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by miahi 15y ago
I still use Win 2k3 on my work laptop. I'm using this OS since RC2, and I'm way more productive on that old OS than on W7. I tried customizing a W7 install to look and feel just like that and I failed to get the same feeling. I use W7 at ho
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by miahi 15y ago
That's a very nice idea, but it works only for 10% of the developers. Not all the developers are hardware geeks. I usually upgrade my own machines, but I have to answer awkward questions from my managers ("why the hell do you need an intern
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by miahi 15y ago
For local compiles with good I/O I use RAM drives, hosting most of the project, the IDE and the compiler/jvm on RAM drives. The files are backed up on a git repository on the hard drive, so I don't have to worry about data loss if the RAM d
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by miahi 15y ago
Dan's article is very old (2003). At that time is was not easy to mount a big cooler on a motherboard. The heatpipes were not widely used. These days you can find huge coolers with (or at least claimed[1]) less than 0.2°C/W. Most of the low
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by miahi 15y ago
It's the same on the new Lenovos. I have a T510 and it has only one jack for mic input and headphones (probably using a 4-contact jack). I cannot use it for Skype until I find a new pair of headphones with mike that has that jack. In the me
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by miahi 15y ago
Are these habits in the US? I thought this is common sense.
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7 Inventors You Didn't Know You Wanted to Punch In the Face(readaloo.com)
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by miahi 15y ago
Found this note here: http://www.science20.com/news_articles/ulas_j11200641_most_d... [2] Because light travels at a finite speed, astronomers look back in time as they look further away into the Universe. It took 12.9 billion years for t
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by miahi 15y ago
If that black hole is 12.9 billion light-years away, it takes 12.9 billion years for the light to travel to us. Considering the age of the Universe 13.75 billion years, what they actually presume in the article is that we don't move at all:
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by miahi 15y ago
The difference between the titles is very interesting: "Apple up, Android flat in smartphone growth" vs the original "_In US_, Smartphones Now Majority of New Cellphone Purchases". Yes, the US market is big, but not the only one. http://ww
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Civilizing the 'Net: ISPs told to play copyright cop(arstechnica.com)
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by miahi 15y ago
Actually, commodity hardware that you can buy today for less than $1000 would have made it to the top tiers of HPC Top500 just 11 or 12 years ago. But most of this was done in a step by step evolution of old technologies, not in a revolutio
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by miahi 15y ago
The interesting thing in the report is that they blame Romania for introducing "noise" in their statistics, so they did not include it. In one place they actually blame the ad-hoc networks for this, probably thinking that most of the countr