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by martey 18y ago
This item's title is misleading. The original article clearly states that 02138 was not affiliated with the University.
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by martey 18y ago
Most of the blog exploits on the web (including the one in the article) seem to be focused on WordPress. Are there are a large number of people exploiting vulnerabilities in other blogging platforms, like Movable Type?
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by martey 18y ago
Unfortunately, it doesn't have a suspend-and-resume capability, which Stallman called "somewhat inconvenient." Nor does the battery charge while it's running, which he called "an annoyance." A lot of people would call these "dealbreakers.
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by martey 18y ago
From the release notes link you posted: Users affected by this issue can install the linux-backports-modules-intrepid package, to install a newer version of this driver that corrects the bug. Calm down.
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by martey 18y ago
If everyone regularly backed up their data, this would be less of an issue.
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by martey 18y ago
Muxtape was not hosted offshore, and it dealt with music. I am not sure its situation has any bearing on that of the original poster.
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by martey 18y ago
If anything, this proves the point of the grandparent post. Having more professors write magazine articles would elevate journalism, not degrade it.
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by martey 18y ago
FYI, I specially created this account to post on this thread, because I was scared of being called a racist and didn't want that tarnishing my normal account. I think it is funny that you talk about how we "should not be scared of things
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by martey 18y ago
When I pressed "flip" to signify that I did not like the content, it bought me to a login box. I have decided that the content they gave me is not useful, and their response is to ask me to create an account with them? This is the point whe
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by martey 18y ago
This article was somewhat interesting, but I have to wonder about whether building your own cluster at home would be more cost-effective (considering paying for hardware replacement, electricity, etc.) that just using Amazon S3/EC2. Also, i
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by martey 18y ago
I think the most useful part of this article is the last paragraph, where the author notes that none of The Pirate Bay's lofty projects have come to fruition yet. Until there is something that I can download and install on my computer, this
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by martey 18y ago
He is getting a second-degree conviction instead of first-degree. From the article: The maximum sentence Reiser could receive for second-degree murder is 15 years to life. Reiser had faced a term of 25 years to life under his first-degree
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by martey 18y ago
From section 5 of the "Signs that you shouldn't be a programmer" section: Your program produces output to be read by another (eg: a browser), or implements a network protocol, and relies on the other party's software to be significantly to
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by martey 18y ago
The writer constantly talks about the number of inches his screens have, as opposed to their actual resolution. While his 17" desktop monitor may be too small for him, a laptop with a 17" screen should be enough.
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by martey 18y ago
I only know one person who owns a Nokia smartphone (and at least eight who have iPhones). He bought it last summer (when the cheapest iPhone was $499) for $200. Since he wanted cheap email on the go, the iPhone was too expensive for him. I
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by martey 18y ago
It's hard to "root" for them when there are no phones out that currently run on the platform, and many of the details still seem to be up in the air. My worry is that Apple will dominate the smartphone market (like the MP3 player market), w
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by martey 18y ago
If by "latest version" you mean the 1.2 alpha, which is only accessible from the Firebug website, not addons.mozilla.org. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=411814#c60
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by martey 19y ago
The processor is the MacBook Air is different (lower voltage, lower clock speed, lower performance). Add in a slower hard drive (only 4200 RPM) and the difference in performance between it and your MacBook Pro is no surprise.
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Taking on YouTube(iht.com)
2 points by martey 19y ago|1 comments
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by martey 19y ago
Least friendly URL ever.
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by martey 19y ago
Hard to take it seriously when some of the articles linked on that page have headlines like "Dog gives birth to ugly mutant creature" and "Aliens caught on tape for the first time." Weekly World News called, they want their articles back. S
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What Happens When Web Services Do Not Backup?(webworkerdaily.com)
3 points by martey 19y ago|1 comments
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by martey 19y ago
Aren't you the same person who posted http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=93204 ? :)