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by fno 16y ago
That is a great idea and I do not find it too spammy. Twitter could implement something like that themselves as advertisement (simple context aware text ads).
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by fno 16y ago
Could someone be so kind to explain why this is bad for Java instead being bad for patents? I guess we all agree that software patents are bad. This issue seems to be just about them. Why is Java dragged into this? (Genuine curiosity.)
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by fno 17y ago
If it was not so darn expensive, I would be psyched. But this way I will wait for the OpenPandora for my mobile mini-PC needs (for a telephone I love my Nokia 6310 and will use it until the day it ceases functioning).
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by fno 17y ago
Now if only they'd make it truly free, provide an easy download option (also the possibility to get the whole archive) and use the crowd to improve the quality of the text. I wonder if re-hosting is allowed, then someone could start a plain
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by fno 17y ago
Great! Doubleplus grest because it fully works without the need for Javascript and even Cookies, thanks. I searched for a Pizza Salami, selected about 10 of the top ingredients and got about 6000 results. I then added some of the suggested
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by fno 17y ago
It is rather hidden but here are the formatting options: http://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
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by fno 17y ago
I have to disagree, the font looks terrible for me (Windows XP, Opera). Maybe he forgot to use a good fallback font?
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by fno 17y ago
Enlighten me: How is a user with sudo rights different from a root user?
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by fno 17y ago
It is completely irrelevant how many users use it. If it is a great tool for just a minority, then it deserves attention in that minority. edit: Am I missing about the number of users deciding about the quality of something? Or why on earth
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by fno 17y ago
You are allowed to watch it with your friends though, of course that might depend on the country you live in. In Germany you are even allowed to give copies to close friends and family members (but you are not allowed to break copy protecti
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by fno 17y ago
And here is Jason Scott's (BBS Documentary, textfiles.com, Get Lamp, etc) mail exchange with Gizmodo after they asked him to contribute: http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/2079 Here is the "article" he could have been part of http://giz
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by fno 17y ago
It was something like no alt text being rendered when images are not displayed or found, I don't fully remember and could not find it in 5 minutes Bugzilla search hell. I did stumble on the still-open bug some days ago though, I think it wa
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by fno 17y ago
I wish the Firefox developers would focus on bug fixing for the next big release. There are so many bugs that are not fixed for many years. For example alt-text on images not correctly shown or disable-output-encoding on XML/XSLT being igno
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by fno 17y ago
If you are thinking of local directory traversal (src="jar: http://kaioa.com/b/0907/test.jar!../../somefile ) then I think you are underestimating browser coders. Introducing that security issue would require a dedicated effort.
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by fno 17y ago
Who is Chris Anderson, what is this audiobook about and why should I check it out?
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by fno 17y ago
Since this is open-source, is there a fork for PC/Linux yet? I am not the slightest bit interested in the iphone, but having this on a USB stick would be handy.
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by fno 17y ago
I love VirtualBox so much. Thanks to Innotek for the free and open-source distribution. I do use the closed source version though. If only they would support branching snapshopts. For example a main VM and then you could have one work tree
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by fno 17y ago
For several months I have a 500MB tmpfs ramdisk (which I will probably turn into a ramfs one after reading that article). I put my browser cache, several logging files and other volatile things there. Whenever I download something just to d
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by fno 17y ago
I moved a domain to them and I really really like them.
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by fno 17y ago
I found the page rather hard to read and it took a "long" time until I understood what it is all about. Putting the text in 2 columns might help. Not sure about the serif font too. Nice idea. I like it. The revizr name does not appeal to me
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by fno 17y ago
Try search.yahoo.com I find it quite good. In some nichees Yahoo is far better than Google (won't mention them because I am a tinfoil hat privacy freak, sorry). Also it seems to index XML (eg when used with XSLT) much more likely than Goog
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by fno 17y ago
Contrary to what the headline might suggest, this is just a list of links to interesting articles.
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by fno 17y ago
How about some truly free music? Mixsets are a grey area. Give http://www.professorkliq.com/ a try (if you don't like IDM just like me, don't worry about the "kliq"). http://www.jamendo.com/en/artist/Professor_Kliq
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by fno 17y ago
Apart from the "squat not" theme this seems like a generic domain trade site. What would be the benefit to other domain trade services? The escrow link on http://squatnot.com/about/ is buggy. The design wastes vertical screen. The listing
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by fno 17y ago
Firefox still is awefully slow on Linux. I switched to Opera rather recently (~6 months?) because of this. Thanks to Opera's amazing session saver and the quick end/restart cycle I find it much less a pain in the backside than Firefox if it
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by fno 17y ago
Opera has some content blocker built in. Rightclick on a website and select "Block Content". It supports wildcards. I guess most people who use content blocking have Adsense blocked. You can disable it per-site too (rightclick -> site p
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by fno 17y ago
I think this is my first comment here, so please excuse me if it is too plain but This seems like a typical flamebait. Nothing of value, nothing to think about, nothing but childish hate (or maybe simply attention/backlink whoring).