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by sherr 8y ago
For spider intelligence and an absoutely brilliant science-fiction novel, try Adrian Tchaikovsky's "Children of Time" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25499718-children-of-tim... This book reall
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by sherr 8y ago
I didn't know he was a part of the SOE in WW2 and took part in the kidnapping of Kreipe on Crete. If anyone can get to the British Museum in London before July 15th, there's a free exhibition called "Charmed lives in Greece -
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by sherr 9y ago
Rebuild and scp the whole lot again? Not necessarily a big deal.
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by sherr 9y ago
HEADLINE: Finalise LXD support DESCRIPTION: It would be great if Debian finished its LXD (container hypervisor) packaging and got it up to a decently complete level (per Ubuntu). https://wiki.debian.org/LXD
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Lancet Psychiatry Needs to Retract the ADHD-Enigma Study(madinamerica.com)
2 points by sherr 9y ago|0 comments
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by sherr 10y ago
Eric Cline, the author of the piece, wrote the book "1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed", a book on the bronze age collapse I found very interesting. In the 1980's, the BBC produced a series called "In Search of
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by sherr 10y ago
The "Latinum" YouTube channel seems good when I looked it over last : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEekt9eu1g-yEGq6XUlRSIg
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by sherr 10y ago
I use a credit card for online payment only. I don't like the idea of a debit card stored online because it is a direct link to my bank account. A credit card gives me a bit more protection and I make sure I pay it off every month.
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by sherr 11y ago
Yes, Thomas Dickey's been maintaining xterm and a lot else for donkey's years now. A lot of people owe him a big "thank you" for all his hard work. Thanks Thomas.
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by sherr 11y ago
Not only CAD but media (film,video,3D). Years ago, there were quite a few 3D design programs around for film/video production e.g. Softimage, Alias, Wavefront, 3Ds Max etc. On the 2D side, Discreet Logic with Flame etc. Today, all owne
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by sherr 12y ago
Dickey's an unsung hero really. I've been impressed and grateful that he keeps old programs like xterm (in particularly) relevant.
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by sherr 12y ago
It is very refreshing to see MSDN publishing a sentence like : "The internal Microsoft team has been focussed on Linux support" I've never been on the Microsoft side of the great computing divide, but this sort of work defini
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by sherr 12y ago
Some thoughts : It wasn't absolutely clear to me what this is. The front page (project page) doesn't have a simple, clear description of the application. Or is it a "platform"? Documentation page has a list of features -
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by sherr 12y ago
A recent translation by Clive James has been much praised. As someone who has not read Dante's classic yet, the James version might be the one I read. http://www.clivejames.com/poetry/divine
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by sherr 12y ago
Thank you for such a good description of what you are doing. I am also trying to do mindfulness meditation but am only managing 15 or 20 minutes a day just now. It can be frustrating but occasionally (rarely for me) you notice something (al
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by sherr 12y ago
Good article. Its when he mentions GLX_SGI_video_sync that I recall how far ahead of the crowd SGI used to be when it came to graphics and video engineering, including proper SDI video work.
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by sherr 13y ago
A lot of commentary here and in the article was worrying to me. Directly relevant since I bought a cheap (good value) Lenovo G510 laptop today that came with Win 8.1. I didn't want to use Windows at all, just boot Clonezilla straightaw
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by sherr 13y ago
3.11 is in Wheezy backports if wanted.
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by sherr 13y ago
A while back, I briefly worked for IBM at their R&D office in Winchester, UK. IBM did were building parallel programming tools and programs (transputers), 3D computer visualisations (constructive solid geometry) etc. Proper research. I
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by sherr 13y ago
I'll second the pfsense option. I just bought a great little Alix based firewall running pfsense (2.1) [1]. I wanted something that was open-source and less of a black box (firewall inside a consumer grade router/modem). One thing
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by sherr 13y ago
Congratulations Joshua. Great reading about your experience learning how to code, sticking at it and getting the job you wanted. Your post was short on details (I assume your book will have more) but still inspirational. Definitely good rea
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by sherr 13y ago
If people are interested in this stuff (and I hope a lot are), the Planetary Society [1] do weekly podcasts and events and talk about this and other areas. The Benford's are always good to hear because they're articulate, clever a
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by sherr 13y ago
I'm a user of Debian but can see why some people prefer Redhat, and I've used it myself. Perhaps the main difference is that there is more official vendor support for Redhat i.e. device driver RPM's etc. This could be somethi
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by sherr 13y ago
I used to think that the Redhat security guides were good [1], but would also go through the NSA guide to securing Redhat [2]. Seems a little ironic nowadays. Recently, we had Bryan Kennedy's "first 5 minutes" [3], linked fro
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by sherr 13y ago
Although Active Directory and Exchange are pretty entrenched. And how's Sharepoint and Lync doing? Microsoft still have quite a foothold in the enterprise, even leaving aside Office.
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by sherr 13y ago
Thank you. Not only a good real world example of server provisioning with Ansible, something I've been meaning to try, but a pretty well chosen set of services to install and configure. I'm already using Postfix and Dovecot over S
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by sherr 13y ago
I sympathise with the fact that Debian considers itself the "universal operating system" but there are limits and the Debian developers have to consider the impact of their support decisions on their major consumer: the Linux OS.
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by sherr 13y ago
There actually seems to be quite a lot of evidence for the US having a low social mobility. I recall some articles a while back in The Economist about it [1][2], something that surprised me a few years ago. Not any more. It doesn't tak
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by sherr 13y ago
I'm using Anki ( http://ankisrs.net/ ) which is a similar system (spaced-repetition/flashcards). I'm using the "fat" client, although it syncs to all my desktops. I only have one "deck" at the moment (vim) and am building it up. I think it
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by sherr 13y ago
Regarding responsiveness in Firefox. Using Debian 7 Linux I've also experienced the browser getting sluggish on occasion, even recently. It is not as bad as it used to be, and generally the browser is still useable, but it is still annoying

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