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13y ago
I logged in and, after re-activating my long dead email address, was greeted by two full height tower animated banner ads. I clicked around for a few seconds and got a nearly full screen animated ad. Yep, now I remember why I stopped dea
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13y ago
After your hint above, it took me 30 seconds to hit level 2, but now I fear I'm left out of the fun because I'm on linux, so no mac app store.
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13y ago
I have the Naga, and under linux you can program the buttons of it and any other mouse using imwheel. Then your macros are in a file on a disk, not on NVRAM on a mouse.
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13y ago
I feel like your and my experiences are completely reversed. I've been using Linux as my primary desktop OS for 14 years, and in the past 8 years the idea of downloading drivers or hardware not working out of the box has become completely
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13y ago
Nuance HPC Team ( http://www.nuance.com , NUAN) - Burlington, MA, full time. We're looking for a Sr. HPC Systems Engineer to join a growing team focused on building scalable high performance computing platforms. You'll be expected to devel
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14y ago
Plenty of apps force updates through the play store by disabling functionality remotely in the currently installed application. I've had games and other applications that have no legitimate need for remote server interactions become disabl
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14y ago
Use "logout" to leave the shell. Thanks, tcsh. Now I remember why I don't use you.
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14y ago
Shelters in Massachusetts are very picky about who they adopt out to. My wife and I looked for a younger large breed dog for nearly a year, and were turned away at every local shelter because our yard wasn't fenced and we both worked full
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14y ago
Roundcube is not gmail. The gmail interface is the killer feature that no one has been able to replicate, and it's the thing that pulled me back after 6 months of hosting my own email. I was in gmail withdrawal, and seriously considered n
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14y ago
| Positions that are typically male are generally considered higher positions. Or lower ones. Men make up 76% of the homeless, and 60% to 70% of the unemployed in America. They also make up 92% of worker deaths. It's not a conspiracy.
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14y ago
My team picked JIRA after examining other options; we felt it was the best and most usable solution that wasn't a) Hosted or b) running on expensive alien software like Windows (we're a unix shop.)
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14y ago
Not alone; I'm in the same boat, although I haven't done as much to get my address "out there"
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14y ago
How do you count "getting spam"? My gmail spam label accumulates about 14K messages a month (mail labelled spam gets automatically dropped after 30 days. I can't possibly guess if there have ever been any false-positives) I have another fi
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14y ago
You can list authorized apps and revoke authorization from Google's accounts page. Here's the direct link: https://accounts.google.com/b/0/IssuedAuthSubTokens?hl=en or go here: https://www.google.com/settings/ and click "Authorizing app
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14y ago
I've read that google's main goal for these free products is to increase the amount of time people spend online and not to monetize every bit of information that they come across. The more time people spend online, the more people see adse
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15y ago
and in a single line of bash I had nagios alerts piped into IRC. I'm amazed I never knew about ii until a few weeks ago. It's amazingly useful.
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15y ago
NH property taxes aren't significantly higher than they would be for similar homes in similar towns in MA. And yes, if you work in MA and live in NH, you pay MA income tax. Also, if you live in MA and work in NH, you pay MA income tax.
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15y ago
Google has had jabber/gtalk integrated into Android since Day 1. It's push and the interface is fantastic. There's a web client built into every gmail user's inbox, and scads of desktop clients. SMS is still here. Now, if appleuser@me.com
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15y ago
By excluding pirated music, they'd also be excluding people who bought music legally on CD or via another music service like Amazon, or music that is released under a free to trade license, like the stuff on archive.org and etree.org. Amazo
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15y ago
Google voice has quite a bit of trouble transcribing the clearest of calls. I've got 170 or so voicemails in my google voice box and maybe 1/4 of them are transcribed well enough that I don't need to listen to the mp3. My voicemail message
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15y ago
Neither of those are technically servers, and both do NAT traversal on their own.
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16y ago
I've never signed up for an email newsletter in 15 years online and I get 100 messages a day into my Gmail junk folder, and 10 into my inbox, masquerading as newsletters. They're spam. Pretending that people sign up for these things is a
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16y ago
I think I'd prefer Chrome's approach to have the content translated in the browser. That way I know that the content is being machine translated and it can be undone.