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Lightning bolts love wind turbines a little too much(arstechnica.com)
2 points by gvb 13y ago|0 comments
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by gvb 13y ago
Verizon FIOS modem -> Firewall --> Switch --> Cat5 to computers and SIP phones, wireless access point * You absolutely want a firewall. Defense in depth. A firewall that supports a VPN that runs on your office's laptops is v
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by gvb 13y ago
No, 2400 baud - phase shifting is used encode the bits, so the actual frequencies used are complex. 300 baud used two tones for Tx and two tones for Rx so it is easy to whistle (albeit the characters coming out are garbage). Higher baud r
904.
by gvb 13y ago
I would expect blueray to be worse life expectancy than DVD since it is more dense. DVDs have worse life expectancy than CDs. CDs have somewhere between poor and acceptable lifetimes. Good luck. Ref: * http://en.wikipedia.org&
905.
Rumored Windows ‘Threshold’ Update Could Recast Microsoft’s Key Platform(techcrunch.com)
2 points by gvb 13y ago|0 comments
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by gvb 13y ago
http://news.rapgenius.com/Rap-genius-founders-rap-genius-is-...
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by gvb 13y ago
You are being kind or your coworker isn't that bad - in your example the whitespace is consistent. My experience is that the whitespace is totally arbitrary: totally inconsistently placed 0 - n spaces with random indentation levels.
908.
by gvb 13y ago
Dropbox with plain text notes. On Android (and, I presume, iOS) it caches recently used files for offline access. If you don't access a file on your phone before going off-line it will show up in the directory listing but not actually
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by gvb 13y ago
It has already happened: http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Flying-Camera-From...
910.
Getting Started with a Horizontal Grid(spin.atomicobject.com)
1 points by gvb 13y ago|0 comments
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by gvb 13y ago
Yes there is. The amount of hold up time is specified in the flash manufacturer's data sheets. The problem is that the flash has an internal state machine that performs the charge tunneling as an iterative process: it tunnels some cha
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by gvb 13y ago
Inside the SSD are flash memory chips. It takes a relatively long time (typically 10mSec) to tunnel the charge that changes a '1' bit (the erased state) to a '0' bit. If the power goes away during that programming time
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The decade-long quest to stop "Spamford" Wallace(arstechnica.com)
2 points by gvb 13y ago|0 comments
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Undocumented Feature(xkcd.com)
13 points by gvb 13y ago|0 comments
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by gvb 13y ago
His comparison on the "Paris - Brussels - Amsterdam" route is using today's prices: "The relatively modest time gain of the Thalys has a steep price. The fare for the Étoile du Nord was a fixed amount calculated accordin
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High Speed Trains are Killing the European Railway Network(lowtechmagazine.com)
230 points by gvb 13y ago|212 comments
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Content-free(tbray.org)
1 points by gvb 13y ago|0 comments
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Steam Machine Tear Down(youtube.com)
2 points by gvb 13y ago|0 comments
919.
How Do You Want to Spend Your Next 4 Years of Your Life?(steveblank.com)
2 points by gvb 13y ago|0 comments
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by gvb 13y ago
Commander In Chief vs. faceless private. 1 of 1 vs. 1 of 766,984. Nuclear weapons vs. M16.
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by gvb 13y ago
Like trying to smuggle cigarettes into a prison? http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/11/27/21645567-...
922.
by gvb 13y ago
I wonder what 23andMe would find if I submitted my dog's spit. Might be worth teaching him to spit.
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Why Intel wants to be everyone’s chip maker(cringely.com)
3 points by gvb 13y ago|0 comments
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by gvb 13y ago
The simplistic answer is that they are cramming a lot more information into less bandwidth. Analog TV resolution was 640 × 480 (approximately)[1] where digital TV is 1920 x 1080 [2]. Digital also aggravates reception issues because it d
925.
What’s your company worth?(greatnotbig.com)
2 points by gvb 13y ago|0 comments
926.
by gvb 13y ago
While it isn't a raw gate level ALU, it has a ATTiny85 that you can program to do your 8x8 (software) binary multiply.
927.
by gvb 13y ago
Note the tags on the story: "Business, Parody, Tech"
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by gvb 13y ago
The Fine Article. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=TFA
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by gvb 13y ago
I really like the "NoScript" model of permissions in a browser and wish phone OSes allowed that model. With "NoScript", I block javascript by default but can unblock temporarily or whitelist permanently. On my Android
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by gvb 13y ago
We use Redmine http://www.redmine.org/ - works well, nicely integrated with wiki, issues, repository browsing. Wikipedia overview: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redmine Chiliproject https://

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