2013/3/21-5/18 [Computer/SW/Apps/Media, Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:54632 Activity:nil | 3/21 Browser Plug-In you must get: Ghostery. It gets rid of a bunch of
ad trackers on a web site, resulting in really fast load times.
For example, a typical media site will require 10-15 trackers
(you know, those URLs that track your activities so they can
target you better). Ghostery kills them.
\_ This has been working well for me, and breaks fewer things
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2010/8/19-9/7 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:53929 Activity:nil | 8/19 Anyone have a good MLC vs. SLC writeup that is less than a year
old? I am investigating making a big SSD order. -ausman
\_ how much performance gain are you expecting from using SSD?
Let's say your 7200RPM yields 70 MB/sec (sustained) read and
your new SSD yields 160 MB/sec read, and that your application
is mostly streaming media (so the platter is continuous read,
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2010/6/8-30 [Computer/Companies/Yahoo] UID:53853 Activity:nil | 6/8 Newly wed husband and wife found from old picture that they have
actually crossed path 30yrs ago: http://www.csua.org/u/qwv
My question is how do stories like this find its way to news media? Do
people just go "hey something very interesting happens in our lives.
Let's call up a news agency or two to tell the world about it."?
\_ "Your video will begin after a word from our sponsors."
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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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