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by slug 15y ago
Most photo-cameras use FAT for SD cards so I expect journaling is not that common. Don't know if the same applies to 'professional' video-cameras though.
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by slug 15y ago
I'm uptown, but wouldn't mind to go down there to pick one up. So, what's the next project?
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by slug 15y ago
Just to let you know that if I have javascript disabled (noscript) on my browser, most of your links for the portfolio don't work. Don't know if it matters in the real world, but just a heads up.
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by slug 15y ago
If you are referring to the seed cleaner, his name is Moe Parr.
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by slug 15y ago
The documentary Food, Inc. (among others) has a segment about Monsanto's "business" practice, in particular seed saving for following year's planting. So the problem is not necessarily GM food but how they twist farmers arms through litigat
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by slug 15y ago
Wouldn't it be easier to build a standalone voip phone with a rasperry pi and avoid turning on a computer for skype altogether ? I'm not sure if you could do bidirectional video with the pi, but voice should be no problem.
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by slug 15y ago
This is good news, although confusing Laplace transform and Laplace equation makes me think that before using their numeric code I should check it thoroughly.
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by slug 15y ago
No, US is the anomaly, since other countries in Europe have better/cheaper offers both for mobile and fixed connections (dsl,cable,fiber). I agree with the poster above, the US mobile and broadband offers are a joke and for that reason I al
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by slug 15y ago
His book "Bloomberg by Bloomberg" is also a good read. I also find it amusing this even made the news. His billion-dollar fortune comes from a tech company founded with money he got as severance after being fired from a previous tech manage
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by slug 15y ago
It looks as good or better than google earth, particularly the trees, but the (texture) caching seems to be limited, which could be obviated by using local storage.
131.
by slug 15y ago
decompressing there's actually no need to use -a, you can do tar xf firefox-9.0.1.source.tar.bz2 (tar 1.25 here).
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by slug 15y ago
well, with gnu tar I prefer to use: -a, --auto-compress use archive suffix to determine the compression program So tar cvfa archive.tar.xz files* would create a tar.xz file
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by slug 15y ago
Well, I use /home with luks on some machines and user directory (encfs) on others, but have all of them with swap encrypted or no swap partition at all. Since the keys/other private info might leak there, you are not doing it right, unl
134.
by slug 15y ago
You can and should encrypt your partition, since your home key might end up there. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EncryptedFilesystems If you want hibernate to work you can use uswsusp for example: https://we.riseup.net/debian/encrypt
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by slug 15y ago
"For example, GPS transmitter can stay silent until it gets "You are stolen" signal." That's true, but most electronic circuits emit stray radiation, switching or crystal references. Not only that, the hypothetical receiver needed for your
136.
by slug 15y ago
GPS would be useless for a determined thief, be it by simply jamming the GPS/cell signal or a RF sniffer to locate the (cellphone/whatnot) transmitter in the car and destroy it. From what I see, your social network sanction would be the onl
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by slug 15y ago
I consider Qt to be more a framework than a library per se. The fact of being written in C++ is probably irrelevant, since you usually don't link to it from other projects (say ncurses, gtk based), you use it to build a Qt application or
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by slug 15y ago
https://code.google.com/p/lsyncd/ "Lsyncd watches a local directory trees event monitor interface (inotify). It aggregates and combines events for a few seconds and then spawns one (or more) process(es) to synchronize the changes. By defa
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by slug 15y ago
"Then, there's the lack of address bar search, i.e. if you type in sentences there, the string will not be forwarded to your search engine of choice, it will most likely be declared as an invalid protocol, which is fairly annoying and count
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by slug 15y ago
It almost seems that someone read my comment here on HN a few days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3330669
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by slug 15y ago
Well, if you ever tried to use a more powerful RF transmitter than your neighbor, you can overwhelm her signal, no need to "jam" with noise or mine for that matter. I should have used a different word than jamming for the GPS map distortion
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by slug 15y ago
Pretend that 1. they jam the control signal and the drone goes into safe mode, tries to return to base. 2. Now, let's also jam the GPS signal with fake information to distort the earth's map so that it thinks that the base is somewhere insi
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by slug 15y ago
script to do it automagically, using tesseract: http://git.aeminium.org/~slug/?p=programming/security.git;a=... unsigned char image_com[] = { 0xeb, 0x04, 0xaf, 0xc2, 0xbf, 0xa3, 0x81, 0xec, 0x00, 0x01, 0x00, 0x00, 0x31, 0xc9, 0x88, 0x
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by slug 15y ago
Unfortunately I don't think this will ever happen, since from what I know, most of the nvidia binary driver is basically a firmware to run the 'dumb' multi-core gpu hardware. Giving this away would provide valuable knowledge to their compet
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by slug 15y ago
yes, bring back the VAX/VMS help system with the helpful examples at the end, was awesome last time I used it.
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by slug 15y ago
'info bash' is much better than 'man bash', give it a try.
147.
by slug 15y ago
or start as root, bind to the port and then drop privileges, but it's easier said that done properly. i'm no ruby expert either.
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by slug 15y ago
alias ee='emacs -nw -Q'
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by slug 15y ago
From what I learned from a BD engineer, Japanese legged robotics use mostly static equilibrium in contrast with the (more advanced?) dynamic balancing of US and European robots. Asimo might look cute, but if you compare the gait of any of t
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by slug 15y ago
well, some of microsoft alums seem to have become one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2809544

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