janci

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   by janci 7y ago

   What was the use of ICMP Echo packets when there was no ping?
2. 242.▲
   by janci 7y ago

   OIDC is the new SOAP - so much options that nobody is getting it right and supporting all.
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   by janci 7y ago

   Things I miss in modern spreadsheets: - Formula references (to be used as function references) - Formatting formulas (directly in formula section, not via conditional formatting) - Format-querying functions (as isBold, cellFontFamil
4. 244.▲
   by janci 7y ago

   I don't know about ICS, but CCTV cameras, HVAC controls, parking gates are too often installed by technicians with little to no IT knowledge. They ask the local IT to open port (ie. port forwarding) for remote management or servicing w
5. 245.▲
   by janci 8y ago

   Or you can put a microphone close to the speaker and measure the frequency of the generated tone.
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   by janci 8y ago

   My time tracking - LibreOffice calc spreadsheet. ctrl+; to insert date, ctrl+shift+; to insert start/end time. Two columns for project and task name. Takes like 5 seconds to make a log.
7. 247.▲
   by janci 8y ago

   You mean IE on windows? No, thanks.
8. 248.▲
   by janci 8y ago

   By the title I expected the article to be about kitchen blenders, as they are called mixers in my mother tongue. Do native speakers have this confusion?
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   by janci 8y ago

   Sadly, where I live investment into gov/public IT services is done, even a big one, but the product is of very low quality. Money gets diluted and the real work is done by unskilled programmers based on bad specifications.
10. 250.▲
    by janci 8y ago

    You may need to prepare the input - isolate the parts you want read, blank out all other, remove the background color, table borders, graphic elements. Convert to greyscale/BW. Then apply OCR
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    by janci 8y ago

    I write it down on A4 paper, often with diagrams. When I have time to develop the ideas, I make few skethches some of them to be thrown away. I put them to a ring binder together with project notes, specs etc. Works well with note block pap
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    by janci 8y ago

    You can disable auto download in settings of Chrome, Firefox and many other browsers. You get the Save dialog then. On the other hand, I like that all stuff goes to Downloads and you can handle it with your favourite file manager that is mu
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    by janci 8y ago

    All downloaded files go to huuge ~/Downloads. Files to be preserved are then moved to more appropriate location. From time to time I delete oldest and biggest files from Downloads. Photos and videos go to Personal folder organized by y
14. 254.▲
    by janci 8y ago

    Atomic Bomberman supported 10 players. Two on keyboard and the rest on gamepads. Or AI. Letting 10 AI players smash themselves was the best "screensaver".
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    by janci 8y ago

    Exactly! They say NAT is wrong, they want every device to be publicly routable and accessible from the whole internet. Nobody sane would allow that. One stateful firewall in between and you have the same problems as with NAT.
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    by janci 8y ago

    The problem with any adjustment is that he car can just pass from one view to another just between you refocus your eyes between them (ie. from rear to side mirror, from side mirror to side window). The solution is panoramatic rear view mir
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    Dnsbl.njabl.org taken over

    7 points by janci 8y ago|0 comments
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    by janci 8y ago

    I expected the javascript implementation to be a oneliner with Array reduce operation.
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    by janci 8y ago

    > UEFI is perhaps the single most egregious pile of garbage ever concieved by humans Don't forget systemd.
20. 260.▲
    by janci 8y ago

    I use yEd for nicely organized diagrams (state diagrams, data flow, process models), Dia for information-rich structured diagrams (UML or network schemas), graphwiz for autogenerated diagrams and Inkscape to make final touches to any of tho
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    by janci 8y ago

    In Slovakia and Czech republic it is common to select dorm and room in an online registration process (click war as we call it). If you want to live with your friends, you all select the same room. If not, you leave blank space and some str
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    by janci 8y ago

    Writing project documentation.
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    by janci 8y ago

    What's the point of this "trick" ?
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    by janci 8y ago

    Reminds me of "tourist info" kiosk computers that were installed in our city when I was in high school. It was clearly windows XP based, with a customized locked down browser. Only the city webpage was allowed. It could open PDF f
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    by janci 8y ago

    Parsing the html or traversing DOM is the easy part. Doing request queues, ip rotation, data quality management, exponential backoff etc. on scale is much harder.
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    by janci 8y ago

    Having a CCTV on public IPs is calling for trouble.
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    by janci 8y ago

    This feels like Alice in Wonderland
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    by janci 8y ago

    Smallest linux computer I've seen was Transcend SD card (the wifi one). There are more manufacturers and I think Electric imp uses the same chipset.
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    by janci 8y ago

    It's SRS that is broken, not SPF.
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    by janci 8y ago

    You align the pot handle with sieve handle and hold the sieve-covered-pot with one hand. The other hand is free. (ie. to turn on cold water to cool down the sink when you pour boiling water there)