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konad
16y ago
Now they are offline too, that'll learn 'em
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konad
16y ago
Or just put them after </body> but before </html>
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16y ago
If you think Babbage had no distractions you know little of Mr Babbage : Organ grinders .... the worst of the "thousand nuisances that made it impossible for the householder to enjoy any quiet" .... such "instruments of torture" had cost hi
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konad
16y ago
You're assuming he wasn't working on them. In 1810 aged 19 he started University at Trinity, Cambridge. In 1812 aged 22, disappointed with the level of mathematical tutorage formed the Analytical Society, translating Lacroix' works on diffe
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konad
16y ago
And a heart rending message too from Tuesday's Babbage installment http://blog.jgc.org/2010/10/babbages-other-woman.html : His wife, Georgiana died age 31, Ada Lovelace died aged 36 and Countess Teleki died a year before Babbage aged 34. O
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16y ago
http://validator.w3.org/ has an entry for HTML5 (Experimental) I don't know if that means the validator or HTML5! Then BOFH's can brush everyone off with "The site is valid Nhtml, please contact your vendor regarding this issue"
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konad
16y ago
Or the similar: "darling, style isn't something you put on after a bath"
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konad
16y ago
> it only exists when the government wants it to every law is applied like that
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konad
16y ago
And what kind of backlash would that be ? I imagine they're more pissed of from the US repeatedly dropping bombs on them than .... what 4chan DDoSing NIC.ly ?
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16y ago
Depends how well you can actually write programs. ASP is a platform, not a language. Its runtime languages are VBScript and JScript and others (PHP included I think). Their modus operandi is very similar to PHP. I prefer JScript but VBScrip
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konad
16y ago
Go and get a drink every so often
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16y ago
Inner Platform, new loop constructs next
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16y ago
Where could I download IE9 for OSX ?
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konad
16y ago
Where "anyone" == "anyone who didn't change the password of their touter"
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konad
16y ago
Our webmail installation encrypts the password on the client side, it's never sent in plain and we never know what it is. It's not hard, various crpyto libs are available for Javascript. I've written multiple HTML based login systems that n
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konad
16y ago
rio
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konad
16y ago
It's the best, better on Plan9 but still good as a Unix app Don't forget Acme-Sac for windows http://www.caerwyn.com/acme/
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konad
16y ago
my rage is not abated
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konad
16y ago
A few years ago people were suing each other after getting patents for stuff that already existed by having "via the internet" tagged on the end. Now were in the new age, where all those patents that ended "via the internet" now have "on a
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konad
16y ago
If you use LinuxBIOS instead of whatever Phoenix outs on, you get to useable Linux in 5s
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konad
16y ago
> "I wish I could have been more of an ally," said Georges Richa. My eyes took one space out of that sentence!!
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16y ago
I'm forever middle clicking X-Window style and clearing my clipboard IRC is usually the place I type ls -ltr
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16y ago
Ron's talks last year were fascinating. It's great to hear the truth behind the veil of the HPC world. That they run Linux but then use OSBypass becase the Linux kernel is too slow was a revelation, they don't shout that part too loud when
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16y ago
My normal work - programming. Linux / BSD have a 9p servers so one can mount them in Plan 9. The environment is so much nicer both in looks and operation.
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16y ago
I take plenty of risks greater than 1 in 1,000,000,000. If you're in the US there's a 1 in 15,000,000 chance you'll die at work today. The chance of penis fracture during intercourse in any year is about 1 in 100,000,000. I can live with th
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konad
16y ago
It's only a problem if the plane doesn't fail. However, if it fails with those 500 then that's all you need to know to say "phones can down the plane". If you need more detail you can keep researching.
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16y ago
I've been a Plan9 user/dev since 2000. Have been to two of the IWP9 conferences - sadly I won't be going to Seattle for the 5th unless I score some big cash in the next few weeks - http://iwp9.quanstro.net/ * Licensing - Plan9 wasn't open
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16y ago
Plan9 doesn't have releases, it has continual development.
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16y ago
> Then there are the two privilege escalation issues I can’t discuss yet because of responsible disclosure issues; Known privelege escalations, used in the wild to attack nuclear power stations and you can't disclose them? That's irres
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16y ago
How hard could it be to get 500 phones, put them in a plane and dial them all ?
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