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Re:Amazon's short URL: http://a.co
on Friday May 24, 2013 @06:56PM (#5765677)
as a quality signal for surfacing relevant, interesting Tweets
Doesn't that mean tracking?
Re:Improving the security of your SSH private key files
on Friday May 24, 2013 @01:02PM (#5764085)
If you put 'histcontrol=ignorespace' or 'histcontrol=ignoredups' in your ~/.bashrc file it will not record commands that begin with a space [1]. I believe that 'ignoreboth' is the default on many Linux distros.
[1]: http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/using-bash-history-more-...
Re:8.2 magnitude earthquake off Russia with potential to generate a ts...
on Friday May 24, 2013 @06:34AM (#5762055)
It's possible because of the depth.
Re:The Xbox One: Hardware Analysis & Comparison to PlayStation 4
on Wednesday May 22, 2013 @02:42PM (#5752897)
This is pretty much standard on hardware benchmarking and review sites. I'm not saying that it's a good design, but it's not unique to this site.
Re:The overlooked issue of Windows 8
on Wednesday May 22, 2013 @12:37PM (#5751994)
when I want something all it takes is a single keypress and to start typing. No navigating an arbitrary hierarchy of menus where how things are filed made sense at the time they were filed. It just finds the damn thing
Wasn't this available in the Win7 (and maybe Vista) start menu?
Re:Microsoft announces Windows 8.1
on Tuesday May 14, 2013 @04:49PM (#5708020)
will be a free update to Windows 8 for consumers through the Windows Store
This could be to get more people to link their Microsoft ID with their Windows user accounts so that they will be more likely to use the store in the future. The alternative would be to release it through Windows Update like every other Windows patch for the last decade+.
Re:Another user/developer banned from GNOME's bugzilla without any war...
on Monday May 13, 2013 @09:42AM (#5698570)
Unfortunately the best data I can find are from 2010 [1], but Red Hat only contributes 16.3% of the commits to GNOME.
Re:How a nation of junkies went cold turkey
on Sunday May 12, 2013 @07:55PM (#5696439)
The article didn't really explain the justification for the crackdown on Subutex except for the usual "drugs are bad, mmmkay". It seems like Subutex is a good cure for misery without serious side effects.
Re:We got hacked
on Friday May 10, 2013 @06:02PM (#5688919)
I don't think I'd want to use a domain registrar run by people who think that using the mustache meme on their "About Us" page [1] is professional. I'm not usually prudish about language or jokes, but hosting and domains are serious business.
Re:Linux is not about choice (2008)
on Tuesday May 07, 2013 @05:03AM (#5667139)
Try installing vim-gtk instead of vim-gnome.
Re:Google and Adobe team up to improve fonts on iOS and Linux
on Thursday May 02, 2013 @04:37PM (#5647076)
I agree with you. I don't care what the fonts were designed to look like. I only care about readability. The default font settings on Ubuntu hurt my eyes. Thankfully this is easy to fix by switching to full hinting and enabling subpixel rendering.
Re:Add .txt As the Extension of Your Readme file
on Tuesday April 30, 2013 @03:23PM (#5634344)
This is a really important point. TXT files are associated with Notepad by default. If we want README.txt (or README.md/rst/org.txt) files to be read by the least sophisticated users, then they should all have Windows line endings.
Re:AT&T Pretends It, Too, Will Build A 1 Gigabit Network
on Wednesday April 10, 2013 @01:50PM (#5526765)
For those fortunate Austinites who will face the difficult decision of choosing between two gigabit fiber ISPs: AT&T is a founding member of the Copyright Alert System scheme [1][2].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Alert_System#History
Re:Top Reasons I like Postgres Over SQL Server
on Monday April 08, 2013 @01:52PM (#5513280)
I agree with you that this is not a good thing, but I don't think changes in language like this ever reverse (similar to generic trademarks).
Re:Shodan: The scariest search engine on the Internet
on Monday April 08, 2013 @01:11PM (#5512989)
Here's an example from early 2012 that I don't think would have been possible with Google:
http://console-cowboys.blogspot.com/2012/01/trendnet-cameras...
Re:Updated Packages – Python 3.3
on Friday April 05, 2013 @12:02PM (#5499219)
This is different than the Ubuntu proposal. Fedora is not yet shipping Python3 as the default Python interpreter [1].
Re:Lessons Learned Working from Coffee Shops
on Thursday April 04, 2013 @06:31AM (#5491850)
Also, make sure your Internet connection is secure. Set up a VPN (or buy from a provider) to be 100% safe.
Re:Cloud Provider DigitalOcean Exposes Users' VM Data
on Wednesday April 03, 2013 @03:24AM (#5484749)
I hope that part of their follow-up to this includes information about not being able to fully trust that non-encrypted data on SSD drives can be 100% wiped. Users of hosting services should not be storing extremely sensitive unencrypted information on any shared hardware.
Re:Remapping Caps Lock on OS X Mountain Lion
on Saturday March 30, 2013 @04:47AM (#5464868)
Another option is to run setxkbmap after X starts (using a ~/.xinitrc file or your favorite desktop environment's autorun feature.
'setxkbmap -option caps:esc'
'setxkbmap -option ctrl:nocaps' (my preference)
'setxkbmap -option ctrl:swapcaps'
Re:A gallery of interesting IPython Notebooks
on Sunday February 17, 2013 @04:23AM (#5234685)
If you're an Emacs user, you may want to give Emacs IPython Notebook [1] a try. I suspect that it would solve the keyboard shortcuts issue.
Re:Solve the Problems Your Parents Have
on Sunday February 17, 2013 @03:20AM (#5234582)
Would you have started this if dmor was a man? No? Well then you're probably just being sexist and mean.
Re:Will Your College Go Out of Business Before You Graduate?
on Saturday January 26, 2013 @04:42PM (#5121878)
"The institution’s financial resources are sufficient to sustain the quality of its educational
program and to support institutional improvement now and in the foreseeable future. The
institution demonstrates, through verifiable internal and external evidence, its financial
capacity to graduate its entering class. The institution administers its financial resources with
integrity." -- New England Association of Schools and Colleges, Standards for Accreditation [1], Page 22
I'm sure the other regional accreditation agencies have similar requirements.
[1](PDF) http://cihe.neasc.org/downloads/Standards/Standards_for_Accr...
Re:Firefox 18
on Tuesday January 08, 2013 @10:18AM (#5026531)
Another option is to download the latest build [1] and use the built-in updater.
[1] https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/tinderbox-bu...
Re:How To Strip DRM from Kindle E-Books and Others
on Tuesday October 23, 2012 @02:00PM (#4689294)
I am not a lawyer, but I do know a little bit about DRM. I believe the DMCA makes cracking all forms of DRM illegal except in certain cases which are outlined by the Library of Congress every three years. The last time the exceptions were updated was July 2010 [1], so they will be up for review again in 2013. If I'm interpreting the current guidelines correctly, you can only crack ebook DRM if it is preventing you from using text-to-speech (presumably for blind people or people with poor eyesight).
[1] http://www.copyright.gov/1201/2010/Librarian-of-Congress-120...