alien_acorn

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by alien_acorn 8y ago
The idea is to keep the same standard unmaximized window size across all TOR Browser users. Yes, a randomly sized window is worse than full screen, which is worse than the TOR-standard size.
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by alien_acorn 11y ago
I have had no issues running a VM on an external drive.
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by alien_acorn 13y ago
The best description I could find was "dimension line," but all the examples have numeric measurements rather than descriptive text.
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by alien_acorn 13y ago
> The correct name servers should have been DNS.EWR1.NYTIMES.COM and DNS.SEA1.NYTIMES.COM. How does this work? How would you get to DNS.EWR1.NYTIMES.COM without first knowing where nytimes.com is?
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by alien_acorn 13y ago
What reader are you using that offers de-duping?
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by alien_acorn 13y ago
Miners are people who pay (with compute time) to play the lottery.
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by alien_acorn 14y ago
Direct links: http://bethe.cornell.edu/media/intro_large.mov http://bethe.cornell.edu/media/lecture_1_large.mov http://bethe.cornell.edu/media/lecture_2_large.mov http://bethe.cornell.edu/media/lecture_3_large.mov http://bethe.corn
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by alien_acorn 14y ago
If you are on Android, try Hovernote to address the unselectable phone number case. Type the number into the hovering note, then copy/paste from the note.
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by alien_acorn 15y ago
You might try MapDroyd, which downloads Openstreetmap data for offline display. You can select individual countries or states to download.
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by alien_acorn 15y ago
How do you get the Firefox icon instead of the word "Firefox" in the orange drop-down button?
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by alien_acorn 15y ago
cache/mirror/archive: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:kFsdQhZ...
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by alien_acorn 16y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1923170
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by alien_acorn 16y ago
The articles and comments need time stamps. Otherwise, you can't tell what was posted today and what was posted last year.
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by alien_acorn 16y ago
For Firefox on Windows, try Fireshot, https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5648 .
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by alien_acorn 17y ago
What are "j-school and b-school"?
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by alien_acorn 17y ago
On a related but completely different note, if you are looking for Emacs key bindings in Firefox, try Firemacs: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4141
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by alien_acorn 17y ago
Maple will take input like y=int(x^2,x=0..100) and turn it into pretty print. That seems more natural than LaTeX. LaTeX is for getting exactly what you want on paper, at the expense of ease of typing.
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by alien_acorn 18y ago
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5890
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by alien_acorn 18y ago
Google would be more responsive if we were tithing.
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by alien_acorn 18y ago
Is there a standard format for storing email? I would like to archive all my mail using Gmail's IMAP feature, but what happens when I want to find something in 30 years? For example, I'd think that an Outlook data file would not be a good c