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by iigs 18y ago
People who liked this also liked: http://www.frexx.de/xterm-256-notes/ and: http://www.frexx.de/xterm-256-notes/data/256colors2.pl which is a perl script to show you what your terminal can do. PuTTY answers 8 to tput colors (CentOS 4.7)
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by iigs 18y ago
There are some pretty interesting innovations coming down from deep packet inspection providers. In one case they're caching the data that users are serving via bittorrent and re-serving it to the second and future persons requesting it, ba
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by iigs 18y ago
I was under the impression it checked page retrieval times, which (after subtracting for idle network latency) would reveal which pages were transferring slow because of excess computation or disk use on the server. The idea being if it's s
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by iigs 18y ago
Have an almost-static replacement index ready with just enough stuff for a php "give us your email address and we'll send you invites [and a discount or some other bennie]". No CSS or JS on that alternate universe page. If things get nasty
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by iigs 18y ago
This is addressed in TFA: (6) Neither Nancy Pelosi nor Robert Byrd actually resigned their seats in the Congress. Thus, neither of them qualified to become Acting President under the Presidential Succession Act. Plus, interbranch appointme
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by iigs 18y ago
I'm fortunate enough to work at an office building with a pier overlooking a lake. Every so often I take a non-smoking break and walk out to the end of the pier and focus on the tree line on the horizon at the opposite end of the lake. I ha
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by iigs 18y ago
Yes. Buy an arduino kit like this one I got for Christmas: http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&#38... . Work through the tutorials and as many more as you can find until you're comfortable with the hardware. Round up
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by iigs 18y ago
I think the rigid support is a symptom and the malady is corporate bureaucracy. In order to fix this I think you'd have to find a company worth fixing and attack it from the top down. If someone was really passionate about this it might be
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by iigs 18y ago
Probably, every time you see some crazy customer service story like this, the culprit is an ill-considered rule pushed down on service staff. Telemarketing (outbound sales or inbound sales or support) is the standard I-don't-want-to-bag-g
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by iigs 18y ago
All of these things sound nice, and I'm sure they'll be a big win for PHP, but I would like to know more about this native driver and why it was deemed better to fork/rewrite than to contribute those changes to libmysql. From an operations
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by iigs 18y ago
So, is the takeaway from this that if you are a suspect in any kind of serious crime you can expect your computer to be searched and/or seized? I'm glad that justice appears to have been served in this instance, but it never occurred to me
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by iigs 18y ago
Trick 5 (opening a remote port on a "public" machine to connect back to your local machine) is great. Combine it: office$ ssh -R 9999:localhost:22 user@home ## do this in a screen for good measure and another lesser known ssh feature: home
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by iigs 18y ago
Despite their currently low numbers, green homes typically re-sell for more money than their conventional counterparts. Until there's a way to measure it I certainly wouldn't get my hopes up. To illustrate the issue, go to http://www.zil
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by iigs 18y ago
"It's obviously a remarkable transformation from where it was as the largest company in Canada worth about 35 percent of the TSX in 2000," said Gavin Graham, director of investments at BMO Asset Management. Wow, indeed! Over one third of
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by iigs 18y ago
Same story here (Seattle). The Prius is to the urban liberal the same thing the SUV is to the suburban conservative -- a premium-priced vehicle projecting an image. Most of the time the suburban conservative would be fine in a Civic, and mo
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by iigs 18y ago
I'd actually like to try that -- maybe the first paragraph or so included. The value of the clean look (to me) is only it's service in providing easy access to the information, and I think leading comment blurbs might be a big win in that r
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by iigs 18y ago
Disclaimer: not particularly a power user. Problem also probably more of a UI/UX issue than a technical issue. From time to time when I'm working in excel I'll find I've derived an answer from a couple adjacent input cells and several inter
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by iigs 18y ago
In August last year, the RBZ slashed ten zeros from the currency. But the zeroes have bounced back with more vigor. That means in before August 2008 these would have been 500,000,000,000,000,000,000 notes. Yikes.
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by iigs 18y ago
It's just as well. Monad appears to suffer from severe second system effect ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect ). The early demos I saw had hopelessly long names, verbose syntax, and attempted to coalesce data into xml. W
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by iigs 18y ago
His family and friends will be targets of interest for certain people now. While it's (comparatively!) easy to provide surveillance and security for homes and other key places, people in motion are harder to protect. We don't expect one ind
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by iigs 18y ago
I disagree. There's a big difference between having the ciphertext and having nothing. Big keys buy you time but that's just it -- it's time. Government secrets often outlive the design parameters of commercial crypto by decades. To me it's
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by iigs 18y ago
As my equipment (phones and PC) ages I like to combine parts to maintain them and replace key components that age (drives and batteries). I am not afraid to disassemble my stuff but I take care of it over time and don't want to take a hit o
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by iigs 18y ago
As a person with some savings and some credit card debt and an uncomfortably large amount of mortgage debt, I'll say that in an economic downturn there's definitely value in having liquid cash to spend -- you can cover important debts such
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by iigs 18y ago
IMO it depends on what you're securing. If you have a line of business that is particularly susceptible to espionage and the expected loss would be fatal to the business you obviously shouldn't trust anyone you don't have to. However, be re
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by iigs 18y ago
Of course if you can't trust the (creator/maintainer of the) code on a machine there's nothing you can in code on the machine to make it secure. That said, if this kind of problem is a valid concern for an installation, the simplest solutio
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by iigs 18y ago
I can envision a use case where the user plugs their iPhone-class device into their cinema display and bluetooth to their keyboard and mouse. They use it for professional tasks while at their desk. They take it with them to browse the web^W
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by iigs 18y ago
The reasons: The process involves so much physical manipulation of the computer that it interferes with our ability to focus on and appreciate what we're reading; online text moves up and down the screen and lacks physical dimension, robbi
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by iigs 18y ago
I don't know what the dash of the particular vehicle in question looks like, but every manufacturer has a "design language" that drives their choices in external and internal appearance. Lately it seems that Honda/Acura have been embracing
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by iigs 18y ago
Got a screenshot or something public? I think XUL is interesting and would love to do some app development with it, but I keep coming back to worse is better and HTML is good enough.
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by iigs 18y ago
As best I can tell: Point 1) Normal people (people you and I know but aren't) buy iPhones because they're "cool", or they look neat, or they are known to be easy to use. Point 2) There is essentially no competition on all three of the attri

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