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fuscataon Beg HN: Please only report serious GitHub outages (1h+)

Agree. As a sysadmin, outages of major services are interesting and IMO newsworthy, even at 5m.

fuscataon Ask HN: How do you apply for a tech job?

Nate, there are female interviewers out there too.

fuscataon Newegg nukes "corporate troll" Alcatel in third patent appeal win this year

I'm surprised more companies don't do this, because it seems to me that the impact is clear: Like ambulance chasing, patent trolling relies on the simple principle that it's much, much cheaper to settle than to go to court -- for both sides. It's huge that they won, but they didn't need to. By sending the message that they will always go to court, my guess is they'll stop being sued.

On the other hand, the trolls know this, and may react by targeting companies that do this to demonstrate that it's not an effective strategy.

fuscataon My girlfriend tries to explain my startup in 90 seconds

I took it to mean that he wouldn't get it done on his own b/c he would never be satisfied with the post. IOW, he was too shy.

fuscataon Ubuntu Releases 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin

I used to feel the same way, since finding in c. 2006 that using an ATI card with Linux was pretty much impossible. However, this all changed when I built a new machine last year, and wanted 3 monitors. Two monitors worked great with Nvidia; 3 was impossible. I've found that, although still a little buggy, 3 monitors w/ Ubuntu, ATI/AMD graphics card and "EyeFinity" works great (on KDE at least): http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubuntu_Precise_Installation... Note that you must use a single graphics card for this, which therefore must support 3 monitors. And in response to the grandparent -- I had the same issues with the order of monitors. Luckily they were all identical, so I just swapped the plugs.

fuscataon Horde backdoored

Check with: grep -r "\$m\[1\](\$m\[2\])" /path/to/horde

fuscataon The problem with blogging

Actually I browse through wikis quite a bit, but maybe I'm not typical. In any event, IMO, a blog (web log) is for just that: logging time-sensitive things, like a journal or news feed. A wiki is for more permanent information, that may be updated as needed, but stays put.

fuscataon The problem with blogging

Sounds like he needs a wiki and a blog.

fuscataon How to Beat High Airfares

Be sure to include the cost of the extra time it takes to accomplish this when you calculate your savings.

fuscataon Show HN: my weekend project, Gumroad

I get a broken lock icon, and "Connection partially encrypted" message. You need to make sure all externally linked resources on the page use SSL. Specifically: change http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Cabin:regular,bold to https://...