mverwijs

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   by mverwijs 10y ago

   Chrome profile. Done.
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   by mverwijs 10y ago

   Let's discuss Bill Clinton when he becomes president again, ok? Right now, the current president gleefully degrades people. Is that ok with you?
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   by mverwijs 10y ago

   How about 'damaging the world beyond repair'? We dutchies didn't get a vote in this, but we will in all likelihood have to face consequences for his actions.
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   by mverwijs 10y ago

   First it states that business knowledge is most important. Than it states that deep tech knowledge is most important. Which is it?
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   Dutch pick up Trump-slack on birthcontrol(cnbc.com)

   2 points by mverwijs 10y ago|0 comments
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   by mverwijs 10y ago

   That was then, and this is now. In the old days, seperate profiles were used to seperate Moms browsing from Dad's browsing. Now, we need different profiles to browse: one for shopping, one for banking, one for work... Seems to me that
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   by mverwijs 10y ago

   "So pink is not a fighting/protesting color if you want to keep the base energized." I like Scott Adams, but this is silly. The 'N' word is not something to get energized over either, and neither is the 'Q&#x27
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   Developing countries send trillions more to the west than the other way around(theguardian.com)

   52 points by mverwijs 10y ago|9 comments
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   by mverwijs 10y ago

   Old perhaps, but userfriendly this is not.
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    by mverwijs 10y ago

    I agree with omission of "what she did for her husband". But aside from that, as my ten years are coming up, with two kids, I found the article spot on. Life is a mess. Find someone that is willing to handle the mess with you. I b
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    by mverwijs 10y ago

    Puppet uses facter and chef ohai to achieve te same thing. Could they be exploited in similar fashion?
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    by mverwijs 10y ago

    Telegram most certainly required me to enter mobile phone number. (Wouldn't even take a landline!)
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    by mverwijs 10y ago

    You could call the Advertisement Code Commission. See: https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/onderwerpen/bescherming-van-con...
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    by mverwijs 10y ago

    In te Netherlands, we have stickers that we cab place on our real-life mailboxes: "No ads. No unspecified recipient." The advertisers (mailmen) are not allowed to ignore this sticker. Am I stealing money from advertisers? There is
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    by mverwijs 10y ago

    I bought a seperate apple Bluetooth touchpad for this very reason. Works for me.
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    by mverwijs 10y ago

    synclient PalmDetect=1 That should fix the palmdetection problem. If not, also do: synclient PalmMinZ=0
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    by mverwijs 10y ago

    I'm typing this on a Lenovo x230, having owned an x210 and x220. However, when such a statement above is made I was hoping that, like Dell, Lenovo had started to officially support Linux. Hence the question. Furthermore, Lenovo has bee
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    by mverwijs 10y ago

    As a Linux user in the market for a new laptop: citation needed?
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    by mverwijs 10y ago

    Sorry, I misunderstood. To me, your response came across as a "well, duh!".
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    by mverwijs 10y ago

    I've found that being considered a 'competent engineer' merely means 'never too arrogant to learn'. I didn't know half of the stuff in grandparents' post.
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    by mverwijs 10y ago

    > To be precise, it is as old as Ubuntu 12.04. I see what you did there. :)
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    by mverwijs 10y ago

    Any question ending with '..., okay' is asking for permission. I (as a parent of 2 very easy kids) always avoid those type of permission-asking questions when presenting choice. Instead I offer, not ask: "You can wear the gre
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    by mverwijs 10y ago

    I downvoted because stating that Windows has been open sourced in the past is misinformation and should be marked as such.
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    by mverwijs 10y ago

    If in this case you've a /home that is an NFS mount shared across several nodes running different *nix or even Linux distros then yes, that is a problem. Centos6 will have different Gnome versions than Centos7. However, both will
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    by mverwijs 10y ago

    Today I found out that my brand new Macbook Pro (company provided) does not actually go to sleep when I close the lid. Every 30 minutes or so, it wakes up, builds up a wifi connection and starts doing something. Even though the 'powern
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    by mverwijs 10y ago

    > Skype on linux works well, last I checked. Nope. They (Skype/Microsoft) have not updated skype in years. It's still version 4.3, and recently on Linux Groupcall is problematic as all the other Skype clients got upgrades. Thou
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    by mverwijs 10y ago

    I am reminded of an interview with Joe Satriani. The interviewer asked if he was worried about recording contracts given that he is not hugely popular. His answer was something along the lines of: I may not be as popular as some, but studio
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    by mverwijs 10y ago

    Also, couldn't this session-restore feature be triggered for this specific tab _after_ I've started to type text in a box?
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    by mverwijs 10y ago

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GmailFS .
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    by mverwijs 10y ago

    Not just *NIX! When I was forced to use Windows at some employer I had a blast tweaking 'litestep'.