angusgr

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by angusgr 14y ago
Weird. FWIW I'm on 22.0.1229.94 Ubuntu 12.10 (161065) and it rendered fine.
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The Digital Music Industry Is Inept(bennjordan.com)
5 points by angusgr 14y ago|0 comments
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by angusgr 14y ago
Just for what it's worth in case anyone's considering not trying Vimium on this basis, you can disable Vimium for selected sites by clicking on the V logo next to the navigation bar. Also FWIW, but I find Vimium convenient just for j, k, J,
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by angusgr 14y ago
I hope someone works out who is obliged to provide GPL Linux source code (CW network? Entertainment Weekly?), so they can run their own OS on their throwaway adphone. Has to be something they can be made into that's more useful than scrap.
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by angusgr 14y ago
Have you ever worked with X10? It's a standard finalised in 1975, and this shows. Take a look under "Commands getting lost", "Relatively slow", "Limited functionality", "Interference and lack of encryption" for a quick overview: https://en
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by angusgr 14y ago
I'd be generally more worried about the power supply components. There's a tiny switchmode supply in there, which means capacitors. Which would be my main concern for early failures, I'd think far earlier than the LED under normal condition
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by angusgr 14y ago
Actually the Allwinner A10 is pretty well documented by the vendor and by the community, has a bunch of standard linux distributions running already. Much better than most ARM SoCs in the cheap Android tablet market. AFAIK the one exception
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by angusgr 14y ago
One I learned for the first time the other day is 'paste'. Good for people like me who never fully grokked awk, it joins lines from separate files into a single file. Say you have two files, one with lines of numbers: 1 2 3 ... a
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by angusgr 14y ago
Very nice, thank you! Didn't mean to be too cruel about it, it's just that with a new 3d printer announced almost every day I always look to see what the achievable print quality is like. It's a great project you're working on, I'm sure man
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by angusgr 14y ago
My initial reaction was this might be a hoax, or at least vapourware, on account of the lack of any print pictures or videos, just the very nice glossy shots of the machine sitting idle. However I did find one video: http://www.youtube.com
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by angusgr 14y ago
From the spec: If $XDG_DATA_HOME is either not set or empty, a default equal to $HOME/.local/share should be used. Similarly there's a default (.config/) defined for XDG_CONFIG_HOME. So the fallback is well-defined rather than "whatever y
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by angusgr 14y ago
If you believe http://www.quora.com/How-large-is-Facebooks-codebase ... then 2011 numbers are a google search away. "Ford’s 2005 models contain between two and three million lines of code. Current 2007/2008 vehicles have an average of six
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by angusgr 14y ago
I found this counter-intuitive as well, for the little it's worth. My intuition was "Wow, there's a lot of lines on this graph. I'll clear everything off and then add things one at a time to see how they compare. Click, click, click wait,
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by angusgr 14y ago
Does anyone have any other recommendations for other interesting JS charting frameworks to evaluate? I'm using flot at the moment, I'm really keen to have a dig around in this now. (My particular sunny day wish list is for live & histor
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by angusgr 14y ago
You're thinking of AGPL for requiring source distribution when offering a service over a network. IANAL but I don't believe GPLv3 changes anything over GPLv2 in this case, although it does tighten up some loopholes in v2 over what does and
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by angusgr 14y ago
LinkedIn didn't use a salt. Hence the easier-than-it-should-have-been password crackfest. (However, could everyone please stop making random websites encouraging people to type in their passwords from third party sites!)
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by angusgr 14y ago
If anyone's interested in this they might also want to look at the ZipIt Z2: http://linux.zipitwireless.com/ (More at http://chainxor.org/openwrt-zipit/ http://mozzwald.com/ http://anarsoul.blogspot.com ) Positives: - Has Wifi - C
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After Facebook fails(blogs.law.harvard.edu)
367 points by angusgr 14y ago|202 comments
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by angusgr 14y ago
My apologies, between your two comments I was confused about the point you were making.
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by angusgr 14y ago
Whether "it's expensive" depends entirely on the market. There are markets (developing countries, education) where tripling the total cost of the setup, compared to using a monitor you already have, is significant.
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by angusgr 14y ago
Out of interest, what does it cost to host one of these in a colo rack? I was thinking about it as an alternative to my VPS. (Apologies if you said this in blog post already, it's currently unavailable.)
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by angusgr 14y ago
Thanks, fixed typo in the other link. The Melee boards are available to ship now from Aliexpress vendors, so you'd have it in your hands sooner than the apc.io (July predicted ship date) or the Pi (still filling backorders.)
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by angusgr 14y ago
I bought an Android set-top-box, the Flexiview FV-1, ($120ish, 1Ghz Cortex A8) at the end of last year and got Debian running on it. http://projectgus.com/tag/fv-1/ I haven't run one 24/7 for more than a week or two though, so I don't rea
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by angusgr 14y ago
Alongside the obvious comparisons to Raspberry Pi, it's worth looking at Allwinner A10 based devices like the Mele A1000: http://rhombus-tech.net/allwinner_a10/hacking_the_mele_a1000... Same price bracket, faster Cortex A8 based processor
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by angusgr 14y ago
I agree with your comment entirely (esp. the PC/ARM bit.) Also, the WM8750 is an ARM11 not a Cortex A8 or better, so it's a good bit slower than most phones running ICS. I don't think its GPU credentials are cutting edge either. So in terms
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by angusgr 14y ago
You're entirely right, but Wondermedia/VIA actually have a moderately good history with their GPL source for ARM system-on-a-chips. Although most end vendors of devices using the WM8xxx line of chips are GPL violators (direct-from-China bus
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by angusgr 14y ago
Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations. -- Conway's Law ( http://design.caltech.edu/erik/Misc/Conway.html ) First reading this adage
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by angusgr 14y ago
I haven't tried them, but the page says: "may or may not work in other hosting environments." & "simply shutdown the VPC image and discard the changes you’ve made from undo disks to reset the image back to its initial state. By doing e
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by angusgr 14y ago
Couldn't agree more. I use a Thinkpad X60 for much the same reasons (X-series because I carry it around a lot, still "bulky" compared to a Macbook Air but not to the point that it ever actually bothers me.) I really don't look forward to ha
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by angusgr 14y ago
The Verge article is very good at explaining the actual details. However, although IANAL, I think they missed on one part of their explanation: They say: But what about that line about granting rights for "promoting and improving our Servi

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