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masomenos··on Ask HN: I'm a Linux guy. Tell me about all those BSDs
Doesn't look like anyone's mentioned another unique feature of a BSD: every OpenBSD release comes on a CD with funky artwork, stickers, and an original song. See http://openbsd.org/art1.html and http://openbsd.org/lyrics.html for more.
masomenos··on Ask HN: Does anyone still use IRC?
I dip my toes into IRC now and again, but keep getting frustrated by the learning curve. Yes, I get the basics of joining channels and chatting. I can see that there's a ton of efficiencies IRC power users have figured out that I haven't.

Any good resources out there for climbing the learning curve to journeyman IRCer?

masomenos··on G.M.’s Electric Lemon
This criticism misses the Volt's unique powertrain configuration. Trips under 40 miles are all on battery power, so the average commuter uses no gas doing their daily business. However, unlike an EV, you can hop in the same car & drive as far as you want, pausing only to fill up the gas tank.

So while it is pretty damn expensive, it's not necessarily worse than having one ICE car for long trips & one EV for commuting, especially considering that you'll only need to buy gas for trips over 40 miles. It's not going to hit too many people's sweet spot but there's some real potential.

masomenos··on CouchDB 1.0
". . .Mongo have seen issues from many people with data loss"

Have any citations for data loss happening in a release version of mongo, with the recommended configuration (at least 1 slave)?

masomenos··on Droid X actually self-destructs if you try to mod it
There was also a developer version of the G1/Dream -- http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/12/18/Android-Di...
masomenos··on Practicality: PHP vs Lisp
You piqued my curiosity, never having tried Clojure.

My time from 0 to getting (the correct!) result of (+2 2) from Clojure's REPL was approximately 60 seconds.

Pretty simple.

masomenos··on Video on DSLRs: why I don't care
Funny, his review of the Nikon D40 (http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/d40.htm) helped convince me to take the plunge into DSLR land.

He does rail against much of the conventional wisdom, eg. more megapixels is better -- perhaps this is the source of your impression.

masomenos··on Facebook privacy issue: Google search reveals email addresses in Facebook
Plenty of sites use URLs like http://example.com/sd8n9g9g rather than require logins for private / semi-private material. What's wrong with that?
masomenos··on Go To University, Not For CS
to play devil's advocate, what you'd need to know to parse that paragraph was covered by my CS 102 class. So you'd only need to have taken a couple classes, rather than majored in the subject.
masomenos··on Happiness is earning $60,000/year
No idea what "extraordinary" means to you, but the scenarios reported in Peter Singer's recent book on military robotics, Wired for War, represent some potentially huge shifts. They may not "improve our lives" though.
masomenos··on Rethinking Cron
so true! Every time i'm forced to deal with launchd for scheduling, I wish I was using cron.
masomenos··on My instant review of Twitter's new business plan
Have been wondering the same thing myself, and opened up an identi.ca account to see what it's like. Nobody I know uses it yet but there are a good number of Free Software and Android oriented users.
masomenos··on OpenBSD 4.7 released
interesting! Hadn't heard of them before, will check one out sometime.
masomenos··on OpenBSD 4.7 released
Have been using it on firewalls for about 10 years. Wouldn't use anything else in that space, between the security, reliability, and usability of PF.

A couple of the current firewalls are on Soekris hardware, cheap little boxes that only draw a couple watts -- more at http://slagwerks.com/blog/?s=soekris

masomenos··on Most Digital Photocopiers Save Every Page Ever Scanned
have any references for this? I've seen the same claim and would love to believe it.
masomenos··on New Core i5/i7 MacBook Pros released
I agree that this is a minor annoyance, but your local hardware store probably has one available for $5.

In other words, it's still orders of magnitude better than replacing the HD in, say, an iBook.

masomenos··on How Ubuntu startup script deletes everything
If you follow the MACENTERPRISE mailing list, you might come to a different conclusion about Apple's responsiveness to bugs.

Or, how about response to the vulnerabilities exploited in pwn2own? Firefox got fixed in about a week, but Safari is still unpatched.

masomenos··on iPad jailbreak after less than 24 hours
Exactly. Just bought one of those for that exact reason, and will likely be purchasing a few more shortly.
masomenos··on Energizer battery charger contains backdoor

  $ man dma
  No manual entry for dma
masomenos··on Women refuse to go through airport body scanners
write us back when TSA & equivalent go through the same selection process as MDs.
masomenos··on GoDaddy store your passwords in clear and may access your VPS without permission
Do you have any specifics, or is this just mud slinging?

Longtime slicehost customer here, haven't seen any negative impact from the acquisition.

masomenos··on The Mariana Trench To Scale
I think you're underestimating the ubiquity of caves.
masomenos··on Homebrew: OS X’s Missing Package Manager
Sounds very promising. I've done OK over the years using MacPorts, but like the idea of not installing Yet Another Perl dist, etc.
masomenos··on Woz says there's an acceleration problem with his Toyota Prius
To be fair, plenty of us had second thoughts the first time we heard that idea...
masomenos··on Ask HN: Review my twist on a voting app
Glad to see your app is using Schulze!
masomenos··on 768-bit RSA, now officially not enough
Yes. the 6 months of 10k computers churning required to factor is certainly instructive.
masomenos··on The Master, The Expert, The Programmer
recommendation seconded. Miller smashes a number of idols.
masomenos··on The Master, The Expert, The Programmer
so, very eventful?
masomenos··on TSA Security Directive SD-1544–09-06
No thanks -- keep your security checks out of our train system. If people insist on flying they can pay the price at the airport.
masomenos··on Turn On, Tune In, Veg Out (2005, Neal Stephenson)
incidentally, Stephenson prefers "speculative fiction".
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