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by nmg 9y ago
That might be a herculean task - Iomega zip & jaz disks suffered from notoriously poor data integrity/longevity, and I'm pretty sure device drivers do not exist for any version of Windows newer than XP.
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by nmg 9y ago
Just adjectify it. https://www.whois.com/whois/rufus.ly
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by nmg 9y ago
I've been using Dropbox Pro for four years, and for me the biggest thing is does one or two things and does them well. It just works. I have a hierarchy on my file system that follows me wherever I go. I have a few gripes about how it
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Side-Channel Attacks: MIT OCW, 6.858 Computer Systems Security, Fall 2014(youtube.com)
5 points by nmg 9y ago|0 comments
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by nmg 9y ago
Finally, good news in the world of computing. The zoom function is a nice touch...
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by nmg 9y ago
So, Intel prefetches restricted data on a request by an unprivileged user, "conceals" the unauthorized but nevertheless prefetched data by nulling it out, but the unprivileged user can infer sensitive information about what's
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by nmg 9y ago
Einstein: "God does not play dice." Hawking: "God definitely plays dice, but He sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can't be seen" Izbicki: "And if the dice are loaded, we can't prove it.&quo
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by nmg 9y ago
In the talk "Clojure Concurrency" [1], Rich Hickey demands that everyone in the room read "Java Concurrency in Practice" [2]. "It will scare the crap out of you." [1] https://youtu.be/dGVqrGmwOA
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by nmg 9y ago
I think it's darkly humorous that I have to install browser plugins to stop sites from mining monero in my browser. It's like websites are those creepy spider things in the Matrix, except instead of sticking humans in pods to harv
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by nmg 9y ago
sudo apt install dict dict rein | grep 'to rein'
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by nmg 9y ago
I deleted (NOT deactivated) my facebook account in August. I received an event invitation three days ago. It's emotionally taxing; it feels vaguely threatening.
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by nmg 9y ago
Try it for yourself. After a number of deletions, response time will slow, an error will occur. You'll reload your page and items you thought were deleted, are not. I've tried many, many times.
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by nmg 9y ago
you can always setup gmail as a relay [1] and do your gmail with alpine, i do this whenever i miss pine. * https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/configure-postfix-to-use...
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by nmg 9y ago
The first app I download on a fresh OS X install. Thank you for your work and for the professional, well-communicated response.
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by nmg 9y ago
In my experience, the passive voice weakens a statement because a verb's subject is vague or undefined. As a result, the reader must go through additional cognitive steps to parse the statement. Especially in technical writing, using a
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by nmg 9y ago
off-topic.
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by nmg 9y ago
When learning to parse the concentric circles with eighteen patches of mirror-spiraling dot sequences, my thought was: "Look at the gray areas, duh. Just like life. They're what's actually there, the rest is a distraction des
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Microsoft president blasts NSA for its role in WannaCry attack(latimes.com)
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