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halfasleep
16y ago
Transcoded to Flash video. I'll keep it up unless my host has a problem about copyright... http://deathbycomputers.co.uk/crapandstuff/1605260179420_262...
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halfasleep
16y ago
You could use Imapsync and a VPS somewhere running an IMAP daemon. Then it's easy to sync back out to another email host if you hit trouble with Gmail
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16y ago
Windows started doing pre-emptive caching with Vista, based on the applications you tend to run.
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halfasleep
16y ago
I generally recommend DBAN[1] for people who are disposing of old boxes. [1] http://www.dban.org/
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16y ago
They show up properly for some TLDs, those that have a policy of not allowing confusing/pointless characters. Far as I can tell though, you can't register names like the following (due to TLD restrictions). http://☁→❄→☃→☀→☺→☂→☹→✝.org/
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halfasleep
16y ago
Gmail can take a "report spam" as unsubscribe request, for some mailing lists. http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/unsubscribing-made-eas...
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16y ago
less allows you to stop and resume easily, without losing any of the output of your command (useful if you are watching the output of a process as well). Also less doesn't clutter the scrollback of your terminal with output from tail.
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16y ago
The only thing I've seen that didn't trust their cert was an old SonyEricsson phone. Might be worth watching if you do retro-mobile.
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16y ago
Thinking you have a secure connection when you don't is worse. On (generic hostile network), thinking you can check your mail safely is worse than knowing you can't.
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16y ago
I find the view that kids are incapable of making decisions a little strange. Yes, at a young age people are more inclined to get talked into something they don't really want to do, but this is often an important lesson in itself. Youth is
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16y ago
You might find mytop easier for this, it also allows hiding sleeping processes etc.
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16y ago
Deciding to make it public how much you care about your users opinions of you advertising might convince a few people to turn off AdBlock. Reddit already has a reasonable number of free/unsold ad spaces.