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The left side gives access to the raw PDF as well as all other supported formats (epub, etc.)

I didn't know that about the ASR-33 (haven't actually seen one), all my experience has been with unix and PC keyboards (plus some WYSE terminals). I agree with it being confusing t…

Oddly enough the ctrl key in the home row is a Unix thing (I think it's a Sun invention, but I don't recall). On the original space cadet keyboard (and all the Symbolics keyboards)…

I'm not sure if they changed anything, but Youtube has been the first search result for me since I upgraded my iPhone. It's not in the search results for the iPad since Google hasn…

This seems to be based on an upgrade to the EFI firmware, in addition to the 10.8.2 update. While I've got verified backups for the OS, I'm not in the habit of regularly backing up…

According to the 1st Edition and 6th Edition manual pages: NAME cat -- concatenate and print See: http://man.cat-v.org/unix-1st/1/cat http://man.cat-v.org/unix-6th/1/cat I'm pretty…

FYI, tracking items on water with a land (or sea) based radar is very difficult due to atmospheric effects (mainly ducting) and can cause unacceptable levels of false detections. C…

Does the UK have any regulation of the 38ghz band? Based on the FCC info here in the US ( http://transition.fcc.gov/oet/spectrum/table/fcctable.pdf ) the 38ghz area of the spectrum…

If that's the case, then why does UIWebView under-perform Mobile Safari? (I know Mobile Safari uses nitro, but I have no idea what UIWebView uses under the covers). Also, Apple's k…

Does any browser actually rely on WebKit's JS Core? I know Safari has Nitro and Chrome has v8, so I'm not sure what would use this code except maybe konqueror.

There's somebody at the CIC in Kendall Square looking for COBOL programmers if you know any...

My questions about the data center are what kind-of climate controls they're using (not listed in the article) and how they're making sure that the generator and UPS are always in …

I spent a while today troubleshooting why the 'Location' header wasn't getting returned in an XHR Request handler (using POST to create an Object and getting the location from the …

In the USA it is not legal (in violation of the 5th amendment) for the court to compel you to reveal a password (if your read the brief the Judge says as much). However, if the cou…