socillion

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by socillion 16y ago
It's a synonym for attention whore.
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by socillion 16y ago
what happened to mentioning that websites are NSFW? I pity anyone who followed the /b/ link while at work.
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by socillion 16y ago
The OS has absolutely no knowledge of the hidden partition - as far as it knows, that area is just empty space on the disk. TrueCrypt runs from a bootloader (which you can have on a separate CD!), prompting you for a password. It uses that
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by socillion 16y ago
I'm not sure about other browsers, but I'd like to point out that Firefox with Noscript is very effective at preventing the print popups.
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by socillion 17y ago
I bought my laptop for $90 from Free Geek (50% off for volunteering there) and use it much the same way you're using your netbook, albeit with a larger screen and (more importantly IMHO) a larger keyboard.
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by socillion 17y ago
WoW runs on almost anything... I have a refurb T43 (X300 + 2.0Ghz Pentium M + 512 MB RAM) and with settings dialed down, at 1024x768, I get at least 20 fps - haven't installed fraps here so I don't know the exact fps. RAM gets tight, but XP
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by socillion 17y ago
Everyone thinks of their password when the "How can I prevent being hacked?" comes up. What everyone forgets is password recovery . 'Hacking' as done by Anonymous and other people today usually involves resetting the email password. It's a
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by socillion 17y ago
In my experience, Windows doesn't need to be rebooted very often - although it does seem to leak some RAM. Also, a few games and other applications (like GTA:SA) cause lockups or BSODs in edge cases. GTA:SA freezes the computer if I pause i
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by socillion 17y ago
Looks to me like its an intentional play on Earth/Animal Liberation Front (aka ELF and ALF).
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by socillion 17y ago
FWIW, I haven't seen any security cameras near schools (in the US), let alone inside. I've also become pretty adept at spotting them in places like stores. Also, its unlikely that the school district will do anything like that in the near
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by socillion 17y ago
Redundant pigeons would reduce the data loss, although maintenance costs would rise.
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by socillion 17y ago
I agree that school starts excessively early. I have to wake up by 7am to get to school by 8:15am. School started this week, so I'm in a good position to observe this - during the summer I stayed alert until at least 2-3am. I woke up around
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by socillion 17y ago
That Twitter account 'documenting' his actions was actually mostly misdirection, except for very early posts - Evan confirmed this. As for this being like real life, he was specifically trying to have a semi-normal life which included using
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Evan Ratliff caught in New Orleans(wired.com)
6 points by socillion 17y ago|0 comments
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by socillion 17y ago
Some glasses have frames made of memory titanium and are literally indestructible. My pair have survived a few years of harsh treatment. I've sat on them twice, gotten hit in the face with a basketball several times, and they still bounce b
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by socillion 17y ago
* Bank books are happy fiction * Banks are delaying foreclosing on houses so they can keep showing it as a profit * The Fed is pumping billions into their operations * Option ARMs resetting, as mentioned elsewhere * Available credit is shri
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by socillion 17y ago
"it’s not about to rebound, as many stock investors apparently assume." WHAT? You tell me that after I bought the bridge and Ford shares? "Williams is a bit of renegade among economists, and certainly no household name." Good for him. If ev
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by socillion 17y ago
"Bing" "microsoft vs stacker wikipedia". The first result is a wikipedia page on disk partitioning. Google the same, you get as the first three results wikipedia pages on Stac Electronics and MS-DOS, and as the third result this HN page. As
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by socillion 17y ago
I vote Finland - #27 by CAB with $10 billion, and #6 by satisfaction with life.
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by socillion 17y ago
Actually, just mail it with either no postage or one cent postage. It has a high probability of getting through, even if it's international mail. I did some experiments a few years ago, and of the 4-5 I sent every one of them got through. C
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by socillion 17y ago
Linux = Tanks (made by hippies) Win '95 = Commie Win NT = Intended for *industrial users* "Apple" = Black Box BeOS = Batmobile Browser = Reagan. What? He could maybe work on some of the metaphors, though I got a good laug
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by socillion 17y ago
If you want a {star}nix, try FreeBSD if you've got a day or two to set it up. If not, maybe PC-BSD. PC-BSD is based on FreeBSD but integrates KDE. The reason I like FreeBSD is that it just seems to have more tools available, like sysctl to
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by socillion 17y ago
I was a little surprised that the tango icon set was in the 'mini' section, considering it contains everything up to svg copies of the icons. It seems free icons are somewhat unpopular around here. I mostly use them as application icons on
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by socillion 17y ago
anontalk. http://insurgen.info/wiki/AnonTalk for some (biased) history. Btw, that guy is probably DoSing 4chan. He also constantly spams it with stuff for anontalk. As the link might illustrate, he doesn't have any friends on the *chans