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The idea is to keep the same standard unmaximized window size across all TOR Browser users. Yes, a randomly sized window is worse than full screen, which is worse than the TOR-stan…

I have had no issues running a VM on an external drive.

The best description I could find was "dimension line," but all the examples have numeric measurements rather than descriptive text.

> The correct name servers should have been DNS.EWR1.NYTIMES.COM and DNS.SEA1.NYTIMES.COM. How does this work? How would you get to DNS.EWR1.NYTIMES.COM without first knowing where…

What reader are you using that offers de-duping?

Miners are people who pay (with compute time) to play the lottery.

Direct links: http://bethe.cornell.edu/media/intro_large.mov http://bethe.cornell.edu/media/lecture_1_large.mov http://bethe.cornell.edu/media/lecture_2_large.mov http://bethe.corn…

If you are on Android, try Hovernote to address the unselectable phone number case. Type the number into the hovering note, then copy/paste from the note.

You might try MapDroyd, which downloads Openstreetmap data for offline display. You can select individual countries or states to download.

How do you get the Firefox icon instead of the word "Firefox" in the orange drop-down button?

cache/mirror/archive: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:kFsdQhZ...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1923170

The articles and comments need time stamps. Otherwise, you can't tell what was posted today and what was posted last year.

For Firefox on Windows, try Fireshot, https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5648 .

What are "j-school and b-school"?

On a related but completely different note, if you are looking for Emacs key bindings in Firefox, try Firemacs: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4141

Maple will take input like y=int(x^2,x=0..100) and turn it into pretty print. That seems more natural than LaTeX. LaTeX is for getting exactly what you want on paper, at the expens…

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5890

Google would be more responsive if we were tithing.

Is there a standard format for storing email? I would like to archive all my mail using Gmail's IMAP feature, but what happens when I want to find something in 30 years? For exampl…