diltonm

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by diltonm 12y ago
Here is a check for the IP for freakattack.com: http://www.tcpiputils.com/browse/ip-address/141.212.122.194 Edit: They have been on that list for a while, so either the staff at the University is incompetent or th
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by diltonm 12y ago
In the first case I read you as saying it's OK to commit a crime against a civilian in the United States as long as [the person didn't mean to] and in the second case that since not all .COM domains are used for commercial purpose
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by diltonm 12y ago
freakattack.com is an IP owned and managed by the University of Michigan. I could not visit the site due to them being in my firewall's ban list caused by unauthorized vulnerability testing against my home network. As an aside I wonder
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ChromeVox is pretty cool(chrome.google.com)
1 points by diltonm 12y ago|0 comments
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by diltonm 12y ago
That's true and very admirable but not what I was objecting to. It's this line that I find objectionable: "we paid more than $7 billion to developers" No, the Marketplace enabled $7 billion in transactions between the cu
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by diltonm 12y ago
"In fact, in the past year, we paid more than $7 billion to developers distributing apps and games on Google Play." Do they mean when I buy someone's app and send them my money that they are taking the credit for "paying
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by diltonm 12y ago
I just ran a comparison with Expedia (which seems to no longer be ASP.NET based as an aside); not too surprised, Expedia found the cheaper flights. Read, cheaper, not necessarily better.
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by diltonm 12y ago
I gotta say this is a pretty cool app. A lot of the UI seems to be declarative. Very nice, considering donating.
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by diltonm 12y ago
If Stripe is doing Bitcoin then I now know to stay from and recommend others to say away from Stripe.
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by diltonm 12y ago
>> we have to use Wayland instead of X11, because X11 is impossible to secure. Yet X11 was designed in the prime example world of a mult-user OS, UNIX. Hmm. >> We also need to use kdbus to allow desktop integration that is prope
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by diltonm 12y ago
We could have used this last week. A pole was damaged (I don't know how, just that it was damaged) and in the middle of a sunny day we lost power for 1.5 hours. Really looking forward to this technology.
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by diltonm 12y ago
I tried to like LISP many times since the 1980's when I was experimenting with it on the side, it just did not click for me like C/C++/Java/C#.
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by diltonm 12y ago
If they could make it last as long as solar cells are described to last, 20 years or so, then I'd consider it.
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by diltonm 12y ago
I see, well as a test you could download the Ubuntu fonts and switch to them for comparison. PS I agree too, they look better in Chrome, don't know why.
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by diltonm 12y ago
They don't look too bad on the same Firefox on Ubuntu 14.04: http://imgur.com/6nKzwZq What Linux are you running? "fc20" I guess that's Fedora? So it looks bad on Firefox on Fedora but fine on Ubuntu. Th
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Petroleum Palace, what a cool looking gas station(shorpy.com)
1 points by diltonm 12y ago|0 comments
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by diltonm 12y ago
I vote for not making the language more complicated than it already is in Java 7. Oh but we have Java 8 with closures and stuff, well OK how about no more complicated than Java 8. Please? Instead maybe introduce useful things that make prog
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by diltonm 12y ago
Checking out some of the Fresnel videos on Youtube really helps one appreciate the power of the Sun. If the new material can withstand 700 C then point a Fresnel at it and hook up the output to a Stirling engine for conversion to electricit
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Nimbus: The New Face of Swing (2008) [pdf](cache.jasperpotts.com)
1 points by diltonm 12y ago|0 comments
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by diltonm 12y ago
Agreed, I've bought several games from Steam since it became available on Linux, the process is easy and most of the games have been great.
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by diltonm 12y ago
Agreed, the designers of X made some truly brilliant decisions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-Client_Communication_Conv... Edit: I don't have a dog in the hunt on systemd but if it really is tight coupling th
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by diltonm 12y ago
It's ironic that Android isn't on the desktop, given how much greater access they would have to expand their brand. If they made a single touch/click that pulls the top menu _all_ the way down, then it would be easier to use
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by diltonm 12y ago
First, I don't grok the vocal minority's vehement opposition to systemd. Second, loose couplings are great for those who want to tweak to their heart's content, people who know what they're doing. I used to tweak the hec
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by diltonm 12y ago
The site reads in my mind like Andy Warhol on computer UI/UX design. I think Canonical has a clean design with Unity, just fix some simple things as default: 1) Menus should be per application to reduce user mouse movements. 2) All men
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by diltonm 12y ago
>> In addition, it's not like this is a huge problem, given that most people are going to abandon desktops soon anyway. I don't see that happening at all really. The desktop is a theme that fits very well with a lot of compu
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by diltonm 12y ago
Canonical really messed up there. I can understand the maverick attitude but not when it trumps common sense. Gnome 3 was a mistake too and that was a major mess on the part of the Gnome people.
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by diltonm 12y ago
This irks me about Unity. I have to run several gsettings commands after a new install to get rid of those dumb overlay scrollbars and to return the menu to the window that owns it. I leave the control buttons on the upper left, I kind of l
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by diltonm 12y ago
Good on Google and Microsoft for standing up for what's right.
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by diltonm 12y ago
Rule? It sounds like a law to me: "15. Can I operate a jammer in the U.S.? No. It is a violation of federal law to operate jammers in the United States, except for authorized, official use by the U.S. government." http:/&#x2
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by diltonm 12y ago
I don't know much about fashion well nothing but I'd have thought Nomcore sounded better. Like self-deprecating, self-satirical.

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