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721.
by bcl 17y ago
Don't read this. You'll get sucked into the rest of his excellent posts on h.264 encoders and x264 development.
722.
by bcl 17y ago
Competition is good. One small nit to pick -- The iPhone is capable of multitasking. It does it now. They just don't allow every app to do it. Battery life is bad enough as it is. I wonder how Droid's battery drain will compare. Also rememb
723.
by bcl 17y ago
About the only really useful hint here is to turn off notifications. I tried out Growl when I first got my mini, but after a few weeks I realized it was adversly effecting my productivity, bouncing between email, IRC and IMs almost constant
724.
by bcl 17y ago
I always appreciate transparency in support issues. I'm much happier knowing that an issue is being worked on than sitting in the dark wondering if anyone has noticed. I also see that they host their status blog outside their core network.
725.
by bcl 17y ago
I'll pick 2 at random: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Zodiac by Neal Stephenson
726.
by bcl 17y ago
For those who are unaware of who he is, here is his blog - http://www.covingtoninnovations.com/michael/blog
727.
by bcl 17y ago
Possibly a chemical, not heat. When I was a kid I sprayed 'Off' (a mosquito repellent) on a calculator and the keys had a similar melted look to them.
728.
by bcl 17y ago
Another good source of ssh tricks and tips are Brian Hatch's articles - http://www.hackinglinuxexposed.com/articles/
729.
by bcl 17y ago
Sorry, I'm not familiar with how EBS connects to the EC2 instances so I assumed the incoming traffic was hitting their EC2 instance. Are you are saying that EBS is accessible from outside and that the attackers were able to discover its IP
730.
by bcl 17y ago
Why weren't they running any monitoring on their instances? A simple graph of incoming traffic should have revealed the massive influx of packets and helped track things down more quickly. Just because a system is 'in the cloud' is no reaso
731.
by bcl 17y ago
This is silly! How many degrees of separation are there from someone with wave invites...
732.
by bcl 17y ago
For http://www.movielandmarks.com I ended up caching the DVD images locally and serving them up myself. Some of the URL's served up by AWS go away and I don't re-request them after the initial add of a movie. I'm going to have to read thi
733.
by bcl 17y ago
This list is useless to me. I don't have the time to check out each one of them to see if it is interesting enough to add to my list of RSS feeds. What would be more useful is a short paragraph about the blog, what it covers, who its author
734.
by bcl 17y ago
I've received a few via email. Pretty much the same wording too.
735.
by bcl 17y ago
Looks like the grass isn't always greener. I do wonder why they decided to close their app distribution, I enjoyed the little bit of PalmOS development I've done.
736.
by bcl 17y ago
How about none?
737.
by bcl 17y ago
Hahaha. Yeah. Oh, watch out for namesecure.com, its actually NetworkSolutions but with even crappier user experience.
738.
by bcl 17y ago
I moved all 60+ of my domains over to namecheap.com after GoDaddy pulled the rug out from under Fydor. See http://www.nodaddy.com for the details and other alternate registrars.
739.
by bcl 17y ago
Ha! Correct!
740.
by bcl 17y ago
May as well throw in .hg Oh. Now we're blacklisting. If you are going to use this solution, you are better off blacklisting all dotfiles except .htaccess, assuming you allow it.
741.
by bcl 17y ago
Kirk Cameron is a complete nutter. This isn't worthy of HN's front page.
742.
by bcl 17y ago
Well duh. You shouldn't be publishing your repository. Use svn export instead.
743.
by bcl 17y ago
Absolutely. Java is clearly not dead, and will likely never be 'dead'. It is clear that it has been integrated into the Enterprise and is in use for many long term projects. This ensures that there will be a need to at least maintain Java c
744.
by bcl 17y ago
I've been reading stories about this place since I was a kid. Given the state of the art in archeology you would think that they could have solved this mystery by now -- if there was anything to solve. Seems to me it has turned into a marke
745.
by bcl 17y ago
I've been running the Beta for months now on OSX, ever since Thunderbird2 started crashing and locking up on me. I've had zero problems with it.
746.
by bcl 17y ago
Do we all get the day off?
747.
by bcl 17y ago
I don't know if the science behind this is sound, so assuming that it is: According to the article the panels are expected to be manufactured for 1/4 the cost of current panels of similar wattage. But it also says the hair "...lasts a few m
748.
by bcl 17y ago
Death.
749.
by bcl 17y ago
Very well said. This hits on some points that I have been thinking of recently.
750.
by bcl 17y ago
This article, and the so called 'study' is about as useful as a Facebook poll. A couple of key points: "Every American should have affordable access to high-speed Internet, no matter where they live. This is essential to economic growth and

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