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by westbywest 17y ago
The next major release of Drupal (7) has a fair number of improvements towards semi-automated maintenance and upgrades. Most of these leverage off a command line interface called drush. Also, Joomla, Drupal's closest analog, has a comparab
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by westbywest 17y ago
Nevertheless, such a pod would be rendered obsolete by the SurvivaBall. At least the ball travels around with you. http://survivaball.com/
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by westbywest 17y ago
Fair enough, and thx for the reference. Idiom and logic rarely get along together.
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by westbywest 17y ago
My curiosity hovers over how much freedom FB app developers have in the "Request for Special Permissions" dialog. Will the FB API force them to disclose the fact their app wants to email you directly, as is shown in the screencap, or could
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by westbywest 17y ago
This story showed up on Gawker months ago, so I'm a bit confused why it reemerges now. http://gawker.com/tag/oceanavebooks/ I disagree with the writer's tagline that Yelp is such a new medium it can drive you nuts. The same could happen
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by westbywest 17y ago
As per my other comment on this thread, you can intentionally decrease the lifetime (aka MTBF) by running the part at 10 or 20% overvoltage, in addition to extreme temp, to create a corner case and stimulate premature failure in reasonable
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by westbywest 17y ago
If you know that a cap is suspect, and the article mentions what are probably helpful sources like badcaps.net, then you can accelerate the aging process by running the board in question at 10-20% overvoltage in a temp chamber heated to 100
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by westbywest 17y ago
The concern I see being voiced is less about protecting copyright, for which many protections already exist, and more about implementing a level of regulation/protectionism that is out of step with what is usually just a civil complaint. T
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by westbywest 17y ago
Although intriguing, this comparison is apples to oranges. Planes can achieve substantially better fuel economy than land-based vehicles because of 2 factors: 1) More flexibility in body design. Cars must have 2/3/4 wheels with reasonable