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by jquast 5y ago
Just bought a 1985 home in rural Michigan with well water, testing for lead was never required by any part of the process. Post-sale I paid for a detailed water analysis, about $200, which found 4PPB of Lead. I called a few plumbers and the
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by jquast 5y ago
FAQ was for newsgroups, to reduce the noise of so many people asking the same questions, answered by "read the FAQ" which was usually posted periodically, http://www.harley.com/usenet/usenet-tutorial/faqs
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by jquast 5y ago
May I suggest to use “zipinfo” or “tar -t” to check the contents of the archive before extracting
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by jquast 5y ago
Related fact: Microsoft Windows was and many other products were developed on SCO Unix (xenix) https://microsoft.fandom.com/wiki/Xenix Microsoft azure runs on Linux https://www.wired.com/2015/09&#x
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by jquast 5y ago
Sorry my bad it is the very last tool used, which does in fact lead to success, I guess documenting all this other stuff might help somebody somewhere, or at least persuade people to skip the superfluous efforts and just go right to procmon
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by jquast 5y ago
I would suggest to use procmon.exe, all file and registry accesses could have been monitored without any disassembly and the problem could probably have be resolved much easier.
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by jquast 5y ago
What is the carbon footprint of the extra carriage return character in DOS and Windows text files?
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by jquast 5y ago
sorry maybe we misunderstand each other, I just got my license last year but this FAQ link reads, "Is the Ham It Up capable of transmitting as well as receiving? Even on lower frequencies? -- Yes, it is bidirectional, so you can transm
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by jquast 5y ago
Ham It Plus can go upconvert as low as 300Hz, compatible with any SDR you just shift the frequency in software https://support.nooelec.com/hc/en-us/articles/360005812474
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by jquast 5y ago
It is common for a cat with urinary tract infection (UTI) to pee outside of the litter box, it may be trying to communicate, "it hurts when I pee", and choosing your bed because it thinks that's the best place to communicate
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by jquast 5y ago
Does “the author” refer to himself as “the author” 4x in this article or is there some kind of co-authorship at play? Gosh it’s jarring, the commenter doesn’t understand the tone.
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by jquast 5y ago
Also, pbpaste, pbcopy CLI commands, equivalent of Linux xclip, and “open .” Opens a finder window at the folder, or “open filename” to open with a preferred application, equivalent to linux’s xdg-open.
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by jquast 5y ago
In 1969 it was called “sidehacking”, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sidehackers
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by jquast 5y ago
Yet another HN anecdote—I found a sick baby bird a few weeks ago with swollen eyes in northern Michigan, feather loss on its head, a mother bird circling and crying about it. it soon died and I buried it and also put away the bird bath and
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by jquast 5y ago
Maybe https://microship.com/behemoth/
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by jquast 6y ago
We could use pseudo pty’s to drive a remote bash through transpilation of a local shell if we wanted to fix that problem. It’s not unpossible.
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by jquast 6y ago
The real problem is the programmer mindset of “good for this purpose, good for every purpose” There so many better suited protocols out there, like avro, I don’t understand the Json obsession for so many poorly suited applications. Reminds
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by jquast 6y ago
Change of address forms are a scam, it is “free” because USPS sells the data to advertisers and your new mailbox gets stuffed with junk mail. I never use the service, only naive or desperate people would. It’s easy to login to all important
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by jquast 6y ago
Blessings is no longer maintained, but the blessed fork adds window OS, keyboard input, and 24-bit color support and still makes regular improvements. I co-maintain blessings and made the blessed fork because blessings development stalled b
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by jquast 6y ago
Forced to by employer I grew up on Windows and did win32/C++ for years during the XP era. I'm over it. The OS kills hundreds of hours of typical productivity each year, with forced updates at working hours, or fail your computer e
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by jquast 6y ago
https://www.lpi.org/
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by jquast 6y ago
https://makezine.com/2012/11/12/lindsays-technical-books-shi...
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by jquast 6y ago
I sometimes wish operating systems would not multitask.
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by jquast 6y ago
People said the same thing for those who invented email, the World Wide Web, tcp/ip, and other technologies. Nobody saw the value in it at the time of doing it. That’s the thing about having true creative vision, to also have the convi
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by jquast 6y ago
I made fourteen requests over sixteen days to delete my amazon.com account. I followed up and re-submitted almost every day. Each time I was told to wait 24-48 hrs and someone would contact me to complete the process, and I would follow up
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Offering a solution for Terminal Wide Character issues(jeffquast.com)
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by jquast 6y ago
See also, http://localrouter.net/
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by jquast 6y ago
It was for managing multi-site WAN, P2P radio, satellite, VPN links and VPN endpoints for employees. I can’t help that IT Infrastructure departments are erroneously adopting the term “devops” for themselves :( Anyway best wishes Jim, shuck
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by jquast 6y ago
I’m sorry you feel this way, maybe if you could try contributing more positively to FOSS in some way and receive some accolades for yourself, you would not feel so spiteful about the attention Carmack receives. I think you will find Carmack
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by jquast 6y ago
I tried many source contributions to OPENBSD when I was in school, but only one was accepted—-to fix a “house purchase overflow bug” in the command-line monopoly game from the BSD games collection, lol :) I stopped hacking on it some years

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