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m_for_monkey
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m_for_monkey
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I hope you check your gear yourself before use and don't trust blindly in any brand name printed on it. And check out alternative brand, too; less expensive is not synonymous worse quality.
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Interesting app. AFAIK it's hard to chunk Chinese text to words since they don't use spaces (In the case of Japanese, I know for sure that perfect automated chunking is impossible). But it's not quiet right for English, too, because it show
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I reply to that comment after two days, I don't know if you or anyone else will read this. My rules of upgrade: 1. Keep your home folder in a separate partition. 2. Backup at least your system partition before upgrading using Remastersys [1
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"[...]it appears from the FAQ page that it will be possible to undertake the open course and then pay a “modest” fee to demonstrate mastery of the subject matter and be credentialled with an MIT award." Not true. For the "modest fee" they
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The problem is that you upgraded. I did the same and got the same result but a clean Xubuntu install works like a charm.
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In Total Commander you can configure the buffer sizes used while copying. Maybe in your homework you chose the right buffer size too (and, of course, asm is fast, but hard to write, I'm sure you didn't bother too much with error checking an
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In fact, that comment highlights a point missing from pg's essay - that a forum can easily become too closed, and if someone is on an even slightly different opinion than the residents then he is called a troll immediately. Just try to say
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"If anybody stole it, it wasn't many of you." Searching for "louis ck beacon" on The Pirate Bay gives 7 hits, with a total of 886 seeders, 152 leechers. http://thepiratebay.org/search/louis%20ck%20beacon/0/99/0
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Opera 11.60 goes final
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Texts Rasterization Exposures
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You are right, I hate that phrase too. Unfortunately it's pretty widespread. From my Collins Cobuild 5 dictionary: "When you refer to something as a fact or as fact, you mean that you think it is true or correct." See also: http://www.th
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Maybe choose one of these (NSFW!): http://freebsd-image-gallery.netcode.pl/?gallery=Daemonette
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Type rm -rf /* in your terminal emulator, place your finger over the Enter key and feel the temptation: "We stand upon the brink of a precipice. We peer into the abyss—we grow sick and dizzy. Our first impulse is to shrink away from the d