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Re:What I've been up to for the past year on Wednesday October 09, 2013 @05:27AM (#6520228)
I love the idea behind this, hope it's successful and will be making sure my musician friends are aware of it.
Re:Silvrback is now open to everyone – high-quality, Markdown-powered ... on Monday October 07, 2013 @02:20PM (#6510138)
It looks interesting but if it can't be self hosted. I'm out.
Re:Markdown is the Future of Writing on Friday September 13, 2013 @02:42AM (#6379023)
Markdown has tables: https://github.com/adam-p/markdown-here/wiki/Markdown-Here-C...
Re:Google.ps domain was hacked on Monday August 26, 2013 @03:49PM (#6279437)
"Listen to rihanna and be cool :P"
Re:Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months on Friday August 23, 2013 @09:27AM (#6263376)
Not that it will happen, but I would like to see what Marissa Mayer could do with MSFT.
Re:Ubuntu Edge fails to raise goal on Thursday August 22, 2013 @04:23AM (#6255858)
They announced all payments will be refunded by PayPal within 5 days.

> "We’ve been assured by Paypal that all refunds will be processed within five working days."[1]

[1] http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ubuntu-edge?c=activity#act...

Re:Chesscademy, a free chess learning site on Monday August 19, 2013 @05:38AM (#6236347)
I've recently got back into chess and have been playing a lot on chess.com thanks for the link to chesstempo as this also looks useful.
Re:ElementaryOs Luna released on Sunday August 11, 2013 @11:57AM (#6195233)
Mac OS X is my primary OS. I also have to run quite a lot of VM's. I have been running eOS since beta 1. It's by far & away my favourite Linux distro.

Whilst some of the designs are similar and may offer some familiarity to OS X users initally. The user experience is very different and has clearly been well thought out and crafted. My only gripe is the time between updates/releases otherwise I'm a happy user of OS X and eOS.

Ask HN: Final Year Project Suggestions for Forensic (Security) Computing Student

Posted by awsm on Saturday August 10, 2013 @09:44AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I'm preparing to go into my final year of a Forensic Computing & Security Degree and looking for ideas for a final year project.<p>The project involves writing a piece of software. Although this can apparently be 'proof of concept' as long as it has the basic functionality.<p>I'm also reading the 'Tangled Web'[1] and have 'The Web Application Hackers Handbook'[2] but haven't...

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Re:Poll: HN Linux users, what desktop environmemt do you use? on Saturday May 18, 2013 @04:21PM (#5730302)
Ubuntu with running XFCE via Xubuntu package. Also run ElementaryOS.