jgeorge

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by jgeorge 13y ago
http://www.99-bottles-of-beer.net/ Pick 5. Shakespeare is one of my personal favorites.
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by jgeorge 13y ago
I've coveted a physical Beigert&Funk QlockTwo for a long time now. Never fail to trigger my clock lust.
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by jgeorge 13y ago
One of my fondest memories of OS/2 (there weren't many, sorry) was finding a media file on one of the diskettes called IBMRALLY.MID which was a little piano rendition of "Ever Onward, IBM" from way back when in the Way B
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by jgeorge 13y ago
I vote for more explicit. You're implying that the NSA is somehow utilizing the SETI@Home volunteer network for some nefarious purpose, and I don't see anything other than "they both like big computing power" that connec
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by jgeorge 13y ago
I can attest to knowing at least a few examples of "people on HN who work for these companies but don't say so out of abject (and not misguided) fear that the rabid 'copy and paste' tech blogs that call themselves '
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by jgeorge 13y ago
This /is/ Oracle we're talking about here, so those aren't odds I'd bet on, personally.
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by jgeorge 13y ago
I have quite a bit of experience with at least a couple of the same Oracle products that are in the middle of this fiasco. Competent technical people or not, the products being implemented here have a reasonably well known track record (amo
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by jgeorge 13y ago
I'm a firm believer in the lack of competency in all things governmental. The government is terrible at domestic spying. "Grab everything and look for interesting stuff" is a terrible way to do it - expensive, complex to whol
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by jgeorge 13y ago
Late to reply to this but I downloaded your app and tried it out. It took a little getting used to (the tutorial in the app wasn't particularly clear the first time through it, but made sense the 2nd time through). Pretty neat!
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by jgeorge 13y ago
Posted here before I'm sure, but no discussion of this topic is complete without a link to https://github.com/mame/quine-relay
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by jgeorge 13y ago
IV. Then stop there for a while. Star Wars has been out for what, 35 years or so now, so if she hasn't seen ANY of them yet, they may simply not be her cuppa tea. If she likes it, go with V and VI, and then if she still likes it, stop
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by jgeorge 13y ago
OS X (since Lion) includes a license to run a virtual copy (well, 2 I think). I can't say that I've run the Server app component in a VM but I don't know of any reason why it wouldn't work, it's essentially just an
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by jgeorge 13y ago
How many people wear watches anymore, to even make a wearable device marketable? Quick unscientific poll in my office is VERY low - on the order of 20% or so. I don't see why Apple would even consider a watch device given that small pe
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by jgeorge 13y ago
You can move bootdisks (physically or just the image) between a power based Mac to an Intel based mac. The OS is upgradable from 10.1 to 10.8, you just have to swap hardware around Leopard to make it work. :) I routinely have coped my bootd
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by jgeorge 13y ago
Easy - they sell a product that consumers want. The same can not be said of the US Government.
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by jgeorge 13y ago
I can't believe there's any conceivable problem who's solution is "you want Cygwin". :-)
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by jgeorge 13y ago
Indeed. I had two monitors on my Macintosh II back then - one color monitor and a portrait paperwhite monitor (forget who made it) for page layout.
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by jgeorge 13y ago
Government organizations have never traditionally been concerned with the cost of anything. Startups traditionally are extremely aware of the cost of everything.
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by jgeorge 13y ago
I backed this guy's Xprotolab mini oscilloscope, and it's a really handy piece of gear. Bigger than a watch, but not by much, a case with the scope, probes, and everything else fits comfortable in my toolbag. I've used it a c
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by jgeorge 13y ago
There's a small chip in real lightning cables, which possibly includes some authentication information. Cloned lightning cables may be identified by this chip not reporting a serial number properly, I don't know for sure.[1] If th
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by jgeorge 13y ago
You are unlike 99% of the atheists that it has been my experience to encounter, for what that's worth.
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by jgeorge 13y ago
Yes, but don't you realize that it's somehow still Apple's fault? :)
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by jgeorge 13y ago
Darned easy to screenshot in OS X, one keystroke, a click (or a rectangle defining drag) and file on the Desktop or the clipboard. I know it's not particularly HARD in other OSes, but stupid easy on a Mac.
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by jgeorge 13y ago
I'm seeing about 50/50 content of tech postings of "Apple is failing to innovate" and "Apple's latest innovations really suck". I'm not entirely sure I know what they've done to deserve the ire o
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by jgeorge 13y ago
They only leap off the page if you actually read the article. More and more "journalism" today I'm convinced goes from author to print without so much as an editor even acknowledging something was published.
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by jgeorge 13y ago
http://www.chipworks.com/en/technical-competitive-analysis/r... Presumably Apple can tell that the USB cables are "fake" by either the exclusion of the small security bits in the cable's chip, or pe
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by jgeorge 13y ago
As someone working in a highly regulated industry, we will never , ever be allowed to put our production data into "the cloud", no matter who's cloud it is or what it looks like. Ignoring issues of latency, connectivity, a
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by jgeorge 13y ago
...awaiting first lawsuit against McDonald's for choking on a chicken bone in "next month +1 day"
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by jgeorge 13y ago
If you're saying that "cotton headed ninny muggins" isn't on the banned list, then I am officially offended.
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by jgeorge 13y ago
The sad part is all these denials do is heighten my awareness of political double-speak. Of course no one is trying to "listen in on people's email". You don't listen to emails. Says nothing that people's emails

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