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fuzzix··on iPhones 'disabled' if Apple detects third-party repairs
> Remember the woman who proved that Apple consistently slows down sold iPhones with "updates" right before the launch date of a new model?

No. Story linked from daily mail (that's not a "source") is more nuanced.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/27/upshot/hold-the-phone-a-bi...

fuzzix··on Xbox 360 Emulator Research Project
The NES cart connector can be repaired with some patience or replaced inexpensively.

A lot of sites selling new connectors claim they are made with more robust materials than the original connectors, but I'm not sure how true that is.

fuzzix··on Firefox makes click-to-activate Flash the default
Copy to clipboard, apparently.

(Github project pages have a flash application to handle this)

fuzzix··on Why does Gmail hate my domain?
Always worth checking if the IP you inherit is in some DNSBL. A number of Hetzner IPs I've gotten were tainted.

It's oh so much fun trying to get them removed.

fuzzix··on Nirvana Engine for ZX Spectrum (2013)
Was just looking at a review for a new game, Stormfinch, which uses this engine:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2sd2FNPTBs

It's clearly a little clunkier than monochrome or simple colour attribute shooters, but still pretty competent.

fuzzix··on Netflix on an NES
> There is no way in hell a 1.79Mhz 6502 can play streaming video.

It can't decode MPEG 4 real time, of course, but machines of this class are more than capable of streaming video.

ZX Spectrum streaming with a network interface (~3.5MHz Z80):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooi9rpx6ECM

Commodore 64 with lots of RAM (~1MHz 6510):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXLv7UosQXs

fuzzix··on Join the U.S. Digital Service
You don't have to wait 5 years, you can request them yearly. They just go back 5 years (I think).
fuzzix··on Join the U.S. Digital Service
Ireland has a Pay As You Earn system which is usually administered by your employer. Mostly, you do nothing and the money is paid.

Every 5 years, file a P21 to check you're not due any refunds.

If you're self-employed, it's a bloody nightmare.

fuzzix··on How to get into an admin account on a Windows computer
I remember someone (not me, oh no...) used one for NT4 with inadequate policies to get Admin access.

Create a batch file with the content:

net localgroup administrators NewUser /add

...then stick this into the 'StartUp' directory for All Users. Break something. Call support. They log in as Administrator, running your batch file in the process.

NewUser would be created with Admin rights. You wouldn't promote your own login, of course.

fuzzix··on Tesla’s P85D Will Get Even Faster Thanks to a Software Update
> Anyone knows what their software development process is to get that kind of confidence?

If it's NASA confidence, waterfall every time :)

Having worked in that sort of environment (everything about the system has been analysed on paper before a text editor is launched), don't knock it until you've tried it. This wasn't rocket science either, it was export refund batch jobs. In the 21st century.

fuzzix··on What is the best hard drive?
I have five Seagate branded 3TB external disks, so have no real idea what's inside.

Three of them are dead. I stopped using the others.

fuzzix··on Gow – The lightweight alternative to Cygwin
Oh super, thanks. I'll have to try that out.
fuzzix··on Building a CustoMac: Buyer's Guide
I'm considering it as an option for running proprietary video conference applications which either don't work or are chronically bad on Linux.
fuzzix··on Gow – The lightweight alternative to Cygwin
I ditched mrxvt long ago because of lack of Unicode support (though I did use it under Cygwin/X).

https://github.com/simonzack/urxvt-tabbed - is this the project you're using?

fuzzix··on ChromeOS will no longer support ext2/3/4 on external drives/SD cards
Sure, with an option to enable write with the usual "omg ur apps!" warning.
fuzzix··on ChromeOS will no longer support ext2/3/4 on external drives/SD cards
A read only block device would have been better and would actually work on non-Windows OSes.
fuzzix··on ChromeOS will no longer support ext2/3/4 on external drives/SD cards
But it doesn't work like "rsync/scp/sftp over USB". No seek or partial transfer support makes it a dog. Very poor cross-platform support makes it a terrible choice.
fuzzix··on ChromeOS will no longer support ext2/3/4 on external drives/SD cards
Wasn't the patent mess the reason Android stopped supporting usb-storage and now uses (the horror!) MTP?

I think UDF is well supported by everything now and has several advantages over FAT (including large file and basic rwx permissions support).

fuzzix··on Cool-retro-term: A terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display
> When you fire a missile, the screen effect is insanely bright.

There was a rumour that people who played on a Vectrex (a vector display home console) would experience eye damage after protracted sessions.

fuzzix··on A brief history of CPAN
http://pause.perl.org/pause/query?ACTION=pause_06history

Pull request on the way.

fuzzix··on Show HN: Perspective Mockups – Hipster-as-fuck perspectives for your mockups
> this panel stays with you like a bad STD

Wait, is this an actual product or is it a satire on the sad state of our industry?

fuzzix··on The Deathrow OpenVMS Cluster
I remember this - I thought it was on el reg, but worse, it was theinq :)

https://web.archive.org/web/20031219162954/http://www.theinq...

fuzzix··on The Deathrow OpenVMS Cluster
VMS was awesome to work with. Highly interactive and intuitive. I still prefer *nix, but my time on VMS was reasonably pleasant.

Mainframe, not so much - imagine programming in a webform's text box where the endpoint might have gone away by the time you submit.

fuzzix··on What Paris looks like with an echo
> by NightRadio (Alexander Zolotov), who also made the amazing modular synth + tracker "SunVox".

Heh, first thing I thought when reading the article was SunVox. PixiVisor is closer in effect to what the article describes, but I was reminded of the "SunVox: Sampler eats JPEG images" video:

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

fuzzix··on Ars editor learns feds have his old IP addresses, full credit card numbers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NemID

Looks like terrible, Java-based spyware.

fuzzix··on Slackware is 21 Years Old
> I'd like a minimal install base right now (and manually picking this in the installer ain't that easy)

I think the best way to do this currently is to select the categories of packages and then choose a "Full Install" (the warning that it will install almost 8GB of software is a little confusing as it only installs what was selected on the previous screen).

I think you can do quite a bit with just the A, AP and D sets.

fuzzix··on What happens when you search 'ugly hack' in GitHub
Welp, neither of those are true.
fuzzix··on What happens when you search 'ugly hack' in GitHub
> I'd be curious to see if there's a relationship between 'ugly hack' in code commits and the languages being used

Perl is not in their list.

Either everything we do is an ugly hack, or everything we do is simple and elegant. :)

fuzzix··on The new sign on French menus
> lightly-roasted, sour-tasting coffee thing

A well made espresso with light-medium roast bean should taste fruity and maybe a little tangy and sweet, though this depends on no end of factors. Coffee Angel around Dublin is a good one.

Most of the beans I saw when visiting the US (even in the hipster artisan places) were roasted to the point of being indistinguishable from toner and made for bitter, unpleasant coffee.

Still, I needed my hit.

fuzzix··on Hackers have gained access to Domino’s Pizza customer details
If a Domino's moped is the worst thing in the cycle lane I think I'm doing well.

It's usually taxis and broken glass around here.

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