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by pling 12y ago
I don't use a touch screen or a pen. It's fully supported on windows 8 and I stuck my Samsung 840 Pro in it. It does however have a decent keyboard, a trackpoint, 3G card, a service reputation and a bomb proof chassis. All of whic
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by pling 12y ago
I still can't get my head round paying for one of these at £1000+ when it's effectively disposable if anything goes wrong. I bought a used i7 Lenovo T410 a couple of weeks back for £150. Totally serviceable and the battery it came
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by pling 12y ago
Works for me on Android however usability is horrible. A decent 2d one would be cool.
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by pling 12y ago
So I went there expecting cats and got a giant penis!
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by pling 12y ago
I'm not worried about the EM or the disposal costs both environmental and commercial, but about the incredible amount of distractions and maintenance these devices take. There was a time back a few years ago, before the "big Inter
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by pling 12y ago
It's a bad marketing term as well. Just makes me think of coughing Victorians...
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by pling 12y ago
My word that article triggered my bullshit detector instantly. Cloud, fog, internet of things, big data, smart, edge computing. Ugh.
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by pling 12y ago
Yes - they put kerosene on it which suffocates them. Unfortunately it's quite toxic to anything which enters and exists the water plus there is some indication (after the whole BP Deepwater Horizon fuck up + Corexit that used deodorise
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by pling 12y ago
They're hardly innocent or desirable either. They devour everything in sight right up to the size of bees including things that eat mosquitoes and they bring parasites when they migrate between bodies of water which kill things that ea
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by pling 12y ago
Until it doesn't and you don't know.
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by pling 12y ago
Simpler solution: stick a tiny bit of soap in the water. Not much at all. Doesn't hurt aquatic life but breaks the surface tension which kills the mosquito rafts dead as they sink straight away. Source: I live next to a sewage farm.
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by pling 12y ago
I wish more people used RPN calcs. In my EE course in the UK in the 1990s, I was the only person with an HP calc (HP41c and later a 48S). Everyone else was TI and Casio.
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by pling 12y ago
Asking the Linux foundation for support is interesting. I'm sure that will in itself cause a few problems. Good work though all round.
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by pling 12y ago
Apache has a prefork MPM procesas model that allows it to run in the same way.
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by pling 12y ago
Not quite as disastrous but when I was at university the resident administrators configured the entire site's tftp server (everything was netbooted Suns) to boot from the network. This was fine until there was a site-wide power blip an
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by pling 12y ago
Yeah the nationalised healthcare here in the UK sucks. Last night my wife got seen by an emergency dentist at 21:45 an it cost £18.50 ($31). My grandmother was on the waiting list for her hip replacement for 11 days and that cost... $0 I br
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by pling 12y ago
That's the most obvious one - yep :)
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by pling 12y ago
Still happens in the UK behind the scenes. A lot of the political elite have links with the businesses.
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by pling 12y ago
I've been using Unix machines and pushd since the mid 1990s and just learned this as well. All those wasted years... Some examples here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pushd_and_popd Edit: change to desktop Wikiped
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by pling 12y ago
Great stuff. I used a BBC Master up until 1999 as a serial terminal for a Sun machine. The thing was an electronics and experimenters dream: well documented, built in decent BASIC and assembler and ports galore plus if you blew it up, £5 wa
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by pling 12y ago
Another one that I can't live without: ssh-add -k keyfile Integrates with keychain meaning you can have a passworded private key without having to play around with ssh-agent and shells and profiles. Put keychain access in the m
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by pling 12y ago
Spot on. Outlook 2010 nearly cost me a job when it corrected an Indian colleague's name to "gang bang" during a paste. That and it perpetually corrects NuGet to Nugget.
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by pling 12y ago
Well I can see you're damned here for explaining your experience with a product.
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by pling 12y ago
That is correct. There is no Moto E release here yet. Probably will be a couple of weeks after the carriers get it if it was like the Moto G.
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by pling 12y ago
I'm aware of that. If I turn that off it just loses connections regularly.
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by pling 12y ago
You can replace the battery easily. It requires a Torx T4 driver. Its not soldered or glued in. Just pop the back off, undo some screws, undo the battery ribbon and repeat in reverse.
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by pling 12y ago
You can buy it from Amazon in the UK. That's where I got mine.
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by pling 12y ago
I own a Moto G and am not totally happy with it. I replaced a Lumia 820 with it. The big problems for me are the camera is awful, I mean really bad. It's that bad I've started dragging my DSLR with me. Also the WiFi is terribly un