alien_acorn
Re:Don’t Let Facebook, or Any Tracker, Follow You on the Web
on Thursday June 14, 2018 @10:29PM (#17317092)
The idea is to keep the same standard unmaximized window size across all TOR Browser users. Yes, a randomly sized window is worse than full screen, which is worse than the TOR-standard size.
Re:VirtualBox 5.0 officially released
on Saturday July 11, 2015 @04:04AM (#9868988)
I have had no issues running a VM on an external drive.
Re:On the Typography of Flight-Deck Documentation (1992) [pdf]
on Saturday October 26, 2013 @09:51PM (#6620432)
The best description I could find was "dimension line," but all the examples have numeric measurements rather than descriptive text.
Re:Details Behind Today's Internet Hacks
on Wednesday August 28, 2013 @02:52AM (#6288384)
> The correct name servers should have been DNS.EWR1.NYTIMES.COM and DNS.SEA1.NYTIMES.COM.
How does this work? How would you get to DNS.EWR1.NYTIMES.COM without first knowing where nytimes.com is?
Re:What mercury being liquid at room temperature has to do with relati...
on Wednesday August 14, 2013 @06:19PM (#6214739)
What reader are you using that offers de-duping?
Re:How to Explain Bitcoin to a 7-Year-Old
on Saturday May 04, 2013 @07:56PM (#5656808)
Miners are people who pay (with compute time) to play the lottery.
Re:Quantum physics made relatively simple: Three lectures by Hans Bethe
on Tuesday January 22, 2013 @12:20AM (#5095678)
Re:Sailfish – a real alternative to iPhone and Android?
on Monday December 03, 2012 @12:28AM (#4864095)
If you are on Android, try Hovernote to address the unselectable phone number case. Type the number into the hovering note, then copy/paste from the note.
Re:Android Apps Break the 50MB Barrier
on Tuesday March 06, 2012 @11:41AM (#3671738)
You might try MapDroyd, which downloads Openstreetmap data for offline display. You can select individual countries or states to download.
Re: Browser Sedimentation
on Saturday January 28, 2012 @12:04PM (#3522533)
How do you get the Firefox icon instead of the word "Firefox" in the orange drop-down button?
Re:Things Everyone Should Do: Code Review
on Wednesday July 06, 2011 @08:32PM (#2736612)
cache/mirror/archive: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:kFsdQhZ...
Re:SSH Commands / Tricks
on Thursday November 25, 2010 @09:51PM (#1941519)
Re:HackerMed - My HN-like Site for Hackers Interested in Bio/Med
on Monday May 03, 2010 @07:10PM (#1316404)
The articles and comments need time stamps. Otherwise, you can't tell what was posted today and what was posted last year.
Re:Webkit2png: Python (cmd) tool that creates png screenshots of webpages
on Sunday April 11, 2010 @02:30AM (#1256464)
For Firefox on Windows, try Fireshot, https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5648 .
Re:74% of Twitter users have 10 tweets or less
on Wednesday March 10, 2010 @07:04PM (#1182395)
What are "j-school and b-school"?
Re:Ymacs - An Emacs-like editor for the web
on Thursday November 26, 2009 @03:43PM (#963086)
On a related but completely different note, if you are looking for Emacs key bindings in Firefox, try Firemacs:
Re:LaTeX based chat
on Wednesday September 23, 2009 @08:16PM (#840372)
Maple will take input like
y=int(x^2,x=0..100)
Re:Ask YC: How do you keep track of the different things you are doing?
on Wednesday November 19, 2008 @05:00PM (#369990)
Re:ASK HN: Google account disabled. Oh what to do?
on Saturday November 01, 2008 @11:27PM (#351147)
Google would be more responsive if we were tithing.
Re:ASK HN: Google account disabled. Oh what to do?
on Saturday November 01, 2008 @10:40PM (#351117)
Is there a standard format for storing email? I would like to archive all my mail using Gmail's IMAP feature, but what happens when I want to find something in 30 years? For example, I'd think that an Outlook data file would not be a good choice.