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by zumtar 8y ago
Thanks for the comment, I'm a long time UNIX user (since the early 90s) and because I see the majority of web-applications running on *NIX systems, I, personally think a grounding in UNIX is quite important. I could be wrong though, so
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Programming as a career change?
1 points by zumtar 8y ago|4 comments
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by zumtar 11y ago
> No, and the situation was and still is a lot more complicated than that. The question was "Did they [Irish Protestants] really consider themselves "Irish", though?" and the answer is "yes". > Moreover,
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by zumtar 11y ago
I don't have exact numbers to hand but I am sure the numbers of Protestant Irish emigrants was very high. Poverty throughout the counties was common and they wanted to find a new and better life just as much as their Roman Catholic nei
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by zumtar 11y ago
Yes, of course they did. They were Irish, but the unionists agreed (along with Great Britain) that Ireland should be ruled by the King and be under British rule, and subsequently they all adopt the "British" sect of Christianity (
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by zumtar 11y ago
> I think it would be hard to find an Irish Protestant at that time, no? Belfast (and the whole of Ulster) was full of them.
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by zumtar 11y ago
Just out of interest, I installed a couple of the European Ultima Online servers, they were Sun E450s running Solaris 2.5.1. They had a massive 10 Mb/s dedicated to them (with the ability to burst to 50 Mb/s) - bandwidth shaping w
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by zumtar 11y ago
Atmel have had FPGA devices for a very long time, they also have military specification FPGAs that are probably sat in lots of hardware that would need a constant flow of replacement modules for repair. I seem to remember that they had some
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LED blink using the programmable logic inside a 70¢ pencil tip sized μController(youtube.com)
1 points by zumtar 11y ago|0 comments
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by zumtar 11y ago
> You would need an HDCP license... The suggestion is for an illegal device, no need for licenses in that case ;) The easiest way would be to extract the pint glass graphic over the wire (sitting in middle of the HDMI cable the set top b
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by zumtar 11y ago
I use an ATIV Book 9 Plus ultrabook (13.3" LED QHD+ 3200 x 1800) as my main machine - the HiDPI screen is stunning and it is something I couldn't live without now. Up until a week or so ago, my OS was GNU/Linux Debian Jessi
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by zumtar 11y ago
"I ask honestly, why?" As you say yourself, it is part of your history, you've probably forgotten which concepts that K&R taught you and the OP is trying to learn C from scratch. The OP mentions that they are learning C
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by zumtar 11y ago
You should definitely have a copy of K&R on your desk. A book I read alongside K&R was "Illustrating C" by Donald G. Alcock, even though it is out of print and quite hard to find I'd recommend hunting a copy down as
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by zumtar 12y ago
I think you are quite unique in 'skipping text' written nearby text boxes where you are entering your credit-card number, expiry date and CVV2. I would recommend changing that behaviour ASAP ;)
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by zumtar 12y ago
Yes, but they clearly state - "To register your payment information, we will ask your bank for a 20,00€ debit preauthorization. This will appear on your bank statement and be automatically released after 7 days." . This is a fair
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by zumtar 12y ago
My UX - click, ugh! ,back.
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by zumtar 12y ago
> My advice would be to start experimenting with it now. This will give you a headstart over the rest of the field as IPV6 becomes more popular. I remember specifically a coworker of mine in 1996 saying that I had 4 years to learn about
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by zumtar 12y ago
That isn't the point I'm making, it was a fictitious example based on many interactions with these types of guys. I'm illustrating how easily such a file is leaked because the people employed in mobile network maintenance are
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by zumtar 12y ago
> It does say 98% of private key transfers are not between the SIM supplier (Gemalto) and the carrier. It explicitly says those could be hacked more easily but are out of their hands. But that is the problem, they shouldn't really b
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by zumtar 12y ago
This statement from Gemalto seems quite naive considering the leaked documents state that the operations to obtain the private keys were successful. They talk about the deployment of a "secure transfer system" BUT that will only h
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by zumtar 12y ago
> I use XFCE with a custom HiDPI theme Your documentation is great, thank you, I'm trying your XFCE4 theme right now (I've been using Cinnamon until now). Could you possibly clarify these steps as written on your website for me
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by zumtar 12y ago
I'm not running a 4K display on my laptop but a QHD+ HiDPI display (with a resolution of 3200x1800). I've settled on Debian Jessie(testing) with the Cinnamon desktop environment and Opera Beta as my web-browser, it all works perfe
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by zumtar 12y ago
That's a great suggestion. I've been through everything trying to get a decent HiDPI experience, I'm running Opera beta and it all just works perfectly. I'm running Debian Testing/Jessie and I've found that the
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by zumtar 12y ago
Do you have children? I hear that TRT causes infertility so you need to abandon any hope of that while you are on it, is this the case?
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by zumtar 12y ago
Interesting to see a Broadcom logo and chip markings visible on the CPU now. Love 'em or hate 'em, I suspect Broadcom are very happy about this as those chip markings are prime marketing real estate. Considering the phenomenal suc
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by zumtar 12y ago
Are you interested in any feedback for the app itself? If so, where should I send it?
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by zumtar 12y ago
This is great video and thanks for the link, but just to be clear to others it is not a teardown of the current BLE capable model that the OP has reverse engineered.
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by zumtar 12y ago
This is really great, thank you for doing this. Could you please add Advantix, Scalibor, Kiltix and Foresto for us Europeans :) We use most of the others here also, but those I have listed above are used alongside the ones you have listed.
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by zumtar 12y ago
Yes it will. I am fully aware that the handsets are bought contract-free from Google (I am a long time Nexus user and purchaser), I am not suggesting that the carrier will replace or repair the handset. The handset that attaches to a GSM ne
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by zumtar 12y ago
> And the telco of Nexus is Google! It isn't, Google doesn't run their own mobile network or mobile virtual network ( yet ). Contacting the technical support team of the company that provides you the SIM card that is inserted i

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