arthurfm

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   by arthurfm 12y ago

   > In 2013, Microsoft bought Pando Networks, a company developing BitTorrent-like P2P software that included dedicated servers and smart bandwidth throttling. This would feel like a natural fit for Windows patch distribution. [1] [1] htt
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   by arthurfm 12y ago

   I would like to go back in time to 1993 and make Tim Berners-Lee add video support to the <img> element so that we could do things like this today: <img src="video.mp4" width="800" height="450" vol
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   by arthurfm 12y ago

   What were you trying to do with it?
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   by arthurfm 12y ago

   jbk - With 3.0.0 do you have any plans to switch the 32-bit and 64-bit Windows installers from NSIS compiled EXEs to MSIs to make it easier to deploy and/or customize which features are installed? The only reason for asking is that I c
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   by arthurfm 12y ago

   What regex would you suggest to match all e-mail addresses contained within an arbitrary body of text (as opposed to a single text field where you don't have worry about other text strings)?
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   by arthurfm 12y ago

   With Macs you have multiple options. The first being much easier than a typical Windows PC. 1) Boot into Recovery mode (Cmd + R), then use Internet Recovery [1] to install OS X. This works even if your HDD or SSD is completely blank. All Ma
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   by arthurfm 12y ago

   ESETs NOD32 prevents Superfish from being installed. I'm not sure if it does any more than that though. http://i.imgur.com/NCfBs6K.png
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   by arthurfm 12y ago

   Thanks! I misread the text at the bottom of the page (due to tiredness). You're right though, the repair would be free of charge. "This worldwide Apple program does not extend the standard warranty coverage of the MacBook Pro.&quo
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   by arthurfm 12y ago

   According to the Wall Street Journal [1], Lenovo are going to release a program that completely removes Superfish from their PCs. > WSJ: What are you doing now to ensure the security of people who bought Lenovo laptops with the Superfish
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    by arthurfm 12y ago

    Another useful website is: https://filippo.io/Badfish/
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    by arthurfm 12y ago

    Where do you stand if you have an Early 2011 15" MacBook Pro that has a faulty GPU but is long out of warranty? Even with this extension program, you aren't any better off since you would still have to pay for the repair according
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    by arthurfm 12y ago

    There isn't any need to spend any money on an additional Windows license [1]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9073739
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    by arthurfm 12y ago

    > Is it even possible to buy a Windows laptop right now with only the OS installed? Microsoft's Windows Installation Media Creation Tool [1] enables you to download a clean Windows 8.1 ISO that can be used to re-install the operatin
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    by arthurfm 12y ago

    According to Google [1][2], the overhead is negligible. [1] https://www.imperialviolet.org/2010/06/25/overclocking-ssl.h... [2] http://blog.codinghorror.com/should-all-web-traffic-be-encry...
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    by arthurfm 12y ago

    > I realize that's just my opinion though. I agree. I also found the text very hard to read.
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    by arthurfm 12y ago

    > At the time Chrome was released, it was the only browser with this design Not true. Beta 1 (and subsequent releases) of Internet Explorer 8 [1] included process isolation [2][3][4] before Google released the first public beta of Chrome
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    by arthurfm 12y ago

    > I see no reason I should pay more so that my phone has 28GB free instead of 12GB If Apple made the 32GB the base model and sold it for the same price as the 16GB model, you wouldn't have to pay any more money. It's about time
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    by arthurfm 12y ago

    In the UK we place the € symbol before the digits when referring to European prices (probably because the £ symbol is also placed before the digits).
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    by arthurfm 12y ago

    > We have plenty of bandwidth. Smartphone users might not have lots of bandwidth and GIFs are incredibly inefficient compared to H.264 and WebM videos. Why waste bandwidth when you don't have to? For example, the following GIF of a
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    by arthurfm 12y ago

    > In other words, it's both modal and it wastes real screen estate. The Windows 7-style Start Menu is modal too in the sense that you can't interact with the desktop at the same time you are interacting with the Start Menu. The
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    by arthurfm 12y ago

    > if someone says "I have a plan that limits me to 4Gb", who actually, sincerely thinks that that means "four gigabits, i.e. 500 megabytes" as opposed to 4 gigabytes? While usage caps are typically in MB, GB or "
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    by arthurfm 12y ago

    I wouldn't go that far. I manage perfectly fine without it. I like the fact that the Start Screen makes full use of my 27" 2560 x 1440 LCD. With the Windows 7-style Start Menu all of your shortcuts are shoved into a tiny corner of
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    by arthurfm 12y ago

    One more downfall is that Atom can’t currently handle file sizes larger than 2Mb. 2 Megabits (0.25 MB) sounds like an incredibly small file size limit for any modern text editor. Is that actually true?
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    by arthurfm 12y ago

    Here's a more serious source (EMET is mentioned towards the end of the blog post) ... http://malware.dontneedcoffee.com/2015/01/unpatched-vulnerab...
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    by arthurfm 12y ago

    It appears that the Android app is made with Cordova. I wonder if a lot of the problems are due to it not being a native Android app? The UI also looks like an ancient iOS app which doesn't give a good first impression either.
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    by arthurfm 12y ago

    NTFS has improved significantly since the XP days. Just one example is its online self-healing abilities and the massive reduction in the time it takes to scan a volume for errors. [1] [1] http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8&#x2
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    by arthurfm 12y ago

    Something else that would be quite useful is to include links to the international names of each product so that you can compare their ingredients. For example, Kellogg's Frosted Flakes [1][2] are called Frosties in the UK, France [3]
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    by arthurfm 12y ago

    > silence is not the absence of noise, it's just the presence of a significantly smaller amount of noise. Thanks for your explanation. Considering that other animals can produce or hear sounds that humans can't, I guess I shoul
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    by arthurfm 12y ago

    Google added offline browsing to Chrome late last year. To enable it go to: chrome://flags/#enable-offline-load-stale-cache "When a page fails to load, if a stale copy of the page exists in the browser, a button
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    by arthurfm 12y ago

    > I would love car traffic to be more silent A minor nitpick, but you can't get more silent than silent since silence is the absence of any noise.