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There is, of course, at least one category that don’t over rely upon their hearing: deaf people.

It’s about pedestrians wearing the headphones.

You seem to have misunderstood the invention. It’s not about cyclists wearing headphones.

We've used them as a more reliable/resilient/replicated (with a lower operational effort) provider of HBase tables and Kafka streams, and a bit of file storage.

This is about WiFi "protected" with WPA2: basically treat it as suspiciously as you would any public WiFi. If you choose not to use public WiFi because you can't "trust" it, then y…

Well that's an article written by someone who's never submitted an app, that uses encryption, to the App Store. They're big on ensuring you've applied for the correct export licenc…

(Cheat sheet? Cheat Novella, more like! I think it's probably past the point where it needs to be split up a bit, even if only for your own benefit.) "How do you check disk usage. …

That just reminded me of this piece, written by Michael Johas Teener - one of the people who was heavily involved in Firewire development. http://www.teener.com/firewire_FAQ.html#W…

It's painful to watch Unix SAs who don't understand shell scripts (which are, after all, a way of automating repetitive command-line tasks), because it is such an essential part of…

Wouldn't it be nice to also see the numbers for the Sky (Murdoch-owned/controlled) channels?

At a distance you'd stop-down the lens aperture, stick it in manual focus, and set it to somewhere around infinity. (and big, fancy yachts are always moored somewhere sunny, off th…

definitely. If your parents'[1] have Google (or Yahoo) as their homepage then give them a url to access and watch them enter it straight into the search box. [1. Or other non-tech …

yet its data frequently seems to be wrong, for anyone looking at a particular city who knows the venues. So if they can't get it right, for a limited scope of live music events, it…

But they take you, the user, away from whatever it is you're actually doing. This is another case where the advertiser is going to have to see if their marketing message succeeds w…

and we used to use ttcp (for it was more efficient with slinging around large files.)

Do you have references and pointers? Is this going to hurt me when I put two non-storage servers live running 2009.06?

"The conversion value is approaching zero" -- I think advertisers, some at least, have forgotten how advertising can work. They've been lead to believe by some that because they ca…

Indeed. It would be nice to see some comparisons to the architectures (and, as everyone seems to care so much, prices) in the various 'VTLs' sold by the likes of Falconstor, HP, EM…

Floor loading (and rack size) is a problem with their 'very big box of disks'. That, and the fact that the company seems to be struggling to get sales.

For Offsite I too use CrashPlan, to computers at friends rather than using their 'central' service.

Of course some euro plugs have what I'd call a "sneaky" earth, that isn't a pin but simply a contact on the other two parts of the socket and plug. See the two pictures in this (qu…

To be honest, I don't usually read the names of those commenting (and notice that they are less prominent, being in grey, than the comment itself) - at least until after thinking "…

and wouldn't it be nice if they briefed their colleagues, so that law enforcement officers the world over will stop "asking" photographers to delete pictures they've just taken.

As a side note, it has always been possible (on UFS at least) to link directories. It just gets a bit messy at fsck time, and older shells get a bit confused with 'cd ..' Apple's i…