rikkus

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by rikkus 10y ago
I've realised what I really miss: Being able to change my own desktop, including its entire behaviour, was incredible. I first found this enjoyment when running TkDesk[1] [1] http://tkdesk.sourceforge.net/
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by rikkus 10y ago
Nice to see this. Some of these, including this one[1] are from my desktop. I miss KDE now I'm on Windows all the time. [1] http://www.digibarn.com/collections/screenshots/KDE%202-x/kd...
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by rikkus 10y ago
I left when I didn't like the direction any more, somewhere after 3. Nothing against the team, almost everyone was absolutely brilliant, it just wasn't going where I wanted it to.
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by rikkus 10y ago
The code looks quite pretty, except for a bit of the close-all-the-braces I see: }, }, }, }) } Is there a way to write this more clearly?
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by rikkus 10y ago
My personal laptop has a 256GB SSD as OS/apps drive. I treat this as expendable. I have replaced the DVD drive with a 1TB SSHD. This is my 'storage' drive. There's a directory with stuff I need to keep, which is all on D
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by rikkus 10y ago
I see this all the time. They accept it and then when you go to log in, it fails. I usually try chopping it down to 32, 30, 24, 20, ... until I hit a match.
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by rikkus 10y ago
Why re-encode when there's no need?
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by rikkus 10y ago
If your source media is FLAC (which is a good way to store 'source' material, that you might lossy-encode later) then being able to just stream that without any encoding step is handy. Maybe you wouldn't do this if you were c
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by rikkus 10y ago
sudo chmod 777 -R /var/www/ Please don't do that
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by rikkus 10y ago
Have you tried this? It fails for most sites IME.
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by rikkus 10y ago
My email is handled by Google Apps for Business, and I just use e.g. dropbox@hemsley.cc or facebook@hemsley.cc - and have everything come to my real mailbox. Nothing to set up when I want to sign up for a new site. LastPass stores the diffe
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by rikkus 10y ago
The 'winner' is also a shill account. These 'auctions' are there to make it look like real people are winning at low prices. Proof that this fools people easily can be seen in the credulous linked article.
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by rikkus 10y ago
I loaded this on a 4g connection and it took 14 seconds from click to progress bar disappearing. AMP talks about sub second load times on mobile. What might be in the way of that being realised?
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by rikkus 10y ago
Ironically, this is linked to from the side of the article: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/apr/10/underweight-...
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by rikkus 10y ago
I've often been at the start of a project and campaigned to have undo support baked in at the start. To me, it's not one of those features you should leave until when it's needed, as it affects the design of the entire system
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by rikkus 10y ago
You can do 'proper' OO, unit tests, and dependency injection with VB6, it's just not as easy as it could be, and most developers didn't, partly because unit tests and dependency injection weren't as popular at the t
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by rikkus 10y ago
This isn't a better/worse comparison. It's a differentiation-on-feel-and-sound comparison. The only thing this proves is that it's now possible to replicate the feel and sound of a Stradivarius to an impressive degree. D
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by rikkus 10y ago
Perhaps it's because it sounds like it could replace your DSLR. Even for lower-end 'pro' work, such as weddings.
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by rikkus 10y ago
Anyone who's interested in X11 (the protocol) and the Ruby language should have a look at Mathieu Bouchard's incredible implementation [1] There's some quite beautiful Ruby code in there, e.g.: module X11 k = Keysymde
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by rikkus 10y ago
Really hope Lenovo respond soon. Feel like I should leave my ThinkPads hibernated for now.
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by rikkus 10y ago
Drone Zone by Somafm is a great radio station for this. Good to save some for offline listening though so you're not sucking their bandwidth unnecessarily
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by rikkus 10y ago
Well at least it'd extend the life of your headphones. I have an FiiO E10k, which I like because it means I can plug into anything with USB and get guaranteed decent audio. If I'm carrying my large headphones around, the DAC fits
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by rikkus 10y ago
I was hinting at the problem with the claim that we'd all buy phones with large batteries if they existed. You pointed at the actual problem: Leaving all the other specs the same. Unfortunately, currently the phones with big batteries
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by rikkus 10y ago
If you care enough about sound fidelity to buy 3x $300 headphones and have a separate amp, it's surprising you don't have a separate DAC too. Not that I'm suggesting you should be 'forced' to buy one, but a decent D
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by rikkus 10y ago
http://webcusp.com/ulefone-joins-the-6200-mah-battery-club-w... Might not be a whole week, but I'm assuming you'll be buying one?
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by rikkus 10y ago
This doesn't need to be debated ad infinitum. Is there a single page that can be pointed to as the authority on what moc is, what it provides, why it works the way it does, why it's good and why it's bad - and we leave it at
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by rikkus 10y ago
Working sync. I tell companies to use it because it works.
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by rikkus 10y ago
I'd say the secondary issue is the ability of quangos and non-government entities (including organisations such as companies, 'criminal' orgs and individuals) to access this information officially or unofficially. Whatever ba
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by rikkus 10y ago
I can't tell if the parent is a joke. If not, I should tell you that decimal separator is usually regarded as variable and therefore just part of local representation, in a similar way to time and date formats. Plenty of code is only a
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by rikkus 11y ago
I use something akin to djb's Maildir delivery procedure when I want to be as close to sure as I can be that a file 'has been saved'. 1. Create a temp file on the same mount 2. Write data to file, checking return of each writ

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