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  1. kamper

    Anybody running Boston?

    I just found out that I'm going to be there watching and I figured it'd be cool if I could spot some of the ATHF running stars.
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    Kamper starts running in VFFs

    So I bought some KSOs this past weekend to try out the whole minimalist running thing. While considering it, I appreciated the writeups of people who were trying them out so I figured I'd do a little log of my own. Sizing My measurements said I was a 42 according to the Vibram sizing...
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    Net neutrality?

    So per Spidey's last post here, I want to hear the arguments for and against net neutrality legislation. I recently read this in which the Richard Bennett guy seemed to kick some serious ass in the technical side of the debate. However, I don't know anything about him. Is he generally...
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    Replacing GCC

    There's been some somewhat idle discussion in the bsd world about replacing gcc for a while. I think it's partly the license, partly technical reasons, but the reason it hasn't been done is because it's hard. Recently though, there's been some action, particularly involving pcc. It's in...
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    Colin Percival wants to work full time on FreeBSD for the summer

    http://people.freebsd.org/~cperciva/funding.html Lots of funding threads going on these days :P Certainly not something that everyone has to go chipping in for, but if you're a FreeBSD user, $10-20 isn't going to hurt and it'll do him a whole lot of good. He's got a great little list on...
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    c: 2d arrays and double pointers

    So I did a few semesters in C a couple of years ago and had the whole pointer/array thing down reasonably well. Mostly that int * foo is equivalent to int foo[]. I probably had done some 2d arrays (on the stack at least) and the concept that it's just one chunk of memory with a complex index...
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    PSA: Ubuntu users, gotta do a little work to clear up a security vuln

    http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=143334 https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+bug/34606 It's not really worth discussing, as it seems likely to lead to flaming, but I've gotta post this so people running ubuntu know :)
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    "The Complete FreeBSD" available free

    Hot off the virtual presses: http://www.lemis.com/grog/Documentation/CFBSD/ Not a FreeBSD user myself currently but I will be checking it out.
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    mysql and the new cursor functionality

    <rant> So I was reading an article in a linux magazine about the new mysql functionality and I was appalled by the ridiculous syntax they expect you to use for cursors. I wrote a short demo, just to point out my gripes. So a cursor is a really basic thing. You create it with a SELECT...
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    Apache Harmony status update

    Last summer I made a post about the Apache Harmony project to implement a jdk. There hasn't been any talk of it since and I've just finished slogging through a backlog of almost 1000 emails on the dev mailing list so I figured I'd give a quick summary of what's been going on for those who are...
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    nfs authentication problems

    I'm trying to access an nfs export on my openbsd server from os x and I'm getting rejected. I'm a little foggy on how nfs authentication works other than that it's by user id and I'm not sure if that has anything to do with why I'm being rejected. So I've got portmap, mountd and nfsd running...
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    tcp congestion control algorithms and vista's new stack

    So this link was posted in OS about upcoming vista changes: http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=117938 In the middle of the video or so, they discuss new tweaks to the tcp congestion control algorithms. Just wondering if anybody knows much about this and can discuss specifics...
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    finding X11 headers with gcc

    Ok, so I'm trying to do some opengl programming in OpenBSD for homework (yeah, I'm aware of the masochistic bent I'm on). When I'm compiling it's not picking up some headers that I need from /usr/X11R6/include. How do I tell gcc where to look for headers? Command-line params will do but can...
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    resetting admin password on os x [RESOLVED - but still mystified]

    So I was working with my powerbook tonight (10.4.4) and closed it to bring it upstairs. When I opened it again and tried to log in it told me that my password was invalid (yes, I'm damn sure I didn't forget it). The first thing I tried was logging in as another, unprivileged user that I...
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    anybody use both flashblock and adblock together?

    Ok, so adblock is a bit of a neccesity for getting rid of all manner of annoying moving things on a webpage but it's nice to have flashblock too, for the stuff you do actually want to see but don't want to be forced into. The problem I have is that flashblock gets to the ads first, and...
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    lynx

    So I'm ssh'ed into a machine in my home and from there I want to login to my router (linksys, a few years old) to change some port forwardings. The problem is that the router uses http authentication and the user name is blank while the password is not. When I enter no username, lynx assumes...
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    Ubuntu makes oem installation mode

    So you ubuntu users have probably already seen this, if not played with it. I thought it was kind of interesting but I wouldn't want to guess whether it'll will actually be used or not. http://business.newsforge.com/business/05/11/15/2130234.shtml?tid=38&tid=2
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    funky dns in os x

    While I'm browsing, certain domain names will just stop working. For instance, for the last few hours, forums.anandtech.com has been inaccessible to me. It only happens for a few seemingly random domains at seemingly random times. I'm posting right now using ssh port forwarding with my server...
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    UK people: where do you shop for digital cameras?

