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Introduction To Machines And Mechanisms [pdf](cdn.makezine.com)
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by xd 16y ago
You can even run blender games in the browser these days: http://geta3d.com/
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by xd 16y ago
The bit in question: " For example, pursuant to the last sentence of this Article a data subject may not benefit from information and the right to oppose the processing of his/her data if a cookie collects his language preferences or his lo
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by xd 16y ago
This is being blown out of all proportions. http://www.edps.europa.eu/EDPSWEB/webdav/site/mySite/shared/... Read point 50. The general gist seems to be, that if you use a cookie to track the communications between you and the user (à la s
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by xd 16y ago
do you mean xenobiotic?
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by xd 16y ago
" consists entirely of a crude and ugly website that looks like it was sucked through a wormhole from the 1990s " Is it just me or is that comment just a tad childish? I'm finding it hard to take this guy seriously, let alone the other guy
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by xd 16y ago
Everyone handles death and the idea of it differently .. maybe his ideas are short sighted. But down voting is a pretty evil thing to do in this situation, it doesn't make his opinion any; more or less valid than the next mans.
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by xd 16y ago
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/fy6yz/51_hours_left_to...
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by xd 16y ago
Wasn't ATH0+++ used to cause modem users to hangup via IRC CTCP requests? Good days.
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by xd 16y ago
Demon internet used this, and I think maybe still do: http://echannel.www.demon.net/helpdesk/technicallibrary/sdu/... Funnily the images on the page actually show that they are using an evaluation copy! I've sent them an email referencin
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Homemade 16TB NAS dwarfs the competition with insane build quality(engadget.com)
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by xd 16y ago
I bought loads of NES games as a kid 15 years ago, with my hard earned pocket money, but lost them along the way (pretty sure they got binned), should I feel guilty for downloading them now?
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Intel launches high speed Thunderbolt connector(bbc.co.uk)
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by xd 16y ago
From the blog on the rack website: " Rack aims to provide a minimal API for connecting web servers and web frameworks. " The PHP SAPI handles the HTTP request and dissolves it into super globals for the environment to consume. This is all y
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by xd 16y ago
Rack is the PHP SAPI equivalent ..
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by xd 16y ago
You've heard of the PHP SAPI, right?
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by xd 16y ago
I've worked in education for over 10 years. 7 of which was on site at one of England's largest secondary schools whilst consulting for schools all over the country. I've had first hand experience dealing with dozens of LA (what you call di
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by xd 16y ago
I couldn't agree more. I choose PHP, all that time ago, because back then I was a C developer. I fell in love with the fact you could create your own C extensions and that the PHP syntax was similar to C syntax, so it was easy to pick up a
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by xd 16y ago
We use to find the holidays a massive advantage. But schools take some of their holidays on different weeks in different parts of the UK so as we expanded we effectively lost these maintenance windows. Also teachers/students/parents access
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by xd 16y ago
Good question. We have had 3 incidents in the last 7+ years. The first 2 occurred when we only had servers in one site. 1, http://www.risktec.co.uk/news/business-continuity-%E2%80%93-... (lasted days!!) 2, A thunderstorm knocked out the
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by xd 16y ago
There should be a law against that. Reminds me of the "unlimited mobile phone internet" plans here in the UK which in the fine print resolve to "fair use policy of 1GB a month) .. why can't companies just call a spade a spade.
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by xd 16y ago
I didn't say we provide 100% uptime. We just don't entertain the idea that we may have to settle for less .. simply, we pro-actively monitor our servers and have enough redundancy in place to keep problems under OUR control. We don't prete
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by xd 16y ago
Not sure where you are based, but here in the UK schools are rapidly gaining better uptimes. The biggest problem we see is miss-configured proxies playing havoc with https connections. I couldn't say what the average uptime is, but if a sc
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by xd 16y ago
I've been seeing it offered more and more in recent years for colo ip transit. Just do a quick search for "sla 100% uptime network". Apart from one of the latest colo providers we use I've witnessed downtime with every single one that offe
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by xd 16y ago
The point I was trying to make is that if I had that kind of public attitude to uptime, I'd be out of business pretty much overnight. Yeah, 100% uptime is a crazy notion; but something always to be strived for nonetheless.
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by xd 16y ago
Sounds like they are trying to fluff their reliability reputation. I develop a web application that is used by schools and just can't entertain the notion of anything other than 100% uptime. I take the reliability of my product very very se
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by xd 16y ago
Active Record ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_record_pattern ) is an architectural pattern and not something born in RoR. The parent just happened to mention an implementation (for which there are many in PHP) copied from RoR. I'm cu
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by xd 16y ago
Explain why you think it is a "necessary evil", really, I'd love to know what insights you have that I somehow missed over the last 10years of developing successful large scale projects with PHP. You may also want to email the likes of Face
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by xd 16y ago
It was for humour value.
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Homodyne measurement of Earth's rotation with game controller and record player(pabr.org)
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