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It would be nice if it could generate a new number for each transaction.

Looks like they still have sites that are open though: http://corporate.disney.go.com/server-status/

A dev submitted code and broke our build once, when we looked at what he submitted there appear to random syntax errors in it. On his workstation the code was correct however. We t…

I don't pirate, but I still don't like the idea of the content of my traffic being constantly analyzed, getting harassed with false positive notices due to software bugs, or due to…

and they won't let you block "unknown" numbers.

Yes, I think you're right. WA does cite the same report as its source, but appears to have different figures. Looks like for CA (before inflation adjustment in parens): 1992: $7684…

Just doing a quick check on WA, which has the 1992-2009 figures for CA and NY: CA spending per pupil in 1992 was $5380, and in 2009 was $11652. http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i…

- LDAP: it's a corp AD server, cn, name and sn are all set correctly from what I can tell. - Maybe CentOS 6.3 ships with a bad build or lib that causes it to crash. I'm using alpin…

It would be great if someone could write good text email client. I recently tried some old ones I used in the 90s again, and the quality of software has improved a lot since then. …

Here's an excellent talk on Spanner by one of the developers, Alex Lloyd: http://vimeo.com/43759726

I've found Parallels (7) to be unstable, and I didn't appreciate how it installed crap all over the place with no easy uninstall. Fusion may not be quite as fast, but it is a more …

How would mobile phone usage work? Are there plans for an app? Or some easy way to use it when you don't have a full keyboard.

OSX actually has been shipping for a while now with a decent Tibetan font. Unfortunately Windows' Tibetan font ("Microsoft Himalaya") is in a disappointing state. See the mashed up…

Except you can't change your default shell to it, and expect your system to work. You also can't expect that it's installed by default.

Right, but I wanted it to fluidly resize in the WP twentyeleven theme, so setting it to a fixed size wouldn't work.

I tried to overlay an SVG logo over a photo background (jpg). While it more or less worked after futzing, it was a responsive website and re-sizing the screen caused the SVG to not…

On a hot summer day I ordered an ice cream cone at a random McDonald's in Vienna, and when it didn't look as enticing as the picture, I expressed a child like disappointment. They …

I have been running the RT-N16 + TomatoUSB for a couple of years now. Pros: - Hard to brick, easy to revert an f'ed up flash - 5-6mo uptimes (most stable consumer router I've owned…

I really liked his comment about Stanford students not getting much out of him, that they're already very brilliant, and it makes more sense for him to teach students that would ge…