| 2009/8/18-9/1 [Computer/SW/Database, Computer/SW/Languages/Perl] UID:53283 Activity:low | 8/18 trying to write an intentionally slow regex.
what is your worst regex ever?
this is using MySQL regexp but I'll also accept
perl format --brain
\_ you need to know how regex is implemented internally in order to
have a worst regex in terms of running time. Something that uses
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| 2008/12/18-2009/1/2 [Recreation/Dating, Computer/HW/Memory, Computer/SW] UID:52277 Activity:nil | 12/18 I'm loving the Privacy Browsing feature on Safari. I turn it
on, browse porn, then turn it off, and no one using my
computer would ever know that I browsed porn (no history,
no cache, nada). Loving it man.
\_ The guy with the backdoor knows. Also, the shadow knows.
\_ That may be the case and I don't really care about the
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| 2008/11/15-26 [Computer/SW/OS/Windows] UID:51993 Activity:nil | 11/14 I have a bunch of pictures and I find that thumbs.db on
Windows XP to be very useful, especially when you're on NAS
and the network is slow. Having that said, my Win XP has
stopped generating thumbs.db even though I've set it to generate
thumbs.db (Properties->View->Uncheck "Do not cache thumbnails.").
How do I force Windows to generate Thumbs.db? Googling seems
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| 2008/9/4-8 [Politics/Domestic/Election, Computer/HW/Memory, Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:51059 Activity:nil | 9/4 Someone asked yesterday about the Obama/Ayers link. It took me a while
to find a link I was happy with, this one is ok. This guy goes into
excruciating detail about the Annenberg Challenge and CAC over a
number of blog posts. The full Annenberg documents were only recently
released, and this post predates the release. The documents are still
being digested, so this is far from the final word.
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| 2008/9/4 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:51062 Activity:nil | 9/4 Regarding the Firefox 3 memory usage question that I asked on 8/29,
here are some new numbers (VM Size in MB reported by Task Manager):
2.0.0.16 3.0.1
- Startup, empty the cache. 13 23
- Go to http://www.yahoo.com 17 40
- Open 6 news pages in 43 69
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| 2008/7/20-23 [Computer/Domains] UID:50638 Activity:nil | 7/19 Why is OpenDNS popular? It still forwards me to ads when I go
to an invalid domain. That is really annoying.
\_ For one thing, they were never vulnerable to the latest round of DNS
spoofing.
\_ i think the latest round of dns spoofing attack was overblown.
yes there was a security hole... but no one ever exploited it.
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| 2012/3/29-6/4 [Computer/HW/Memory, Computer/HW/CPU, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:54351 Activity:nil | 3/29 A friend wants a PC (no mac). She doesn't want Dell. Is there a
good place that can custom build for you (SSD, large RAM, cheap video
card--no game)?
\_ As a side note: back in my Cal days more than two decades ago when
having a 387SX made me the only person with floating-point hardware,
most machines were custom built.
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| 2009/8/6-14 [Computer/SW/OS/OsX] UID:53250 Activity:moderate | 8/5 Why is Mac OS 10.6 $29 and 10.5.6 $129? Is it a typo?
\_ $29 for existing users.
\_ it doens't even support ppc does it.
\_ who cares about ppc anymore? Everything is Intel based
\_ I have a PPC mini at home that I use.
\_ I have a quad core G5 ppc.
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| 2009/6/1-3 [Computer/HW/CPU] UID:53068 Activity:high | 5/31 History of winners and losers by *popularity*:
VHS > Beta Max
USB2 > Firewire
x86 > PowerPC > Everything Else > DEC Alpha > Itanium
BlueRay > HDDvd
\_ It's too early to tell RE: "Blue"Ray. They may both turn out to be
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| 2008/12/4-10 [Computer/HW/CPU, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:52163 Activity:nil | 12/4 A question to you old crufy alumni: So lately we've suggested
VMs, and been asked why it's necessary. We've suggested top-of-the-line
hardware and been told we don't need that much power. So I'd like to
ask -- what exactly do you think the CSUA is supposed to _be_?
\_ Noone said VMs weren't needed. They suggested you use the
\_ No one said VMs weren't needed. They suggested you use the
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