2010/2/10-3/9 [Transportation/Car] UID:53699 Activity:low | 2/10 About the Lexus that crashed because of (supposedly) a stuck
accelerator padel, why didn't the driver simply put the transmission
in Neutral? If the cop passenger had time to press at least one
button to dial 911, wait for the call to be picked up, and had a
10-second-plus conversation with the operator (which was played back
in media reports), wasn't there much more than enough time to tell the
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2009/7/29-8/6 [Transportation/Car, Transportation/Bicycle] UID:53219 Activity:nil | 7/29 I have a 70's road bike I ride to work. A few months back I replaced
the rear wheel and tire, then I put a set of old 70's rear baskets
on it. The baskets are great in general, with them I don't have to
wear a backpack and I can carry a lot more. However, they are heavy.
Since I put them on 2 months ago I've had 3 flat tires in back,
compared to 1 in the year previous. I think the extra weight is wearing
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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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