m3koval

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by m3koval 15y ago
I'm also dual booting OS X and Ubuntu with a shared home partition formatted as HFS+. Getting the encryption to work nicely in Linux sounded pretty easy, but I couldn't figure out how to do it in OS X. My current solution is to store anythi
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by m3koval 15y ago
Nit: Ron Paul has an MD, not a Ph.D. He was a OB/GYN before being elected to congress.
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by m3koval 15y ago
I wonder how it looks in a more realistic environment (i.e. when the background isn't pitch black). Even after quite a bit of Googling I can't turn up any other photos of it It's a shame it costs $1300.
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by m3koval 15y ago
Building from source isn't necessarily a bad thing: some Linux packages have the same behavior (e.g. Portage, on which MacPorts is based). There are pros and cons to both approaches. Package management is definitely a disaster on OS X, tho
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by m3koval 15y ago
Now we know for sure why Google removed the "+" operator: it's used for the "direct connect feature." E.g. if you search for +pepsi you're redirected to Pepsi's Google+ page.
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by m3koval 15y ago
> By the way, a 2880×1800 15" panel merely (well …) has 230 PPI. Apple couldn’t even call it a Retina display. Whether a display is "retina" or not depends upon how far the display is from your eyes. I could definitely see Apple stretch
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by m3koval 15y ago
This is the point of resolution independence. Increasing resolution only shrinks graphical elements if the operating system isn't smart enough to render them using more pixels. With good resolution independence moving a higher resolution sc
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by m3koval 15y ago
That problem is inherent with posting something online. The best any service can do is make it difficult for someone to accidentally violate their friends' privacy. This, in my opinion, is where Google+ is failing: sharing makes it very eas
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by m3koval 15y ago
Only allowing the owner to share an album is a false sense of security. If someone can see your album, they could just as easily download the photos and make them public. Instead of disallowing it outright, I'd rather they make it clear tha
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by m3koval 15y ago
Since OCR was only able to parse one of the words, they have no way of checking the other (besides taking votes from a ton of submissions). Because the summation was not the word that was checked, you could enter anything. It's an interesti
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by m3koval 15y ago
If you're using a password management utility, root access to the filesystem isn't enough because all stored passwords are encrypted a password that is never stored on disk. One example of this, I believe, is Keychain using your login passw
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by m3koval 15y ago
The problem isn't that opening on mouse-up is worse , it's that it's different . After using an operating system for thousands of hours, one becomes accustom to the behavior of the standard controls. Anything that deviates from them and i
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by m3koval 15y ago
If I am not misinterpreting the article and, "his driving privileges were returned...after 10 days..." is the time between receiving the letter and having his name cleared, I am impressed that the government moved that quickly. Most of the
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by m3koval 15y ago
Well, that explains a lot. Every time I attempt to accomplish something on Facebook, one of two things happens: (1) the interface has changed in some way or (2) the feature is broken. Just last week, every "Load More" link was broken in Goo
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by m3koval 15y ago
That's four hours per day averaged over the entire study. These statistics are more telling: "Employed persons worked an average of 7.5 hours on the days they worked. More hours were worked, on average, on weekdays than on weekend days--7.9
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by m3koval 15y ago
Stereo vision does need two sensors and two lenses, where a micro-lens approach would only require one of each. However, the micro-lens camera would need a much larger and higher resolution sensor to produce a depth image that has the same
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by m3koval 15y ago
I don't think it is fair to lump "frequent updates," "large updates," and "background updates" into a single category: Frequent updates, if properly managed, are generally a plus: security vulnerabilities get patched before they are widely
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by m3koval 15y ago
You could probably do it, but it's not clear why it would be superior to stereo vision. Both approaches have the same pitfalls (CPU-intensive, need texture to work well) and stereo vision is largely a solved problem that works on commodity
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by m3koval 15y ago
After briefly using IE9 after using Firefox and Chrome for ages, I felt exactly the same way. Not only was IE9 substantially better than IE7 and IE8, but some of the UI decisions seem better than Firefox. If its support for HTML5 and CSS3 h
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by m3koval 15y ago
Terminal.app definitely still has problems in Snow Leopard; especially the lack of 256 color support. I've switched to using iTerm2, a replacement terminal emulator, and it's solved most of my complaints about Terminal.app. Hopefully Lion r
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by m3koval 15y ago
I had exactly the same reaction to the overview. Their introduction has a surprisingly of business-speak for a FOSS project: "Taskwarrior is an ambitious project bringing sophisticated capabilities to a simple and elegant productivity tool.
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by m3koval 15y ago
I agree. The term "well-rounded" is often bastardized to mean "well-versed in humanities." It is particularly noticeable in college: engineers are required to take a large number of humanities courses, but people studying liberal arts only
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by m3koval 16y ago
I am not sure if it is in the stable builds, but Chrome dev builds have had an option to enable GPU accelerated compositing in chrome://flags for some time. Unfortunately, I haven't noticed any performance with it on or off. You can read mo
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by m3koval 16y ago
It's a shame that they are finally cracking down on MyWii and the other jail broken tethering applications. Those applications, at least for me, helped to make the iPhone usable while AT&T dragged their feet on enabling proper tethering
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by m3koval 16y ago
You are correct in that all of the distributions only vary by the set of packages installed by default. The server edition, however, is designed to run headless and is thus very functionally different (i.e. X is not running by default, ther
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by m3koval 16y ago
Out of the box, window management with Mac OS X is a pain in the ass. Once I installed and configured BetterTouchTool, however, most of my complaints went away. Binding keyboard shortcuts and trackpad gestures to window management form a gr
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by m3koval 16y ago
The author mentions the new CPUs in a footnote: "Except new CPUs, but who cares? CPUs are the least exciting (and usually least relevant) upgrades in modern mass-market personal computers." For the vast majority of users, including many pow