomboy desktop notes. http://projects.gnome.org/tomboy/
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by akent 16y ago
Sounds like it.
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by akent 16y ago
Almost all popular smartphones are already dual core -- one core for the applications and one for the modem stack.
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by akent 16y ago
$200/month is their cheapest plan? Not really in the same league as Linode then.
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Soylent: A Word Processor with a Crowd Inside(projects.csail.mit.edu)
2 points by akent 16y ago|1 comments
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by akent 16y ago
"There are several layers of buffering between you and the hardware!" I hope this does not come as a surprise to anyone.
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by akent 16y ago
I'm also impressed by the specific details of what counts and doesn't count as Earth being destroyed: "Teleporting Earth to another location or alternate universe where it is still able to support life is specifically excluded."
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by akent 16y ago
I think my favourite is "Large Hadron Collider will destroy Earth." Stakes: $1,000 I think the reality might be a little higher than that ;)
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by akent 16y ago
Chicken and egg? You think the only thing holding back the popularity of ARM based netbooks is that there's no Dropbox client for ARM yet? ;)
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by akent 16y ago
Worth reading but the highlight is the slides he sends to organisers "when pressed hard": http://www.crypto.com/papers/rsa2011-blaze.pdf
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by akent 16y ago
I'm sure if ARM based netbooks ever became actually popular Dropbox would take the time to compile an ARM version of the client.
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by akent 16y ago
I think you're confusing http://unity3d.com/ with https://launchpad.net/unity . Unity desktop is GPL3 / LGPL3.
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Desktop Linux: The Dream Is Dead(pcworld.com)
1 points by akent 16y ago|0 comments
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by akent 16y ago
"results in ugly, buggy weirdness" <--- care to elaborate? I've happily been removing the top bar in Gnome for many consecutive Ubuntu releases without problems?

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