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by erlkonig 13y ago
Many sites rate usernames as public information, with SSH keys and passwords being private. Getting a list of users is not typically considered a security issue. If you chose (or were forced to choose) a username the was based on your rea
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by erlkonig 13y ago
I've had these floating around for a while, leftover from some Unix class I taught a while back, both graphically-oriented reminder charts, rather than exhaustive lists, of the most basic commands needed in both editors: http://www.talisma
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by erlkonig 13y ago
Although the article's interesting (hardly new info, but concisely described), the ghetto antialiasing, - or whatever excuse the CSS-writer had in mind for gray-on-gray text - really hurts legibility. Seriously, high contrast is the answer
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by erlkonig 14y ago
I found the 48 fps aspect of the Hobbit to be the most significant improvement to realism since 3D. The lighting looked a bit stylized in some scenes, but since I interpreted it that way (and hadn't seen the slow, jumpy version first), it
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by erlkonig 14y ago
X remote feature isn't about speed, it's about being able to use a window remotely AT ALL, and being able to mix it with other apps on other machines as though they were all local. This was invaluable in large Sun environment with shared
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by erlkonig 14y ago
The fluff in Freeman's article (Journal of Irreproducible Results, I think) is the same cheerful fluff students were subjected to in the non-honors physics class at my high school in the 1980s, where the point of using physics predictively
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by erlkonig 14y ago
Heh. The "-deftype second() = 1..60." is a problem, since some minutes have 61 seconds in them.
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by erlkonig 15y ago
Due to the same problem you mention, many Linux shell startup scripts are a mess as well. The /etc/profile actually reads in a /etc/bash.bashrc if $BASH is set on Ubuntu, instead of taking the correct approach of letting Bash handles its o
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by erlkonig 15y ago
Great article. :-) Small nitpick with the ".sh" - it's false advertising once it's become a bash script; but don't just go to ".bash", rather just drop it and it's set. And soon, otherwise users write other programs depending on the scrip