macemoneta

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by macemoneta 16y ago
Rooting isn't impossible on the Droid X, it's just annoyingly difficult. If someone wanted to distribute malware ROM images, they just need to wait for the root to be accomplished by someone else. There's no real protection. If it's Veriz
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by macemoneta 16y ago
I don't understand the thinking here. You pay for the hardware (either directly or through your service contract). The software is free and open source. What do they think they are protecting? Why not make it OS agnostic, like a PC? The
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by macemoneta 16y ago
Backups to remote systems. Keep significant data in "the cloud". Stream content directly from a friend - why upload/download? Distributed cluster computing / rending farms - make adding FX or fully rendered animation to home movies near
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by macemoneta 16y ago
The other advantage to Google Reader is that the processing is offloaded. I have many active feeds, and when performing an update my local client on my 8GB quad-core raid-0 system would grind away - no matter what client I used. With Go
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by macemoneta 16y ago
Most Linux users get all their software from their distribution's repositories, instead of pulling source from assorted websites. All major distributions GPG sign their packages and use (GPG signed) checksums, which are automatically verif
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by macemoneta 16y ago
The current developer build of Chrome/Chromium has hardware acceleration (switch enabled). The 3.7 developer build of Firefox also has it (and it's supposed to be faster than IE9). Why didn't they compare those, since IE9 is also a develo
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by macemoneta 16y ago
It's a good thing that all other browsers have stopped development. Or maybe a better test would be comparing browsers with hardware acceleration against each other? Does anyone compare two games, one with hardware rendering and one with
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by macemoneta 16y ago
I think this is a great. The traditional television networks have outlived their usefulness. I've been waiting years for a production company to bypass the network and sell their product directly to audiences. There are so many great pro
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by macemoneta 16y ago
You're not looking for a programmer, you're looking for a JavaScript web developer. The requirement should be more specific.
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by macemoneta 16y ago
I think the problem is that there are progressively fewer and fewer places where civil discourse is the norm. Many sites start out that way and establish a stimulating environment. As the site becomes popular and attracts a wider audience
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by macemoneta 16y ago
Windows in a VM makes web application testing easy. Always starting from a snapshot insures integrity of the environment too.
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by macemoneta 16y ago
I'm a member of the Chuck (tv show) community. We encountered similar issues in trending efforts. Some hash tags will simply not trend, and there's no apparent rhyme or reason. Twitter support never responded to any inquiries as to why s
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by macemoneta 16y ago
Initially, no manufacturers were willing to do this. OLPC began designing and spec'ing the initial machine themselves, then worked with an ODM for manufacture. When countries started showing interest, other manufacturers (like Intel) star
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by macemoneta 16y ago
The goal of the OLPC project was to get low cost computers to children that couldn't otherwise afford them. Before OLPC, a 'cheap' laptop cost $1500, with many over $2000. Now, 40 million netbooks - most under $400 - are in people's hands
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by macemoneta 16y ago
If you are interested in particular subject matter, as opposed to genuinely interested in the people you follow, just run a search or advanced search. Both auto-update and provide filtering functionality.
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by macemoneta 16y ago
Mark Zuckerberg thought the IMs were private, but the terms changed.
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by macemoneta 16y ago
Old laptops are more energy efficient than old desktops. I use a few 10+ year old machines for various dedicated purposes. While most have no internal batteries, I plug them into a small $25 UPS and get the same brief power outage resilie
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by macemoneta 17y ago
You want one of the routers that can run a third party Linux router distribution. Take a look at: http://www.myopenrouter.com/ The Netgear WNR3500L with DD-WRT firmware is as close as you're going to get for a reasonable price (about $10
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by macemoneta 17y ago
I saw the item but didn't follow the link, because the description didn't sound interesting. If the description were more clear, I probably would have followed it. For example: "A script to estimate the time at which a process will complet
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by macemoneta 17y ago
In addition to dangrossman's comments, I have friends and family that are geographically distant. Blogs, and social networking in general (Facebook, Twitter, Google Buzz), help maintain a sense of emotional closeness.
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by macemoneta 17y ago
Head over to http://makezine.com/ for lots of projects to get started. Many are based on the Arduino, which you can pick up for under $30 USD: http://www.makershed.com/SearchResults.asp?Cat=43 It's probably the easiest and lowest cost
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by macemoneta 17y ago
And a data point of one user is a trend? I have seven different computers (x86_64, i686, ppc) and I don't have to install any drivers. What does that tell us? Just as much nothing. The fact is that Linux supports more hardware (as of abou
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by macemoneta 17y ago
tl;dr - No At this point, I don't think there's any technical reason that Linux on the desktop/laptop/netbook/smartbook wouldn't fly. End users never see a command line in mainstream Linux distributions, anymore than they do with Windows 7
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by macemoneta 17y ago
Revisor (see: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=236679 ). The ability to create custom Linux spins and even full system software thumbdrives make drive failures / system recovery much less impacting. It also makes "ready to g
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by macemoneta 17y ago
Email is not a guaranteed delivery protocol. Messages get dropped if any server in the path has a problem. With 80+% of email being spam, it's also possible that an aggressive filter on your ISP or an intermediate machine is selecting the
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by macemoneta 17y ago
Most fridges have a temperature adjustment, and the machine is generating heat. Throw a temperature monitor in the fridge and keep it above the dew point, and you won't have any condensation. http://www.decatur.de/javascript/dew/index.htm
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by macemoneta 17y ago
Lynx can record a session and play it back, which makes it easy to create tests. The sessions are easily edited too. It's available in the repositories of most Linux distributions, or here: http://www.lynxbrowser.com/
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by macemoneta 17y ago
A good night's sleep.
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by macemoneta 17y ago
I use Fedora for several reasons: * Close to upstream, for early access to packaged software, * Security is a primary concern: SELinux by default, Firewall by default, PolicyKit, Exec-Shield, Compile Time Buffer Checks, ELF Data Hardening,