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by iigs 18y ago
Behold! http://ii.gs/fin-inst-caps-2007-2009.png I just copied the data out of the sheet. Mistakes are mine. A little less alarming than the circles, for sure.
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by iigs 18y ago
I discovered BeOS about the same time I started getting into UNIX. I remember being impressed by the graphics and performance (the knoppix-like demo cd was ahead of its time). One thing that always perplexed me was that despite having a POS
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by iigs 18y ago
I think this is awesome. To me this represents the first step in the content providers saying "f-you, we're not paying to deliver, you're the one with the money connection to the viewers". The ISPs that are going down the anti-NN rathole ar
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by iigs 18y ago
I couldn't decide if it was quaint or annoying. When these dead tree magazine/paper types figure out that hyperlinks can go to other servers we're going to enter a whole new age.
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by iigs 18y ago
In Houston there is a place called Electronic Parts Outlet (EPO) that does something similar. It's an awesome place to stroll around and poke if you have some time to kill. The closest thing I can find in Seattle is Vetco on the east side.
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by iigs 18y ago
Mine was 2.98 before this comment, and assuming it stays at 1 will be 2.94. (edit: learned more about it, actually 2.6, see: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=467290 ) I know what I have to do to game it (reload /newest and look for stu
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by iigs 18y ago
Absolutely. IMO the thing to model them after would be the PIM (personal information manager) pseudo-computers of the early 1990s. Segmented or possibly coarse dot matrix LCD (2-4 lines, ~40 characters), and a special (read: charity) deal w
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by iigs 18y ago
There are certain corner cases where this doesn't work (one that comes to mind is WPA enterprise certificate negotiation in Windows XP, completely unrelated to HTTPS). If the requirement for "virtually all browsers" includes esoteric mobile
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by iigs 18y ago
This is true, and it makes hosting www.example.com and example.com on the same IP somewhat difficult. Certain newer browsers understand the Subject Alternative Name format. Here's a link about it: http://www.digicert.com/subject-alternativ
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by iigs 18y ago
My experience with a Blackberry was that background data (polling, tcp keepalives) were the worst of the battery draining. Unfortunately that kind of stuff would work better with a notification API. At one time UNIXes were all about time sh
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by iigs 18y ago
If this article is true, it really represents a mis-step or lack of focus for Apple. It's strange to see that in the wild like this. On the other hand, getting the notification service right on the back end would likely have required a lot
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by iigs 18y ago
committee.members This method provides all Republican members of standing or subcommittees. I recognize that this is a party site, but I wonder how much additional work it would have been to capture the non-GOP members and votes. I can't
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by iigs 18y ago
FWIW, they appear to be talking about something pretty different than cheeseburger and soda ingredients in the linked article, and I think this is where the problem is -- the subsidies to the midwest are ensuring the lifestyle of (sub-)urba
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by iigs 18y ago
I recognize that and assign none of the original attitude or my frustration to you. Furthermore, I recognize that you said "blah may say..." essentially making my rant a (response to a) straw man. me->eat(bait); :) I contend that life i
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by iigs 18y ago
Indeed. Really all most companies want is continued support (patches). This model is crying for a subscription arrangement and MS was tripping over themselves trying to figure out how to make Windows a subscription business. It seems like i
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by iigs 18y ago
In Redmond, Windows Current has generally been regarded as the biggest competitor to Windows Next, and there comes a point where people won't pay $hundreds for another dialog box prepended on the workflow for changing your IP address. You'd
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by iigs 18y ago
Some [...] might say that people who choose to live in the country have by definition chosen to live a technologically backwards (and, importantly, increasingly unsustainable) existence. That the responsible and ethical choice for any mode
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by iigs 18y ago
I feel that way as well, and I assumed I was ignorant or stupid because I couldn't make sense of it... then October hit and it became obvious that a large number of companies that made their fortunes on this system also did not or could not
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by iigs 18y ago
Indeed. VMWare server is another closed source Linux application that even requires a kernel module and manages to run pretty much anywhere I've tried. Granted it might not run on some esoteric distros but you're very definitely asking for
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by iigs 18y ago
I am responsible for some aspects of power and datacenter design where I work. What they're doing is really admirable (and hard), but they're going to do a lot more than many other, particularly smaller, datacenters simply because of their
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by iigs 18y ago
You could get the flash, ram, processor, and most of the peripheral ports integrated into a microcontroller package at well under $3 for the right volume, particularly if they were not component packaged but chips epoxied onto the motherboa
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by iigs 18y ago
Yeah. Prior to discovering the configuration option buried deep in my phone's menus I was looking for a place to embed a compact slider switch. I have a feeling if something like this were to ever pass that we'd see hacked firmware for comm
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by iigs 18y ago
Stability is a feature you can sell to me. I was a loyal BB user for several years until two hardware failures and one software failure made me think about just exactly how much stability I was actually getting for my ugly fonts and crummy
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by iigs 18y ago
I'm an engineer/sysadmin and we're responsible for providing instrumentation for operations people. I'm always on the look out for functional and attractive displays, whether it's a color scheme for a cacti graph we already have or somethin
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by iigs 18y ago
The base station (edge) and network-infrastructure (backhaul) equipment probably can't be purchased without SMS functionality at this point. There's no delivery commitment on SMS/MMS messages and traffic at essentially every site is cyclica
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by iigs 18y ago
The Web Ops visualizations photostream that this is a member of is really useful for ideas.
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by iigs 18y ago
Near family is my wife's primary deciding factor. Near a lot of opportunity is my primary deciding factor. I grew up essentially on a farm in a small enough town that we had no (and they still have no) stoplight. I'm very thankful for what
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by iigs 18y ago
This is very clever, especially given that R&D was cited in articles as being in the crosshairs. There's a stereotypical Microsoftie that only knows MS tools and doesn't care to expand their horizons or stay educated on new trends in th
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by iigs 18y ago
This actually happens a lot at Microsoft; the reason why it's unheard of is they're normally hiring more people than they're RIFing. The Microsoft reorg 30 day job search is a way of life for people in some disciplines and teams there. Mu
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by iigs 18y ago
Sure, conceptually. I didn't know of any big ISPs using proxies in the last 5-7 years, though, until the Comcast DPI fiasco happened. I could well be out of the loop and not aware of any huge Squid or comparable installations, but I believe

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