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by msisk6 15y ago
Although this page isn't a very good example, the problem with the lack of any sort of broadband in large swaths of rural American is a real issue. You don't need to get far out of town before your options drop all the way down to dialup or
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by msisk6 15y ago
$ sqlite3 -version 3.7.5
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by msisk6 16y ago
Nice. A couple of us at G5 are giving it a try. We like the reply feature and left sidebar showing all the rooms. A few issues: at some point the font size in my reply text field got too small to read. And several times I got the spinning b
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by msisk6 16y ago
It might surprise some folks to find the US isn't much different. Although here in the US we're all at 60Hz, we have several regions with different synchronization: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_area_synchronous_grid So we also have i
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by msisk6 16y ago
Interesting timing. My wife is an electrologist and -- I'm not kidding -- just today leased an office for herself so she can move away from the politics of the spa she's at right now. And she needs a scheduling system exactly like this. I'l
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by msisk6 16y ago
Well, I've used it a fair bit, always in conjunction with ACS or OpenACS. With the exception of supporting legacy TCL code, I can't think of a good reason to use it over Apache/Nginx with Ruby/Python nowadays.
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by msisk6 16y ago
This works with motorcycles, too. I was told about this method several years ago by an old Harley biker. He said zip ties should be in your bag incase you get stuck off-road or surprised by some snow. They won't last long, but they'll get y
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by msisk6 16y ago
My son wanted an Xbox just to play Halo, so that's one. Of course, the Xbox has since died and we get along just fine with a PS3.
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by msisk6 16y ago
None, oddly enough. He managed to get a lot of girls interested in him, though. High school must be different nowadays...
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by msisk6 16y ago
I have a Segway. I actually got it for my son and he rode it to school his senior year in high school and had a great time with it (he even got in the Wall Street Journal because of it). After he got a girlfriend he was more interested in a
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by msisk6 16y ago
This exact thing happened to me last year, too. Though in my case I was already between gigs so it wasn't as big a deal. Look at it this way -- would you really want to work at a company that would rescind a job offer this way? It says a lo
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by msisk6 16y ago
Sometimes, though, life is more complicated. For example, if you're a sysadmin and end up on the receiving end of a federal subpoena (as I have), you find your self suddenly thrust into the uncomfortable role of actually having to spy on yo
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by msisk6 16y ago
As someone who formally worked in an engineering profession that required state licensing and now working doing the same job Mr. Barksdale did (not for Google, though), I can't see any sort of licensing helping with this sort of problem. An
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by msisk6 16y ago
The load time with my old Sony Blu-Ray player was the same -- horribly slow. Unusable, IMHO. Then I got a PlayStation 3. It made the kids happy and is radically faster playing Blu-Ray discs. If you're not a gamer be sure to get the optional
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by msisk6 16y ago
Perhaps. <grin> Actually, the entire NW sucks. Rains all the time. Heck, it's even raining on me right now in the desert of Central Oregon where it's never suppose to rain. But seriously, after living in the Bay Area for 10+ years -
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by msisk6 16y ago
It rains all the time here in Oregon. It's overrated. This isn't the city you're looking for. Move along ... move along.
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by msisk6 16y ago
I'm at G5 Search Marketing in Bend, Oregon and we're hiring for a bunch of positions: http://www.g5searchmarketing.com/jobs/ We just closed a $15 Million Investment from Volition Capital and really need to staff up our engineering departm
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by msisk6 16y ago
Actually, it was written in C. Why? The other choice was Pascal and that required swapping floppy disks to do the compile on a dual floppy PC: http://www.fourmilab.ch/autofile/www/chapter2_112.html#11286
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by msisk6 16y ago
There's many cases where you might not want to create technical drawings but might want access to them. I worked on a project years ago for the US Navy. At the time the average warship had something like 5 tons of paper documentation on boa
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by msisk6 16y ago
Back in the day Sparc was the development platform for AutoCAD and the DOS, Mac and other UNIX versions were ports. Once Windows took off in the marketplace the writing was on the wall and the anemic sales of the Unix ports in contrast to W
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by msisk6 16y ago
If the antenna engineers had the final say your iPhone would look more like this: http://imgur.com/GnRL5.jpg
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by msisk6 16y ago
Well, I used to be a field geologist, and while there was a lot of active in-the-field work, there was also a whole lot of sitting behind the computer writing reports and lots and lots of meetings. I'll suggest an alternative that doesn't r
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by msisk6 16y ago
Monit seems to be the currently preferred solution in the Rails world. I use it on many different sites with no problems. I've also used daemontools in the past and never had an issue with it, either. I've heard good things about god, but I
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by msisk6 17y ago
Right now I'm sitting in an Aeron chair I bought myself 11 years ago. It's been through 3 startups, 4 moves, 2 wives and a half-dozen laptops. I don't want to even think about how many hours my keister has been in this chair. Amortized for
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by msisk6 17y ago
Back in the 60's, some amateur astronomers observing Venus with a homebuilt telescope and ultraviolet filters discovered that the clouds on Venus had a four-day rotation period. They submitted their work to a journal of planetary studies, b
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by msisk6 17y ago
I also used a Verizon 3G card when traveling by RV and it worked most places in the Western US. Many highway rest areas have cell tower sites right next to them which ensures a good connection. If satellite Internet will work for you, there
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by msisk6 17y ago
Yes, the US does indeed have some electrified freight service. But it's not much -- 4 short lines with a total of 159 miles. All are closed loop lines linking coal loadouts and power plants. FWIW, the November 2009 issue of Trains magazine
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by msisk6 17y ago
The story I heard years ago is that SPRINT originally was an acronym for Southern Pacific Railroad Internal NeTwork.
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by msisk6 17y ago
I have to agree with this article. Since getting the Kindle app for my iPhone I haven't used the Kindle itself once. There's no doubt that the Kindle is better for reading than the iPhone. But I always have the iPhone with me so it's easier
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by msisk6 17y ago
Most Wal-Marts will allow RVs to park overnight for several days as long as you don't setup camp and park far out in the lot away from the store. A lot of RVers stay at Wal-Mart on their travels. But some cities have ordinances forbidding o

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