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by vvhn 13y ago
Better link http://www-archive.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html#keys sounds like cmd_beginLine cmd_endLine are what you need to modify in the example given <binding id="editorUser"> <handlers> <handler e
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by vvhn 13y ago
If the application overrides the defaults (which is fairly common ), your changing the defaults does nothing (for that application and for the keys that might have been overridden). It sounds like Firefox overrides the defaults completely
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by vvhn 13y ago
The very next line you quoted tells you why that is the case on Linux now. if you used Linux in the late 90's, you will remember that a lot of the popular window managers/desktop environments aimed to make your transition from Windows 95 e
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by vvhn 13y ago
>The one thing that drives me mad about Firefox on the Mac is it's Home/End behavior. Ever since migrating to the Mac, I have remapped the keys to work like on windows and Linux (operating on the current line instead of the current docu
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by vvhn 13y ago
Even in india, I hadn't seen the kind of comparative advertising which is commonplace on American TV. Very rarely, some products would compare themselves against "the leading detergent" or somesuch.
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by vvhn 13y ago
>Edit: apparently my mid-2011 model is not capable of installing big enough SSDs, so I'll have to upgrade anyway to the new model. Are you sure ? It sure can take in these ( the same max capacity as the 2012 or 13" ones) http://eshop.m
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by vvhn 14y ago
It's not too hard to set that up that up on an iPhone. Take a screenshot of a note with what ever text you want on the lockscreen or and set that as your lock screen wallpaper.
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by vvhn 14y ago
>Apple has 26k employees in retail: http://www.apple.com/about/job-creation/ Not that it matters a whole lot, but, as the website says that's just the US number. The total number of employees in retail according to Apple's last 10-K
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by vvhn 14y ago
I'm sorry, that was a brainfart- I thought you meant the connector and the host device and not quite literally a random microwave and oven :)
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by vvhn 14y ago
> There is a non-zero chance your stove and microwave are 'running linux'. Unless Linux comes with a BSD license, there is, in fact, zero chance. Apple is known to run a NetBSD variant on the airport routers - I'd say that is what is li
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by vvhn 14y ago
android is going to get an overwhelming majority too. Pretty soon even the basic $30 phone is going to be a smartphone likely running android. iPhones are going to keep on growing at a healthy rate but their numbers will dwarf against andr
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by vvhn 14y ago
> I have icloud and I'm not even sure what it's for It's a syncing service first (and you can optionally opt in to get an email-id). The website provides you webapps for your synced iCloud contacts, calendars, notes, reminders and iWork
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by vvhn 14y ago
Facebook's HTML 5 Android App really showed everybody how they were being constrained by iOS' restrictions...
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by vvhn 14y ago
great, just what we need - yet another overload of the static keyword :-).
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by vvhn 14y ago
>And yet when they tore down an iPhone with its glued battery, nary a mention was mentioned of the inconvenience.. A huge stink was made with the Retina Macbook Pros http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/06/opinion-apple-retina-... htt
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by vvhn 14y ago
The current state of Virtual Memory is RAM + pagefile/swap partition. The hibernate file would be used to restore just the RAM. You still need the additional pagefile/swap partition to completely come back to that state once you wakeup.
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by vvhn 14y ago
speculative execution and superscalar are independent concepts. While superscalar does effectively mean multiple pipelines, you don't have to be superscalar for speculative execution. You can reduce pipeline stalls in a single pipeline by "
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by vvhn 14y ago
" she panicked and tried to remove the battery by prying open the back of the iPhone. As she did so, the battery, she says, was “in the process of melting and oozing liquid (acid). ” You can't "pry out" the back cover on the iPhone 4S. It
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by vvhn 14y ago
ah, the wonder years when Steve was alive and the last apple product line was better than the previous one aka the iPod shuffle better than the iPod nano - the MacBook Air which he pulled out of a manila envelope better than the MacBook ( o
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by vvhn 14y ago
you don't have to sign in with your App Store account into iCloud. You can use different accounts to sign into each apple service which needs one on the same device ( or computer) I.e for App Store , iCloud , FaceTime , messages. But your p
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by vvhn 14y ago
as is the case in india - everybody files taxes individually (and not as a family unit). Having moved to the US recently, it was quite a surprise to me that I was paying more in taxes per year than if I my wife and I were filing taxes indi
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by vvhn 14y ago
The CEO of Google was on Apple's Board of Directors till 2009. I'm guessing 2008 was the year which relationship soured.
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by vvhn 14y ago
it is also consistent with what they do in the Bay Area. Mountain View ( where they headquartered ) has free Google wifi. http://wifi.google.com
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by vvhn 14y ago
they are usually slightly cheaper and till very recently in California, significantly cheaper because of the no sales tax advantage they had. The final price was >10% lower just because of that but Amazon doesn't have that advantage any
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by vvhn 14y ago
Actually, it's not. Apple does sell Macbooks through Amazon. No iPhones or iPads but Amazon has been selling Macs forever - http://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=2423178011
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by vvhn 14y ago
agreed. Once you know C, deep C secrets takes it to a whole new level and is an great body of work. My 3 C books are 1- K&R 2- C Traps and pitfalls 3- Deep C secrets.
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by vvhn 14y ago
You can choose "skip this" at each of the initial prompts and have a completely functional iPad without registering for anything or entering any other information. Before iOS 5, you had to connect to iTunes on your PC or Mac but that is not
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by vvhn 14y ago
a restricted subset of c++ (embedded c++) is exactly what is used to write drivers for Mac OS X. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I/O_Kit The kernel itself is in C though.
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by vvhn 14y ago
>If Apple's marketing were not key to its business why would they have spent over $1 billion on iPhone and iPad marketing since launching the devices (Google it)? HP and Microsoft outspend Apple in Advertising every year. They should be
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by vvhn 14y ago
oddly, just entering "pier 39" gives the correct result while "pier 39 san francisco" doesn't. OTOH, if you clicked on the "report a problem" and gave this feedback you could count yourself the saviour of the hapless millions who would have

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