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by saljam 14y ago
OK, I stand corrected! I should've done my homework...
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by saljam 14y ago
Why don't distributions provide an image that can be dd'd onto a USB stick? I'm sure I'm not the only one who finds USB mass storage infinitely more convenient than CDs nowadays. Sure, they provide a USB image creator, but you have to have
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by saljam 14y ago
While on the subject of words with Arabic etymological roots, my personal favourite is Betelgeuse. The Arabic name of the star is يد الجوزاء (yad al-Jauzā) which means "the hand of the Jauzā". But after a few medieval translation it got mor
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by saljam 14y ago
Did doj.gov ever exist? It's not resolving for me. The Department of Justice is at justice.gov. Edit: The article says it redirects to justice.gov.
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by saljam 14y ago
That's true for me as well. When I was a student, revising (and memorising bits that needed to be memorised) was almost always a form of holding a book and walking in circles. Or around the house. I now spend as much time walking around the
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by saljam 14y ago
A few commenters are asking about running their favourite distro on these. I've installed a Debian chroot on mine. I've been using it as my main machine for almost 2 months now. I'm quite happy with it, but I mostly use it as a terminal to
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by saljam 14y ago
The Samsung ARM Chromebook I have has 2 normally located Alt keys. The Search key replaces Caps Lock (Good riddance!) Are you sure you weren't using one of the Intel ones? Maybe it's the British/American difference...
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by saljam 14y ago
My main gripe with scribbling down using a stylus is the huge lag that seems to exist between the stroke and the curve appearing on the screen. It seems to me that that's the thing that keeps me going back to pen and paper.
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by saljam 14y ago
Really? Of all the gulf nations, the UAE seems tome to be the most prepared to survive after oil, specifically because of Dubai. Now, it's not my favourite city, but I don't understand all the hate towards it. They've got a lot of oil money
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by saljam 14y ago
Chrome (and I believe Firefox too) has a TCP socket API, but it's only exposed to Chrome apps and extensions.
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by saljam 14y ago
Well, I'm an Arab, and I can. What's your point?
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by saljam 14y ago
Arms deals and aid are different. However, you're right, and Alyamamah isn't the only one. The huge sums of money and fraud involved in all the arms deals between the Gulf Nations and the West is embarrassing to to both ends to say the leas
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by saljam 14y ago
No, it's nowhere near as high tech as the article makes it sound. In contrast to how it works in the UK for example, in Saudi Arabia you have to go through passport control whenever you leave the country. This new system checks if the perso
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by saljam 14y ago
I don't really see the point of this, given that women and non-adults can't cross a border anyway without a signed permit from their father or husband. I'm guessing this text message system works for children too.
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by saljam 14y ago
Really? You think the US government cares about Saudi Arabian women? I don't think they're that benevolent. And since when did the US send aid money to the Saudis? Last time I check their oil pumps were working.
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by saljam 14y ago
What zokier said. Unless it's some form of this bug: http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/20187.html
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by saljam 14y ago
I used Debian's Multistrap on another computer to make the chroot. I just copied it into it's own directory somewhere on /home and used it from there. You'll need to enable dev-mode, and you'll probably need to remount the partition it's on
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by saljam 14y ago
I got mine last week, and I've been using it as my main machine since then. I put on a small Debian-based chroot and installed Guacamole[1]*, so I can use my favourite editor and X11 programs within a Chrome tab. Compiling large C/C++ progr
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by saljam 14y ago
Unless you want something web based, why not just an editor and sshfs, or unison?
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by saljam 14y ago
This is why more vendors should use Coreboot[1]. It's open source, so this sort of rubbish can be fixed. And it's also much more flexible. I think the new Chromebooks use it. This is how they achieved their “instant-on” feature. I can't wai
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by saljam 14y ago
Ha. That's a good point. I don't really have much interest in spectator sports. Which brings another point to mind; I found following TdF on the web with all the interactive stats easily accessible very enjoyable. It's a shame there wasn't
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by saljam 14y ago
When I saw that video I immediately thought of what Sussman said about Haskell a year or so ago. “Haskell is the most advanced of the obsolete programming languages!” [1] I think Google TV is the most advanced form of an obsolete medium. I
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by saljam 14y ago
Go generally compiles so quickly, incremental compilation is unnecessary.
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by saljam 14y ago
I digress, but I think this is one of the most annoying things about Unix these days. I practically live by the command line; but terminals are terrible. We're basically emulating technology that was already getting obsolete in the 70s! Pla
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by saljam 14y ago
I don't see how cursive script makes Arabic less “modern.” It might make carving it onto stone a bit harder, but the printing press, the typewriter, and the computer all had no problems producing quality Arabic type. Having written code whi
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by saljam 14y ago
Ian Lance Taylor (author of the gold linker) wrote a wonderful 20 part essay to how linkers work: http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/38 I'd also recommend reading the rest of his blog, at least the programming section. It's very insightful
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by saljam 14y ago
I wish there was something like Plan 9's Factotum that today's programs used. It didn't just store keys for you; it handled authentication on behalf of your client. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factotum_(software)
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by saljam 14y ago
In addition to fasting on the month of Ramadan, Muslims are “recommended” (i.e. it's considered virtuous but not obligatory) to fast on Mondays and Thursdays of every week. That sounds eerily similar to the 5:2 diet in the article. http://
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by saljam 14y ago
When your goal is to "reduce clutter" then 2 layers would be the minimum. You make another 4(?) folders in my home-directory and call that reducing clutter? I can see a clear and very useful difference between RUNTIME_DIR, CACHE_DIR, and
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by saljam 14y ago
To be fair, that's how it works. They have default values when they're not set. These are for when you want to override them, e.g. to keep cache files local instead of over your net mounted home directory.

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