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> Remember the woman who proved that Apple consistently slows down sold iPhones with "updates" right before the launch date of a new model? No. Story linked from daily mail (that's…

The NES cart connector can be repaired with some patience or replaced inexpensively. A lot of sites selling new connectors claim they are made with more robust materials than the o…

Copy to clipboard, apparently. (Github project pages have a flash application to handle this)

Always worth checking if the IP you inherit is in some DNSBL. A number of Hetzner IPs I've gotten were tainted. It's oh so much fun trying to get them removed.

Was just looking at a review for a new game, Stormfinch, which uses this engine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2sd2FNPTBs It's clearly a little clunkier than monochrome or simpl…

> There is no way in hell a 1.79Mhz 6502 can play streaming video. It can't decode MPEG 4 real time, of course, but machines of this class are more than capable of streaming video.…

You don't have to wait 5 years, you can request them yearly. They just go back 5 years (I think).

Ireland has a Pay As You Earn system which is usually administered by your employer. Mostly, you do nothing and the money is paid. Every 5 years, file a P21 to check you're not due…

I remember someone (not me, oh no...) used one for NT4 with inadequate policies to get Admin access. Create a batch file with the content: net localgroup administrators NewUser /ad…

> Anyone knows what their software development process is to get that kind of confidence? If it's NASA confidence, waterfall every time :) Having worked in that sort of environment…

I have five Seagate branded 3TB external disks, so have no real idea what's inside. Three of them are dead. I stopped using the others.

Oh super, thanks. I'll have to try that out.

I'm considering it as an option for running proprietary video conference applications which either don't work or are chronically bad on Linux.

I ditched mrxvt long ago because of lack of Unicode support (though I did use it under Cygwin/X). https://github.com/simonzack/urxvt-tabbed - is this the project you're using?

Sure, with an option to enable write with the usual "omg ur apps!" warning.

A read only block device would have been better and would actually work on non-Windows OSes.

But it doesn't work like "rsync/scp/sftp over USB". No seek or partial transfer support makes it a dog. Very poor cross-platform support makes it a terrible choice.

Wasn't the patent mess the reason Android stopped supporting usb-storage and now uses (the horror!) MTP? I think UDF is well supported by everything now and has several advantages …

> When you fire a missile, the screen effect is insanely bright. There was a rumour that people who played on a Vectrex (a vector display home console) would experience eye damage …

http://pause.perl.org/pause/query?ACTION=pause_06history Pull request on the way.

> this panel stays with you like a bad STD Wait, is this an actual product or is it a satire on the sad state of our industry?

I remember this - I thought it was on el reg, but worse, it was theinq :) https://web.archive.org/web/20031219162954/http://www.theinq...