    I'm from Canada but living in England right now and in the market for a new camera but I'm not really sure where to look. I gather I'll never get anywhere near as good a price as Americans can get at newegg :( So I've done some searching around and come up with some decent prices from places...
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    dumbass question about digital cameras and computers

    So I've just lost my camera and am in the market for a new one. One of the things I'm curious about, that I can't seem to find anywhere is if there are specs regarding how a camera connects to my pc. For instance, my fujifilm (e510) always mounted as a removable drive on both my pc and...
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    changing dvd region code in a regular 5.25" dvd-rom

    All right, so I'm from Canada and travelling in Europe with my PowerBook. I just bought a dvd and ran into the ugly region codes thing :( My pb is telling me that I can change the region code 5 times and I gather that that's a bit of a standard. I figure what I'll do is, when I get home...
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    Massachusetts chooses OpenDocument

    http://news.com.com/Massachusetts+to+ad...esktop/2100-1012_3-5845451.html?tag=nl The beauty of this is that they don't seem to be mandating a particular office application or suite, just the OpenDocument format. Some people seemed to be confusing this with mandating OpenOffice, although the...
  23. kamper

    Firefox, bookmark keywords and quicksearch

    Ok, so for a while I've known about firefox quicksearches. For instance, just type "google foo" in the address bar and you'll go to the google search for "foo". I always wanted to tweak it so that I could just type "g foo" but I didn't think about it long enough to figure it out. Recently, I...
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    fedora -> php -> gd -> jpeg/png

    I'm probably grasping at straws here :( I'm trying to install a php photo gallery that uses gd to make thumbnails and otherwise scaled pictures. None of the scaling seems to work when it tries to operate on jpegs or pngs, but it works fine on gifs. I have determined that the problem...
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    Has anybody got Deer Park running alongside 1.0.x?

    I'm wanting to check out Deer Park's svg support but I'm not ready to go with an alpha for my main browser :) Does running the current release and dp side by side work alright? I was thinking the safest way would be to start ff to lock the default profile, then start dp and create a new...
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    Vista loses another feature

    http://news.com.com/2100-1002_3-5820706.html The interesting thing, I thought, was this was reportedly the first thing that had been exploited in vista. Of course it's too early to judge the stuff for little holes, but it's funny :)
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    What sort of back-to-school deals does Apple usually have?

    So I'm planning on getting a PowerBook soon (first journey into the Apple world) but it occured to me that they might start a sale and I wouldn't like to see the price a couple hundred dollars lower the day after I order :( Has anybody payed attention in recent years to Apple's back-to-school...
  28. kamper

    Apache undertakes open source jvm

    http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=33795 I know I've argued against this in the past, but some of the points you guys have made, as well as other experiences I've had lately, made me realize that this would be a really good thing. Of course there are many attempts at...
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    Anyone familiar with Visual Age?

    Ok, so I just started a new job as a java programmer and much to my horror I'm using a java version that has been oficially retired for some time (1.2) and an ide that has been unsupported for almost 2 and a half years. :( I can live with it, but the one thing I'd like to figure out a little...
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    Debian wins Munich deal

    http://news.com.com/Debian+wins+Munich+.../2100-7344_3-5689003.html?tag=nefd.top Wow. I never really thought much about which distro they'd go with but Suse kinda seemed like a shoe-in. It'll be sweet if this whole thing goes really well. What do you guys think?
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    Is home networking hardware more or less the same across continents

    Ok, so I live in Canada and I'm going on a group trip ton England in the fall. A bunch of people are bringing laptops and are concerned that they will not be able to connect to whatever network we'll have (in a hostel sort of place) without adapters (like how you need adapters for power...
  32. kamper

    Nasty little bit of java trivia...

    Alright, 10 :beer:s to whoever can convert this number to decimal without running any tests: 0Xf.4P3D (Note: this is jdk1.5 specific) Edit: my apologies folks. The number used to be 0Xf.4PAD, which is invalid. Obviously I have now corrected that.
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    Rescuing crunched units from a setiQ

    Has anyone ever tried salvaging a setiQ from a blown windows installation? What I mean is: would I be able to just pick up the directory and drop it into a different windows install and run it without issues, or does it rely on registry keys and other hooks? I don't currently run it as...
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    OT: a hand diagnosing harware failure? :(

    Hey guys, Had a rig blow up on me today. I wonder if you could offer your technical expertise over here: http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=27&threadid=1548322&enterthread=y I wasn't going to admit this until later but as added incentive I will mention that it had quite a...
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    Any hints for diagnosing the cause of a frying?

    Hi guys, I heard a really loud blast of white noise from my speakers, then the computer shut down and I quickly smelled a sickly burning smell. I can see no visual damage like blown caps or anything but the smell seems to be coming from the power supply. I tried turning the machine back on...
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    a little scripting challenge

    Ok, here's the scenario: <preamble> I have a cvs checkout that I want multiple people to use (same checkout, not just the same repository). I want them each to be able to commit using their own cvs account. I know this is not ideal, but these are non-technical people and I the idea was to...
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    re: Reply Box

    Sorry for bringing this up again after the lock but I want to say something positive. I notice that the quick reply box is back and I want to say thanks for fixing that so quickly despite all the negative attitudes in the other thread (mine included) :thumbsup:
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    What not to do with grep

    grep -r somepattern * > grepresults.txt I couldn't figure out why my computer was bogging down so badly. By the time I did figure it out I had a 22 gig text file :confused:
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    Writing to windows event log

    As you may have noticed, I am normally a java programmer but today I am researching something a little different. Our app needs to send errors of the the windows event log. The worst of it is taken care of already: we have various native (c++, .NET...) solutions that will write to the log and...
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    OT: a wave to all the Floridian DCers

    I'll be on vacation for a week in Fort Lauderdale. How many of you are around there? The drive down starts tonight so I'm also waving to all those along the path from Kitchener, Ontario to FL. I will probably be without an internet connection for the whole time (oh the horrors :shocked: )...