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by cricalix 4y ago
Do you remember drive caddies that fit into 5.25 bays? Hacky way: NVMe extender cable to drive bay. Split to dual connectors. Mechanical setup that acts as an interlock, where you push the desired drive into the connector, and that disconne
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by cricalix 4y ago
20-odd years ago, the college I attended (and worked for) was outfitting one of the computer labs with new network cards; migrating from Token Ring to Ethernet as I recall. To do this, 3COM cards had been bought by the boxful. We replaced a
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by cricalix 4y ago
On the note of PDF statements, I found that Okular on Linux was able to copy the table format that KBC Ireland use in their PDFs. That at least let me paste into a spreadsheet, massage the columns slightly, and then save as CSV for import i
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by cricalix 4y ago
I don't consider RSUs to be monetary compensation that's guaranteed; I see them more like the bonus that's written into my contract. Thus, my evaluation of pay is based pretty much on base salary. Has the bonus via RSUs taken
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by cricalix 4y ago
Wonder what the actual connectivity will be like. Dun Laoghaire has had open WiFi for several years, but I’ve never found it to be functional - can connect, get an IP, but apps like Tweetbot can’t load data.
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by cricalix 4y ago
You can use Wordpress (self hosted) as a CMS for a static site with the right plugin. There are downsides if you do this the free way; anything dynamic stops working if it was a WP module (forms, search etcetera). However, if it's a ba
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by cricalix 4y ago
Nice software. Pity the hosting is so slow (I remember 2400 baud, and it's not that slow, but in the modern world it's slow); wonder if the author accepts donations to make it faster. That said, the SystemRescue download from sour
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by cricalix 4y ago
Machinarium is a puzzle solver. No major violence (bullying by another robot happens). Cities: Skylines - tell your own story as you build a city. Farming Simulator - again a “tell your own story” setup, since it has no storyline. Braid is
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by cricalix 4y ago
I know I've come across the concept before, but I don't know if it was an actual product/bit of software. I think the Audacity approach would just sound like static; though without trying it, that's just idle speculation
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by cricalix 4y ago
Neat project. Reminds me of the concept of streaming a log file through some kind of tokenizer -> tone generator (probably doesn't work for really busy programs) so that you can listen to the program execution and pick out things li
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by cricalix 4y ago
You can feed both URLs to Google's Page Speed tool. The dynamic page scores 75/96 (mobile/desktop), and the static scores 72/98. So perhaps for your specific case it's not much of an improvement (I'd consider t
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by cricalix 4y ago
The only issue I've found so far is that archive URLs like /YYYY/MM/, which would be handled by Wordpress to list all posts in that month, don't get exported by Simply Static. I suspect it's because they'r
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by cricalix 4y ago
Yep. Did it this weekend. Moved main blog over to a different subdomain, added basic auth to stop it being crawled, added Simply Static, pressed button and a few minutes later the main site was updated. Some perf tweaks I made were to point
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by cricalix 4y ago
And for a dose of (in)sanity, check out LGR’s MIDI Mountain. https://youtu.be/bQn3SyDh2Xo
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by cricalix 4y ago
I poked it, and decided I preferred kMyMoney. The latter has some quirks/bugs (some ledger entries lose the payee, but the relational data is still there - haven’t found a repro to report with), but is generally all I need to track som
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by cricalix 4y ago
Now that's an existential crisis right there. There's no way to determine if I've literally flashed into existence and am remembering this sentence, and am thinking of how to continue it, versus actually existing on the times
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by cricalix 4y ago
My English grandmother was the same, though I think it was closer to her 30s. My understanding is her dental hygiene was not the best (she grew up in WW2), and it was just “easier” to remove all of the teeth and use dentures.
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by cricalix 5y ago
If you implement client machine certs, then only corporate imaged machines can connect to 1 in the first place - wired or wireless. 2 and 3 are a bit same-y from my perspective, but the selling point might be “you get a bigger share of the
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by cricalix 5y ago
ShareX has “capture this part of the screen” as still or video. Was that one of the ones you tried?
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by cricalix 5y ago
At least in Europe, all manufacturers have to produce a standardised format document specifying things like energy usage. This is how I worked out that a particular Neff model washing machine is the same as a Bosch one, just with a differen
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by cricalix 5y ago
Seasonal Affective Disorder probably.
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by cricalix 5y ago
Since you haven’t specified country, I have to assume you mean USA. From Ireland, I’ve had good experiences with Caseking DE, Scan Computers UK, and Computer Universe DE Though, with Brexit, my purchasing from Scan has dropped - less hassle
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by cricalix 5y ago
The dynamic ad insertion comes from the service backing the URL for the podcast in the RSS feed. If all you receive is a stream of bits which decode to audio, how do you tell that it’s an ad that’s been spliced into the audio? If Spotify ar
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by cricalix 5y ago
I’ve been content with AnyDesk. Personal use. Works well enough, has 2FA.
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by cricalix 5y ago
Yeah. Depends on your use case I suppose. If you’re after cross platform or non-Linux, then it’s not an answer.
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by cricalix 5y ago
There’s https://github.com/facebookincubator/xar - but cross platform could be a pain. Basically static link “binary” for Python (or other).
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by cricalix 5y ago
Dublin’s light and intercity rail is affected by leaves too. It’s a major problem for rail adhesion in autumn.
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by cricalix 5y ago
Box appears to date back to 2017 or so. Dataclasses came with Python 3.7 in 2018. So it probably scratched an itch for someone, and has continued to be useful with the extended capabilities.
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by cricalix 5y ago
Same place where we built a Student Information Service using REXX and whatever monstrosity IBM provided that let web pages render green screen entry forms. So you write stuff in RPG, add some REXX for data manipulation, and it spat out web
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by cricalix 5y ago
Not quite “running a company”, but a memory of bodging things together… When I was in college, I ended up working for college IT. Fun job. A requirement came from somewhere that we needed to allow students to edit web pages (personal home p

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