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by whughes 17y ago
A few years ago, I was in a tech support call with a Dell tech. He was putting me through some kind of reinstallation process, I don't recall exactly. Anyway, he actually had me boot from a Dell diagnostic CD, run debug.com, and type in the
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by whughes 17y ago
Similar article from Time: http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1903810,00.... On the one hand, I'm not happy that Tagged and co are getting all this publicity, but on the other I'm hoping that it helps to stem the tide a bit.
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by whughes 17y ago
They didn't modify netcat, apparently. There's no patch on the right. The left column is just original source tarballs, probably for convenience/versioning/archiving purposes.
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by whughes 17y ago
That's not the same as writing in an intentionally inflammatory manner to garner attention and get responses. There's a difference between your opinion and how you choose to convey it. For me, trolling is entirely a question of the latter a
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by whughes 17y ago
It is, explicitly said by the FSF: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html GPLv3: 6. Conveying Non-Source Forms. You may convey a covered work in object code form under the terms of sections 4 and 5, provided that you also convey the machin
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by whughes 17y ago
How is a site like Mibbit possible without JavaScript? AJAX is, after all, asynchronous JavaScript and XML, and a site like Mibbit which is constantly updating and communicating with servers isn't the same as a site which uses JS for menu r
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by whughes 17y ago
Perhaps not as techie as you may think. It's superior in ease of use to the Java and native IRC clients that preceded it. I was part of a site that used it to provide new users easy access to the IRC room; in that case, it would be less tec
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by whughes 17y ago
What does this have to do with Opera Unite? It has the word "server" in the API name. Does that mean I can link to Apache and say that they beat Opera to the idea? Opera's not saying they came up with the first local server; they're just gi
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by whughes 17y ago
Not all parents are created equal. The problem with giving parents educational responsibility is that it may disadvantage those who are outcasts in the society. Poor parents who are uninvolved with the political process would in turn disenf
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by whughes 17y ago
DVI is easily connected to HDMI using a DVI-HDMI cable. I've had no problems doing this with a computer and an HDTV at 1080p resolution.
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by whughes 17y ago
Where do you think they get the 70 million monthly visits from? I don't know anyone that actually uses Tagged as a social network. It would seem to me that the simplest explanation is that their bad behavior is the only reason they maintain
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by whughes 17y ago
Interesting how in the end, the mistakes in the development were meaningless. If everything had gone 100% perfectly for him, the law would still have destroyed him, like a divine act. At least the programmer and the author obtained some exp
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Netbooks: Small but disruptive(economist.com)
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by whughes 17y ago
Please link to the original. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/16/health/psychology/16pass.h...
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by whughes 17y ago
Reddit isn't very strict with its moderation, unlike HN. My understanding is that reddit attempts to only block out-and-out spam / crapflooding / malicious links. There are ways to circumvent it or at least check to see if you've been banne
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by whughes 17y ago
This must be opt-in, though. I find the idea of a centralized system where totalitarian governments can track their Internet users absolutely terrifying. As Internet usage expands, like cell phone usage has, the technology designers will in
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by whughes 17y ago
There's an important distinction between a guru and an idol, though. Reznor doesn't seem to fulfill that description; a too-distant figure can turn the respect into something like worship, with the accompanying zealotry.
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by whughes 17y ago
Then you'll run the risk of creating echo subchambers in a community, where people who share similar opinions form trust groups and block competing opinions out. Even if you rely on outside connections (friends and such), you'll still be mo
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by whughes 17y ago
It can't be 100% verified, but that doesn't mean that the theory of evolution holds no water. Being "skeptical" doesn't mean ignoring the evidence for things you don't like. It's the most likely explanation at the moment, backed up by evide
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by whughes 17y ago
http://memo.tv/msafluid_for_processing Also ported to Flash: http://blog.inspirit.ru/?p=248 I've tried it on a multi-touch display, and it is a lot of fun even without any additional things to play with. Pretty heavy on the processor wi
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by whughes 17y ago
The Dreamcast was relatively open. I think the big reason that Apple kept the phone closed was because it could. People make the mistake of looking at it from a Mac/PC perspective, when really the iPhone was aimed at a consumer market which
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by whughes 17y ago
If the App Store wasn't a massive success, no one would bother to develop for it, and no one would complain. The negative stories are an indicator of Apple's success. For developers, the Store is a negative, but for the users it is a clear
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by whughes 17y ago
Original sites: http://docs.blacktree.com/quicksilver/what_is_quicksilver (alcor's site, who's now with Google and working on the QSB) http://code.google.com/p/blacktree-alchemy/ (Google Code for QS) I try to avoid the shareware downloa
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by whughes 17y ago
To me, the most interesting aspect of the post was the comparison between Bing and the old Live. I'd have liked to see a Live-Google comparison and perhaps Yahoo! as well, since it's often thrown around as a comparable alternative. This see
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by whughes 17y ago
No, I don't think those measure up. The Ubuntu listing is too short and too non-specific to be much good. They also overuse acronyms and pack them too densely (PSP, MP3..). The Kubuntu listing is better than the Ubuntu page, but still not t
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by whughes 17y ago
I'd argue that search results trump many of these. The UIs (including mobile UIs) of most search engines these days are virtually identical, although maybe slightly flashier in some cases. No Cuil here. If a search engine offers better resu
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by whughes 17y ago
Try the Unarchiver: http://wakaba.c3.cx/s/apps/unarchiver.html It's one of the first things I install on any OS X system. Great unarchiver that takes care of most (all?) the common archive formats, although I run into the occasional passw
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by whughes 17y ago
The common man's opinions determine the elections, though. It's the common man's money that funds NASA and provides grants to researchers. Whether you care or not, the common man is a powerful force in determining the future.
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by whughes 17y ago
Our heroes have always played games, but the games before were wars. It got us this far. You're not merely looking at a problem with our society and culture; you are looking at a universal aspect of human nature.
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by whughes 17y ago
I can see some of them ("the easiest way to share videos") -- others seem to just be based on common Web 2.0 elements. I can see a lot of Digg in the color schemes, and there's an obvious rip-off of the Twitter layout as well. My biggest pr

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