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by riobard 16y ago
Remembered years ago when I was still using Ubuntu desktop (7.x ~ 9.x) and the following things just killed me completely: resume/suspend video card ”enterprise” encryption over wireless (read: Windows) less-known USB printers (no Linux dri
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by riobard 16y ago
For me OS X = A *nix desktop that actually works (no more tinkering with various peripheral devices, drivers, etc) + generally better-designed hardware + much more higher quality apps = more time left to do other things
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by riobard 16y ago
Just tried the Aquarium demo and the system (OS X) became unresponsive…… and just checked CPU/memory usage: CPU utilization < 10% with 1.2G free memory. So it must be the GPU since WebGL is hardware-accelerated???
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by riobard 16y ago
I thought one of their selling points is the ultra cool domain name? about.me/username??
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by riobard 16y ago
I use the default OS X password manager Keychain access.app and symlink the keychain file to Dropbox. It manages all my web, app, WiFi, mail account passwords. It has a nice feature to generate different styles (memorable, letters&numbe
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by riobard 16y ago
Do the delegated mails also appear in IMAP?
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by riobard 16y ago
Always a problem for fast typists… Is there anyway to disable the stupid feature?
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by riobard 16y ago
Some symbols are hard to see, but I hope it is right. LaTeX'ed version: http://yfrog.com/gyegnp
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by riobard 16y ago
For a long time Adobe got away with its broken clients on non-Windows platforms because the majority of Windows users were happy with a decent implementation. And the developers of websites followed the market. Now it backfires when suddenl
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by riobard 16y ago
Interesting. I must have missed the timeupdate events. Seems someone has already implemented a nice player with sync'ing subtitles and slides: http://johndyer.name/post/HTML5-Video-Player-with-Slides-and... This is cool! Thanks for the up
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by riobard 16y ago
Based on my experience watching non-techy users using browsers, and the design goal of Chrome OS, I don't think it is going to happen anytime soon. Quick question: if you can split into two windows, why not 4? 8? Then you end up with a Wind
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by riobard 16y ago
True. My point is the design of Chrome OS doesn't seem to have superusers in mind.
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by riobard 16y ago
I guess we have to thank Netflix for this? :D
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by riobard 16y ago
Quick poll: any reason to stick with Google Code instead of moving to GitHub?
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by riobard 16y ago
Two issues: * Then it's easier to block by AdBlock * Advanced sync'ing between ads and video (required for many ads and features like subtitles) is not possible in HTML5
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by riobard 16y ago
This is not true. The majority of any online video sites (YouTube, Vimeo, etc) use h.264-encoded MP4 delivered to a Flash player on the client-side. So the video is ready to be put in <video> tag, at least in browsers supporting h.2
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by riobard 16y ago
“The fact of not even being able, by design, to have two windows visible at the same time is a show stopper for me” You cannot have multiple windows on most mobile devices. Or TV's. People live fine with it.
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by riobard 16y ago
You know little about the Chinese education system. All Chinese kids (I was one of them) are basically trained for these kinds of standard tests. For the most part of their school life, they are judged by the scores they get. The whole po
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GitHub now uses history.pushState to avoid page refreshing(gist.github.com)
7 points by riobard 16y ago|0 comments
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Why OpenType is better than TrueType(blogs.adobe.com)
1 points by riobard 16y ago|0 comments
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by riobard 16y ago
I didn't downvote you. It is indeed a problem. The problem of this problem, though, is that some people are using it as an excuse to create even bigger problems. For all of us. Some experienced this before. We are experiencing it now. Peopl
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by riobard 16y ago
You know, porno is just an excuse for the government to do censorship. Before Chinese government cracked down the majority of opposing voices on the Internet, they did it in the name of anti-porno. They officially banned Google.com because
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by riobard 16y ago
I cannot say much about those prototypes since I only heard about them long time ago and never touched a real one. In fact few people even know about those silly stuff anyway… Inputting Chinese on a keyboard is hard because of the sheer amo
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by riobard 16y ago
There is no such thing as “Chinese-language keyboards”. Well there used to be some experimental prototypes designed to facilitate inputs, but they never gained any traction. Now it's all standard US keyboards. But it would be rather easy to
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by riobard 16y ago
“Hosting wikileaks gains little and could be quite costly in lawsuits, ddos, loss of political standing and bad press” The whole point of singling out Amazon as a coward is to rebalance the cost and gain. Some people are expecting business
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by riobard 16y ago
It's the same: L2TP/IPSec, PPTP, Cisco IPSec. It's annoying though because it is unable to auto-reconnect to VPN after it locks for a few minutes
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by riobard 16y ago
Thanks for the explanation! There are a few things I don't understand fully, could you please talk a bit more? “since ssh -D is not a true VPN tunnel, your machine is exposed to the hostile network (if you don't have a firewall).” I believe
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by riobard 16y ago
Really? How do you interact with a touch screen on tablets? You click . With your fingers . Clicking is the fundamental way we interact with physical objects, unless we figure out how to read minds later. Clicking with mouse mimics this.
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by riobard 16y ago
I was wondering the same thing. The post went through all the steps to setup SSH VPN while SSH tunneling works pretty well and requires almost-zero config on the server… OTOH I saw the value of using PPTP or L2TP-based VPN. It is supported
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DHH on why ruby, monkey patching, freedom, etc(vimeo.com)
6 points by riobard 16y ago|1 comments

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