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by masomenos 16y ago
Doesn't look like anyone's mentioned another unique feature of a BSD: every OpenBSD release comes on a CD with funky artwork, stickers, and an original song. See http://openbsd.org/art1.html and http://openbsd.org/lyrics.html for more.
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by masomenos 16y ago
I dip my toes into IRC now and again, but keep getting frustrated by the learning curve. Yes, I get the basics of joining channels and chatting. I can see that there's a ton of efficiencies IRC power users have figured out that I haven't. A
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by masomenos 16y ago
This criticism misses the Volt's unique powertrain configuration. Trips under 40 miles are all on battery power, so the average commuter uses no gas doing their daily business. However, unlike an EV, you can hop in the same car & drive
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by masomenos 16y ago
". . .Mongo have seen issues from many people with data loss" Have any citations for data loss happening in a release version of mongo, with the recommended configuration (at least 1 slave)?
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by masomenos 16y ago
There was also a developer version of the G1/Dream -- http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/12/18/Android-Di...
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by masomenos 16y ago
You piqued my curiosity, never having tried Clojure. My time from 0 to getting (the correct!) result of (+2 2) from Clojure's REPL was approximately 60 seconds. Pretty simple.
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by masomenos 16y ago
Funny, his review of the Nikon D40 ( http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/d40.htm ) helped convince me to take the plunge into DSLR land. He does rail against much of the conventional wisdom, eg. more megapixels is better -- perhaps this is the
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by masomenos 16y ago
Plenty of sites use URLs like http://example.com/sd8n9g9g rather than require logins for private / semi-private material. What's wrong with that?
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by masomenos 16y ago
to play devil's advocate, what you'd need to know to parse that paragraph was covered by my CS 102 class. So you'd only need to have taken a couple classes, rather than majored in the subject.
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by masomenos 16y ago
No idea what "extraordinary" means to you, but the scenarios reported in Peter Singer's recent book on military robotics, Wired for War, represent some potentially huge shifts. They may not "improve our lives" though.
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by masomenos 16y ago
so true! Every time i'm forced to deal with launchd for scheduling, I wish I was using cron.
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by masomenos 16y ago
Have been wondering the same thing myself, and opened up an identi.ca account to see what it's like. Nobody I know uses it yet but there are a good number of Free Software and Android oriented users.
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by masomenos 16y ago
interesting! Hadn't heard of them before, will check one out sometime.
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by masomenos 16y ago
Have been using it on firewalls for about 10 years. Wouldn't use anything else in that space, between the security, reliability, and usability of PF. A couple of the current firewalls are on Soekris hardware, cheap little boxes that only dr
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by masomenos 16y ago
have any references for this? I've seen the same claim and would love to believe it.
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by masomenos 17y ago
I agree that this is a minor annoyance, but your local hardware store probably has one available for $5. In other words, it's still orders of magnitude better than replacing the HD in, say, an iBook.
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by masomenos 17y ago
If you follow the MACENTERPRISE mailing list, you might come to a different conclusion about Apple's responsiveness to bugs. Or, how about response to the vulnerabilities exploited in pwn2own? Firefox got fixed in about a week, but Safari i
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by masomenos 17y ago
Exactly. Just bought one of those for that exact reason, and will likely be purchasing a few more shortly.
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by masomenos 17y ago
$ man dma No manual entry for dma
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by masomenos 17y ago
write us back when TSA & equivalent go through the same selection process as MDs.
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by masomenos 17y ago
Do you have any specifics, or is this just mud slinging? Longtime slicehost customer here, haven't seen any negative impact from the acquisition.
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by masomenos 17y ago
I think you're underestimating the ubiquity of caves.
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by masomenos 17y ago
Sounds very promising. I've done OK over the years using MacPorts, but like the idea of not installing Yet Another Perl dist, etc.
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by masomenos 17y ago
To be fair, plenty of us had second thoughts the first time we heard that idea...
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by masomenos 17y ago
Glad to see your app is using Schulze!
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by masomenos 17y ago
Yes. the 6 months of 10k computers churning required to factor is certainly instructive.
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by masomenos 17y ago
recommendation seconded. Miller smashes a number of idols.
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by masomenos 17y ago
so, very eventful?
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by masomenos 17y ago
No thanks -- keep your security checks out of our train system. If people insist on flying they can pay the price at the airport.
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by masomenos 17y ago
incidentally, Stephenson prefers "speculative fiction".

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