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petemc_··on Am I hacked? Oh, it's just Vodafone
I'm not sure this is still the case. I can recall it happening a long time ago but have not noticed it recently, at least since I started using their 4g service.
petemc_··on Show HN: Convert scanned documents into searchable PDFs
Same here, have been using acrobat x for this purpose for years, very impressed how good the OCR is.
petemc_··on How we became the heaviest drinkers in a century
I think you have an odd idea what is problematic. How does the number of people dying from drunken balcony jumping compare to the number of people dying from long term excessive alcohol consumption?
petemc_··on Kill the laws that keep car dealers in business
Old but good related article on life as a car salesman:

http://www.edmunds.com/car-buying/confessions-of-a-car-sales...

petemc_··on To hack an Android phone, just type in a really long password
You could do similar in SBS2003.
petemc_··on The increasingly long lives of old Macs
Using same 2008 macbook as article mentions with same upgrades, going great. Same can't be said for all macbooks though, 2011 range springs to mind as particularly prone to failure and the newer ones just don't feel as sturdy to me.
petemc_··on Interview: Larry Wall
There's a reasonable contingent in Japan.
petemc_··on What It's Like to Have Severe Lyme Disease
HGH seems to be readily available on the black market. Obviously not ideal but given the circumstances..
petemc_··on Peeple Is a Smart Peephole to Upgrade Your Door with Caller ID
Do they not have any regular doors they can put this on to take their pictures?
petemc_··on Using BitTorrent with Amazon S3
That depends on a few things, such as the file still being at the previous url, you still having access to the file, etc.
petemc_··on Raspberry Pi becomes best-selling UK computer ever as sales top 5M
I've set quite a few up as airprint servers for people. It's great to get a few more years out of an old laserjet.
petemc_··on Command-line tools can be faster than your Hadoop cluster
You could skip both cat and grep and do it all in awk. Also if speed was an issue you would want to make sure LANG=C is set for grep.

Edit: I see they did use awk later in article, I should really read all of things before commenting.

petemc_··on Ask HN: What's the oldest OS you are running in production?
I was using NT4 desktop until a year or so ago. All I needed was putty and outlook, helped with productivity that it didn't run a modern browser.
petemc_··on WiFried: iOS 8 WiFi Issue
In my experience, the wifi icon being greyed out can often mean the hardware on your device is no longer functioning. There are plenty of cases of this, seemed to happen most to 4S phones on upgrade from ios6 to 7 but also to iphone 5 as well. Not generally fixable despite people trying crazy things like blowing hair dryer down the headphone socket etc.
petemc_··on Making a brain for my model plane
I thought it was awesome, and it worked perfectly on my 2008 macbook.
petemc_··on What Does an Idle CPU Do?
I played with one for a few years, felt pretty l33t dd'ing the kernel into the prep partition rather than using yaboot.
petemc_··on Disable sharing of Spotlight searches with Apple
Hey, this is great. Thanks for your work. Site and code are easy to read and they do a great job. Thanks again.
petemc_··on Things I Won't Work With: Peroxide Peroxides
I've been told that some criminals like to keep ammonia in a squeeze bottle (like a jif lemon container) to be used as a weapon if necessary. Also handy that they can use it to clean their cocaine as well.
petemc_··on I Broke My Phone’s Screen, and It Was Awesome
I wouldn't let that set you back. All you need is a sense of adventure mixed with equal amounts of common sense and money. I got round SK/Japan with a few basic words that I made sure to learn to at least try to be polite.
petemc_··on What I Would Do If I Ran Tarsnap
I wonder how long it will be before someone creates a 2048 interface to tarsnap.
petemc_··on Poll: The new HN comment system – agree, disagree, or wait and see?
If I maintain my current levels of posting/karma receiving, I should be eligible to post unfettered comments in 84 years or so.
petemc_··on Flappy Bird Creator Dong Nguyen Speaks Out
I never saw any ads when I played it on android.
petemc_··on Root a Mac in 10 seconds or less
http://www.srmti.com/news/cash-machines-raided-with-infected...
petemc_··on Farming hard drives: 2 years and $1M later
Yes. Tapes and tape drives are expensive and awkward to use.
petemc_··on Google Support is unbelievably awful - anyone got any sugggestions?
How hard do you work for non-paying customers?
petemc_··on Making a loss on Bitcoin
You can connect up to 7 to a rpi.
petemc_··on Archaeology: The milk revolution
So the rain in Spain doesn't stay mainly in the plain?
petemc_··on Theranos
When I was in South Korea a while back I was able to get a blood test via a finger prick and the results back before I left the clinic that day. Admittedly, the chap at the clinic did think I had hepatitis, but apparently that can be explained by the excessive amount of whiskey I had consumed the previous day.
petemc_··on Notch puts 0x10c on ice
Why is this a disaster? My 10 year old son has been doing this for years without any problems. It has encouraged him to start poking around other game parts and learning lots in the process.

Edit: There are also many easy to use front ends for adding mods and working with different minecraft versions etc.

petemc_··on The slippery slope
Works fine with safari on my 2008 macbook.
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