rgsteele

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by rgsteele 9y ago
>Surface pro has a BIOS interface, it's just stupidly inaccessible I think you misunderstand. Surface Pro supports only UEFI, not legacy BIOS. What you are referring to as a "BIOS interface" is in fact the UEFI firmware se
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Better real-time transit data is coming to your city (finally)(medium.com)
5 points by rgsteele 10y ago|0 comments
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by rgsteele 10y ago
I am certain that this site is not in any way sponsored or endorsed by Microsoft Corporation.
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by rgsteele 10y ago
$47,400 http://mashable.com/2016/04/04/tsa-ibm-randomizer-app/?utm_c...
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by rgsteele 10y ago
I think the video has been replaced with a shorter one, since the timestamp of the landing is now closer to 27:15.
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by rgsteele 12y ago
> They are very difficult to troubleshoot. How do you manually turn on AUX heat to test if it's even working at all? As far as I can tell, you can't! The only way we were able to test it is to take the thing off the wall and ma
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by rgsteele 12y ago
If you connected to a hotspot using a captive portal, you would need to sign in every time you disconnected and re-connected from the access point.
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by rgsteele 13y ago
You've got this a little backwards. CD Baby, for example, charges per album (currently $49) to sell your music through a number of digital distributors (and they also provide distribution for physical CDs and vinyl records). It's
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by rgsteele 13y ago
Swipe right to left, not left to right.
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by rgsteele 13y ago
I wonder whether this article by Dustin is the same one referenced in this tweet: https://twitter.com/dcurtis/status/373243436331069440
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The New York Times Told Me to Take This Down(medium.com)
17 points by rgsteele 13y ago|1 comments
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by rgsteele 13y ago
The Bitcoin FAQ does address the issue, albeit briefly: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/FAQ#Is_it_not_a_waste_of_energy.3... Bitcoins have value because they are useful and they are scarce. In order to keep them scarce, there must be some mech
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by rgsteele 14y ago
To be clear, we're talking about the Surface Pro here -- the one that has an x86 chip and can run your old existing Windows software.
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by rgsteele 14y ago
Just to clarify, the game's author hadn't been fired yet when the article was published, but this tweet reveals his fate: https://twitter.com/davidsgallant/status/296388135191986178
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Customer service rep creates game to vent his frustration, gets fired(thestar.com)
1 points by rgsteele 14y ago|1 comments
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by rgsteele 14y ago
It's because Chrome is blocking the page from loading resources from an insecure location. Change the https to http and it works fine.
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by rgsteele 14y ago
I completely agree with this. I signed up for Google Apps for the sole purpose of having an email address at my own domain, and I always wished I could just have that email address supported by my existing Gmail account, rather than having
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by rgsteele 14y ago
To what end? iTunes music has been DRM free since April 2009: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7813527.stm
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by rgsteele 14y ago
"Existence of some viable open source models doesn’t change the reality for the vast majority of developers. We don’t have a rich daddy like Mozilla. We don’t have an operating system for which we can use a paid-support model. We just want
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Path will protect private user data with 'hashing' in next release(theverge.com)
1 points by rgsteele 15y ago|0 comments
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by rgsteele 15y ago
A company called Onavo is doing exactly that: http://www.onavo.com/ They have an iOS app that configures your device to use their proxy servers. I haven't tried it myself since I'm a bit hesitant to route all my traffic through a third pa
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SSL And The Future Of Authenticity(blog.thoughtcrime.org)
2 points by rgsteele 15y ago|0 comments
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How digital detectives deciphered Stuxnet, the most menacing malware in history(arst.ch)
4 points by rgsteele 15y ago|0 comments
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by rgsteele 15y ago
Yes, it is possible to install Google Chrome without having local administrator rights. It installs itself into the user's "Application Data" folder. A user cannot set it as the default browser without having local admin, however. If an adm
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by rgsteele 16y ago
Yeah, or radium: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_dials