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by rquirk 13y ago
Interesting reading! A lot of the ghost towns in the US are pretty small, maybe 100-200 inhabitants maximum. They eventually seem to fold into nearby communities with better road/rail connections. FWIW there are ghost towns like the US
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by rquirk 13y ago
If your IP is traced to images of child abuse then you will at the very least have a lot of explaining to do. Is it really worth running the risk of someone using your open wifi for this? Firesheep is another example of why not. If you use
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by rquirk 13y ago
scp just falls back to cp when copying locally, so doesn't show any progress bar.
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by rquirk 13y ago
It's buggy too. I get this nice error message in an alert dialog "ERROR: Possible problem with your *.gwt.xml module file. The compile time user.agent value (gecko1_8) dos not match the runtime user.agent value (unknown). Expect
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by rquirk 13y ago
I completely agree but the N64 and GC, at least in their European incarnations, look like crap on modern TVs. They were probably fuzzy back in the day too, but the Dreamcast looks a lot better than a GC and they're from a similar epoch
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by rquirk 13y ago
Not likely to happen - https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html > The freedom to run the program, for any purpose (freedom 0).
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by rquirk 13y ago
Yep, Square has a history of protecting their trademarks too. They shut down "Crimson Echoes" which was a no-cash-involved fan game too based on Chrono Trigger.
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by rquirk 13y ago
Isn't this is a general trend with Android/Cyanogenmod hackers? If you go on something like xda-developers then there's a sticky saying "please don't post GPL violations". Early Cyanogen releases were fast and
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by rquirk 13y ago
The basic HTML interface doesn't show this either, or at least I don't have this tab and that's what I use. Nor does the really basic old mobile interface (which works great from the terminal with w3m) -- this one https:&#x2
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by rquirk 13y ago
Debian isn't going to drop the ports! The blog post seems a sane roadmap for eventually switching to systemd on Linux and maintain a more traditional init process on the BSD ports. The fact that scripts and systemd can work in tandem o
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by rquirk 13y ago
I wanted to get some data off an old Windows 98 laptop of 1999 vintage. 4Gb hardrive, 1 usb port, 64 Mb of RAM. It worked fine in Windows 98, but back then anything USB required extra drivers and ... well, let's just say I didn't
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by rquirk 13y ago
`git whatchanged` is what you want, it shows the files changed and the commit message.
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by rquirk 13y ago
> I'm curious as to the why of this? Surely some applications just require a lot of tables as they deal with a lot of [different types of] data? Maybe it's my lack of imagination, but I can't think how you'd create a design with hundre
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by rquirk 13y ago
Thing is... a lot of projects seem this way when you're in the thick of it, but towards the end the mess can untangle itself and provide a useful tool/product for someone. > Application is unstable and very difficult to use. Could be
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by rquirk 13y ago
Or make contributions to something you use that is small and self contained. All the examples here seem way too big to get started with IMO. Take "Ubuntu", it covers so much! You're better off fixing bugs upstream in the individual projects
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by rquirk 13y ago
Ouch. $112.68 shipping to Europe.
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by rquirk 13y ago
Spain has 2 days at birth and then 13 days in the first 3 months (I think, it has been a while), but this was only increased in 2006 or so. Prior to that it was just 2 days total, at birth.
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by rquirk 14y ago
Somewhat amusingly, this troll on the debian-user mailing list predicted that Orth would be "fired". Let's see if he starts making commits to Tux Racer :-) https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2013/04/msg00265.html
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by rquirk 14y ago
Yep, it was the most recent Ubuntu UK podcast http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/
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by rquirk 14y ago
There seems to be little worry about the way Linux is going wrt Android - and to a lesser extent the Raspberry Pi - that pretty much tie folk down to one version of the kernel since all of the drivers are binary-only. Ubuntu phone will supp
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by rquirk 14y ago
I wonder how well they are selling? In Europe they cost 45€ a game, and are locked to that console (not to your account). I guess this is so as not to annoy their retail partners - cartridges are a much better deal, can usually be found che
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by rquirk 14y ago
heh, weasel words are weasely. sorry. Skype had a lot of changes due to quote marks changing too. don't take it the wrong way though, diffs are tricky i guess. (mobile typing, forgive brevity)
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by rquirk 14y ago
This is great, though there are loads of spurious differences caused by what looks like encoding problems. e.g. the blogspot privacy policy https://www.docracy.com/0rl3vthb6b7/blogspot-com-privacy-pol... has the classic "WTF UTF?" â€ symb
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by rquirk 14y ago
> I respect and admire Stallman personally. Likewise, I respect and admire his contribution to the world. The problem he set out to tackle was and is very real. > I question whether it remains a primary issue in regard to the future
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by rquirk 14y ago
The initial checkin to git on savannah is 2009, with a GPL v3 licence. But if you go to the original sourceforge svn repo, it started out GPL v2. I think you could fork a version from prior to revision 21 from sourceforge and it would be GP
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by rquirk 14y ago
It still exists at https://code.google.com/codesearch though it no longer searches everything, only those repositories hosted on googlecode.com itself.
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by rquirk 14y ago
Another example that I encounter semi-regularly is Google Groups. It does user-agent sniffing to block Firefox with Javascript disabled. Change the ua to something random and it works fine without javascript.
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by rquirk 14y ago
I imagine that in 5-10 years all films will be higher resolution and 48fps. The youth of tomorrow will look back at the low-res, fuzzy films of today the same way we look at black and white flicks from the past, "Did people really like this
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by rquirk 14y ago
Nor do I. I've had lots of positive results on github, as puller and sender. The barrier to entry on github for sending a pull request is much higher than asking a "send me teh codez" question on Stack Overflow though. It's understandable t
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by rquirk 14y ago
The Ninjago and film tie-in Lego is overpriced, but the Creator range has been good value. These sets cost $5-$25, with 3 "official" ways to build each one and loads of make-your-own possible models thanks to a good mix of regular bricks, p

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