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rgsteele
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Comment #15732027
>Surface pro has a BIOS interface, it's just stupidly inaccessible I think you misunderstand. Surface Pro supports only UEFI, not legacy BIOS. What you are referring to as a "BIOS …
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Comment #11828417
I am certain that this site is not in any way sponsored or endorsed by Microsoft Corporation.
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Comment #11767912
$47,400 http://mashable.com/2016/04/04/tsa-ibm-randomizer-app/?utm_c...
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Comment #11459268
I think the video has been replaced with a shorter one, since the timestamp of the landing is now closer to 27:15.
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Comment #9050519
> They are very difficult to troubleshoot. How do you manually turn on AUX heat to test if it's even working at all? As far as I can tell, you can't! The only way we were able to t…
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Comment #7866014
If you connected to a hotspot using a captive portal, you would need to sign in every time you disconnected and re-connected from the access point.
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Comment #6636662
You've got this a little backwards. CD Baby, for example, charges per album (currently $49) to sell your music through a number of digital distributors (and they also provide distr…
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Comment #6458177
Swipe right to left, not left to right.
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Comment #6299669
I wonder whether this article by Dustin is the same one referenced in this tweet: https://twitter.com/dcurtis/status/373243436331069440
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Comment #5470141
The Bitcoin FAQ does address the issue, albeit briefly: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/FAQ#Is_it_not_a_waste_of_energy.3... Bitcoins have value because they are useful and they are sca…
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Comment #5138578
To be clear, we're talking about the Surface Pro here -- the one that has an x86 chip and can run your old existing Windows software.
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Comment #5137365
Just to clarify, the game's author hadn't been fired yet when the article was published, but this tweet reveals his fate: https://twitter.com/davidsgallant/status/29638813519198617…
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Comment #5132055
It's because Chrome is blocking the page from loading resources from an insecure location. Change the https to http and it works fine.
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Comment #4884899
I completely agree with this. I signed up for Google Apps for the sole purpose of having an email address at my own domain, and I always wished I could just have that email address…
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Comment #4441119
To what end? iTunes music has been DRM free since April 2009: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7813527.stm
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Comment #4286480
"Existence of some viable open source models doesn’t change the reality for the vast majority of developers. We don’t have a rich daddy like Mozilla. We don’t have an operating sys…
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Comment #3131087
A company called Onavo is doing exactly that: http://www.onavo.com/ They have an iOS app that configures your device to use their proxy servers. I haven't tried it myself since I'm…
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Comment #2675445
Yes, it is possible to install Google Chrome without having local administrator rights. It installs itself into the user's "Application Data" folder. A user cannot set it as the de…
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Comment #2104947
Yeah, or radium: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_dials