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by iigs 18y ago
I'm partial to most of the Apple Desktop Bus keyboards. That my nickname here is an Apple computer is correlative, not causative. :) My favorite keyboard of all time is: http://www.old-computers.com/museum/photos/Apple_IIgs_Keyboa... Its
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by iigs 18y ago
I started hunt and peck typing at 5 (Apple //c represent!), and had evolved to a four finger lazy-look typing method by 7th grade typing class. I didn't start actually typing without looking at the keyboard until I purchased a factory defec
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by iigs 18y ago
Acknowledgment. I first read of the possibility of such a Trojan horse in an Air Force critique [4] of the security of an early implementation of Multics. I cannot find a more specific reference to this document. I would appreciate it if a
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by iigs 18y ago
Yes. In case anyone else wants to try I'll rot13 it, but here's the link: uggc://jjj.nhqvbsvyr-ratvarrevat.pbz/
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by iigs 18y ago
Do you have a link for your six weeks ago asasertion? I don't doubt what you're saying, but that kind of data really interests me.
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by iigs 18y ago
It was a fun challenge to figure out what the product is. Their site is created by another firm, but that firm's portfolio doesn't show any other cases of blocking IE7 that I could find. That would imply to me that that it wasn't thoughtles
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by iigs 18y ago
As theoretically awesome as ZFS is, the math behind the human factors are more important than the math behind the computer failure rates, and this is something I don't believe we can fix with our current development methodologies. It looks
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by iigs 18y ago
Good question, sorry I wasn't clearer. I opted to leave the cord exposed across the floor from the wall plate to the lamp, since the plate was close to where I wanted the lamp anyway. I was also on a carpeted floor, so where there was any h
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by iigs 18y ago
> http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3164/2831665151_83a0df503d.jp... I love the tidy motif. If you're the kind of person to do basic electrical hacking it's trivial to modify that ikea lamp (top left corner) to run the power cord all the
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by iigs 18y ago
The article isn't too controversial, although it's a bit idealistic about DSLs -- In a previous job I've worked in an environment with a DSL (incidentally, it was wrapped in a really restrictive GUI that was the first to go) that was ok in
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by iigs 18y ago
I was always told I was smart when I was a kid, and very little focus was put on seeing things through or being a hard worker (other than conceptually). Anecdote in support of the article's hypothesis: I'm blabbing about myself instead of w
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by iigs 18y ago
It's completely full of junk and I sit in the living room with my laptop in my easy chair. Except today, as I'm on the BlackBerry sitting outside by the garden with the dog in the sun. :) Actually, my room is fairly full of electronics stuf
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by iigs 18y ago
This is tremendously exciting. There are tons of comments here that are insinuating that Google is doing this to screw over Mozilla somehow. I think this is bogus: 1) I know the comic was long, but they explicitly cover their agenda -- they
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by iigs 18y ago
I'd consider paying an "account creation service" a dollar to create a single (legit) account for me at some web sites. Some CAPTCHAs are just awful. Maybe they could flip this into a legit boutique business.
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by iigs 18y ago
Scary. I started to think "I wonder if I can tell who this is to see if they're talking about me." Meh paranoia. :) If he can team up with a solid detail oriented checklist/calendar type person, he can be an awesome supplement to a team or
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by iigs 18y ago
Eh. There are already passive "P4P" type tools for carriers, but they are not commonplace or widespread yet. Except for AT&T trying their level best to forego common carrier status, I don't think any ISP wants to get in the business of
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by iigs 18y ago
The role of a CIO (and his org) is to manage information technology in a way that optimizes the value for the company. In the cases where these things are slam dunk fits, IT should be suggesting them, not stonewalling them. Failing to do
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by iigs 18y ago
The iPhone validates another company's product+market. Most of the whiz-bang features cited are not really that remarkable these days, even in feature-phones, let alone smartphones. That said, I'm not sure why you'd pick this phone over a B
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by iigs 18y ago
Everybody gets so mad about this because a lot of printer vendors go out of their way to force you to not use materials or resources that you purchased, and presumably the only reason is for them to make more profit. It would be one thing i
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by iigs 18y ago
Agreed. Until your company is fairly large (maybe 20 people?) document for yourself. It's your business, so you can do whatever you want, but I'd suggest writing things down that will help _you_ in three months when you have to look over so
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by iigs 18y ago
I believe that we'll see ISP NAT for customers before we see widespread adoption of IPv6 in the USA. The dynamics are all backwards for encouraging people to switch. Web site operators (and other content providers) will, in general, pay ext
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by iigs 18y ago
Between this and AT&T's motion to deny Sprint+Clearwire on the grounds of spectrum allocation ( http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/prod/ecfs/retrieve.cgi?native_or_pd... ) it seems like AT&T is the kid that whines to his parents "BUT JOHNNY
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by iigs 18y ago
Commercial certificates are not a scam. You're paying for a company (the CA) to certify (via the SSL cert signature) that an identity belongs to someone that has provided proof that they're who they say they are. You can absolutely do what
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by iigs 18y ago
Wow, that's horrible. I would really feel slapped in the face if I had spent the time to learn XBox360 development and they shifted the royalties across the 50% boundary. 70/30 seems entirely fair, 60/40 feels like the pain point to me, and
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by iigs 18y ago
It appears that I confused the missions of Shoes and Hackety Hack, which would explain my misaligned expectations. It looks like Shoes is intended to be the graphics engine for writing Ruby apps including HH, and HH is supposed to be the ea
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by iigs 18y ago
Mad props to _why. I'm a huge fan of the idea of shoes. I tried an earlier version and found it just a bit lacking in features for things I wanted to do (networking, I think). Obviously this is the idea -- everybody wants a language that is
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by iigs 18y ago
article: At $15 per game, that’s $825,000 in first week gross sales. Microsoft takes a cut -- we don't know how much -- but that's still a really impressive debut. comment: I think Microsoft takes a 33% cut. article: Jonathan said that
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by iigs 18y ago
from the pdf: cat . doesn't work anymore (readdir vs. read). Does anyone know when this last worked? I'd love to install whatever version of UNIX had this and see the output from it.
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by iigs 18y ago
Yeah. Sorry about that. I generally revise my comments if they're too confrontational, negative, or inane. That one was set up perfectly, though. I fully expected to come back to my computer to find my first net-negative comment. FWIW, this
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by iigs 18y ago
Yes but my wife frowns upon it.

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