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  1. Re:Contribute on Adobe Is Killing Contribute, Director, and Shockwave (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    As for Director, I first thought that they had fired their director...

  2. Re:hyper-v and don't install chrome extensions on You Don't Need an Antivirus (Except Microsoft's Built-in on Windows), Says Former Firefox Developer (ocallahan.org) · · Score: 1

    It has been a while for you, hasn't it? They usually don't give you a Windows CD anymore when you buy a PC/Laptop so I couldn't tell you how to install the Windows version you paid for when buying the computer on anything...

  3. Yep, mine too was a 20MB and I was all excited when I got it. It cost me 600$ back then too!!!

  4. Re:Neither software nor engineering on Software Engineers Are the Heroes of New Computer History Museum Exhibit (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    lol:

    In Canada, locomotive drivers have a site named "Ingénieurs de locomotives". As my OP link stated, apparently, only in Canada and US do they call train drivers "engineer" so I am not to sure about your English language specific stuff..

    http://cpest.teamsterscanada.c...

  5. Re:Neither software nor engineering on Software Engineers Are the Heroes of New Computer History Museum Exhibit (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    You mean like a railroad engineer? (American and Canadian) which is an engine driver, train driver, train operator (British and Commonwealth English); a person who operates a train.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    It just come from "engine-man" but "engineer" sure sounds more important.

    It still has nothing to do with what a real engineer is but nowadays, everybody is an engineer so there is no discrimination I guess ;-)

  6. Re:A problem without a good solution. on Ask Slashdot: Should Commercial Software Prices Be Pegged To a Country's GDP? · · Score: 1

    yeah I think that's what he means; and 99 British pounds (122 USD) and 99 euros (106 USD) and 99 bitcoins (91,520.00 USD) etc..

  7. Re:Read Only on Do Android Users Still Use Custom Roms? (androidauthority.com) · · Score: 1

    You are correct but consider the line between flash memory and EEPROM is really tin and sometimes they are considered the same.

    A teacher of mine once told us that memory should eventually become just that; memory.

  8. Re:As someone with a masters in this -exact field- on C++ Creator Wants To Solve 35-Year-Old Generic Programming Issues With Concepts (cio.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    make feel who? Yourself? If so, I can understand...

  9. Re:Read Only on Do Android Users Still Use Custom Roms? (androidauthority.com) · · Score: 1

    It's flashable ROM. You can write it (or flash it) more than one time. Typical ROM chips could only be written (or burn) once but still, a ROM chip has to be writable at some point ;-)

    http://www.howtogeek.com/16251...

  10. but, but, they are noSQL databases thus, 100% injection proof... ;-)

  11. ping tunnel I assume?

  12. Re:I must have accidentally done something right on The SHA-1 End Times Have Arrived (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    I just checked my 18 year old self-signed certificate, maybe time to upgrade:
    Signature algorithm:
    PKCS #1 MD5 With RSA Encryption

  13. Re:Why not move to SHA-3, if we're moving anyway? on The SHA-1 End Times Have Arrived (threatpost.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Nobody should ever need more than SHA-640 anyway.

  14. Re:Congratulations on The SHA-1 End Times Have Arrived (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Here the real checksum for the string:

    $ echo -n "The world's smallest violin playing just for you." | shasum
    1ec19fdbc2ad777c7a441264bf2db365290c4d15 -

  15. Re:Sounds familiar on Blockchain Technology Could Save Banks $12 Billion a Year (silicon.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Never mind, it was just a publicity stunt.

  16. Re:Sounds familiar on Blockchain Technology Could Save Banks $12 Billion a Year (silicon.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Deal with the small, local community oriented ones ;-)

  17. Re:Sounds familiar on Blockchain Technology Could Save Banks $12 Billion a Year (silicon.co.uk) · · Score: 1
  18. Re:Sounds familiar on Blockchain Technology Could Save Banks $12 Billion a Year (silicon.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    The biggest credit union in North America (260 billion in total assets) has become much worse than banks.

  19. Re:Sounds familiar on Blockchain Technology Could Save Banks $12 Billion a Year (silicon.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Easy: a new encryption fee, justified by the fact that encryption is CPU intensive and cost a lot of electricity.

  20. Re: Innovation, absence of, banks from on Blockchain Technology Could Save Banks $12 Billion a Year (silicon.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Funny

    You should at least tell him how to spell it correctly:

    encumbanks

  21. Re:In other news on Windows 10 Upgrade Bug Disabled Cntrl-C In Bash (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    oh well, I guess it is fair enough to call my Samsung refrigerator "Frigidaire" and my Actic Cat snowmobile "Ski-Doo" ;-)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  22. Re:In other news on Windows 10 Upgrade Bug Disabled Cntrl-C In Bash (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Could you please look at "man vi" to say what it says and then "strings /usr/bin/vi" to try to find what it really is?

    I am just curious and don't have access to any BSD right now. I will try to remember to check next time I am on a BSD.

    For example "man vi" on both freeBSD and openBSD say:
    "This manual page is the one provided with the nex/nvi versions of the ex/vi text editors."

    As you can see, just because those 2 BSDs don't symlink it, it doesn't mean they use the original/real vi...

    Cheers,

  23. Re:In other news on Windows 10 Upgrade Bug Disabled Cntrl-C In Bash (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you sure it wasn't already taken from you?

    I haven't seen vi around since quite a while.

    slack:
    $ which vi /usr/bin/vi
    $ ls -al /usr/bin/vi
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Aug 21 16:50 /usr/bin/vi -> elvis
    $ ls -al /usr/bin/elvis
    -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 522496 Sep 23 2008 /usr/bin/elvis

    deb:
    # ls -al /usr/bin/vi
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Oct 30 18:32 /usr/bin/vi -> /etc/alternatives/vi
    # ls /etc/alternatives/vi /etc/alternatives/vi
    # ls -al /etc/alternatives/vi
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Oct 30 19:37 /etc/alternatives/vi -> /usr/bin/vim.basic
    # ls -al /usr/bin/vim.basic
    -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2240936 Nov 17 01:39 /usr/bin/vim.basic

    ubun:
    (same as deb)

    turnkey:
    # which vi /usr/bin/vi
    # ls -al /usr/bin/vi
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Oct 16 2013 /usr/bin/vi -> /etc/alternatives/vi
    # ls -al /etc/alternatives/vi
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Oct 16 2013 /etc/alternatives/vi -> /usr/bin/vim.tiny
    # ls -al /usr/bin/vim.tiny
    -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 781416 Feb 10 2013 /usr/bin/vim.tiny

    etc.

  24. Re: In other news on Windows 10 Upgrade Bug Disabled Cntrl-C In Bash (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Just open the the file read-only, then read-write, then read-only, etc. There you go!

  25. Re:Ctrl on Windows 10 Upgrade Bug Disabled Cntrl-C In Bash (infoworld.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    And you hate the letter "o" I assume?