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by cnahr 13y ago
Also take note of the main page, The Museum of Unworkable Devices, for tons of more information. http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/museum/unwork.htm
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Perpetual Futility: A short history of the search for perpetual motion(lhup.edu)
2 points by cnahr 13y ago|2 comments
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by cnahr 13y ago
While I don't know about that Vista problem, it's not true that Microsoft doesn't innovate in the kernel. Windows 7 introduced the "MinWin" kernel refactoring which significantly reduced the OS footprint, see the 2009 talk & slides by M
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by cnahr 13y ago
It's not, it's just that progress towards 4.0 has been slow: http://blog.getpaint.net/2013/03/30/paint-net-4-0-brushes-an...
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by cnahr 13y ago
Macrium Reflect: http://macrium.com/ I haven't had occasion to use its recovery features yet, but works great as a disk backup solution.
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by cnahr 13y ago
Using OpenJDK is completely free, as far as I'm aware. Redistributing OpenJDK bits is covered by GPL2 with some Sun/Oracle amendments: http://openjdk.java.net/legal/
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by cnahr 13y ago
It doesn't. OpenJDK provides no binaries for Windows as far as I'm aware. The build setup is pretty complex and requires a combination of Cygwin and Microsoft tools: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/build/raw-file/tip/README-bu... Basicall
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A File System All Its Own – specialized for SSDs(queue.acm.org)
100 points by cnahr 14y ago|43 comments
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by cnahr 14y ago
Aside from synchronization between multiple devices there's also Google Reader's enormous cache of old articles. The RSS feeds themselves usually keep only a dozen or so of their latest entries while GR usually presents the entire history.
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by cnahr 14y ago
Different hardware. The Surface Pro (and the Sony Vaio Duo which is the other Windows 8 convertible with a Wacom stylus) include an additional dedicated sensor grid for the stylus. The iPad and most other tablets (including Surface RT) can
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by cnahr 14y ago
The trouble with proprietary social networks is not just that they mostly rely on advertising but that they are proprietary. So is app.net and you have to pay for it, too. Why would I pay to be confined in yet another (and very small) walle