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thomasknowles

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    Comment #20688081

    https://www.neuromoddevices.com/ has just released a Neuromodulation gizmo. The first adopters have had it for a few weeks. Currently only in Ireland.

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    Comment #18596859

    Firefox on Linux appears to adopt the GTK themes (in my case Dark Themes) for web elements (Forms, message poxes, etc) and I have great difficulty removing the customisation. Chrom…

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    Comment #14586330

    Grown up working class, have parents which are older and still have to work in awful jobs. Met many people who are just simply better than I am at most things. So I just grind dail…

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    Comment #6905623

    Description: Beta build of SteamOS 1.0 distribution based on Debian 7.1 Wheezy

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    Comment #6813582

    You don't need to be a developer to understand or use regex. I use regex on a daily basis as I have to deal with a lot of text manipulation. --edit I am not a developer.

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    Comment #5374233

    moretoitsurely do you reside in Bath Road top floor? Greetings from 2EE51.

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    Comment #5317134

    Agreed, anyone who has touched PCI DSS would agree you need to associate access with a human user. This would not work. If you look at the security logs it won't differentiate betw…

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    Comment #3864299

    As a guy who used to resell Splunk, it offers a lot more in comparison to it's open source alternatives. Being data agnostic with decent log compression, with an extremely rich sea…

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    Comment #3730050

    DRM Free: Thomass-MacBook-Pro:~ thomasknowles$ file Downloads/azizansari-dangerouslydelicious-hd.mov.crdownload Downloads/azizansari-dangerouslydelicious-hd.mov.crdownload: ISO Med…

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    Comment #3640640

    If I had it in the UK and they didn't convert flac and I would gladly pay. However, the don't and do.

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    Comment #3525512

    Seems like excessive dependencies for such a simple tool. Could probably build such a tool in SQLite and bash just as well.

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    Comment #3364215

    I am a tmux advocate and you can get screen based hot keys if you need but it feels cleaner and it's also under a BSD licence.

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    Comment #3182732

    http://www.openbsd.org/plus50.html > Switched from the old shell script /etc/security to the new Perl script security(8).

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    Comment #3032968

    I read it, I just presume people most users are linux based in here.

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    Comment #3032927

    Or in other words it'll be on the CD and Apache'll be in a repo.

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    Comment #3029258

    Actually I would run ss over the netstat for such high concurrency connection as netstat hits /proc/net/tcp and it's quite slow. However, you need to have the tcp_diag module loade…

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    Comment #2868050

    Interesting, though only Debian support for the clients at the moment. I will begin porting that over to RPM based systems later on tonight. Starting with CentOS.

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    Comment #2867435

    strace is the Daddy of debugging especially when you can attach it to an already existing program using it's PID. I have solved so many permissions errors problems with strace wher…

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    Comment #2678713

    Apparently it's fake: http://twitter.com/#!/LulzSec/status/83168314527981568 reply

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    Comment #2678708

    Apparently it's fake: http://twitter.com/#!/LulzSec/status/83168314527981568

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    Comment #2456474

    I've always found: http://playground.html5rocks.com/#semantic_markup A good resource too.

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    Comment #2384081

    I'd very much consider uploading a few of mine to that service, it's hard to justify what the IEEE deems as reasonable. Heck I don't even get access to my own papers.

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    Comment #2198166

    When did selling shares (especially when you have many) become dumping? As I recall he's doing his humanitarian bit nowadays, which strangely enough costs money.