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by akoster 10y ago
Carl Hiassen's books regularly cause me to laugh so hard I have trouble breathing.
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by akoster 10y ago
For those interested in using RHEL-based distros for a desktop use-case, this blog post may be helpful: http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/centos-7-perfect-desktop....
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by akoster 10y ago
A relative gifted me an old PowerMac 8600/200, which originally came with a pre-G3 PowerPC 604e CPU, but had been upgraded to a G4 by swapping out the ZIF CPU card. It definitely gave a circa 1997 machine (original OS was either MacOS
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by akoster 10y ago
I don't own a MacPro for that reason. I ended up building a desktop PC and using it as a hackintosh (though I gave up a couple years ago and now use a 15" rMBP more often).
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by akoster 10y ago
My family is is on AT&T Uverse, and pays $52/month for 24Mbps down/5Mbps up and $134/month for 2 HDTVs, 1 non HDTV, a DVR and their lower-mid tier 300 channel package (mainly because mom likes to watch HGTV, DIY and the F
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by akoster 10y ago
I definitely agree with you! The first computer I could call my own was a hand-me-down eMachines eTower 733i Mini-tower desktop with a 733MHz Celeron, upgraded to 256MB of RAM, and a 20GB HDD I was gifted around 2004. I installed a copy of
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by akoster 10y ago
I believe Tcl is still used to script some major EDA tools, or at least in the well-antiquated versions of the tools my university was using.
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by akoster 10y ago
I was impressed by reading this recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12074096
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by akoster 11y ago
Original support request: 2016-03-31 Subject: Credit expiring soon- your assistance is appreciated Hello there! I have $100 of credit with you. I just found out on an email that it will be expiring in a month due to a new policy. Is there a
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by akoster 11y ago
I just had a discussion about the spelling difference with a coworker yesterday, and couldn't believe I didn't notice this today. Good catch!
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by akoster 11y ago
Definitely in the same boat, but instead of pocket I use Pinboard ( https://pinboard.in )
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Wolfram Mathematica 10.4 Released(wolfram.com)
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by akoster 11y ago
Since the article doesn't quote Martin Hellman here's sons of his words on cryptography (from an interview after receiving a different award): http://news.stanford.edu/news/2011/march/inventor-prize-
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by akoster 11y ago
I wish I had known about this sooner. Installing IRAF was always a pain (though less so after they released just one big tarball for Linux/x86)
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by akoster 11y ago
At first glance, me too!
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by akoster 11y ago
This looks awesome! Just got back from a camping trip and just saw your post. Might there be any spare codes left? EDIT: if you are better by email, feel free to reach me at akoster (at) ieee.org Thanks in advance and looking forward to t
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by akoster 11y ago
Does anyone know if the bulk download feature applies only to photos in the camera roll, or can one bulk download one's photostream, galleries and albums too? Even in the camera roll page, I have yet to find any button or link to bulk
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by akoster 11y ago
Not exactly, hosting, but this has worked for me: NameCheap forwards mail from my domain email address to a free Yahoo mail account. Yahoo mail allows for sending mail from a custom "from" address, masking my Yahoo address. I&#x
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by akoster 11y ago
I'd take any you have left :-) Thanks for sharing
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by akoster 11y ago
tl;dr 1998-2009 (11 years in use) Toshiba Tecra 2009-Present (6 years) Toshiba Satellite Toshiba Tecra 780CDM Specs and picture (almost identical, except mine featured a CD-ROM only drive) http://resource.toshiba-europe.com/
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by akoster 12y ago
The one feature I'm really going to miss is the ability to set the location of photos manually, as I was able to do in iPhoto. This would make using the "Places" feature work really well as I could browse photos by geographi
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by akoster 12y ago
When working with many a bunch of tabs in Firefox or SeaMonkey, I use the new about:memory page to garbage collect, minimize the heap, et. al. I encourage other users with triple-digit tab counts or those having issues with performance to