mikelward

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by mikelward 15y ago
A "safe" font that renders Cyrillic characters as a box? Change my system back to ASCII? :-)
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by mikelward 15y ago
On Linux, how could you make standard tools highlight or differentiate potentially misleading characters? I guess the solution would have to be in the terminal emulator? Would a blacklist of Unicode ranges be sufficient?
513.
by mikelward 15y ago
You're right. I should have said "no sane way to do it". :-)
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by mikelward 15y ago
Yes, and they all do something dfferent. Things like "-e" and treatment of "\c" are not uniform. If a system has printf, and I think all recent Unix-like systems do, then it works at least 98% the same.
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by mikelward 15y ago
"nonprint" existed as "vis" on some systems AFAIR.
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by mikelward 15y ago
You can see the original UNIX sources at http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl
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by mikelward 15y ago
The "-n" option was added to UNIX around v6. The "-n" special case opened the floodgates for many more options. And what if I actually wanted to print "-n"? There's no way to do it.
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by mikelward 15y ago
"adds the argv into a buffer (why?)" It's calling "write", which is a system call. Without the buffer, it would call write once for argv, and once for the newline if nflag is not set. Calling a system call twice would result in twice as m
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by mikelward 15y ago
Worse, it's asking for my Twitter credentials even when I'm signed in to Twitter already.
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by mikelward 15y ago
Logically, I think on Sprint and Verizon you'd want a WiFi-enabled phone and a MiFi or other wireless portable hotspot. Verizon is $50/mo for 5 GB on a 2-year contract on the 4G data plan. Sprint is $45/mo for 3 GB, also on a 2-year plan.
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by mikelward 15y ago
From what I can find so far, the best option is T-Mobile. Get a T-Mobile SIM Card[1], then select a Mobile Broadband data plan[2], e.g. 2 GB for $40/mo. [1]: < http://www.t-mobile.com/shop/phones/cell-phone-detail.aspx?c... ; [2]: &#60
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by mikelward 15y ago
Which carriers offer this?
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by mikelward 16y ago
I find it easier to add shell aliases, so e.g. instead of typing 'git add', just type 'add'. This conflicts with normal 'diff', so I add 'di', plus I have 'changed'='git diff' and 'staged'='git diff --cached', so I don't need 'git diff' so
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by mikelward 16y ago
Is the monitor height a rule, or a guide? I spend most of my time in a Linux terminal, where the command I type appears at the bottom of the screen. I figure that diagram assumes you're looking around the top third of the screen, so raise m
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by mikelward 16y ago
I got the Vika Amon < http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/S79831622&#62 ; with Vika Kaj adjustable legs. < http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/60105301&#62 ; Turns out 34" is too low -- I'm 6", and it seems 41" would b
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by mikelward 16y ago
Middle click not working as expected? http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=67844
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by mikelward 16y ago
There should have been a +1 button on Google's blog post. :-)
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by mikelward 16y ago
Learning Perl. C Programming Language. UNIX Programming Environment. Programming in Haskell. Code Complete. Practice of Programming. Cathedral and the Bazaar. Open Sources. Hackers and Painters. Joel on Software. Coders at Work. Just for Fu
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by mikelward 16y ago
It's in UNIX Programming Environment by Kernighan and Pike, chapter 3.
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by mikelward 16y ago
cx is a common alias for chmod +x, so another name might be better.
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by mikelward 16y ago
Turn off Aero, upgrade your RAM, you're doing a lot of work.