legooolas

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by legooolas 10y ago
One thing that's missing from a lot of arcade cab builds is that old games often don't run at a 60Hz refresh rate, and so you get a strange jittery effect as it has to skip or duplicate frames to display at 60Hz on normal LCD moni
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by legooolas 10y ago
I've been using it on some cheap ethernet-over-power adapters (Devolo, not "HomePlug" brand) for streaming MythTV recordings of HD UK TV for several years and it's been completely fine. UK Freeview HD is 1080i though, bu
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by legooolas 10y ago
But Apple won't explicitly state which versions are and are not supported, so everyone could be wrong.
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by legooolas 10y ago
Personally I prefer to be able to hear cars and people when I'm cycling, so that I'm less likely to hit anything or be run over. Do you not feel it makes you more likely to have an accident?
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by legooolas 10y ago
This is possible, but requires different wiring to light switches, to provide power there (which isn't common) and for manufacturers of replacement switches, bulbs etc to care about security. The former isn't something which is ha
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by legooolas 10y ago
That's exactly what X10 does, but it's fallen out of favour in recent times. (I've not used it so I couldn't say why)
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by legooolas 10y ago
I've been running it (or an equivalent ethernet-over-power from another vendor) for years and streaming HD TV over it with no problems. RF spewing out of the mains wiring is true, but again I've not had any obvious problems due to
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by legooolas 10y ago
Yet. (Does kdbus count?)
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by legooolas 10y ago
Should you then hold individuals accountable for their own incompetence (rather than malice)? Where do you draw the line between it being the corporation's fault and the individual? (I suspect these questions are part of the reason it
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by legooolas 10y ago
That is awesome, and would be something I would try and do right now, if I hadn't got rid of my cable subscription in favour of over-the-air Freeview (I'm in the UK).
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by legooolas 10y ago
Isn't NUMA how multi-core CPUs work still? At least the AMD Bulldozer architecture diagram on the Wikipedia NUMA page shows this, both within a socket and between sockets: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-uniform_
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by legooolas 11y ago
I have one of these and this is why I blocked the wifi bridge from any outgoing network access. The mystery server then just uses the MAC address of the bridge as the "authentication" of where you get to control the lights via th
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by legooolas 15y ago
> At first the effect seemed "neat", but after [repeated use] the novelty wore off and it became cumbersome I find the same with virtually all animations on phones and other UIs. If it can show me what I want a smidgen quicker by not a
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by legooolas 15y ago
In the UK the opposite is true; if you have a contract you get better per-month costs, and over the course of 2 years it's often enough to pay for a smartphone bought contract-free. I have just done this myself with a 24-month contract sa
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by legooolas 15y ago
Debian _un_stable, on the other hand may be (depending on when you last updated). There is a new package available and so an `apt-get install sudo' or `apt-get upgrade' will sort it.
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by legooolas 15y ago
I stand corrected :/
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by legooolas 15y ago
gcc does in some cases but not all (see http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.1.1/gcc/Optimize-Options... but not all). Still, the current standard says it's not legal so it seems like a bad idea to rely on undefined behaviour...
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by legooolas 15y ago
If you have multiple items of which you're only going to store one at a time but want them in the same "structure" then you use a union. (i.e. temporally disjoint)
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by legooolas 15y ago
> A union is a means to make some value accessible as various types. For example if you do a zvalue_value->lval you’ll get the value interpreted as an integer. If you use zvalue_value->ht on the other hand the value will be inte
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by legooolas 15y ago
It's not just you. An email that starts with "I would like to start a dialogue about our plans for..." makes me think "uh-oh" immediately. Slicehost has only changed for the worse since their merge, from my experience with them :/ I reco
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by legooolas 16y ago
That sounds rather inconvenient. Are the external elastic IPs non-routable internally? I mean, if you add the IPs explicitly to hosts files then will traffic to those IPs not work?
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by legooolas 16y ago
> after startup the EC2 instances have new IPs They have static ("Elastic") IP addresses: http://aws.amazon.com/articles/1346?_encoding=UTF8&jiveR... ..don't these let you keep the same IP for your Puppet master instance?
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by legooolas 16y ago
There have been a lot of suggestions (on here and other sites) to run puppet with locally-rsync-ed (rsunk?) copies of manifests, but there are a few things which won't work if you do this, unfortunately. Most importantly is the `storedconf
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by legooolas 16y ago
http://nokiaplanv.com could really do with some filtering to remove javascript on the output page after the form... :/
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by legooolas 16y ago
Many US mobile/cell plans include paying for receiving text messages. Clearly no-one in the US gets any text message spam, or they'd be _really_ angry about paying to receive that.
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by legooolas 16y ago
I'll bite: I'd say that it's more that if there's no (current) way to track what the other package management system is doing on the distro (any distro, not just Debian) then they can't tell what packages are installed and hence whether the
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by legooolas 16y ago
> pain points Absolutely, but this problem has been around for a long time, and fighting with distributions on how to get it to work won't help anyone. Of course, it also means that if you install a buggy version of a library from, say,
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by legooolas 16y ago
[Disclaimer: I'm not a Ruby developer, but have developed in plenty of languages, as well as being a sysadmin for a fair while] IME, separate package-management for each and every language is more painful than the problem he is describing.
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by legooolas 16y ago
Setting up a new switch in the office, and to show the pretty light-show on startup, rebooted the switch. Turns out that the newer Procurve 1810Gs don't automatically save the config (you have to tell them to after making changes), and the
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by legooolas 16y ago
Pretty much as bad was that a colleague of mine once ran: rpm -e * ..which had much the same effect (and no confirmations required!)

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