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Re:Schwab password policies and two factor authentication on Tuesday December 23, 2014 @12:43AM (#8786941)
I've also bemoaned Schwab's password policy. I reacted by changing my login ID to something nonsensical which would be difficult to guess or to associate with anyone's identity, let alone mine.
Re:Using GNU Stow to manage your dotfiles on Thursday September 05, 2013 @01:21AM (#6332316)
Ha! Fair enough. No, I didn't intend to troll. I've found RCS useful for ad hoc versioning of configuration files on systems without git or other version control systems. Wondering whether anyone still finds it useful. I reckon not!
Re:Using GNU Stow to manage your dotfiles on Thursday September 05, 2013 @12:19AM (#6332135)
Does anyone else use RCS [1] for this?

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/rcs/

Re:Sheldon Brown's Articles on Wednesday July 17, 2013 @10:25PM (#6061410)
He inspired me to start building my own wheels, to experiment more with 70s-era French steel frames, Raleigh 3-speeds, Raleigh 20s, flip-flop hubs, fixed 3-speed Sturmey-Archer hubs, and on and on. Wonderful man.
Re:OpenMediaVault: FreeNAS on Debian on Monday July 15, 2013 @05:13PM (#6048580)
Thanks. I posted this specifically to get such critiques of these various flavors of FreeNAS: FreeNAS, NAS4Free, OpenMediaVault.
Re:Don't be evil: Moving everything off of Google on Saturday July 13, 2013 @03:11AM (#6036946)
Agreed that OsmAnd's interface leaves much room for improvement. Even though I have successfully used its navigation function for specific addresses, I have also run into all the problems you outline. It does seem to get better with each new release.
Re:Don't be evil: Moving everything off of Google on Friday July 12, 2013 @10:32AM (#6032767)
Have you looked into OsmAnd [1] for Android devices? You may find it not as slick as Google Maps, but it does have Points of Interest search.

[1] http://osmand.net/

Re:Soundlab: Lazy signal synthesis in Common Lisp on Thursday July 11, 2013 @08:42AM (#6025662)
Thanks. I appreciate your candor and your work on this.

The comment struck me, because I often feel the same!

Re:Soundlab: Lazy signal synthesis in Common Lisp on Thursday July 11, 2013 @08:22AM (#6025581)
What do you make of the following under ``SOUNDLAB.COMBINATORS'' on the API page:

``I have no idea what I am doing. I thought I knew but boy am I lost. Still, all this appears to be something good!''

Re:Archy on Tuesday July 09, 2013 @10:15AM (#6012744)
I like that he named Archy after Don Marquis' Archy and Mehitabel, the cockroach and alley cat duo. Archy the cockroach would spend hours throwing his body against the keys of a manual typewriter to convey his poetry about his muse Mehitabel, who in turn would throw herself repeatedly against the harsh world of alley-cat living with irrepressible gaiety. Two paragons of the struggle with interfaces!
Re:Zinc โ€“ Order products with a few lines of code on Thursday June 20, 2013 @12:23AM (#5910125)
Front page needs an editorial review:

Zinc let's you build things... -> Zinc lets you build things...

(``let's'' = ``let us'')

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