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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2012/8/30-11/7 [Computer/SW/Apps, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:54470 Activity:nil | 8/30 Is wall just dead? The wallall command dies for me, muttering
something about /var/wall/ttys not existing.
\_ its seen a great drop in usage, though it seems mostly functional.
-ERic
\_ Couldn't open wall log!: Bad file descriptor
Could not open wall subscription directory /var/wall/ttys: No such file or directory
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2011/11/20-2012/2/6 [Computer/Companies/Apple, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:54237 Activity:nil | 11/20 Are there tools that can justify a chunk of plain ASCII text by
replacing words with words of similar meaning and inserting/removing
commas into the text? I received a 40-line plain text mail where
all the lines are justified on left and right. Every word and comma
is followed by only one space, and every period is followed by two
spaces. The guy is my kid's karate instructor which I don't think is
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2011/10/26-12/6 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:54202 Activity:nil | 10/24 What's an easy way to see if say column 3 of a file matches a list of
expressions in a file? Basically I want to combine "grep -f <file>"
to store the patterns and awk's $3 ~ /(AAA|BBB|CCC)/ ... I realize
I can do this with "egrep -f " and use regexp instead of strings, but
was wondering if there was some magic way to do this.
\_ UNIX has no magic. Make a shell script to produce the ask or egrep
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2010/11/21-2011/1/13 [Computer/SW/Languages/Web] UID:53988 Activity:moderate | 11/21 Lifehacker's recommending Dreamhost as a personal web hosting service.
Apart from csua, who do you guys use? --erikred
\_ What do you want to use it for? Do you need CGI or PHP? My
brother worked for Dreamhost and said they are unethical. In
fact, he sued them. This refers to their treatment of customers
and employees both. I don't know who or what "Lifehacker" is,
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