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nandhp
11y ago
Citi offers this.
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11y ago
There's also online viewers like Google Docs, which I think basically do this server-side: https://docs.google.com/gview?url=https://www.nsa.gov/public...
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11y ago
I believe it's optional on the part of the application developers, but it's not optional on the part of the users. (Although it only happens if you have a compositing window manager, so that's one way to disable it.)
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11y ago
If someone could figure out how to efficiently implement voting and moderation on Usenet, they'd have an excellent distributed replacement for reddit.
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11y ago
That doesn't explain where https://logo.clearbit.com/debian.org comes from....
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11y ago
Most reputable email clients won't load remote images in email messages.
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11y ago
The Computer History Museum has established a Software Preservation Group: http://www.softwarepreservation.org/ They also have artifacts like MacPaint source code in their collection: http://www.computerhistory.o
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11y ago
> To put some context behind these numbers, I ran a few Google Consumer Survey questions on famous movie villains. Google Opinion Rewards actually sent me one of these questions on Friday. I'm afraid I didn't have an opinion on
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11y ago
Paywalled.
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11y ago
I still use a 1024-bit DSA key I generated ~10 years ago. How bad is that? Should I replace it with a 2048-bit RSA key?
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11y ago
I actually like that homepage. It seems like a nice alternative to tabs, especially if they put useful information in the collapsed tiles (essentially becoming Windows Live Tiles or whatever they're called).
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11y ago
Which is presumably why Firefox's downloads aren't modified (I checked yesterday): http://sourceforge.net/projects/firefox.mirror/
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11y ago
True, although http://www.gimp.org/donating/ states that "The GNOME Foundation has graciously agreed to act as fiscal agents for us." Maybe they could hold the GIMP trademark? By the way, the trademark you me
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11y ago
I just checked, and it seems to support rewrapping without any trouble. (Though, oddly enough, GNOME Terminal 2.31 doesn't.)
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11y ago
I think it does. It starts off about as basic like xterm (i.e. using "fixed" as the font), so it's really low on resources. It is missing a bunch of features out of the box (Ctrl+Shift+V to paste, quick adjustment of font siz
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11y ago
Which begs the question of why unlicense.org isn't just a page that says "This already exists and is called CC0". Why another license?
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11y ago
Title reminds OP of Apple Watch Editions, which are gold and cost $10,000: http://store.apple.com/us/buy-watch/apple-watch-edition
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11y ago
> You can install telnet via the add features option from the control panel. Who wants to have such insecure program available anyway? There's no security problem with the telnet client, unless you're using it to log into remot
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11y ago
Windows Update has offered driver updates since Windows 98.
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11y ago
I haven't used Windows much recently, but wouldn't it just be delivered as a driver through Windows Update?
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11y ago
Although I don't use OS X more than a few hours per month, this person has it right. The key thing to keep in mind is that OS X is UNIX. Sure, the command-line tools it comes with don't always support GNU extensions -- fine. And t
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11y ago
Except T-Mobile already has unlimited international roaming (text/data) on their postpaid plans. (Admittedly, the special $30/month plan costs less than the postpaid plans.)
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11y ago
> accruing I think AT&T only rolls over data to the next month, so you aren't actually accruing anything. Unlike T-Mobile, who I believe roll over data for up to 12 months.
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12y ago
> In what way are those stupid little touch strips actually BETTER than real buttons? Well, they probably don't wear out. I know someone who replaced their Kindle Keyboard because the next page button wore out after four years. (The
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12y ago
It's coming: http://caniuse.com/#feat=srcset
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12y ago
It's interesting that this is on "Google Store", not "Google Play Devices". This may explain why it isn't working yet in all countries -- and maybe also why it works in the UK, since London is home to the first
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12y ago
> What's in the box: Chromebook Pixel; Universal Type-C Charger, 60W; Quick Start Guide So the new MacBook isn't the only USB-powered notebook anymore. It does, however, appear to have two type C ports, along with two type A po
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12y ago
> per tab processes [...] are still nowhere to be seen. Electrolysis (separate content processes) is available now in Nightly, and "The e10s team estimates e10s with a single content process will be enabled in Firefox Release by the
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12y ago
It looks like a "thread-sync" feature for seccomp. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1379020 http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2
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12y ago
The actual declaration seems to be missing. Although it does not appear to have been there in December, either: http://web.archive.org/web/20141226030217/https://canary.sil...
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