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mcbarry

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    Comment #4483634

    They might be misunderstanding how video overlay acceleration works. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_overlay

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    Comment #3054837

    Not to mention it shipped with Need For Speed preinstalled

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    Comment #2999385

    This is referring to runtime environments like Flash and Silverlight, not browser extensions like Adblock.

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    Comment #2994473

    What was it? The server isn't serving the Silverlight app any more.

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    Comment #2963681

    I was inspired by sysfunboost.sh (swaps two system binaries) and made fun-boost.rb which does the same thing with two methods. https://github.com/lmc/fun-boost.rb

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    Comment #2716748

    A reminder that MTGOX originally stood for "Magic The Gathering Online eXchange". When a site designed for trading cards online turns into the world's biggest Bitcoin exchange you …

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    Comment #2682632

    It's a driver to provide filesystem access to PS2 memory cards, using the USB Memory Card Adaptor designed for the PS3. There's another tool using this to make bootable memory card…

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    Comment #2680900

    As an ex-developer of a company who had servers co-located with them, I'm feeling mighty smug about using our own backup system instead of their in-house one. As mentioned earlier,…

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    Comment #1692776

    Depends on your tolerance and method of usage, but I use it 2-3 times a week, using a vaporiser, and go through ~0.1 grams a session. Due to taxes where I live (Victoria, Australia…

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    Comment #1447594

    If it's anything like SNES/Genesis/other console emulators, the only entropy source is player input. I can't imagine many arcade machines would have a true persistant clock, and ev…

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    Comment #724156

    That hurt to read.