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by gbl08ma 11y ago
Unfortunately, and unlike a QR code, the data is not encoded in the drawing itself, which means an Internet connection is always needed. For URL sharing the Internet connection requirement is not so much of a problem (you'd always need
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by gbl08ma 11y ago
The ESP8266 may be a good candidate. tmrmr already said in these comments that some other company had ported another JS engine to the thing. And the world isn't just Arduinos, Raspberry Pis and other nicely-packaged "hacking"
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by gbl08ma 11y ago
Unfortunately I don't have two devices with the same ID and no serial number to test, but assuming Linux et al deal with them correctly, there sure must be some way? I guess Windows could resort to using the bus/device number info
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by gbl08ma 11y ago
That, and Windows also seems to create a different network connection profile for the same wireless adapter, every time I plug it into a different USB port. I always end up with something like "Local Area Connection 4" just becaus
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by gbl08ma 11y ago
I own a Windows tablet (Voyo A1 Mini) with exactly the same CPU and amount of memory and storage, which I have been using as 7" keyboard-less laptop replacement, so I thought it would be interesting to share my opinion. The CPU is fast
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by gbl08ma 11y ago
I have used this to bring a form of scripting to the graphic calculator I used and hacked on during my high school years. I think this really shines on embedded systems: it's quite easy to map existing syscalls and functions to PicoC f
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by gbl08ma 11y ago
It is probably using the official J2ME "apps" for Facebook and Whatsapp. I think it's about as dangerous as trusting any pre-installed app on feature phones and even smart phones. About the "absence of a proper multitask
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by gbl08ma 11y ago
I think there is a market for honestly low-spec smartphones, as there are some interesting uses for them, for example, a IP camera (plenty of apps for that), a dedicated XMBC/Kodi remote, or a home automation controller. You can think
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by gbl08ma 11y ago
This is interesting. I only tested it on Linux, just opened it again and it's definitely using over 150 MB of RAM, across five threads. This may mean it uses more memory on Linux than on Windows. 20 MB looks definitely lightweight, and
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by gbl08ma 11y ago
The description says it's lightweight, but on my machine it uses over 200 MB of RAM with no files open, and appears to be a Chromium-based thing, much like Atom (as others pointed out, it's based on Electron). Meanwhile, Sublime T
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by gbl08ma 12y ago
I'm not saying it's a bad idea, but the thought that once HTTP is deprecated I'll need to go through extra effort to manage the myriad of devices in my LAN is bothering me. The configuration interfaces of these devices (route
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by gbl08ma 12y ago
The technical specs look very, very similar to the Zopo ZP910 I own and which I bought about two years ago, for about 200€. The CPU unfortunately isn't the same (MTK 6589 versus MTK 6582), otherwise it would be easy to port Ubuntu to
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by gbl08ma 12y ago
I have a free SHA-1 signed cert from StartSSL that only expires in June 2015. The rest of the chain is SHA-256 signed (at least this is what Chrome tells me). Will a cert in these conditions start showing a red lock with the next version of
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Huawei Modems Authentication Bypass(evilsocket.net)
1 points by gbl08ma 12y ago|0 comments
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by gbl08ma 12y ago
That is the "normal" MariaDB, not the Galera edition. This is a problem that has more to do with MariaDB than with Scaleway, but it still shows one of the problems people may have with ARM servers at this point. A couple of friend
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by gbl08ma 12y ago
I tried their free trial when it was still branded as Online.net Labs. What follows is my experience, which is good as anecdote only. I use MariaDB-Galera in a project of mine to be able to run it in a parallel fashion. To determine if the
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by gbl08ma 12y ago
Let's also not forget about Windows Mobile. The first smartphones powered by it (marketed as "Pocket PCs which also happen to be a phone") started coming out in ~2002, with touchscreen and everything. I own a collection of ph
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by gbl08ma 12y ago
As someone who still has a plan with a "adorably small data cap", I'm happy and worried at the same time. I'm happy because, as most other people, I too have had to disconnect from hotspots with captive portals manually,
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by gbl08ma 12y ago
See also: https://github.com/philipl/pifs and https://github.com/philipl/pifs/issues/23 I admit this fooled me for a bit. Good news is, I won't be fooled again by something similar
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by gbl08ma 12y ago
If you have Windows installed I think you can extract the license key from it (assuming Windows is genuine), then use it to do a clean install, or just save it for posterity in case the hard disk ever dies. As far as I know this is fine WRT
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A use for NT on ARM, after all(gbl08ma.com)
1 points by gbl08ma 12y ago|0 comments
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by gbl08ma 12y ago
That's true, however, Chrome OS still suffers from the upgradability issue I described, but of course that is more of a personal rant about today's state of things and the fact that due to users' inability to easily tinker, e
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How Android’s “won’t fix” problem is the result of poor standardization(gbl08ma.com)
3 points by gbl08ma 12y ago|2 comments
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by gbl08ma 12y ago
That was my impression in 2011 already. Back then I wrote a blog post (in my then-much-worse English) with, admittedly, a bit of Microsoft hatred[1]. However, most of the points I mention are still valid, I think. Of course there have been
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by gbl08ma 12y ago
I didn't say the model and maker of the thing on purpose, because I wasn't advertising/advocating for it, and also because when it comes to cheap devices like this, all you can get is pretty much anecdotal evidence (e.g., the
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by gbl08ma 12y ago
The funny thing is, a week ago I bought a 7.5"" 1200x800 tablet with just 2GB of RAM and 32 GB flash (see the similarity?), the difference is that mine is a even cheaper device (~$150) from an unknown Chinese brand, has an apparen
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by gbl08ma 12y ago
Actually I don't think the sidebar/file manager in question is provided by the desktop environment, it is rendered by Sublime Text itself.
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by gbl08ma 12y ago
Chrome doesn't auto-update on Linux, nor presumably in other platforms with working package managers. Windows software is expected to update itself or ask the user to do it, so Google took the approach that was easiest for non-technica
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by gbl08ma 12y ago
I have not had any problems related to USB with my B+, except that one time I directly connected a device that uses the USB power for charging - the screen went blinking black (not enough power for HDMI?), and the red power led blinked a bi
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by gbl08ma 12y ago
I built something like this into my URL shortener a long time ago ( http://tny.im/toll.php ). However, it is nowhere as easy to use, uses the Blockchain.info wallet APIs in a way they were never meant to be used, doesn&#x27

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