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by inportb 14y ago
Is there a link to this that doesn't want me to install iTunes? For some reason, some iTunes links do not hit people with a paywall but some (such as this) do.
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by inportb 14y ago
On the flip side, I often see equally poor translations of English documents to Chinese. I'm not sure if we have a similar firewall preventing access to proofreading services.
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by inportb 14y ago
Actually, 12.04.1 comes out on August 23rd, and LTS users are encouraged to upgrade to the first point release (which would presumably have some useful fixes). Indeed, update-manager tells you that there is no upgrade available if you tell
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by inportb 14y ago
Why do you think this is not a "real effort"?
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by inportb 14y ago
Considering that most Windows machines ship with MBR-partitioned disks, which limit you to 4 primary partitions each, it is not difficult to imagine somebody nuking the whole partition table before setting up. I prefer GPT to logical partit
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by inportb 14y ago
> If you bought a phone with a defective battery, would you delete all of your contacts out of it and image the OS before you returned it? Yes, but of course security/privacy concerns call different rules into play...
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by inportb 14y ago
PDroid does this for custom Android ROM's, for example. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.privacy.pd...
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by inportb 14y ago
http://hackaday.com/2009/10/09/safelock-biometric-typing-sec... I experimented with this a couple of years ago when I saw that video, by implementing an ajaxy authentication system that timed keystrokes. Ignoring the fact that you could p
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by inportb 14y ago
I'm guessing that your downvoters have a problem with the arrow of time.
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by inportb 14y ago
But that doesn't preclude the possibility of keeping a box of jacks and a crimp tool, just in case.
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by inportb 14y ago
... or prefix your commands with whitespace to skip ~/.bash_history altogether.
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by inportb 14y ago
I don't understand. Do you propose to use the Earth as a big field magnet and generate electricity by letting it move through a big conductive coil? So as the Earth orbits about the Sun, you could slow it down while enjoying free electricit
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by inportb 14y ago
You could use it for cryptography or cryptanalysis, for example.
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by inportb 14y ago
I believe not. The disk cache is shared, too.
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by inportb 14y ago
LXC is OS-level virtualization (similar to openvz and plain old chroot), which has a much lower overhead compared to full virtualization (i.e. virtualbox, kvm, xen hvm) but requires that the guest share the host's kernel. You get easier set
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by inportb 14y ago
Perhaps shubber is nonplussed after learning about MongoDB's query language design and the client's choice of database -- why would anyone actually want such a monstrosity?!
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by inportb 14y ago
Indeed, it's not all Java's fault. But I think Java does contribute to the overhead because my experience with Java programs in general usually involves long startup time and excessive memory usage. (And then there's the UI bloat, which mak
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by inportb 14y ago
> minus Eclipse programming in Java would be a very frustrating experience I'm not sure about that... Eclipse gets fatter and slower with each release. Of course, I still use it because Google really wants Android developers to do so. I
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by inportb 14y ago
They are also good for allowing exceptionally wealthy actors to protect their privacy against other exceptionally wealthy actors who use quantum computers.
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by inportb 14y ago
Thanks. I saw that button after scaling the page down a couple of steps. Really amazing stuff.
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by inportb 14y ago
In Chromium on my netbook, I could not figure out how to view this awesome thing that everyone's talking about. It looks like the page is supposed to scroll down, but I could not do it for lack of a vertical scrollbar. The horizontal scroll
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by inportb 14y ago
The fun thing is that Pykka works with Gevent. Now, if only it did networking too...
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by inportb 14y ago
I'm still wondering why we couldn't just make thin clients using raspberry pi.
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by inportb 15y ago
>>> You mention arguments. In PHP, for example, you have `mkdir`, and `rmdir`, and all that. You supply the file or directory string as the first argument, and a limited subset of options as the rest. http://linux.die.net/man/2
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by inportb 15y ago
Yeah, but then you gotta hand over your little bro. You could also blame the malware from your little bro's Internet browsing habits.
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by inportb 15y ago
It appears that they don't actually need that much resolution. You could only really appreciate the image from above, and then you're too far away to see the finest details.
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by inportb 15y ago
Fruit juice is probably one of the worst offenders when it comes to bulking people up. People assume it's better because it's natural , but it's pretty loaded with sugar. (though fruit juice does contain other things that are good for you,
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by inportb 15y ago
Ah, my mistake in assuming that refined sugar == simple sugar . Thanks for clarifying.
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by inportb 15y ago
So, do you not consume fruit anymore?
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by inportb 15y ago
But... "natural lightning" is direct current. Tesla coils generate alternating current. What about making a big Marx generator?

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