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by cyphax 12y ago
In the case of Slackware, I'm going to guess that it's more to do with Patrick's idea of "if it ain't broke, don't replace it". This is why Slackware still comes with Lilo by default: it works, so they nev
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by cyphax 12y ago
Word 97, I remember! :) Excel 97 had a similar thing where you'd fly around in 3d, over generated terrain. I think the pinball game included in Word was extremely basic but it was nice to see the developers got to include them.
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by cyphax 12y ago
The oldest surviving distribution, and yet it never lost its identity and its core values which makes me a very happy user to this day. Congratulations Patrick Volkerding!
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by cyphax 12y ago
It's a clear sign the UX of Windows 8 is _different_ from Windows 7, but whether that's bad or not would have to depend on what your expectations are. If you want things to remain the same between Windows 7 and Windows 8, you&#x27
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by cyphax 12y ago
I hope everybody who thinks it's a good idea to "forbid" pasting in password fields at least uses the same trick (onpaste="return false" or something similar) so that I can remove that attribute from the HTML before
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by cyphax 12y ago
I would like to see them order a coffee when their preference is to drink it... black!
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by cyphax 12y ago
I use f-droid as well but I also have Aptoide installed which has a huge offer of apps as well. I still don't have or care for Google's apps on my phone (it runs on CyanogenMod as well) so it's quite doable as far as I'm
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by cyphax 12y ago
I remember this link being posted recently and since I have some interest in looking into this area as well, it stuck with me (and a browser tab ;) While it's not a tutorial or anything, the article addresses the question "where d
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by cyphax 12y ago
I was looking for a replacement for Slashdot, which became more childish by the day it seemed, and someone suggested HN. I haven't seen much of Slashdot since. :)
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by cyphax 12y ago
Wouldn't that more or less be the Immediate Window that Visual Studio already has? Other than the multiple lines you mention. :) I took a look at this to see if it can replace LinqPad, which is similar. LinqPad allows for more than C#
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by cyphax 12y ago
My contract says 40 hours a week. That's not really a blurry line. Is that not how your contracts work in the US?
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by cyphax 13y ago
> I'm pretty sure the 'home copy' law doesn't allow you to copy stuff from the library But it does. :) It is explained here: http://www.iusmentis.com/auteursrecht/nl/thuiskopie/ but it
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by cyphax 13y ago
Well, it can be quite the double edged sword. After all, the same non-elected instance has recently enforced net neutrality in the EU (and it certainly received a lot of praise for that). It has also recently introduced a ban on roaming cha
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by cyphax 13y ago
I think very little will change. A little background: The Netherlands has for a long time allowed for people to make a copy of media (video, music, but not software), for personal use. This included media you'd borrow from a library, f
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by cyphax 13y ago
I've seen Telegram do this: they send a confirmation code when you sign up and the app reads the text right when it comes in and handles the verification code for you. It's quite convenient. However, if an app can get access to AL
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by cyphax 13y ago
I think they find it acceptable because, well, people seem to be accepting it. The majority doesn't seem to be interested in deleting any accounts but simply abandon them. I do wonder why Microsoft/Skype prefers accounts not be de
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by cyphax 13y ago
Ooooh this is absolutely gorgeous, it's like a moving painting! I love the style, I was very impressed by the video so now I'm going to read all about it because this is the first time I hear about it. ;)
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by cyphax 13y ago
> Now Facebook can ad ads featuring your friend's faces in games... and free 3d games if you just watch a 15 second ad for every five minutes that you play... But that might be fairly easy to compete with, perhaps, and so people wou
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by cyphax 13y ago
I had this problem also but I was logged in to wordpress.com (or .org, I don't even know, but it had the black bar at the top from WordPress) and when I signed out, that problem went away immediately.
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by cyphax 13y ago
I have this problem as well. For some reason KeePass 2.x (Windows, at work) cannot read KeePass 1.x databases and KeePassX on my Linux computer at home. So if I want to exchange between the 2, I have export from KeePass 2.x, so now I have 2
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by cyphax 13y ago
Hopefully War for the Overworld, which looks very promising. https://wftogame.com/
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by cyphax 13y ago
I have to admit that I think I understand where this idea comes from. I watched The Wire a while back. In the series, the ability to tap phone lines is vital to uncovering the criminal activities they seek to end. So vital, in fact, that th
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by cyphax 13y ago
An ncurses disk usage analyzer: http://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu I find this an extremely handy alternative to du, it's somewhat similar to TreeView on Windows.
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by cyphax 13y ago
It's a bit off-topic, but you can actually make the window larger than 80 characters if you want. You cannot expand it beyond the maximum amount of characters horizontally but you can increase that to anything you want; it's not l
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by cyphax 13y ago
The reason I like to use a key file isn't so much paranoia, but ease of certain types of use. If I use a key file, I could upload my KeePass database to a cloud service, but keep the key file elsewhere. I could also keep the database o
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by cyphax 13y ago
I actually do this sometimes when it's near the end of the day and I know the problem at hand might cost a few hours. I'll write a comment but not in a code comment, exactly like the article suggests. Funny enough, it never had to
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by cyphax 13y ago
I see what you mean. I think you might be right. I get the impression that Microsoft is trying as hard as it can to be... hip and sexy? They're not very good at it, though, which is unfortunate for them. Maybe one of their core problem
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by cyphax 13y ago
I installed Slackware 64bit on a ThinkPad T61 and it works out of the box, completely (though I haven't messed with the fingerprint reader). It also performs extremely well, much better than the Dell Inspiron it replaced, even though t
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by cyphax 13y ago
I can't read this article without registering with their site, or am I missing something?
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by cyphax 13y ago
As someone not from the US, I despise what the NSA does (warrantless spying), but it's not even in the same league as these drone strikes. Not even close. I don't understand why the rest of the world is OK with this. I really don&

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