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rgsteele

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About rgsteele

Mostly harmless.

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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