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by ldite 15y ago
Anecdata: I've supported Ubuntu desktops for non-technical users, and they do indeed seem to have an amazing ability to accidentally re-arrange panel items, even with "Lock items" ticked. I'm entirely in favour of making it more difficult -
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by ldite 15y ago
Not true; From Windows 7, Windows supports both per-machine and per-user "installation contexts" with separate "Program Files" directories: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd765197%28v=VS.85%2... (see "ProgramFilesFolder" section)
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by ldite 15y ago
Direct link to the relevant blog post; http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/5850.html
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by ldite 15y ago
I've had the Java plugin disabled in firefox for a long time now. On the very rare occasions I need it, you can re-enable it without restarting the browser (unlike extensions.)
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by ldite 15y ago
Control Moment Gyroscopes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_moment_gyroscope#Intern...
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by ldite 15y ago
Philosophy - they don't need the wastebasket [JOKE]
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by ldite 15y ago
Actually the "v = (v + 1) % 2" approach has merit -- in the past I've had to write MHEG textual notation, which is a declarative language where the syntax for conditionals is phenomenally ugly and ludicrously verbose, and this method is va
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by ldite 15y ago
I don't know about you, but if I turn a picture-postcard around its vertical axis, left-to-right, all I see is the blank back of the picture. (Likewise if I rotate it around it's horizontal axis.) What you're actually saying is if I put the
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by ldite 15y ago
For those like me, who initially assumed that this didn't work in their browser for some stupid reason, turns out you need to press the space bar or page up/down.
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by ldite 15y ago
From the Eclipse wiki: "Orion's objective is to create a browser-based open tool integration platform which is entirely focused on developing for the web, in the web. Tools are written in JavaScript and run in the browser. Unlike other atte
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by ldite 15y ago
This is a fascinating analysis of Skype from a few years back: http://recon.cx/en/f/vskype-part1.pdf http://recon.cx/en/f/vskype-part2.pdf Looking at how complex it is, and considering that Skype probably have more obfuscation and crypt
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by ldite 15y ago
On Matt Zimmerman's blog; http://mdzlog.alcor.net/2011/05/06/moving-on-from-canonical-...
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by ldite 15y ago
Can the planes that 'fly' in to land can detach from the support rod and taxi through the airport? Hard to tell from the video...
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by ldite 15y ago
Funny as hell when I was a physics undergraduate 10 years ago, and still funny now. I still routinely use the phrase "to first order" when justifying horrific approximations.
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by ldite 15y ago
I've been locking my bike up at Temple Meads for years without any problems - I (cynically) always try to lock it up next to a much more expensive looking one, or one with a weaker lock. Failing that, as deep into the centre of the mass as
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by ldite 16y ago
I quite like their http://the.british.museum/ url
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by ldite 16y ago
I always thought that the "lightweight" part of Xfce was about it not being inextricably wound around all the dbus and HAL stuff that gets pulled in with Gnome, and it not running an entire parallel configuration and system management syste
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by ldite 16y ago
An ideological dislike of something is based on an ideology, which typically includes moral or ethical principles; hence he most likely is taking a principled stance.
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by ldite 16y ago
Even sourcier: http://www.imdb.com/help/show_leaf?history
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by ldite 16y ago
With photos and notes on actually making and selling the recipe; http://sparror.cubecinema.com/cube/cola/
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by ldite 16y ago
Now more commonly seen in Contiki: http://www.sics.se/contiki/ which is an operating system for resource-constrained platforms ranging from 16-bit 10kB RAM sensor motes to C64s. It's quite an interesting project.
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by ldite 16y ago
"Voyage" by Stephen Baxter is a very good hard sf alternate history novel about what could have happened if the US had pushed on to Mars after Apollo. Not much about the actual exploration of Mars, but a good imagining of the technology and
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by ldite 16y ago
You should have protected it with one of the text captchas - so to use your service to bypass it they'd have to have broken it already :)
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by ldite 16y ago
For that matter there's nothing to stop this device having 240V AC across its pins
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by ldite 16y ago
...and Google Analytics bug. Ha.
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by ldite 16y ago
This reminds me of the way that, in the late 90s, everyone was calling for Apple to dump Mac OS, switch to commodity hardware, spin off the OS division, or whatever, things that in retrospect would have meant Apple never got to where it is
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by ldite 16y ago
Likewise, although I've never been too sure how much of that comes from VS's auto-magic everything and refactoring tools.
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by ldite 16y ago
"Mars is clearly the best permanent-residence location other than Earth, and we can go there in case somebody or something blows up Earth. We will have a place that ensures the survival of the human race." This always struck me as a dicey
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by ldite 16y ago
It exists; http://www.jetlev-flyer.com/
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by ldite 16y ago
Summary; I don't like frameworks, so I rolled my own framework.

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