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I appreciate people doing work like this. I've worked in Windows-only environments and used cygwin and some window manager (such as bblite) for my workflow. Good to know if I were still relying on that crutch that I could get tmux working.

The supplied hardware at these gigs didn't really have the spec for spinning up VMs - this also spared me from fiddly network and other shared resource setup.

I even had a "portable" cygwin install on a USB stick.

I believe the theory is if you make users type it twice you can spot if they're likely to get it wrong and force them to get it right - for many signups it can be a vital piece of information, after all. Since email addresses are generally autocompleted by my browser, I can't remember not simply copying/pasting between the fields.

I like the idea of verifying the password, this is how password programs usually work.

PDF links automatically get a scribd link generated - it is a separate link to view the PDF using scribd.

Is there a browser remaining which does not competently handle PDFs without a plugin?

If you are in the mood for video (though not necessarily on this topic) Prof. Simon Schaffer's documentaries are invariably very interesting:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2406693/

Absolute Zero and Light Fantastic stick out in my mind as particularly good.

Have yet another "me too" - I wrote up writing a FUSE module in Perl in a little more detail than The Fine Article:

http://blogs.perl.org/users/fuzzix/2012/08/fun-with-fuse.htm...

The info should transfer to other FUSE bindings.

"The more I read Joel Spolsky, the more I realize how wrong he is."

You're lucky you've just read him. I've used his software. In fact, I've written software to integrate one of the most popular revision control systems with his software - I think Fog Creek may be pretending git does not exist.

How did this integration work? Same as all the others, update of data via GET request, tut tut :)

"Hmmm, maybe this was a design error on my part, mixing deep thinking in a shooter game, I'm not sure?"

Not at all, sounds like a classic final boss achilles heel to me. I haven't played the game so I don't know how blatant the clue to defeat the boss is.

There's the case of Clive Wearing[0], who suffers anterograde and retrograde amnesia. In effect, he has a 30 second memory.

The notes from his diary are particularly frightening.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_Wearing

I did include a condition in my statement :)

Remember kids, if you're just building there's no need to clone the whole history, a shallow clone of remote HEAD with --depth=1 should suffice.

Here's a presentation from Notcon '04 which shows FMV on the ZX Spectrum, arguably even more limited than the original PC/XT:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhpN0vcHH9c

You can see the video itself around 6:30 in.

I would not recommend XML::Simple, there are various cases (not even that uncommon - say having an attribute and an element of the same name) where it breaks down.

It may be awkward to use at times, but XML::LibXML is robust and consistent.

Replying to myself as the edit window has passed - still haven't tracked down that double-cropping story. The thought occurs, what happens with source material which fits no definition of "wide"? Older TV shows or many Kubrick films?

Horizontal black bars on screen to correct aspect are common, vertical black bars are less acceptable for whatever reason (Aesthetics? Acclimatisation? Who knows?). My xbmc setup not only has a hybrid stretch+crop for 4:3 stuff on my widescreen TV, it also has a setting which stretches more towards the edges than the centre of the picture. Acceptable presentation for my old TV recordings and such but if someone handed me a Dr. Strangelove recording distorted similarly, I'd be less than impressed. I prefer to ruin the presentation on my own terms!

Another mode I use for presentation of 4:3 material on the wide TV is 14:9 + crop - this is essentially a halfway-to-fullscreen zoom mode I use for my old game consoles. This has never, in my experience, cut out any relevant action or HUD info as these games needed to be designed for ludicrously variable CRT overscan in the first place.

The studios should really have been suspect #1 in this case from the start. Doing Pan and Scan of 2 hours of film is a chunk of work - not just cropping, but reframing each and every scene to focus on the action. I don't know if Netflix have the resources for this, but would they have permission?

I can't find the story now, but there was an instance of a set of "widescreen" DVD releases (my memory tells me they were from WB) which were 4:3 cropped releases, cropped yet again to 16:9 aspect - a small chunk of the original picture left at this stage... but as I say, I can't find this story so I may be misremembering.

Indeed - the KISS principle was once commonly cited in this industry.

They generally eschewed false-dichotomy driven, dramatic reporting with hyperbolic, click-hungry headlines.

fetchmail/getmail your gmail, read with mutt, send with msmtp.

Yes, we're always very careful in this industry not to overload TLAs.

It is wnd.com, a lot of it comes right from their imagination.

See other comments re: NSAKEY, Schneier's is probably the best summary as usual.

It's an interesting method, reminded me of vimtutor.

That would be GNU coreutils true, which is a little more complex.

Some discussion of that over here : http://forums.thedailywtf.com/forums/t/3779.aspx

"the site could have a valid use for discovering the strength of passwords you would generate"

That's what I did - generate a new password using my usual method.

Apparently "it would take a desktop PC about 13 duovigintillion years to crack your password" - is that long enough?

Or just go to bookdepository.

Seeing it for ~€30, which is ~£25

"With systemd I find myself quite often with no idea where to even look for information about something not starting"

You could read the (currently) 20-part sysadmin guide.

http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/socket-activated-containers...

/sbin/init and its simple shell scripts never required this much explanation.

I'd stick around longer to read the article if the funky little script driven animation didn't cause my browser to peg a core.

> "He also is a member of the board of EarthLink, an Internet service provider that competes aggressively with Verizon and AT&T."

Is that the Scientologist ISP?

It all comes down to whether you are a good cunt or a bad cunt.

Step one, acquire billions of dollars...

That's handy, because that was the last word of his post.

"Coincidently I now work at a company with currently 4 dogs in the office"

Jesus, and I complain about how hard it is to concentrate in a noisy open plan office. A bunch of non-human animals roaming about might just tip me over the edge.