jdeibele

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by jdeibele 10y ago
Interesting to see how well Georgetown does. Figure it's lots of children of legislators following in their parent's footsteps.
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by jdeibele 10y ago
I, like Santosh83, remember seeing uBlock or uBlock Origin written with the µ. Can't find it on either of their Github sites now, though.
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by jdeibele 10y ago
My wife bought a Garmin Vivofit because it was water-proof and runs for months on a battery. I ended up buying the Vivofit 2 which has a better clasp, a backlight, and is supposed to sync automatically with my phone. When I wore a watch, I
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by jdeibele 10y ago
Had to click on the link because I was trying to figure out why the Royal Air Force was bombing the US Air Force ... Am not familiar with RAF for Red Army Faction.
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by jdeibele 10y ago
A couple of weeks ago I bought an Airport Capsule for backups. Thursday, I got the "your backup can't be verified" message, meaning that Apple threw away my backups. This is Apple product backing up to Apple product. I trie
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by jdeibele 10y ago
I ported my Cingular/AT&T number to Google Voice many years ago and six months ago ported it to Ting. There are a number of companies who consistently fail to deliver texts to that number. The most notable (for me) is Amazon.
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by jdeibele 10y ago
Those of us old enough to remember AT&T before the breakup probably had a similar system with our parents. Call, let it ring once and hang up. Repeat. Wait for mom to call you on the family phone.
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by jdeibele 10y ago
Right. And because of System Integrity Protection you have to turn SIP off, remove /usr/bin/git and then turn it back on. Had to do that with Java, which was installed on the family Mac just for Minecraft. Minecraft doesn&
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by jdeibele 10y ago
Or "Apple bans apps that support only IPv4." "Apple bans apps that support IPv4 only." could be interpreted as banning apps that support IPv4. Although that'd be reaching. Want to hear my rant about "No smokin
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by jdeibele 10y ago
Can't agree with this strongly enough. At Schwab I'm using 31 characters randomly generated by LastPass for a login name but they limit things to 8 characters for a password. Absolutely crazy. Even if they are not having problems
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by jdeibele 10y ago
Run lots of tabs with https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-great-suspende... I saw this extension recommended on another thread and it's worked out very well for me. It suspends tabs that aren&#x27
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by jdeibele 10y ago
I bought a 2013 Chromebook Pixel from somebody. One of his reasons for selling it was that he had enabled developer mode and his child hit the space bar on boot up. That wiped all of his work. He was going back to a laptop.
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by jdeibele 11y ago
I'm surprised that I never see mention of having one human at the front and a dozen slave trucks driving behind. The trucks behind could be connected wirelessly. Or they could even use wires. Some sort of machine vision could keep an
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by jdeibele 11y ago
My understanding is that many, if not most, local governments have split their pension plans into two levels: employees hired before date X get the defined benefit plan; employees hired after that day get a defined contribution plan instead
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by jdeibele 11y ago
Exactly! We've got kids and our local school district likes to send robo-calls to remind people of events. Also the dentists and doctors are calling the day before with a reminder and that's automated for 2 out of 3 (dentist an
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by jdeibele 11y ago
When I made Annies for the kids my "secret" was to whisk the cheese powder in the milk. It made it much more creamy.
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by jdeibele 11y ago
Frederick Forsyth's "The Fist of God" is a good read and uses Gerald Bull and his super gun as part of the plot.
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by jdeibele 11y ago
How about @hisham.hm? People are used to seeing it as part of email but it conveys that it's an internet address.
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by jdeibele 11y ago
Still waiting for the ability to close a browser tab by swiping. AFAIK, the fastest way to close a tab is to push on the screen to get Safari's bar on the bottom, push on the multiple tabs, then swipe right to left or click the X on th
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by jdeibele 11y ago
Thanks. The problem was that I had to click on "Free plan" when I was looking for subscribe. It's great that they give 30 days free but that's not what I was looking for.
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by jdeibele 11y ago
Where can you sign up? I tried on the page linked from the blog. I tried from the Google Play app on my old Nexus 5. Maybe I haven't had enough coffee this morning?
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by jdeibele 11y ago
Every time my alumni magazine comes it has a page devoted to identifying passages that people remember but can't find. http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/lost/novels.html has tips on how to find book
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by jdeibele 11y ago
I thought it was ironic that they called out Boston.com. Until a few years ago, The New York Times owned Boston.com (online domain for The Boston Globe). Back to New York/Boston rivalry as usual? https://en.wikipedia.org
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by jdeibele 11y ago
Me, too. Found http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/10/chip-pin-vs-chip-signatur... "Most card issuing banks and Visa don’t want PINs because the PINs can be stolen and used with the magnetic stripe data on the
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by jdeibele 11y ago
Portland banned it 26 years ago. http://www.nytimes.com/1989/01/27/us/portland-ore-passes-a-b... When I travel it seems odd to see the trash cans overflowing with styrofoam. Back home in Portland, the
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by jdeibele 11y ago
I have some directories that I need to clean up, by moving some files into more directories (sigh) or deleting files. There doesn't appear to be a way to turn off "do you mean to delete this file?" in the preferences. And
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by jdeibele 11y ago
Doesn't seem to understand command-delete to delete a file. Just beeps at me, as does plain delete. File menu says F8 is delete file ... which is not intuitive (or convenient) to me.
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by jdeibele 11y ago
Can someone explain why it wants to use accessibility features to control my Mac? I don't understand the downside but I also don't know what permissions I'm giving it.
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by jdeibele 11y ago
Yes, but it seems reasonable that it would be turned off for laptops that are swapped every class, whether Windows or Macs (in this case). If Bobby or Betty just lets it save, now you have to find the laptop the doc was automatically saved
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by jdeibele 11y ago
I'd have thought so but my daughters prefer their Chromebooks to their Nooks running CyanogenMod. Part of that is the Chromebooks don't have to be held: the screen can be adjusted to the proper angle without a stand. They're

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