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Re:iPhones 'disabled' if Apple detects third-party repairs
on Saturday February 06, 2016 @07:48AM (#11047558)
> Remember the woman who proved that Apple consistently slows down sold iPhones with "updates" right before the launch date of a new model?
No. Story linked from daily mail (that's not a "source") is more nuanced.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/27/upshot/hold-the-phone-a-bi...
Re:Xbox 360 Emulator Research Project
on Saturday September 05, 2015 @06:01PM (#10176185)
The NES cart connector can be repaired with some patience or replaced inexpensively.
A lot of sites selling new connectors claim they are made with more robust materials than the original connectors, but I'm not sure how true that is.
Re:Firefox makes click-to-activate Flash the default
on Tuesday July 14, 2015 @04:38AM (#9883535)
Copy to clipboard, apparently.
(Github project pages have a flash application to handle this)
Re:Why does Gmail hate my domain?
on Thursday July 09, 2015 @04:08AM (#9856698)
Always worth checking if the IP you inherit is in some DNSBL. A number of Hetzner IPs I've gotten were tainted.
It's oh so much fun trying to get them removed.
Re:Nirvana Engine for ZX Spectrum (2013)
on Monday May 25, 2015 @05:04AM (#9599211)
Was just looking at a review for a new game, Stormfinch, which uses this engine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2sd2FNPTBs
It's clearly a little clunkier than monochrome or simple colour attribute shooters, but still pretty competent.
My Love-Hate Relationship with Stack Overflow
Re:Netflix on an NES
on Wednesday March 11, 2015 @01:45AM (#9182772)
> There is no way in hell a 1.79Mhz 6502 can play streaming video.
It can't decode MPEG 4 real time, of course, but machines of this class are more than capable of streaming video.
ZX Spectrum streaming with a network interface (~3.5MHz Z80):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooi9rpx6ECM
Commodore 64 with lots of RAM (~1MHz 6510):
Re:Join the U.S. Digital Service
on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @07:50AM (#8990020)
You don't have to wait 5 years, you can request them yearly. They just go back 5 years (I think).
Re:Join the U.S. Digital Service
on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @03:20AM (#8989378)
Ireland has a Pay As You Earn system which is usually administered by your employer. Mostly, you do nothing and the money is paid.
Every 5 years, file a P21 to check you're not due any refunds.
If you're self-employed, it's a bloody nightmare.
Re:How to get into an admin account on a Windows computer
on Monday February 02, 2015 @09:16AM (#8984199)
I remember someone (not me, oh no...) used one for NT4 with inadequate policies to get Admin access.
Create a batch file with the content:
net localgroup administrators NewUser /add
...then stick this into the 'StartUp' directory for All Users. Break something. Call support. They log in as Administrator, running your batch file in the process.
NewUser would be created with Admin rights. You wouldn't promote your own login, of course.
Re:Tesla’s P85D Will Get Even Faster Thanks to a Software Update
on Friday January 30, 2015 @03:40AM (#8971079)
> Anyone knows what their software development process is to get that kind of confidence?
If it's NASA confidence, waterfall every time :)
Having worked in that sort of environment (everything about the system has been analysed on paper before a text editor is launched), don't knock it until you've tried it. This wasn't rocket science either, it was export refund batch jobs. In the 21st century.
Re:What is the best hard drive?
on Thursday January 22, 2015 @04:21AM (#8928273)
I have five Seagate branded 3TB external disks, so have no real idea what's inside.
Three of them are dead. I stopped using the others.
Re:Gow – The lightweight alternative to Cygwin
on Sunday November 09, 2014 @09:48AM (#8579981)
Oh super, thanks. I'll have to try that out.
Re:Building a CustoMac: Buyer's Guide
on Sunday November 09, 2014 @09:47AM (#8579979)
I'm considering it as an option for running proprietary video conference applications which either don't work or are chronically bad on Linux.
Re:Gow – The lightweight alternative to Cygwin
on Sunday November 09, 2014 @06:39AM (#8579679)
I ditched mrxvt long ago because of lack of Unicode support (though I did use it under Cygwin/X).
https://github.com/simonzack/urxvt-tabbed - is this the project you're using?
Re:ChromeOS will no longer support ext2/3/4 on external drives/SD cards
on Wednesday October 15, 2014 @07:42AM (#8457955)
Sure, with an option to enable write with the usual "omg ur apps!" warning.
Re:ChromeOS will no longer support ext2/3/4 on external drives/SD cards
on Sunday October 12, 2014 @09:58AM (#8445289)
A read only block device would have been better and would actually work on non-Windows OSes.
Re:ChromeOS will no longer support ext2/3/4 on external drives/SD cards
on Sunday October 12, 2014 @08:32AM (#8445105)
But it doesn't work like "rsync/scp/sftp over USB". No seek or partial transfer support makes it a dog. Very poor cross-platform support makes it a terrible choice.
Re:ChromeOS will no longer support ext2/3/4 on external drives/SD cards
on Sunday October 12, 2014 @07:10AM (#8444983)
Wasn't the patent mess the reason Android stopped supporting usb-storage and now uses (the horror!) MTP?
I think UDF is well supported by everything now and has several advantages over FAT (including large file and basic rwx permissions support).
Re:Cool-retro-term: A terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode d...
on Thursday October 02, 2014 @06:42AM (#8400161)
> When you fire a missile, the screen effect is insanely bright.
There was a rumour that people who played on a Vectrex (a vector display home console) would experience eye damage after protracted sessions.
Re:A brief history of CPAN
on Tuesday September 30, 2014 @02:24PM (#8390059)
http://pause.perl.org/pause/query?ACTION=pause_06history
Pull request on the way.
Re:Show HN: Perspective Mockups – Hipster-as-fuck perspectives for you...
on Thursday August 21, 2014 @04:27AM (#8206417)
> this panel stays with you like a bad STD
Wait, is this an actual product or is it a satire on the sad state of our industry?
Rescue legacy code with modulinos
Re:The Deathrow OpenVMS Cluster
on Friday August 01, 2014 @04:29AM (#8118828)
I remember this - I thought it was on el reg, but worse, it was theinq :)
https://web.archive.org/web/20031219162954/http://www.theinq...
Re:The Deathrow OpenVMS Cluster
on Friday August 01, 2014 @04:20AM (#8118812)
VMS was awesome to work with. Highly interactive and intuitive. I still prefer *nix, but my time on VMS was reasonably pleasant.
Mainframe, not so much - imagine programming in a webform's text box where the endpoint might have gone away by the time you submit.
Re:What Paris looks like with an echo
on Monday July 28, 2014 @11:56AM (#8097501)
> by NightRadio (Alexander Zolotov), who also made the amazing modular synth + tracker "SunVox".
Heh, first thing I thought when reading the article was SunVox. PixiVisor is closer in effect to what the article describes, but I was reminded of the "SunVox: Sampler eats JPEG images" video:
Re:Ars editor learns feds have his old IP addresses, full credit card ...
on Sunday July 20, 2014 @07:18AM (#8060056)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NemID
Looks like terrible, Java-based spyware.
Re:Slackware is 21 Years Old
on Friday July 18, 2014 @08:34AM (#8052645)
> I'd like a minimal install base right now (and manually picking this in the installer ain't that easy)
I think the best way to do this currently is to select the categories of packages and then choose a "Full Install" (the warning that it will install almost 8GB of software is a little confusing as it only installs what was selected on the previous screen).
I think you can do quite a bit with just the A, AP and D sets.
Re:What happens when you search 'ugly hack' in GitHub
on Thursday July 17, 2014 @09:57AM (#8047517)
Welp, neither of those are true.