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by luser001 15y ago
Good article! I think "Complete Turbo Pascal" by Jeff Duntemann had a treatment of the spirograph (might have been another book on Turbo Pascal though). Good times, good times. :)
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by luser001 15y ago
Am I missing something? What's the significance of this link?
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by luser001 15y ago
Yes, the prefix is easier if you search from the firefox search box (ctrl-k). Also I frequently find nowadays that Goog and DDG provide very very very similar results for most queries for which I dissatisfied enough with DDG to try Goog.
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by luser001 15y ago
You can use the DDG '!g' prefix for that. For queries which I'd like to double check with Google, I resubmit it to duckduckgo with '!g' prefix. It redirects to Google. It's a smart move by DDG to help people resist the temptation to make Go
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by luser001 15y ago
Sorry, I just saw this. And I'm right now on Linux so I can't confirm, so I might be slightly off here. There's a setting under keyboard (or terminal, I forget). You might need to change it to 'X11R6'. Look at section 4.4.3 here: http://th
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Hope this helps. It's nothing fancy. No, no probs with 'top'. # use ^K instead of default ^B. set-option -g prefix C-k unbind-key C-b bind-key C-k send-prefix # F1, F2 to cycle between windows within a "workspace"
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by luser001 15y ago
I do this. Vim + tmux rocks. One tip that Works For Me (tm) is to map the rarely-used function keys to pane and window selection commands (I hate multi-key commands :)) I've got F1/F2 mapped to cycle through panes, and F3/F4 to cycle throug
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by luser001 15y ago
OP said: "I'm stuck on Ubuntu Natty, for example, because it has the last stable version of Compiz that worked for me on the flgrx ATI drivers." It's easy to imagine a similar problem (somebody stuck on XP because for e.g., a device driver
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by luser001 15y ago
You want stability and a slowly-changing core system, but won't use the LTS releases? Because your app provider doesn't make updated PPA's for the LTS release. At which point you blame the existence of the distro's non-LTS releases? I think
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by luser001 15y ago
> If I want to update Firefox on Windows XP, I can do that without Windows forcing me to update to Windows 7 ... Updating Firefox on Ubuntu 11.04 after a certain (very soon in the future) point in time necessitates an update to Ubuntu X
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by luser001 15y ago
You use debian and are complaining about old binaries? I think they consider it a feature. I use Ubuntu desktop/server and etc and my experiences with the package managers have been flawless.
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by luser001 15y ago
> I still use Linux on servers, but desktop Linux has largely disappeared from my life. And you still keep saying that "sound doesn't work". It's literally been years since I've had problems playing sound. > I get the feeling Linu
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by luser001 15y ago
I understand where you're coming from, but people have the exact same problem with Windows (and maybe Mac also; but I don't have much experience with Macs). Many people are staying on XP because they dislike Windows 7/Vista. I suspect the s
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by luser001 15y ago
Based on mucking around for a bit in Ubuntu Unity 11.10, it doesn't seem to be working. The option is there but it doesn't work. Looking more.
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by luser001 15y ago
Yes, I am doing this on Ubuntu 10.10 (which has gnome2). I will check if this exists on Ubuntu 11.10 and get back to you.
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Tell HN: Compiz Color Filter on Linux rocks
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by luser001 15y ago
Let's take his example of whites-only and blacks-only drinking fountains. Would a black person drinking from a whites-only fountain have constituted "initiation of force"? And similarly, was Rosa Parks' refusal to vacate her seat an "initia
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by luser001 15y ago
Thanks for honestly emphasizing "initiation". http://sethf.com/essays/major/libstupid.php analyzes why that qualifier renders the statement almost meaningless. I, at least, found his points convincing.
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by luser001 15y ago
Spot on observations. Your mother did it right. Do the same thing for your child. We do something similar with our 20-mo old. We're less hardcore about the TV^WNetflix thing than your mother. If he wants to watch Eeebee or Old MacDonanld he
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by luser001 15y ago
Just curious since I had a hard time doing a simple soldering project. Would it be difficult even if they had some equipment to precisely maintain temps and suck out the solder? Does such equipment even exist?
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by luser001 15y ago
I'm not sure I'm 100% articulate here, but feel that it's imprecise to call what Google to doing to produce search results an "algorithm". quicksort is an algorithm: the input and output are well-specified, and the algorithm is provably cor
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by luser001 15y ago
Hmm, what I described above is how a client certificate signed by a certificate authority is created. Random site that describes the procedure is below. What is the right way to do this? Exporting the private key of the certificate
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by luser001 15y ago
Can you educate me? Are you saying that using something like 'openssl x509' to export a certificate as PKCS12 to import into my browser is a bad thing?
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by luser001 15y ago
Hmm, for a customer of a cloud provider, this sort of thing will be very hard to defend against. Maybe if the customer service system had had two-factor security, this might have been avoided (i.e., customer service can access your accoun
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by luser001 15y ago
I'm even lazier. :) I used the pjscrape wrapper around phantomjs. https://github.com/nrabinowitz/pjscrape
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by luser001 15y ago
Thank you for a heartfelt comment. I wanted to put a note here in addition to clicking the arrow.
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by luser001 15y ago
Thanks for this great tip. I've been looking for a simple Windows-based DNS resolver for a while now.
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by luser001 15y ago
I did 'git log' on a repo with 60K commits and about 3k files. I finished in a second or so. I imported that git repo into Mercurial and did 'hg log'. It took 13 sec. This was about 3 years ago. I haven't looked at Mercurial again. Maybe th
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by luser001 15y ago
> Everyone is trying to track EVERYONE I used to think this, but the Target article on NY Times changed my mind. I've started locking down all my computers.
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by luser001 15y ago
I'd like to hear comparisons between Leveldb and Berkeley DB. I'm using LDB in my most-recent project. I wrote a trivial HTTP wrapper around it using Mongoose to make it a "server". :) I like the snapshotting feature, the support for transa

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