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by m_ram 13y ago
I haven't had a chance to watch these yet, but every other speech I've seen of his has been thoughtful and eloquent. For anyone who isn't familiar with his other speeches, it's well worth it to give them a watch. https:
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by m_ram 13y ago
FWIW, they have a brief section about hardware failure in the Getting Started Guide [1]. I don't know how long it's been there. [1] http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/instance-... (b
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by m_ram 13y ago
Try http://openmetadata.lib.harvard.edu/bibdata It's free, downloadable, and has records on almost 13 million items. Just going by the API ( http://dp.la/dev/wiki/Item_API ), it looks like it h
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by m_ram 13y ago
You can get 1.x installers for the command-line tools from ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/binary/
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by m_ram 13y ago
I'm not sure if this is true. The picture accompanying the article shows the reporter using what looks like his personal email address [1]. I guess he could have signed it with his company and job title information. Either way, I don&#
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by m_ram 13y ago
This is exactly what I was going to recommend. Maybe a sentence or two describing what the department does as well. I'm sure most non-Americans (and even most Americans) don't know what the DOI does, for example.
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by m_ram 13y ago
You're right that this is a good option for people who care, but most won't bother. Windows 8.1 will have most drivers for ethernet and wireless cards which means that the majority of people will be connecting to the Internet befo
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by m_ram 13y ago
I installed the RTM x64 Pro version in a VM a few days ago and it did not have an option for local account. I had to Google around to find out how to bypass it. After installation, when you create additional accounts, it does give you the o
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by m_ram 13y ago
"I don't remember my password."
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by m_ram 13y ago
Maybe there are less obvious things they can do (I'm not an expert), but isn't this what testing software like dieharder is designed to detect? I assume people are testing /dev/(u)random often.
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by m_ram 13y ago
I read "Oracle" and "VM" in the title and immediately thought that VirtualBox was going to be OpenOffice/MySQL-ized. I don't know how VirtualBox fits into Oracle's strategy, but I'm glad that they&#x2
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by m_ram 13y ago
I use Terminus too. To me, nothing is more readable [1] than Terminus [2] with the solarized-dark [3] color scheme. [1] http://i.imgur.com/J7M22rc.png [2] http://terminus-font.sourceforge.net [3] http:/&#x
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by m_ram 13y ago
2.3.25 is the current stable version. 2.4.* is in development. Tor server operators would have to compile from source or use the upstream deb/rpm repos. https://www.torproject.org/download/download-unix.html.en
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by m_ram 13y ago
Here's an even shinier one: http://i.imgur.com/JfODxoo.jpg I'll take the blue one if it's cheaper. I don't think I've even thought about pretty cables until this article.
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by m_ram 13y ago
A casual search of code in Debian [1] shows that this is not limited to the Linux kernel. Thankfully there's no equivalent to the Parents Television Council [2] or Focus on the Family [3] for open source projects. [1] http:/&#x2F
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by m_ram 13y ago
Yes, it affects all versions, but the article is emphasizing Java 6 because it is no longer being updated.
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by m_ram 13y ago
81) My wife/husband thinks I spend too much time on my startup? Divorce them or close your business. I think it was just an oversight rather than blatant sexism.
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by m_ram 13y ago
He wrote 10mpg in the comments [1]. That means $0.39/mile on average driving in the U.S. [2]. [1] http://www.hankboughtabus.com/a-tour-of-the-bus/#comment-508 [2] http://www.eia.gov/petroleum/
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by m_ram 13y ago
Full mailing list thread: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.shells.dash/841
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by m_ram 13y ago
Isn't the whole interface and all of the apps HTML5? I know that Firefox OS is Android under the hood, but can it run APK files?
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by m_ram 13y ago
The client is open source [1], so you can verify that it's doing what they claim. You can also build it yourself if you want to be really careful. I don't think messing with the servers would do any good (except for metadata) when
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by m_ram 13y ago
> I'm not sure if my memory is playing tricks on my, but I've found quotes unreliable. Google will spit out "close" suggestions that have nothing to do with what I requested, despite using quotes. I noticed the same a
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by m_ram 13y ago
I think MySQL's three copyright owners (with a heavy emphasis on Oracle) gave open core a bad reputation. I like reading stories like this because I think it's important for there to be different business models for open source.
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NSA establishes $60 million data analytics lab at NC State(newsobserver.com)
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by m_ram 13y ago
Today is also day 6 of DebConf13 [1]. They're live streaming many of the talks. Downloadable videos, slides, and the talk schedule are also linked to from that page. [1] http://debconf13.debconf.org
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by m_ram 13y ago
Please add a title tag to the https://news.ycombinator.com/newslogin page. Password managers like KeePassX and KeePass use window titles to select user names and passwords for the auto-fill feature.
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by m_ram 13y ago
If you're interested in podcasts, there's an excellent table of podcasts accompanying an episode of Startups for the Rest of Us [1]. [1] http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/episodes/episode-104-p...
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by m_ram 13y ago
Zynga has a lot of people to sue if they want to own "... with friends." https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22*%20with%20fr...
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by m_ram 13y ago
Yes, he (the author) also co-hosts an excellent podcast [1] with Mike Taber [2]. I know they're both on HN, but I'm not sure of their usernames. [1] http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com [2] http://www.singl
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by m_ram 13y ago
Even more interesting is all the people who don't know why they're getting this error message: https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22Please%20stop...

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