MoeDrippins

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by MoeDrippins 17y ago
I've used OpenDNS since they became publicly known and have never gotten a redirect that I can remember. Did I configure that somehow?
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by MoeDrippins 17y ago
Suburb of Atlanta, here. (Alpharetta)
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by MoeDrippins 17y ago
Small company. Financial software. Yeah, that seemed a lot better a year or so ago. But I've been at this a few years, this recession too shall pass.
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by MoeDrippins 17y ago
My apologies; I figured the "et. al." would have covered that.
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by MoeDrippins 17y ago
I've used them as well. To me they are TOO thin (though I understand why). They're too small, take on too much of the substrate's texture, and suffer the problems "unwind" mentioned. Would love to try that paint, but I have a (perhaps neu
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by MoeDrippins 17y ago
Not sure if this is the reddit (et. al.) effect, but man that site is sllllloooowwwww for me.
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by MoeDrippins 17y ago
I'm not so sure RMS saying something offensive is unpredictable. WHAT he says, sure, but that he will do it is almost a given. He came to my college in 1983 or so and evidently his rantings haven't changed since at least then. (Yeah, yeah;
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by MoeDrippins 17y ago
> Higher detection rates is not better. Higher detection rates just means more false positives. Awesome, so the machine I have with NO AV software at all with a detection rate of 0 must be the bestest!
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by MoeDrippins 17y ago
Anecdotal, I know, but a few times I've UNinstalled Norton on my father-in-law's machines, replaced with either AVG or Avast, and stopped its incessant HD activity, speeding it up quite a bit.
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by MoeDrippins 17y ago
In other news, Microsoft says Linux is a bad choice.
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by MoeDrippins 17y ago
This almost feels "desparate" by Microsoft. Keep throwing stuff at Bing until it ... what, hits some magic "we love it!" threshold?
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by MoeDrippins 17y ago
I was uncomfortable with it when twitter first came out just due to the sheer ridiculousosity of it.
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by MoeDrippins 17y ago
Hope it's got a scatter guard around it. Yeesh!
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by MoeDrippins 17y ago
Genuine question here. I've heard these stories before (and lived through one at a company, but under very different circumstances), and it always amazes me that anyone would let a generator run out of diesel. How can that happen? I un
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by MoeDrippins 17y ago
Depending on what you mean exactly by "in the past", part of the issue is the people that had usenet available to them at a given point in time. Early on, it was the rare individual that could get access to it at all , and those that coul
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by MoeDrippins 17y ago
What about it is awesome, exactly? I keep trying to give it a fair shake, but it's not got the critical mass of awesomeness to make me give up something familiar. In fact, I don't see a single thing about it better than what I'm used to.
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by MoeDrippins 17y ago
Great, great video. Watched this and all the Computer Chronicles I could get my hands on a few years back. Good times.
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by MoeDrippins 17y ago
My 400 DID have 64k and a real keyboard (both add-ons). I was 16, but that was 1982. No intertubes. No printer. No RS-232. Cassette tapes.
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by MoeDrippins 17y ago
I don't normally like Giles' stuff much, but I read this one and kept thinking to myself; "yep. Yep. Yeah, he's right there. Yep." Nice one, Mr. Bowkett.
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by MoeDrippins 17y ago
Isn't this sort of question how Nedry got "found out" as to what his super secret assignment was on Jurassic Park?
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by MoeDrippins 17y ago
Actually, I'm using that right now. I've used priv in the past so it's not quite so foreign. I'm finding chrome+priv actually usable. Still waiting for something a bit more "on the fly right click" configurable, for my ADHD moments. =)
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by MoeDrippins 17y ago
> People are looking for a way to kill some time. You think so, eh? Look at the apps coming out that track your time, that let you restrict yourself from killing time, etc. On what basis do you make such a proposition? (I'm not bustin
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by MoeDrippins 17y ago
Exactly. The "win" tinyurl.com (etc.) was that someone had the foresight to see the need at all and do it, not that it was hard to do. Amazon got patents on less.
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by MoeDrippins 17y ago
> Now I have another reason to go: get away from hot Seattlish weather As someone who lives in Atlanta, this sentence about made me spit coffee out my nose... =) (FWIW, I'd love to move to Seattle area, but it's just not in the cards f
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by MoeDrippins 17y ago
C'mon, man! Andromeda strain!
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by MoeDrippins 17y ago
> I dig plugins as much as the next guy, but it's not enough to make me open Firefox... Then you don't, in fact, dig the plugins as much as THIS next guy. Mind you, it's the only thing that brings me back to FF, but if Chrome supporte
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by MoeDrippins 17y ago
UML?
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by MoeDrippins 17y ago
Also curious. Horizontal scaling, distribution, concurrency; that's where I see the tech heading. I think whatever will make those easier to deal with will have a huge advantage going forward.
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by MoeDrippins 17y ago
> because some people can't tell the difference between funny and not. If you can't tell, it's not.
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by MoeDrippins 17y ago
> From my point in view, encouraging scientists to be socially/politically active is a good thing (what's the alternative?) Maybe thinking scientifically?

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