nathana

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by nathana 7y ago
I have much the same wishlist as you, and also haven't found anything that ticks all of the boxes. My day job is network/sysadmin/IT, which mostly involves remote connectivity to other hosts, so my local CPU grunt needs are
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by nathana 7y ago
I jumped on the Apple bandwagon circa 2007ish, when I bought a Mini. Prior to OS X (and its nix underpinnings) + x86, I paid them no mind, but both of those things put together plus their reputation for solid hardware engineering finally
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by nathana 7y ago
At least with the MacBooks, you do have the option to downgrade back to a previous version of the OS, if you find the performance of the new one not up to par. So why not go back to the version of the OS on your Air that you were once ha
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by nathana 7y ago
If you're targeting Apple platforms with your builds, just how does a Threadripper workstation address the problem? (And don't say Hackintosh...)
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by nathana 7y ago
For most consumer PCs, I have no problem with most things being soldered on like RAM, CPU, etc...but soldering on the storage is unforgiveable. And it has nothing to do with being able to upgrade it, but rather it's about the problems
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by nathana 12y ago
It's still not showing up for me. Checked on 3 separate Mavericks machines. So I downloaded the Software Update catalog (sucatalog) straight from Apple and did a case-insensitive grep for "bash" and there is absolutely noth
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A Good Apple Experience(brokenbitstream.com)
1 points by nathana 12y ago|0 comments
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Decentralizing the Web (2008)(timepedia.blogspot.com)
2 points by nathana 13y ago|0 comments
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by nathana 13y ago
Fantastic! Thanks for sharing. I've been beating the same drum for years within my circle of friends, and I always tend to get the "huh?" reaction. It's always refreshing to discover somebody else who seems to be runn
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by nathana 13y ago
You may be right, but I think your comment has also demonstrated that I'm not a good story-teller yet. :) Thanks for the constructive feedback.
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That awkward moment when Gmail thought I was spamming myself(brokenbitstream.com)
2 points by nathana 13y ago|2 comments
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by nathana 13y ago
The most interesting part about this to me is the $0.20/min voice price. Not because it would have a direct impact on me or anything like that, but mostly because it seems like in the US, carriers are falling over themselves to offer
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by nathana 13y ago
That doesn't solve the problem of people who have existing @gmail.com e-mail addresses and who would gladly pay a little extra for access to the account via ActiveSync, but aren't interested in paying for a full-blown Google Apps
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by nathana 13y ago
E-mail verify is a GOOD THING. They're going to need your e-mail address anyway, for the inevitable password resets and such. And almost nothing drives me more nuts than sites that take down an e-mail address during registration&#x
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by nathana 13y ago
Buy yourself a LEGO Mindstorms NXT kit. $200 USD. The LEGO NXT programming environment is a scaled-down version of LabVIEW.
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by nathana 13y ago
I'm glad to hear that companies such as yours that are doing this are not necessarily considering making it permanent. I read PG's original article, and although you make reference to it, I felt he was addressing a different sort
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by nathana 13y ago
:%s/Something Awful/Hacker News/g
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by nathana 13y ago
That's "iPhone 5s", the plural of "iPhone 5". "iPhone 5S" is the unreleased product.
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A helicopter carrying a dinosaur: the case against VC(populi.co)
3 points by nathana 13y ago|0 comments
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by nathana 14y ago
Right, so the Brazilian SIM card was issued by a carrier that has a carrier profile included with iOS that is set to block access to that menu, while the European SIM cards you have either were issued by carriers with carrier profiles in iO
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by nathana 14y ago
Maybe I'm displaying some extreme naivete here, but I thought Apple did a spectacular job during the original iPhone launch proving to the carriers (and to the world) that they really didn't need them in order to move phones. Despite the
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by nathana 14y ago
Well, that all depends on what Apple's internal corporate culture's value system is, doesn't it? If they want to continue to give off the impression that the end-user is their direct customer and that they prize that end-user's experience
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by nathana 14y ago
The menu lock/unlock is controlled by whichever included carrier profile your SIM card IIN is associated with. My Straight Talk SIM card has an AT&T IIN, so it automatically uses the AT&T carrier profile (to my great annoyance, as
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by nathana 14y ago
I asked the same question elsewhere, and someone came up with this hypothesis: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=16266984#post16... ...I still think APN blocking is entirely irrational on the part of the carrier. There's no wa
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by nathana 14y ago
But that's the case with any software update. So that makes it my responsibility to make and keep a comprehensive backup of my system and app data before I initiate the update, if I want to be able to go back. Either that or I accept the
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by nathana 14y ago
That's true. But this shouldn't take away from these two facts: 1) iOS does ship with a collection of the latest versions of partner carrier profiles as of the ship-date of that iOS version, as you point out. So you can't try to do an end
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by nathana 14y ago
As far as I know, there is no standards-based mechanism for doing so as SIMs predate packetized cellular data over GSM, so the concept of the APN was not around to be "baked into" the GSM SIM when it was first conceived, and the SIM has see
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by nathana 14y ago
Hmmm...if only it were that easy. When my SIM isn't in the phone, the "Cellular" menu under General in Settings is grayed out and it says "No SIM" to the right of it. If I can't get in that menu, I can't get to the Cellular Data Network s
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by nathana 14y ago
It all depends on who the IIN is that issued the SIM card. If it's an AT&T-issued card (which would include all of AT&T's MVNOs, such as Straight Talk), the iPhone just sees an AT&T SIM card, and applies the Apple-signed AT&#38
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by nathana 14y ago
Maybe because not all of my friends have iPhones and cannot use iMessage to reach me, and have no idea that when they send me an MMS that it's just going to disappear into a black hole, and I'd rather have the option of not missing any comm

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