2013/2/19-3/26 [Computer/SW/OS/OsX] UID:54611 Activity:nil | 2/19 I program a lot by sshing to a Linux cluster. So I'm used to using
Xemacs to code. This works fine from a Linux or Windows workstation,
but sometimes I have to use a Mac. On Mac, the meta is usually
bound to option, but that often doesn't work over ssh for some reason.
This makes using emacs a real pain. Any suggestions on how to fix it?
(Other than "use vi")
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2012/3/15-6/1 [Computer/SW/Languages, Computer/SW/OS/Windows] UID:54340 Activity:nil | 3/15 Why does MS put double-quotes around the '8' in Windows Server 8, like
the following?
- Windows 8
- Windows Server "8"
\_ Because when they didn't do it, code didn't see the '\0'
and went over? Looks better than '8','\0' *shrug*
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2012/2/23-3/26 [Computer/SW/OS/Windows] UID:54312 Activity:nil | 2/23 fixboot wrote FAT boot sector to my WinXP hard drive. How can I convert
the drive back to NTFS?
\_ Does C:\WINDOWS\system32\convert.exe work?
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2011/12/21-2012/2/6 [Computer/HW/Laptop, Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs] UID:54269 Activity:nil | 12/21 In Emacs, how do I make it so that it will resize its screen
when the maximum resolution of my monitor changes? When I
use my laptop, my emacs is too big (and I can't resize it
because the bottom-right corner is not accessible).
\_ Which OS? Can't you drag the top border (not a corner) to resize
the height to be smaller?
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2011/5/19-7/30 [Computer/SW/Security] UID:54110 Activity:nil | 5/19 Uh, is anyone still using this? Please mark here if you post and
haven't added this yet. I'll start:
\_ person k
\_ ausman, I check in about once a week.
\_ erikred, twice a week or so.
\_ mehlhaff, I login when I actually own my home directory instead of
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2011/2/14-4/20 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:54039 Activity:nil | 2/14 You sure soda isn't running windows in disguise? It would explain the
uptimes.
\_ hardly, My winbox stays up longer.
\_ Nobody cares about uptime anymore brother, that's what web2.0 has
taught us. Everything is "stateless".
\_ You;d think gamers would care more about uptime.
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2011/4/6-20 [Computer/SW/Mail, Computer/SW/Unix, Industry/Startup] UID:54078 Activity:nil | 4/6 My company is evaluating version control systems. Our two candidates
are Perforce and Subversion. Anyone worked with both and have good
arguments one way or the other? (These are the only two options we
have.) We're most interested in client performance, ease of use, and
reasonable branching.
\_ I'll be 'that guy'. If perforce and subversion are optins, why isn't
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2012/7/2-8/19 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:54429 Activity:nil | 7/2 If I download a software that has GNU GPL and create a search
engine on top of it and the search engine profits (and I don't
release the source code nor do I modify or redistribute it), is
that an acceptable use of GNU GPL?
\_ Yes. Even the AGPL allows this if you don't modify the program.
\_ What if I'm a search engine that uses something that uses
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2012/4/23-6/1 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:54360 Activity:nil | 4/19 My Firefox 3.6.28 pops up a Software Update box that reads "Your
version of Firefox will soon be vulnerable to online attacks." Are
they planning to turn off some security feature in my version of
Firefox?
\_ Not as such, no, but they're no longer developing this version,
so if a 3.6.x-targeted hack shows up, you're not going to get
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2012/1/4-2/6 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:54281 Activity:nil | 1/4 I want to test how my servers behave during a disk failure and
a RAID reconstruction so I want to simulate a hardware failure.
How can I do this in Linux without having to physically pull
a drive? These disks are behind a RAID card and run Linux. -ausman
\_ According to the Linux RAID wiki, you might be able to use mdadm
to do this with something like the following:
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