andrewtj

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by andrewtj 17y ago
I use Linode ( http://www.linode.com/ ) at the moment but will probably move to prgmr ( http://prgmr.com/xen/ ) so I can cut costs — anyone got experience with them?
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by andrewtj 17y ago
Zero Install attempts to resolve that issue amongst others: http://0install.net/
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by andrewtj 17y ago
As it stands, they’re following the common pattern of delivering the Firefox app on a disk image, which, when mounted, uses a background image and alias to the /Applications/ folder to encourage users to copy the app from the mounted image
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by andrewtj 17y ago
Two people is news to me — their website lead me to believe otherwise: http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/wiki/TwistedMatrixLaboratories
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by andrewtj 17y ago
If I recall correctly that's actually used to sync network home directories to a local drive on machines that are bound to a directory service. Some blogger mistakenly thought it was related to the iPod home directory feature and the connec
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by andrewtj 17y ago
Wet and dry seasons are already part of the Aussie vernacular in most of the country. There's region specific lingo as well, except in Melbourne where there's just no point in trying to discern what season it is.
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by andrewtj 17y ago
Have you ever found being Au-based a limitation on your online efforts?
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by andrewtj 17y ago
I needed a way to advertise and discover services over the internet. I found Apple's Wide Area Bonjour (aka. DNS Service Discovery) to be a good fit except that I couldn't find a suitable DNS server to use. So I wrote one and have started w
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by andrewtj 17y ago
I'm currently in Australia and am looking to head to Thailand to extend my runway. Can you offer any advice on how you found your apartment and made the move? Anything you wish you'd known before you landed?
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by andrewtj 17y ago
I've been keeping an eye on Jon Oxer and Hugh Blemings as they put together 'Practical Arduino' - they're up to lots of cool stuff: http://www.practicalarduino.com/ http://twitter.com/jonoxer http://twitter.com/hughhalf
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by andrewtj 17y ago
Startup is Global Hostname: http://www.globalhostname.com/ DNS server is implemented in Twisted (but is not derived from twisted.names) and web site is Django+nginx. Database is Postgres.
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by andrewtj 17y ago
One more for OS X that's relatively unknown is the 'Go To Folder' shortcut in file dialogues. It's accessed via ~ and supports tab-completion — opening something in ~/Documents something becomes: cmd+o, ~, ~/D[tab]<enter>, filename&
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by andrewtj 17y ago
They would not pay because by and large the content on the sites in question is available elsewhere in one form or another for free. That doesn't indicate that the readership are "freeloaders" (which implies they're somehow taking advantage
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by andrewtj 17y ago
I'm working on two DNS Service Discovery related projects at the moment. The first is a Wide Area Bonjour hosting service which will be of interest if you have a few Macs that you wish could find each other when they're not the same LAN. I'
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by andrewtj 17y ago
I picked 'None' — why boils down to a few things:- * My service is free at the moment. I'm not approaching billing till I have bridged the gap between technically-inclined users (the folks who've found it thus far) and more mainstream users
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by andrewtj 17y ago
Whilst that sounds reasonable on my VM Safari loads faster than Firefox on Windows.
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by andrewtj 17y ago
My thoughts as well though I'll add that I feel there's been an increase in content that doesn't deal with subjects down to their minutia over the past few months.
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by andrewtj 17y ago
Zarafa's Z-Push might be what you're after — it emulates an MS ActiveSync server front-end against various backends including IMAP. It's written in PHP and you can grab the code at https://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_i
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by andrewtj 17y ago
It doesn't offer anything new but it does offer an opportunity to reflect. This story has been around a long while (this dates from '99 but I suspect it's older) and I think comes from a time when hackers had a whole lot less options. Seems
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by andrewtj 17y ago
No offense but that's as silly as not moving to Australia because of organised crime. If you're going to become a cropper by either means you're doing something drastically wrong.
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by andrewtj 18y ago
I like reading about startups but I like building things more. I started my first serious attempt a week or so back and aim to get a scrappy release in peoples hands within the next 2~3 weeks. It'll lack a lot, but hopefully it'll give me a
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by andrewtj 18y ago
I don't mind so much if it's apparent that there's a real person behind the account who actually interacts with the site and puts some thought in to submissions and comments. In so far as I can tell, joschi is just a bot for posting howtofo
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by andrewtj 18y ago
I'm really sick of seeing this guys howtoforge.com spam show up in the RSS feed.
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by andrewtj 18y ago
It's trivial to folks familiar with nix-a-likes but for others it is too unlike the abstractions they're used to for it to be entertained as anything other than some sort of bizarre incantation.
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by andrewtj 18y ago
Look in to NoMachine NX ( http://nomachine.com/ ) rather than VNC. For some tasks I use a NoMachine NX desktop on a Linode Ubuntu server from the other side of the planet - it's quite useable. Over 3G web browsing is often faster via the re
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by andrewtj 18y ago
Why do you post everything from howtoforge.com on here? This is not an inflammatory question - I am genuinely curious since the articles (at least from your submission history) seem to be rarely voted up.
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by andrewtj 18y ago
From Melbourne Australia: traceroute to a259.srip1.akasrip.net.a9502240.1.cn.akasripcn.net (59.167.187.149), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets <snip> 12 64.34.60.28 (64.34.60.28) 248.487 ms !H 255.732 ms !H 257.461 ms !H
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by andrewtj 18y ago
One positive thing about XUL is that it makes the GWT/pyjamas (pyjs.org) approach seem reasonable if not downright natural.
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by andrewtj 18y ago
That I wouldn't even consider paying for the Google Apps suite is why I've moved away from using their free service to Postfix and Dovecot. You may find Postfix admin less of a pain with http://sourceforge.net/projects/postfixadmin/
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by andrewtj 18y ago
Perhaps if you're in a connectivity rich part of the world this cloud storage and computing stuff is alluring but for those of us with imperfect connectivity it represents more inconvenience not less.

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