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by drbawb 13y ago
The fire alarms in all of my dwellings to date are wired into the mains. Pulling the battery completely will simply cause them to beep incessantly. --- The BRINKS home security system I recently battled with (see my post elsewhere in this t
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by drbawb 13y ago
Might make sense for fire alarms: but this home alarm system had a battery that was in a sealed strong-box in a midwestern US basement. tl;dr: the battery, in this case, was in a room that is continuously controlled for humidity, temperatur
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by drbawb 13y ago
We just moved into a condo which had a very old [Nov 1999] BRINK's home security installation that we didn't intend to use. When we first moved in all the keypads said: "CALL 1-800-<WHATEVER> FOR SERVICE. NOT READY.&quo
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by drbawb 13y ago
The only Q&A I can recall before StackOverflow was finding answers on a message board _or_ finding the answers hidden behind a pay-wall. (e.g: ExpertsExchange, which I believe has been around since the 90s.) StackOverflow was definitely
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by drbawb 13y ago
> The screen is ridiculously small. To which I'd say the screens on WP8 and Android flagships are ridiculously large and poorly calibrated. I feel as though I'm in the minority: but it pains me to use anything larger than an iP
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by drbawb 13y ago
I have the 4S and iOS 6. I wasn't aware of any baseband unlocks that work w/ that setup, but it's certainly something I'd consider.
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by drbawb 13y ago
They do have an "international unlock team" that handles this exact scenario. However, everything I've read indicates that the phone still won't accept SIMs from domestic GSM carriers.
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by drbawb 13y ago
This right here is why I loathe Sprint. I actually get a pretty decent price from them for running an iPhone 4S [my employer offers a discount for sprint services], but I'd like to move it to T-Mobile as they would offer a much faster
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by drbawb 13y ago
I still look for tactile buttons, but not when it comes to a handset. For instance: I don't plan to own a car that incorporates an in-dash entertainment/nav system w/ a touch-only interface. (My only notable exception would p
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by drbawb 13y ago
I shyed away from Debian initially, as I had a bad experience with Knoppix on my hardware (though it did pique my interest.) However I do remember that Fedora Core 3 came on 4 CDs though. That was the very early 2000s. I still remember when
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by drbawb 13y ago
When I was in school, I remember several websites would submit their password as a query string. (Meaning the URL would have &password in it somewhere.) These sites were blocked because pASSword was a "bad word." The filter wo
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by drbawb 13y ago
Even as a developer I've caught myself dismissing errors too quickly; so I can hardly fault users for it. (However, when I dismiss an error too quickly, it's usually followed by an audible: "oh crap. I hope that's in a l
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by drbawb 13y ago
I should look up the discussions for this quote, but I share your view -- such achievements are not _difficult_ or unattainable, they are a _necessity._ I pay for the convenience, productivity, and in some cases _safety_ of having someone e
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by drbawb 13y ago
More or less this is the point of my reply -- cars are crossing into a threshold where life or death quite seriously hangs in the balance on some repairs. It's not just the failure of the system itself I'm worried about though, th
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by drbawb 13y ago
I would argue there's more to literacy than blindly following instructions. In regards to computers, sure, it isn't difficult to follow some instructions. The worst that could happen? Maybe you mistype a flag and end up recursivel
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by drbawb 13y ago
>As long as the devices occasionally share a (W)LAN, it will work. How about a VPN? I have a work laptop that is rarely (if ever) connected to my home network directly. -- However it is connected to my home network through a VPN daily.
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by drbawb 13y ago
I read it as them seeking approval for a sponsorship or promotion of sorts. (" . . . and two, if we used a company’s name to promote ourselves without permission, we could get sued.") I take that to mean they're talking about
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by drbawb 13y ago
Groupcache being a library is what made me so excited about it in the first place. I'm writing a torrent tracker in Go that could make great use of a distributed cache. This would enable you to put an arbitrary number of "tracker
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by drbawb 13y ago
I have TimeWarner as well in SE Wisconsin. Quite honestly I wouldn't describe YouTube w/ the "dial-up" badge; but this is probably a regional issue, at least in part. I have their second-highest tier, 30Mbps down /
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by drbawb 13y ago
Interesting, thanks for the idea. I've just finished setting up an IPv6tunnel w/ sixxs.net, so I'll have to see if IPv6 connectivity provides a better YouTube experience on my network. YouTube usually works quite well on my n
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by drbawb 13y ago
I'm not sure if this is what you're talking about, but if you want to see an example of "runtime casting and duck typing" in Go, have a look at my torrent tracker project: https://github.com/drbawb/b
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by drbawb 13y ago
This is actually the _exact_ same way I started learning to program. I started with a book on HTML 4.01 and designing a webpage for my sixth grade class. Then I started to learn CSS to make maintenance a bit easier. In seventh grade I learn
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by drbawb 13y ago
Well, modern consoles _could_ still be extensible; but their hardware is already so general purpose that there's not much point. Best you could do w/ current gen technolgy is bundle a dongle w/ the game, where the user plugs
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by drbawb 13y ago
The other interesting thing about older hardware is that each cart could embed special hardware that the NES could take advantage of. To play those games: that extra hardware has to be emulated as well. So far as I know: this is unheard of
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by drbawb 13y ago
I'm waiting to see what the used market is going to look like for EVs. I could easily squeak by w/ current electric car tech. I only need 40 miles a day to cover my routine. The problem is that I can afford $500-$5000 used cars -- I can't j
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by drbawb 14y ago
Seems kinda par for the course for a Rails app. http://meta.discourse.org/t/tuning-ruby-and-rails-for-discou... Scroll down and you'll see that on an average request, Discourse eats up 230,000 strings [which are all objects in Ruby] per r
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by drbawb 14y ago
But isn't that just between Stripe and the company requesting payment? e.g: Acme, Inc. sends Stripe your CC#, Stripe sends them some unique token, and they store that; correct? So Stripe still has your CC#, and is at risk. So this is really
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by drbawb 14y ago
Not exactly what you're talking about (I think the linked `juju` is probably closer), but I came across Docker[0] recently. It's more of a framework for managing deployments locally. -- It seems really cool but I haven't had a chance to pla
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by drbawb 14y ago
Your pricing actually looks _great_ for what I'm trying to do. With your pricing model I'll have to keep an eye on my bandwidth, but it's pretty competitively priced. ( I'd only run a Bulletin board and a Mumble server w/ ~8 concurrent user
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by drbawb 14y ago
What gets me about Tom Lane is that he's _so active_ on the mailing list(s). It seems that every time I search the archives regarding an issue I'm having: I find a reply authored by Tom Lane.

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