andrewf

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by andrewf 16y ago
My primary network interface has just become "en0" again, after being "en1" for about 8 years (the time between my first iBook with 802.11b, and getting a MacBook Air which doesn't have an ethernet port).
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by andrewf 16y ago
The Australian Tax Office will send you an assessment notice after you've filed your tax return, confirming what they believe your income and tax for the past year to be. When filing online, you can obtain a digital cert by supplying the s
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by andrewf 16y ago
I think they really cleaned this up in the Qt3 -> Qt4 transition - your Qt Designer forms are still turned into code, but not in a generated file that you're supposed to edit. Instead it's a standalone class that you inherit in your own
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A 256 Byte Autostart Fast Loader for the Commodore 64 (pagetable.com)
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by andrewf 16y ago
GreaseMonkey has to contend with these same issues. It has a security model, which will be broken if developers ignore the list of things you can't do. http://wiki.greasespot.net/Security
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by andrewf 16y ago
Not possible according to the docs: http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.7/developing-on-mac.html#building-...
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by andrewf 16y ago
Strictly speaking all this needs is a working QtGui component in the Qt library. There are a couple of ways to compile Qt to operate against an in-memory framebuffer rather than a "real" windowing environment, although neither is a well sup
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by andrewf 16y ago
OS X will prompt you to download and install Rosetta from Apple, hassle-free, if you attempt to launch a PPC application and you don't have it installed already. It only works if you're launching an app bundle, though, not if you're trying
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by andrewf 16y ago
Surely the defacto standard is h.264 with FLV for fallback. Can anyone name a single site with significant traffic cother than Google/Youtube who are doing WebM or Ogg?
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by andrewf 16y ago
Have you had different SOAP stacks talking to each other? The case of having identical SOAP implementations at either end (eg .NET 2.0 <--> .NET 2.0, Java w/ Axis 1.4 <--> Java w/ Axis 1.4) is the one scenario where SOAP wor
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by andrewf 16y ago
If one side of the expression is longer, putting the shorter one first can improve readability. (Some would argue that you should assign the longer expression to a variable first). I think that if(S_OK == QueryInterface(IID_IUnknown, &#
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by andrewf 16y ago
Plenty of software manages to share information between processes without using SysV shared memory, and therefore being subject to these kernel resource limits. I'm not saying this should necessarily be fixed - I'm sure the Postgres team ha
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by andrewf 16y ago
It does not. It just means that using EC2 nodes in your credit card handling system is not necessarily an automatic fail.
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by andrewf 16y ago
A lot of the paywalls fade away if you access from a computer at a subscribing institution such as a university library. I live very close to a university whose libraries are open to the public. Quite handy.
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by andrewf 16y ago
More information here: http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/448
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by andrewf 16y ago
I would go with #2, but in a non-confrontational manner. Presumably the CTO got a lot of the existing codebase into place, and in a rush. If the flipside of that is that the company has a successful product which is attracting customers and
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by andrewf 16y ago
Getting delivered is your biggest concern. If you end up in a bad IP range, or a large email site (ie its automated systems) figure you might be spam, people won't see your mail. This can be as simple as a minority of your email recipients
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by andrewf 16y ago
I wonder if it includes the UNIX copyrights. Novell's waiver got a whole load of SCO's claims rejected. Hands up: who wants to see that particular can of worms reopened?
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by andrewf 16y ago
Firebug is aiming for full functionality on other browsers in the future. Sadly not ready yet :) http://blog.getfirebug.com/2010/10/24/firebug-metamorphosis/
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by andrewf 16y ago
At least one game programmer is recommending sticking with integers for distances. " 64 bits of precision gets you to the furthest distance of Pluto from the Sun (7.4 billion km) with sub-micrometer precision. " http://home.comcast.net/~to
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by andrewf 16y ago
Never mind six months from now - if you're thinking native app, then you've got a particular set of phones in mind. Take a look at the state of the browser on them now.
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by andrewf 16y ago
If it turns out that your app is not suited for their purposes, but they didn't really have a way to realise that up-front, a refund is generally the way to go. You might also have to do some extra work to accomodate them transitioning out
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by andrewf 16y ago
From this page, it looks like every drop.io user already has a magic key that they could copy and paste into a migration tool. http://dev.drop.io/ Assuming that their userbase is large enough for some percentage migrating to benefit
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by andrewf 16y ago
I remap Caps Lock to the Apple/Command key on Macs, and the Control key on non-Macs. So, yes but no :)
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by andrewf 16y ago
I'm definitely assuming (a). I think we have different user stereotypes in mind. I think that lots of people spend little to no time hearing about, or talking about, applications they aren't using already. These are the kinds of people that
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by andrewf 16y ago
You are assuming that users: (a) know what a web browser is (b) know that it can be upgraded, and how (c) aren't prevented from upgrading due to school/workplace/etc (d) realise the benefits that come with using something newer than IE6 (e)
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by andrewf 16y ago
Among SCO's myriad claims, they alleged Linux violates its copyright over the SysV APIs and ABIs. I doubt the court got around to addressing that issue.
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by andrewf 16y ago
Nice to see that they have 20ish people on platform/API. That's about 3 times as many people as Facebook supposedly have on theirs.
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by andrewf 16y ago
I get a window.alert that says the player can't be found - maybe in that case you should assume Flash is blocked/missing and remove the DIV for a few seconds so repeated clicking has an effect.
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by andrewf 16y ago
For Australia, you have to take franked dividends into account. When profits flow onto shareholders, the shareholders receive tax credits for tax that the company has paid on its profits. The result is often that, by the time corporate prof

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