andrewtj

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by andrewtj 17y ago
Mine is also at Dallas (dallas98) but has only been up for ~20 minutes and is extremely slow. edit: Looks like my VPS was offline for 20 ~ 30 minutes and has settled down now.
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by andrewtj 17y ago
Any recommended reading on synchronisation? No specific scenario in mind, just curious.
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by andrewtj 17y ago
Same name but not the same concept.
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by andrewtj 17y ago
On that tangent, if you're an OS X user and like myself you can't quite muster the faith to use FileVault for your home folder, Disk Utility (or hdiutil at the terminal prompt) will allow you to create encrypted disk images to stash your se
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by andrewtj 17y ago
Renai: I'm curious given your submission history as to what process you go through in deciding whether or not to submit your articles here - care to comment?
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by andrewtj 17y ago
Don't the options largely depend on you? What do you find to be such an imposition that you'd like to leave?
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by andrewtj 17y ago
I'm an Australian and I agree with your comments except to say that I find the "laid back" attitude is a bit of a misnomer - it's really indifference spun to appear as a positive thing.
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by andrewtj 17y ago
I think what SwellJoe is getting at is that different software won't address misunderstandings and assumptions. Eg: There's a lot of folks out there who aren't aware that they should incrementally drop a records TTL prior to changing it's d
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by andrewtj 17y ago
A good reverse proxy will buffer client and server side so that your heavy app can be available to serve the next request whilst the light proxy feeds the page back to a slow client. Under certain circumstances serving static files from sep
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by andrewtj 17y ago
Not sure I follow — are you suggesting it's distracting at a subconscious level? I find it a stretch to say any of the examples you mention are analogous to small static monotone icons in the corner of a screen; they no more distract me tha
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by andrewtj 17y ago
I wonder how something as utilitarian as a volume control or battery status icon could disturb or distract someone. Sure for a minimal aesthetic it could be considered superfluous, but a distraction? Seems a bit neurotic to me.
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by andrewtj 17y ago
Straw, camel back... sorry Keep expectations high and the community will self-correct.
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by andrewtj 17y ago
Actually, the keyboard shortcuts do work; I'm pretty comfortable saying that since I use the OS everyday. Also, your suspicions are wrong - every native application implements these shortcut keys. Don't take this the wrong way, but Window
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by andrewtj 17y ago
No default. On my computer it was Ctl-F8, Ctl-L which was setup using the built-in Keyboard short configuration tool. Most of the time I just used hot corners though. That said, I no longer work in an environment where I need that kind of f
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by andrewtj 17y ago
To me, seeing articles like this only serves to remind myself I need to work on my information diet more.
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by andrewtj 17y ago
Off the top of my head: alt-tab == ⌘-tab Restore == Ctl-F3, arrow key to window in Dock, return Arbitrary menu item, depends: Application Menu (left-handside text menus) == Ctl-F2, type enough unique letters to identify the menu (or use arr
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by andrewtj 17y ago
Respectfully, it seems like every time I see this comment it's from a Windows power user who's not that familiar with OS X - can you please provide an example?
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by andrewtj 17y ago
It's not that much more complicated to show a hidden app - Ctl+F3 to activate the Dock, use the arrow keys to select the App and hit return.
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by andrewtj 17y ago
Could I contact you (or you me, see profile) for some Erlang advice? I know next to nothing about the language but I suspect it'd be a good fit for something I'm working on and the input of someone who's used it in anger would be very helpf
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by andrewtj 17y ago
I doubt that many OS X users even know they can enable a guest account.
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by andrewtj 17y ago
My startup's a Wide-Area Bonjour service (DNS with client updates, long lived queries and a convention for service discovery) which squares it in the client/server camp although it does have a web interface. The next thing I want to do isn
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by andrewtj 17y ago
I was double checking I'd put the right IP in for a new master about 3 hours ago when it went down. DNS was responding ok so I figured I'd skip harassing David given it was ~03:00 on that side of the pond.
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by andrewtj 17y ago
I thought he ascribed that view to the folks who run traditional television media.
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by andrewtj 17y ago
A view does not intrinsically have worth just because of it's existence. Scoble is a tech-evangelist; someone who uses technology and not someone who builds upon it. As someone who builds things, I value the perspective of folks who will bu
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by andrewtj 17y ago
I treat Scoble's view of Wave with the same reverence I'd apply to his views on TokyoTyrant. He's not an opinion-leader on this one as far I'm concerned.
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by andrewtj 17y ago
I assume you've been down voted because Chrome OS as the name implies will be an operating system (not a web page) and a cursory investigation would have revealed that. Aside from that, the structure of your sentence is awkward and further
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by andrewtj 17y ago
I think one of the great things about the web is having client interfaces tailored specifically to the domain being dealt with. I don't think a traditional desktop interface - that is something that is great at handling disparate/undefined
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by andrewtj 17y ago
I've got a VPS with prgmr now and whilst it's too early in the piece for me to share any meaningful opinion, I will say that I think it's quite likely they represent genuine value for money. Feel free to email me (see profile) in a month or
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by andrewtj 17y ago
To be clear: * Guides/IRC are from my perspective not relevant to picking a host I'm not referring to documentation on the service itself here, but to the software install/setup guides which seem to be in vogue at the minute. Regarding co
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by andrewtj 17y ago
I was remiss in not posting my experiences with Linode: * I got an unintuitive error using the Control Panel to do a simple operation (resizing a disk) so I emailed support and got a quick response. * Linode rolled out a security update for

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