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by rquirk 14y ago
Gnome was taken off as the default because it wouldn't fit on a CD. After some work to get it to fit on again, Gnome is back as the default.
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by rquirk 14y ago
So I use Ubuntu 12.04 on my laptop and Linux Mint Debian Edition on the desktop. LMDE is OK, but I'm not sure Mate is a long-term solution. On the one hand it is great that they have maintained the old look and feel of Gnome 2, but forking
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by rquirk 14y ago
I really hope that Virgin are not stupid enough to go after you in some lawyery way over this. I think you are already running a risk by disclosing this at all. The usual next step when a company doesn't show willingness to fix a security p
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by rquirk 14y ago
efilinux looks to be BSD, so at least it isn't like they are using a proprietary boot loader. https://github.com/mfleming/efilinux
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by rquirk 14y ago
The developer of a jar can specify a Class-Path entry in the Manifest file to set up the classpath correctly. In this case, "java -jar some.jar" is all you need. https://blogs.oracle.com/olaf/entry/jdev_including_a_classpa...
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by rquirk 15y ago
Do people really still make the `=` vs `==` mistake? GCC -Wall has had "warning: suggest parentheses around assignment used as truth value" since as long as I can remember.
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by rquirk 15y ago
I added these to ~/.mozilla/firefox/random.User/chrome/userContent.css and restarted firefox. I wrapped the changes in a `@-moz-document domain("www.google.com")`, just in case. Shame a CSS hack can't get the sharing features back!
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by rquirk 15y ago
Also for people interested in planet detection there was a Google Tech Talk posted not too long ago about the methods they use. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Av67Ab0tF-8
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by rquirk 15y ago
A couple of terminal applications that aren't vim that also use j/k are screen and w3m. Screen on its ctrl-a " selection screen and in ctrl-a esc mode, w3m on just every webpage (though it also uses emacs ctrl-v to scroll down a page).
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by rquirk 16y ago
I get the feeling that what these sites really mean is that you shouldn't deep-link to their images. They've just got it a bit wrong in the T&C. Especially when the sites say "we may disable the links", they surely just mean they'll pre
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by rquirk 16y ago
http://www.google.com/trends?q=perl The downwards trend seems to be flattening off, maybe "it's losing popularity at a slower rate" would have been more accurate? Seems pretty cruel teaching undergrads Perl when they could learn Python.
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by rquirk 16y ago
FWIW, I agree with you here. The other style changes were pointless (the "If I'm.." to "For example, if I'm.." nonsense). You can always roll back a change to your own question though. In the editor's defence, a lot of low-rep users post re
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by rquirk 16y ago
Tech Crunch has one too. As well as "X-nananana: Batcache". EDIT: ah, I see that this is likely to be a Wordpress generic thing.
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by rquirk 16y ago
The results were downloadable from the website if you took part. I copied the "other" column from the .xls file and here's a sort | uniq -c | head -21 of that table. 2188 people didn't mention other languages. 2188 55 Objective-
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by rquirk 16y ago
Google showing adverts on google.com/search is one thing, but I think the real metric to look at is usage of the Google advert network on the sites themselves. The more googlesyndication.com or doubleclick.net on a site, the spammier it is
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by rquirk 16y ago
Free for the first year, $99 fee waived. Nice. Reading through the agreement though, there are a few interesting things. 1. You have to provide Amazon with all software that is yours on the Market 2. You have to add Amazon specific DRM to t
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by rquirk 16y ago
I wonder what http://www.appbrain.com/ uses to access Android Market data? It must have some sort of API to get the new apps on there, they update very quickly. Older apps less so, it takes a day or so to sync up. There's also http://cod
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by rquirk 16y ago
The UK Carphone Warehouse has it listed as 550 pounds unlocked, which is about $860 or 650€.
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by rquirk 16y ago
The new NDK lets you write an application entirely in C, no need to get your hands dirty with Java at all. Of course this only works with android-9 (2.3), so if you want to write a game that people can actually play you'll still need a Java
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by rquirk 16y ago
If you've never seen an Android advert before, it looks like clicking it will "dismiss" the advert and this seems even more prominent on Angry Birds. I know I misclicked the advert once. There were comments on the market saying that the adv
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by rquirk 16y ago
I find it mildly amusing that the Android phone I use, an HTC Magic, has hardware acceleration for Java built in. Talk about a white elephant.
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by rquirk 16y ago
Just change it now, the internet will catch up. The sooner you do it, the better. Obviously only do it if you really want to change the title. (FWIW I don't really like the "an" either, sorry!)
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by rquirk 16y ago
I wrote a Thunderbird plugin a few months back that people may find useful to hide this issue in received mail at least. It changes wingding J, L and a few others to the unicode smiley, etc. http://github.com/richq/smileyfixer It doesn't
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by rquirk 16y ago
I disabled my FB account back in May, but I'd find it quite difficult to do without all the Google services I use. Google Reader in particular.
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by rquirk 16y ago
Just in case anyone else was wondering: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3959 "Outline View (aka MS Word)".
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by rquirk 16y ago
I'm not sure that the homebrew scene is quite that heroic, sadly. The DSi came out over a year ago and there is still no practical way to run your own code in DSi mode, giving access to the camera, extra RAM, internal storage, improved Wi-f
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by rquirk 16y ago
It was linked to in the release email at least: http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/1010
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by rquirk 16y ago
Coincidence that they were distributing Codemaster games and then shutdown? As avid http://www.worldofspectrum.org/ fans know, Codemaster have always been very careful about protecting their copyrights. None of the Dizzy games are availab
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by rquirk 16y ago
There was a recent forced logout on all stack* sites due to changes in the way cookies are handled. If you haven't visited in a while, that could be the cause of it.
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by rquirk 16y ago
Ironic that this returned the following error when I tried to read it: "Error 500 - Internal Error. This might be because: We are experiencing abnormal traffic to our network." :-)

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