jrg

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by jrg 6mo ago
There is, of course, at least one category that don’t over rely upon their hearing: deaf people.
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by jrg 6mo ago
It’s about pedestrians wearing the headphones.
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by jrg 6mo ago
You seem to have misunderstood the invention. It’s not about cyclists wearing headphones.
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by jrg 7y ago
We've used them as a more reliable/resilient/replicated (with a lower operational effort) provider of HBase tables and Kafka streams, and a bit of file storage.
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by jrg 9y ago
This is about WiFi "protected" with WPA2: basically treat it as suspiciously as you would any public WiFi. If you choose not to use public WiFi because you can't "trust" it, then you now need to stop using your priv
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by jrg 10y ago
Well that's an article written by someone who's never submitted an app, that uses encryption, to the App Store. They're big on ensuring you've applied for the correct export licence from the USA (because that's wher
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by jrg 17y ago
(Cheat sheet? Cheat Novella, more like! I think it's probably past the point where it needs to be split up a bit, even if only for your own benefit.) "How do you check disk usage. How do you trouble shoot a high disk usage issue" which is f
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by jrg 17y ago
That just reminded me of this piece, written by Michael Johas Teener - one of the people who was heavily involved in Firewire development. http://www.teener.com/firewire_FAQ.html#Why_the_4-pin_connec... (No word on what he thinks of the F
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by jrg 17y ago
It's painful to watch Unix SAs who don't understand shell scripts (which are, after all, a way of automating repetitive command-line tasks), because it is such an essential part of understanding the OS and how it works. I think it is import
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by jrg 17y ago
Wouldn't it be nice to also see the numbers for the Sky (Murdoch-owned/controlled) channels?
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by jrg 17y ago
At a distance you'd stop-down the lens aperture, stick it in manual focus, and set it to somewhere around infinity. (and big, fancy yachts are always moored somewhere sunny, off the coast. So no problem there.)
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by jrg 17y ago
definitely. If your parents'[1] have Google (or Yahoo) as their homepage then give them a url to access and watch them enter it straight into the search box. [1. Or other non-tech person that you can watch web-browsing]
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by jrg 17y ago
yet its data frequently seems to be wrong, for anyone looking at a particular city who knows the venues. So if they can't get it right, for a limited scope of live music events, it is clearly as tough to get right as others say it is.
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by jrg 17y ago
But they take you, the user, away from whatever it is you're actually doing. This is another case where the advertiser is going to have to see if their marketing message succeeds without the 'click through' to give them the warm and fuzzies
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by jrg 17y ago
and we used to use ttcp (for it was more efficient with slinging around large files.)
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by jrg 17y ago
Do you have references and pointers? Is this going to hurt me when I put two non-storage servers live running 2009.06?
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by jrg 17y ago
"The conversion value is approaching zero" -- I think advertisers, some at least, have forgotten how advertising can work. They've been lead to believe by some that because they can track everyone's response to a campaign that it always mak
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by jrg 17y ago
Indeed. It would be nice to see some comparisons to the architectures (and, as everyone seems to care so much, prices) in the various 'VTLs' sold by the likes of Falconstor, HP, EMC, and StorageTek/Sun!
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by jrg 17y ago
Floor loading (and rack size) is a problem with their 'very big box of disks'. That, and the fact that the company seems to be struggling to get sales.
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by jrg 17y ago
For Offsite I too use CrashPlan, to computers at friends rather than using their 'central' service.
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by jrg 17y ago
Of course some euro plugs have what I'd call a "sneaky" earth, that isn't a pin but simply a contact on the other two parts of the socket and plug. See the two pictures in this (quickly googled) discussion, for a clear illustration - http:
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by jrg 17y ago
To be honest, I don't usually read the names of those commenting (and notice that they are less prominent, being in grey, than the comment itself) - at least until after thinking "Good point, well made." But perhaps others are more fan-wors
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by jrg 17y ago
and wouldn't it be nice if they briefed their colleagues, so that law enforcement officers the world over will stop "asking" photographers to delete pictures they've just taken.
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by jrg 17y ago
As a side note, it has always been possible (on UFS at least) to link directories. It just gets a bit messy at fsck time, and older shells get a bit confused with 'cd ..' Apple's implementation could have avoided linking directories - by cr
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by jrg 17y ago
Of course the BBC sometimes (often?) take their news from the agencies (PA, AP, etc.) and then it gets complicated. (and let's not even start on what the Daily Fail and other vocal competitors will say.)
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by jrg 17y ago
The experience of listening to FM radio on a portable radio with a small aerial, is not good. I tried once, with my then phone's FM radio, to listen to my usual BBC station on my 25 minute commute train journey. I gave up (too many tunnels,
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by jrg 17y ago
well, you can use 'ESC + v' with "vi" editing mode, and I've never found an equivalent way to use $EDITOR on your command line if you're using "emacs" editing mode.
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by jrg 18y ago
which is a good time to mention the recent ACM Ubiquity article, "The Fallacy of Premature Optimization" ( http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/volume_10/v10i3_hyde.html ) by Randall Hyde.