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by bcl 16y ago
Quite frankly I think you are nuts for voluntarily living in China. And trying to run a business off the books? The punishment for that is severe enough here in the US, I cannot imagine what it is there. The only real solution to your probl
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by bcl 16y ago
Very nice! Works just fine in Chrome on OSX. Found a couple of settings that I would swear I had previously set to just friends.
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by bcl 16y ago
All new cars have diagnostic ports using open protocols. http://www.obdii.com/ has some of the details. They use the CAN bus so it would be fairly easy to attach a small microcontroller with CAN support and an 802.11 or GSM module to give
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by bcl 16y ago
And here is some more coverage of it - http://opensource.com/law/10/5/standing-up-patent-bully
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by bcl 16y ago
Tried it on my Core 2 Duo mini today. It sucked. It complains that it doesn't recognize the Windows version of my graphic chipset, and then when I continue it goes full screen with a pixelated image of something and starts flashing. I had t
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by bcl 16y ago
And for more reasons not to use GoDaddy - http://nodaddy.com I moved all of my domains (60+) from them to namecheap after they killed off Fydoor's seclists.org domain without any warning. Before that I had sampled their virtual domain hos
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by bcl 16y ago
To be clear, this is only searching public posts. Its just that a large number of FB users either don't know, or don't care, what they are now broadcasting to the world.
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by bcl 16y ago
It has been that way for quite a while. Lucky for me I didn't enter the correct date when I signed up, and I keep it hidden so my friends don't start wishing me HB on the wrong day.
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by bcl 16y ago
At first I thought the same thing. But I think this is a useful discussion to have on HN, since not everyone here understands probabilities or the realities of 'cloud' services. Maybe by having this the top rated story for a bit it will mak
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by bcl 16y ago
Gee, how about we stop acting like we need to limit things to 140 characters? This isn't SMS you know. We do have the bandwidth to actually exchange useful information and real URLs. Twitter, bit.ly, et. al. are all pretty damn silly. Even
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by bcl 16y ago
I have seen no evidence that recent problems are anything other than shared hosting sites getting cracked. Note to admins -- running your system with all the virtual host files owned by apache is asking for trouble. Use something like the i
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by bcl 16y ago
That a nice project and all, too bad he's likely to have it go TU on him when his first drive fails. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/storage/why-raid-5-stops-working-i... I would also be concerned with the single point of failure with his fan.
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by bcl 16y ago
Looks like they are in the middle of patching that -- I see a lage number but when clicking on it I only see my own messages.
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by bcl 16y ago
That's true. My transactions aren't small ($250+) so the per-transaction fee isn't a huge part of the cost.
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by bcl 16y ago
Just use PayPal. I've been using them for years with zero problems. Their fees work out to be about the same as I'd pay for a merchant account, but without all the development hassle. There is also a new player on the block, http://www.gun
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by bcl 16y ago
This looks like an interesting project with alot of potential, but with Chrome on OSX the video for Theora wouldn't play past the opening title, the mp4 was jerky and sucked up most of the available CPU and the others didn't work at all. Fo
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by bcl 16y ago
Too bad the article has a flash ad covering up the text with no close button. :/
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by bcl 16y ago
Ick! So they are taking the functionality of dock/bar icon apps and reproducing it in each window title bar? Seems needlessly complicated and cluttered to me. I prefer a simple, streamlined design myself.
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by bcl 16y ago
Interesting article. Although I think it is an overreaction. Obviously MPEG-LA could be trying to enforce their patents against everyone, but they aren't. Given the level of adoption of H.264 if they started to do so they would quickly kill
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by bcl 16y ago
For my MacBook, yes. For my Mini, no. My rationale is that laptops are more fragile than desktops so the extra protection is worth the expense. Its been 2 years now and I haven't needed it yet though :/
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by bcl 16y ago
Nope, I'm not leaving. But what I have done is sanitize my profile info and remove all of my 'likes'. I joined FB to communicate with friends, not to be a cog in another marketing machine. I'll still use it to keep up with friends and share
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by bcl 16y ago
Are there any details available on the build? How did they interface the Droid to the lego controller for example?
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by bcl 17y ago
gvim no, really. The basic vim commands are easy. As with python you can ignore the more advanced topics until you are ready to take advantage of them. It has a GUI interface so users used to pointing and clicking will feel comfortable.
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by bcl 17y ago
Post the Sphinx source to github so we can start submitting patches.
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by bcl 17y ago
No matter how close your FB friends I suggest not posting anything you wouldn't say in a public forum. Electronic communications can come back to bite you, friends can share your posts and FB saves literally everything. Note, this advice is
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by bcl 17y ago
So they really didn't stop working for the week. They just re-focused on some of the things they should have been doing all along in order to make development easier. Everyone seems to forget that tools and infrastructure should come first.
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by bcl 17y ago
Wow. That was... underwhelming.
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by bcl 17y ago
Find new friends ;) Or at least branch out and find additional friends who enjoy discussing programming. Local user groups are a good place to start.
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by bcl 17y ago
I think I've said this before, the keys to successful telecommuting for me are: * get up, shower and get dressed like I'm driving to work * Office with a door that closes and family that acts like you are not there. * good communications
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by bcl 17y ago
atop is another useful alternative to top, shows i/o and network activity in addition to all the usual details.

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