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Re:Intel Skylake Launch, with Architecture Analysis on Wednesday September 02, 2015 @04:50AM (#10158091)
Am I alone in wanting a small (NUC or (thin?) mITX) board with a Core M on it? :-(
Re:Ubuntu One file syncing code Open Sourced on Tuesday August 11, 2015 @01:56PM (#10043072)
What're you talking about, there?
Re:Hacking Ubuntu Touch on Monday July 20, 2015 @11:51AM (#9916836)
the "first videos" you're talking about were showing Ubuntu for Android, unless I'm very mistaken.
Re:Ask HN: Are top developers just guessing? on Sunday June 07, 2015 @02:15PM (#9675725)
He's on to us.
Re:Branchless code sequences on Friday April 24, 2015 @06:15AM (#9432300)
Goosebumps.
Re:Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition on Friday April 10, 2015 @11:27AM (#9354952)
Calendar syncing to google should work (but i haven't checked, and i don't know whether it would meet your other qualifiers).
Re:Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition on Friday April 10, 2015 @11:22AM (#9354921)
The next OTA (which should pass QA next week) is going to make battery a significantly better, fwiw.
Re:Micro Python store is now open and taking pre-orders on Thursday September 25, 2014 @12:46PM (#8368106)
Ask somebody on IRC (#micropython on freenode)?
Re:Tptacek's Review of "Practical Cryptography With Go" on Wednesday April 16, 2014 @04:59AM (#7596756)
Remember that being wrong about something feels exactly the same as being right about something, so (extending "being wrong" to "being ignorant") unless somebody tells them they won't know they still have stuff to learn.
Re:HTTP 2.0: GTFO (General Termination of Future Operations) on Monday January 27, 2014 @04:28AM (#7129522)
It means an engineer (or a number of them) is actually having fun while building this. It's a good sign.
Re:HTTP 2.0: GTFO (General Termination of Future Operations) on Monday January 27, 2014 @04:27AM (#7129518)
That one is documenting existing practice http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes#420
Re:Xpra: Screen for X on Wednesday January 15, 2014 @09:16AM (#7063422)
It's a rootles VNC, and has more compression options. Haven't gotten it to work with webp yet, but x264 works very well for me; I usually can't tell if it's local or remote.
Re:Pngquant – Lossy PNG compressor on Monday January 13, 2014 @08:52AM (#7050507)
How is this different from `pngnq` (that's been around for ages)?
Re:Ubuntu Touch OS wins its first smartphone partner on Wednesday December 11, 2013 @07:34AM (#6887297)
Not yet, it isn't.
Re:Ireland is to close a tax loophole used by Apple on Wednesday October 16, 2013 @06:43AM (#6558910)
AIUI the other companies on your list are using a Dutch Sandwich, which is not plugged by this.
Re:Plan 9 ported to the Raspberry Pi on Saturday August 10, 2013 @06:22AM (#6190605)
Which is why MySQL. And now, MongoDB.
Re:Canonical adds a $625 and $675 UbuntuEdge reward level on Wednesday July 24, 2013 @08:38AM (#6095794)
People were picking the 830 instead of the 600, so yes.
Re: Toxic workplace, what do I do? on Thursday June 06, 2013 @04:49AM (#5831263)
Or truly excellent.
Re:Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail Released on Thursday April 25, 2013 @05:45AM (#5606390)
You shouldn't need the -d, because it's no longer the development release.
Re:Physicists To Test If Universe Is A Computer Simulation on Wednesday April 17, 2013 @05:33AM (#5563526)
If we're in a simulation, it's going to have bugs. We're going to find them, and start exploiting them for things like superluminal flight. Then the day shift will come in, find us exploting the bugs and patch the system. Hopefully they have their act together and they can hot-patch (or pause, patch and resume) and avoid restarting the simulation. Even so, we'll be stuck at the wrong end of now impossible superluminal flights.
Re:Ubuntu Spyware: What to Do? on Friday December 07, 2012 @11:23AM (#4887617)
12.10. It was one of the last changes before the freeze on QQ (re: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity-lens-shopping/+bug/1060979 ), and a server-side change.

BTW, you seem to have the name/numbers convention backwards :) it's codename during dev, numbers once released. So it's 12.10 or RR now.

Re:Ubuntu Spyware: What to Do? on Friday December 07, 2012 @10:41AM (#4887335)
I hate to point out the obvious, but for people who don't click the link: that bug was filed in irony (and by somebody who didn't "get" the home lens as a global search tool, but that perceptual problem is ours more than it is anybody else's). The global search functionality could be queried from the commandline (by writing a tool that talked to the backends over dbus, as the dash does), and I half expect somebody to implement a kludgy version of "grep" that did exactly that, it is in no way something we're going to ever ship.
Re:Ubuntu Spyware: What to Do? on Friday December 07, 2012 @10:35AM (#4887311)
We only query amazon if you are in a country that has a local amazon store.
Re:Ubuntu Spyware: What to Do? on Friday December 07, 2012 @10:15AM (#4887219)
Could you re-enable it for a little bit and test that slow-typing thing? We did a bit of work to make it a little bit better at that.
Re:Poll: What's your favorite static site generator? on Saturday December 01, 2012 @08:53AM (#4857601)
Nikola is missing from the list :) http://nikola.ralsina.com.ar/
It did, and googling for "donate to ubuntu" brought it up as the first hit. Still does, in fact, for now; the page no longer exists.
Re:PJSON: pretty, colorful json output formatting for terminal on Wednesday September 19, 2012 @05:49AM (#4542872)
Not sure what this offers over what I currently have in ~bin with a similar name,

python -m json.tool "$@" | pygmentize -l json | less -RSNFX

Re:Ubuntu announces 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) Beta 1 on Friday September 07, 2012 @07:09AM (#4488505)
Let me expand: we didn't make it to have python3 be the only shipped python in 12.10 because of several major dependencies. The stumbling blocks (as far as I know---when the rubber hits the road other things might pop up) were twisted, protobuf, and xapian. We have contracted out the work of porting the first two (the results of these efforts will be shipped in 12.10, in universe), and are moving away from the third one.
Re:Ubuntu announces 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) Beta 1 on Friday September 07, 2012 @06:46AM (#4488456)
5.4.6 is in Quantal right now. Presumably 12.10 will have that.

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