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by lvillani 13y ago
FWIW: These are the compiler flags I typically use: -std=c99 -Wall -Wextra -Werror -pedantic-errors
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by lvillani 13y ago
In my experience on a Gbit LAN, RDP is really fast, VNC and TeamViewer, not so much. I'm connected to a Windows 7 machine via RDP and to a Mac via VNC (even though I used to use TeamViewer) with Remmina on Ubuntu.
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by lvillani 13y ago
Sounds like Design by Contract.
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OPPO N1 to launch with the CyanogenMod Android Operating system(cyanogenmod.org)
3 points by lvillani 13y ago|0 comments
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by lvillani 13y ago
By the way, I recently discovered that you could use it in Ubuntu since 2012 (12.04). Just `apt-get install zram-config` and reboot, voilá. I'm using it both on my laptop and desktop at work with 4Gb physical RAM. I have PyCharm and lo
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by lvillani 13y ago
(Hopefully) they won't. They said that having either fglrx or nVidia's binary blob installed would cause the system to fall back to plain X.org.
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by lvillani 13y ago
For exploration, I still play with the app. Personally, I find the HUD useful in those situation where there is no keyboard shortcut associated with a particular menu item and one can't be configured either. Plus I find it easier to ju
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by lvillani 13y ago
> It's recently replaced mysql in redhat builds, so it's definitely on the up. "Red Hat's Director of Product Marketing, Mark Coggin, told various media outlets that the company has not made any decision or
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by lvillani 13y ago
I guess it's because this is what a permalink really is: an URL meant to last forever (hence the infinity symbol).
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by lvillani 13y ago
It's interesting to see how Canonical's announcement of Mir seemed to spur new interest around Wayland and an acceleration of its development, generating a new wave of announcements (i.e.: Gnome deciding to go "all wayland" by 3.12, etc).
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by lvillani 14y ago
> Not to mention that it's one unified OS rather than hundreds of GNU/Linux distros. I admittedly haven't used any BSD enough to make a well informed opinion but I was under the impression that BSDs are fragmented at the OS level (i.e
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by lvillani 14y ago
For those using other distributions than Ubuntu on their XPS13s, I am collecting the necessary kernel patches to get both the trackpad and backlight keys working here: http://lorenzo.villani.me/dell-xps13/ (Unfortunately, information to g
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by lvillani 14y ago
> You mean the Chrome which can't even be arsed to provide 64b builds on platforms where it's easy (Linux) [...] $ file /opt/google/chrome/chrome{,-sandbox}
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by lvillani 14y ago
Steam runs well enough with recent releases of Wine (I also had remarkably good experiences running Source games on it, i.e.: Half Life 2).
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by lvillani 14y ago
Starting with Honeycomb the storage partition is exposed through MTP (or PTP), this way it can be accessed concurrently by both Android and your computer. Before Honeycomb, said partition could be accessed as an USB mass-storage drive but t
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by lvillani 15y ago
> I think the new website is fantastic, as I now know all of this and more just from a quick glace. Great work. I noticed that it is almost identical to Apache Cordova's [1]. Is there an ongoing effort to bring a consistent look to al
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by lvillani 15y ago
It doesn't trigger the HUD if you type a key sequence but it's quite easy to activate it nonetheless. Anyway, the command below is all that's needed to disable it. gconftool-2 -s /apps/compiz-1/plugins/unityshell/screen0/options/show_
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by lvillani 15y ago
I think they should clearly separate tablet and desktop interfaces and switch between them based on context (like what Canonical is planning to do with their "Ubuntu for Android"). That is: you get only a classic desktop (+ windowed Metro
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by lvillani 15y ago
I consider freedom a paramount attribute I expect from software I use. However, I tend to use use proprietary software if its much more convenient than free options and either 1) I can easily switch to an alternative (preferably open), 2) I
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by lvillani 15y ago
For the first time I am seriously considering whether to replace Emacs as my primary text editor on Linux. I've been compulsively using Emacs for the past 5 years. Thanks to Emacs I felt in love with (a dialect of) Lisp and experienced the
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by lvillani 15y ago
I believe it's important to keep things honest. If an API is nowhere near the definition of being RESTful, then don't label it as such. This company, along with others (e.g.: Flickr and their infamous "REST" API), are responsible for tu
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by lvillani 15y ago
Looks like an RPC-style API with multiple endpoints + custom authentication scheme.
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by lvillani 15y ago
From the article: "although the old menu system will still be available for those who don’t want to use HUD or want to explore the available commands" In addition, users upgrading from 10.04 LTS to 12.04 LTS are already getting Unity (whi
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by lvillani 15y ago
I found a couple of issues (Chrome 16.0.912.75 on Ubuntu 10.04) - When previewing an icon I can't close the lightbox by pressing "Esc". I have to explicitly click outside the box to close it. - I can't seem to be able to view an icon's deta
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by lvillani 15y ago
You can compare SHA1 hashes using this TechNet page for reference: http://technet.microsoft.com/subscriptions/downloads/default... (click "Details" to reveal the SHA1 hash).
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by lvillani 15y ago
FWIW: The Microsoft Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 was causing me RSI (I found the spacebar too hard to hit and several keys started malfunctioning after nearly one year). Design-wise I found it good enough (especially for the palm rest and layout
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by lvillani 15y ago
> The one pictured is hideously ugly, though. You can order a customized version. I have a custom Unicomp EnduraPro with blank keycaps (like a Das Ultimate) and they also reprogrammed it (i.e.: I wanted to swap CapsLock with left Ctrl
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Building Windows 8: ReFS, Resilient File System(blogs.msdn.com)
3 points by lvillani 15y ago|0 comments
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AnandTech - Nokia Lumia 800 Review(anandtech.com)
1 points by lvillani 15y ago|0 comments
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by lvillani 15y ago
This script seems to trigger a bug in Firefox or X11 which brings the whole session down . It's 100% reproducible with my setup: Firefox 9.0.1 on Ubuntu 10.04 (x86_64) and Fglrx 8.920 (Catalyst 11.11, if I remember correctly). Load the pag

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