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Got any advice for someone trying to revive a bunch of Panasonic Toughbooks (CF25)? EDIT: that is not "don't run EMacs on it", that is.. ;)

Its a game that could very well be implemented in a similar fashion to csspivot.com

At least we now know what kind of precision our carriers can track us with, and we have our own copy of the data for verification/legal reasons if its ever needed..

Either that, or reboot the whole airport.

stockroom isn't porn, they just use it to sell whips.

I'd be happy if they applied their own interface standards to the App store and let me change the language. Just because I am in a German-speaking country, does not mean I want my …

I've advocated this for depression, too .. if you think you are truly depressed, then get the hell out of your environment, and go somewhere else, completely and utterly different,…

Scientology.

MIDI is going to mean the iPad, with its touch interface, is going to be an excellent platform for soft synths and effects/DSP apps .. meaning less and less mousing around and a lo…

These machines and the whole security theatre is simply this: a psy-op designed to produce more malleable citizens in the years to come. 5 years from now there will be grown adults…

Making money and having happy customers are not two mutually exclusive ideals. Its quite satisfying to have both conditions occur in business, and quite possible no matter what Mr.…

A carte blanche war operation is a far worse thing to support. If you want the American War Machine to continue committing its crimes, by all means ignore this release.

I still have my BeBox, if only because back in the day I got a hell of a lot of good things done with it (reverse engineering of strange file systems, mostly) and without question …

A lot of people are saying "hell no, give me a fast machine because otherwise the development environment is going to suck ass.." Well, this is more a statement about the condition…

Embedded systems programmer here, SIL-4 rated, working on critical systems for the transportation sector. ANSI C is absolutely a requirement in this sector, without question.

I've got a Zii Egg .. it so could have been a competitor to the iPad touch a year or two ago, if only the damned thing had been released to the mass market. As a developer, its ter…

Needs categories.

HN is his personal blog? I've never been to this guys site ever before, and probably not again ..

I just don't see how its applicable to connect your experience with the fact that you started reddit .. I mean, fair enough, you have a lot of Internet celebrity credits, but you'r…

Meh. Am I the only one who wishes all this personal stuff had nothing to do with the business? Is it some new rule these days that startup founders have to prove they are 'real peo…

I think the point is, if one were interested enough to do so, writing Assembly language code that 'does better' than Mathematica on tricky maths problems would - eventually - get a…