fuzzix

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by fuzzix 11y ago
> Remember the woman who proved that Apple consistently slows down sold iPhones with "updates" right before the launch date of a new model? No. Story linked from daily mail (that's not a "source") is more nuanced
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by fuzzix 11y ago
The NES cart connector can be repaired with some patience or replaced inexpensively. A lot of sites selling new connectors claim they are made with more robust materials than the original connectors, but I'm not sure how true that is.
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by fuzzix 11y ago
Copy to clipboard, apparently. (Github project pages have a flash application to handle this)
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by fuzzix 11y ago
Always worth checking if the IP you inherit is in some DNSBL. A number of Hetzner IPs I've gotten were tainted. It's oh so much fun trying to get them removed.
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Why use Go?(blog.urth.org)
2 points by fuzzix 11y ago|0 comments
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by fuzzix 11y ago
Was just looking at a review for a new game, Stormfinch, which uses this engine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2sd2FNPTBs It's clearly a little clunkier than monochrome or simple colour attribute shooters, but still
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My Love-Hate Relationship with Stack Overflow(embeddedrelated.com)
2 points by fuzzix 11y ago|0 comments
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by fuzzix 12y ago
> There is no way in hell a 1.79Mhz 6502 can play streaming video. It can't decode MPEG 4 real time, of course, but machines of this class are more than capable of streaming video. ZX Spectrum streaming with a network interface (~3.
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by fuzzix 12y ago
You don't have to wait 5 years, you can request them yearly. They just go back 5 years (I think).
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by fuzzix 12y ago
Ireland has a Pay As You Earn system which is usually administered by your employer. Mostly, you do nothing and the money is paid. Every 5 years, file a P21 to check you're not due any refunds. If you're self-employed, it's a
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by fuzzix 12y ago
I remember someone (not me, oh no...) used one for NT4 with inadequate policies to get Admin access. Create a batch file with the content: net localgroup administrators NewUser /add ...then stick this into the 'StartUp' direc
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by fuzzix 12y ago
> Anyone knows what their software development process is to get that kind of confidence? If it's NASA confidence, waterfall every time :) Having worked in that sort of environment (everything about the system has been analysed on p
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by fuzzix 12y ago
I have five Seagate branded 3TB external disks, so have no real idea what's inside. Three of them are dead. I stopped using the others.
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by fuzzix 12y ago
Oh super, thanks. I'll have to try that out.
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by fuzzix 12y ago
I'm considering it as an option for running proprietary video conference applications which either don't work or are chronically bad on Linux.
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by fuzzix 12y ago
I ditched mrxvt long ago because of lack of Unicode support (though I did use it under Cygwin/X). https://github.com/simonzack/urxvt-tabbed - is this the project you're using?
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by fuzzix 12y ago
Sure, with an option to enable write with the usual "omg ur apps!" warning.
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by fuzzix 12y ago
A read only block device would have been better and would actually work on non-Windows OSes.
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by fuzzix 12y ago
But it doesn't work like "rsync/scp/sftp over USB". No seek or partial transfer support makes it a dog. Very poor cross-platform support makes it a terrible choice.
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by fuzzix 12y ago
Wasn't the patent mess the reason Android stopped supporting usb-storage and now uses (the horror!) MTP? I think UDF is well supported by everything now and has several advantages over FAT (including large file and basic rwx permission
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by fuzzix 12y ago
> When you fire a missile, the screen effect is insanely bright. There was a rumour that people who played on a Vectrex (a vector display home console) would experience eye damage after protracted sessions.
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by fuzzix 12y ago
http://pause.perl.org/pause/query?ACTION=pause_06history Pull request on the way.
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by fuzzix 12y ago
> this panel stays with you like a bad STD Wait, is this an actual product or is it a satire on the sad state of our industry?
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Rescue legacy code with modulinos(perltricks.com)
1 points by fuzzix 12y ago|0 comments
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by fuzzix 12y ago
I remember this - I thought it was on el reg, but worse, it was theinq :) https://web.archive.org/web/20031219162954/http://www.theinq...
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by fuzzix 12y ago
VMS was awesome to work with. Highly interactive and intuitive. I still prefer *nix, but my time on VMS was reasonably pleasant. Mainframe, not so much - imagine programming in a webform's text box where the endpoint might have gone aw
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by fuzzix 12y ago
> by NightRadio (Alexander Zolotov), who also made the amazing modular synth + tracker "SunVox". Heh, first thing I thought when reading the article was SunVox. PixiVisor is closer in effect to what the article describes, but I
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by fuzzix 12y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NemID Looks like terrible, Java-based spyware.
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by fuzzix 12y ago
> I'd like a minimal install base right now (and manually picking this in the installer ain't that easy) I think the best way to do this currently is to select the categories of packages and then choose a "Full Install&quo
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by fuzzix 12y ago
Welp, neither of those are true.

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