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by mattyb 17y ago
http://waferbaby.com/setup/2009/03/14/paul-graham
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by mattyb 17y ago
Keir Thomas wrote a great book that introduced me to Linux: Apress' Beginning Ubuntu Linux, 3rd Edition. I've read about a dozen Linux books since, but it's the best introduction I've seen. I doubt spreading FUD is his agenda.
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by mattyb 17y ago
According to http://www.paulgraham.com/mac.html , Paul uses a Mac. And this release fixed a major boot issue on 2 machines for me, so I figured someone else might want to know.
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by mattyb 17y ago
Release notes: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.2R/relnotes.html
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FreeBSD 7.2 released(freebsd.org)
48 points by mattyb 17y ago|11 comments
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by mattyb 17y ago
The interview was conducted by The Next Women, which has a "focus on startups and growing businesses, led, founded or invested in by women." http://thenextwomen.com/about/
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by mattyb 17y ago
Not to be wooden, but if you reply to someone's comment, I don't think there's a need to state @[username].
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by mattyb 17y ago
I'll be there.
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Marvell Bets on 'Plug Computers'(online.wsj.com)
1 points by mattyb 17y ago|0 comments
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by mattyb 17y ago
+1 for that link. I've also got tons of add-ons, and that just made my Firefox 3.5b4 run even faster than it already does.
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by mattyb 17y ago
Anybody know of any other good book lists?
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by mattyb 17y ago
I almost always hover over links on HN to check the URL. (google.com) is often code.google.com, and I knew without knowing that googlepages.com had to be something like whatever.blogger.com or some such like nopassrecover said.
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by mattyb 18y ago
It should be noted that these changes are for Ubuntu Server Edition.
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by mattyb 18y ago
http://ubuntuforums.org
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by mattyb 18y ago
While the article itself gets this wrong, the program is actually called 'Adobe Reader' as of v9. Not to be pedantic or anything.
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by mattyb 18y ago
"Of the targeted attacks so far this year, more than 47 percent of them exploit holes in Acrobat Reader while six vulnerabilities have been discovered that target the program, Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer of security firm F-Secure
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by mattyb 18y ago
Give VirtualBox ( http://www.virtualbox.org/ ) a try. I run Photoshop CS4, Rosetta Stone v3, and backup my BlackBerry inside it with minimal problems. GIMP didn't do it for me either.
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by mattyb 18y ago
I also grabbed the Kubuntu and Xubuntu LiveCDs so I can try out KDE 4.2 and Xfce without installing the packages.
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by mattyb 18y ago
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2009... "The desktop will have a designer's fingerprints all over it - we're now beginning the serious push to a new look. Brown has served us well but the Koala is considering other
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by mattyb 18y ago
I highly recommend t61. I joined a few days ago and have found 10x as many great songs as I did during the same period for Last.fm. Their UX is also damn nice.
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by mattyb 18y ago
No. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=575487
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by mattyb 18y ago
What are your other reasons?
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Did you know? 2.0(youtube.com)
1 points by mattyb 18y ago|0 comments
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A Gentle Introduction to Video Encoding (series)(diveintomark.org)
2 points by mattyb 18y ago|0 comments
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Incremental mapreduce(eagain.net)
1 points by mattyb 18y ago|0 comments
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Git for Computer Scientists(eagain.net)
2 points by mattyb 18y ago|0 comments
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When Cloud Computing Doesn't Make Sense(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
1 points by mattyb 18y ago|0 comments
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by mattyb 18y ago
To be fair, this company is called Cyberdyne, which is the same name as the company behind Skynet in the Terminator films.
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by mattyb 18y ago
Dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=568358
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by mattyb 18y ago
I run 6 days a week and ice skate 2-3 nights a week. Running allows me to both stay in good shape and do a lot of thinking; I've caught quite a few bugs during those morning runs. I played ice hockey in middle school and have loved skating

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