Viewing profile — volatile

Inspired by John Conner with this Atari Portfolio and a ribbon cable in Terminator 2? http://imgur.com/5AVTMHV

I remember hearing about Singularity a few years back - it sounded promising. Looking at the linked page, there doesn't seem to be anything published or presented since 2009. Anyon…

Don't underestimate mass market consumers' readiness and ability to use a search engine. The small effort to find the answer online will not deter anyone who comes along wanting a …

The "qualified buyer" requirement is interesting. I understand the intent but wonder how it would work in practice. The linked blog post suggests using a program that needs to be m…

I currently do pay a premium and I'd prefer to be paying it to FastMail. Recent revelations mean there may be a few more Australians willing to pay a premium to host mail in Austra…

Jeremy Howard, the founder of FastMail, responded to a similar question on Slashdot in October 2009. http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1391605&cid=2963235... We've had a num…

This from a piece by RMS in The Guardian "Is Android really free software?" [0] explains his reasoning behind accepting hardware with permanently embedded firmware. In any case, th…

The author seems to claim that is is implausible for a router vendor to sell a router that drops more packets. The marketing plan is that the because router vendors are unwilling t…

And if you want to know about Australian politics, watch The Hollowmen.

You're right, the 0 is required. Now I think about it a little more, if you want to delete all the characters on the line, but not remove the line, then 0shift-D might is good. I t…

There are a few instances of unnecessarily keystrokes in this exercise. Moves to the start of the line for a command that will act on the whole line (0shift-D, 0shift-V, 0dd). The …