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by eggsome 8y ago
As per my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17798834 Chat would not really be an appropriate solution.
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by eggsome 8y ago
I've explained the project in more detail here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17798756 But the main problem with this is that the users will be non-technical and I think chat would be a bit of a confusing medium
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by eggsome 8y ago
I like the low overhead of this, but I'm a sysadmin - not a developer. I've described the purpose of this system over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17798756 I'm really hoping that there is some &
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by eggsome 8y ago
I worry that running a mail server will confuse users. The use case is a website for connecting qualified "sensitivity readers" to authors. A good example of a similar service is here: http://writeinthemargins.org/
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Ask HN: Non-SMTP single server internal mail system?
35 points by eggsome 8y ago|41 comments
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by eggsome 8y ago
It looks like they were going to and then backed off. See here: https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=163777&st... You can add your voice to the comments there, but I don't think they plan to implement
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by eggsome 8y ago
Comparing Australia and Canada shows they have the same ease of access to US. This is not correct, since Australians have to apply online for an ESTA prior to travel.
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by eggsome 8y ago
Archived here: https://filmboards.com/
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by eggsome 8y ago
Which model VIA mb? And what do you mean by "hardware Soundblaster/ADLIB support" - do you have to run a TSR to make it work?
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by eggsome 9y ago
I can't believe no one has mentioned MLP - Friendship is Optimal: https://www.fimfiction.net/story/62074/friendship-is-optimal An amazing work that had some help from some of the guys at Less Wrong. One of th
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by eggsome 9y ago
Interesting. I am one of (what I assume to be) a very small subset of people that manged to enter their email address before there was any input validation. (my account is with one of the big four). Despite using internet banking my registe
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by eggsome 9y ago
For those interested, here is a video/demo of OpenPnP from LCA2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9BGVYnaOs8 (great project by the way!)
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by eggsome 9y ago
Until the changes announced in this blog post there were features in the free version of Xen that did not exist in the free version of ESXi (like live migration of hosts - without shared storage!)
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by eggsome 9y ago
Ok, but the problem is nobody seems to have the interest in recompiling it for the community (think CentOS). A few months ago they started charging for patches and someone asked in the XenServer forums here: https://discussions.c
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by eggsome 9y ago
I’m sure a graph of Time vs Value for data would have a significant dip shortly after creation, but on the scale of centuries it only goes up. (just look at the Dead Sea Scrolls).
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by eggsome 9y ago
Germany's ICE trains? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercity-Express Or the Shinkansen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinkansen (a major cultural touchstone for Japan in additon to the econ
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by eggsome 9y ago
Cheaper to get an Intel copy direct from China: http://m.ebay.com.au/itm/NEW-Intel-X540-T1-OEM-10G-RJ45-1-Po... (Obviously you don't get the adavantage of long range at lower speeds, but the vast majority of peopl
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by eggsome 9y ago
Is your presentation online?
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by eggsome 10y ago
They were in 2001: https://m.theregister.co.uk/2001/04/27/nt_4_0_sp7_available/ This is one of my favorite NT4 tidbits :)
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Linux.conf.au 2017 live stream(linux.conf.au)
18 points by eggsome 10y ago|2 comments
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by eggsome 10y ago
Corrupt? Not that bad according to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index
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Open Sourcing Anti-Harassment Methodologies(m.youtube.com)
1 points by eggsome 11y ago|0 comments
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by eggsome 11y ago
When I saw this post I thought it was going to be an xterm with an oldschool CRT look. I got someone to build me one of those for playing rougelikes a few years ago - see here if anyone is interested: http://ubuntuforums.org&#x2F
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by eggsome 12y ago
Is it just me, or does it seem short sighted to end iOS6 support now? I tried to use the Uber app on my phone the other day and ended up having to call a taxi. Obviously you have cut your losses with legacy stuff eventually, but surely it d