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ard0r··on A VC-funded startup called WhosHere is trying to steal my social network
Ipse dixit.

Also, this is a state-by-state issue, and in Texas, at least, you are quite wrong.

http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/76R/billtext/html/HB015...

ard0r··on Ubuntu Releases 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin
The proprietary drivers have worked OK for me, but I've had issues with playing video. I just couldn't get smooth framerates. The radeon driver was worse in that aspect. I swapped in two nvidia cards and video looked much better. It should be fine for general use and I'm still trying to make the ATI setup work. I don't need 3D, just video.

I have a 5870 eyefinity 6 that has 6 display ports, but those are no longer made and expensive (and overkill).

I found a $60 Radeon HD 6450 card made by Sapphire on Newegg (N82E16814102960) that has two dvi and one displayport, that should work for three monitors. There are other options as well of course, just make sure the cards are advertised as supporting eyefinity and they have at least one displayport adapter. I've had success with an Accel active displayport to DVI adapters.

ard0r··on Ubuntu Releases 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin
I've got that setup with a 5970 eyefinity 6 card. The monitors are in portrait mode so it's like one big 3240x1920 surface.
ard0r··on Ubuntu Releases 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin
TwinView works for two monitors on one graphics card, but once you get a second card you'll need xinerama, ergo no 3d support.

An ATI card that supports 3 monitors (needs to have a displayport connector and you need an "active" displayport adapter or a monitor with a displayport connector) should work. But don't tell anyone I recommended an ATI card for linux.

ard0r··on Richard Stallman: How I do my Computing
Twitter and Facebook at least benefit from Free software, and people benefit vicariously. You don't have to be a programmer to benefit.
ard0r··on Responsive.is
When I use smartphone sizes, the black area that reduces the viewport covers the scrollbars. Chrome 17/Windows (wow 17!)
ard0r··on Viral Video About Body Scanners
This is a non-serious response. I think I'm going to talk to my congressperson about this.
ard0r··on Ask HN: Is there any point in using mailto: links any more?
We have both on the contact page, and we get more people filling out the form than emailing us, which I guess is surprising but the contact form is right there whereas the email link is a click away.

I really prefer them to fill out the form, because when we can associate their message with their browser, cookie, and IP address, I can get all kinds of useful information eg whether they came from an AdWords link, how many visits to the website they've made, whether they've ever clicked through a newsletter, their IP address (which I can use for geolocation), whether JS is enabled, etc etc.

I also find that it's easier to block spammers via the contact form than the email link, because of all this information I know about them.

ard0r··on Jotform domain seized by US due to user generated content
https://github.com/astronoob/NoDaddy Here is a chrome extension that notifies you if the domain you're on is registered through GoDaddy. Looks like it does an XHR request to who.is and then matches on: new RegExp("/(registrar\.godaddy\.com|whois\.godaddy.com)/")
ard0r··on Google X
AI foosball.
ard0r··on Show HN: My 48-hour project, hainbit.com
I entered some random URLs I had open, hit the button, and got an alert "Something is definitely wrong" when I entered a URL with several parameters: ?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SlickdealsnetFP+%28SlickDeals.net+Frontpage%29

I removed this bit and it worked fine.

Did you already implement jk86's unique URLs suggestion? It looks like you did!

ard0r··on Mobile Carrier To Sell Service for $19/mo; Android Handsets For $99 Until Nov 27
I have the same $25/month plan, but they upped it to $30/month ($35?) for new subscribers. Still best deal on a smartphone/data plan.

If this uses Sprint's network as well, then I suppose it comes down to minutes/MBs. I don't use enough of either so for me the math is simple: $19 < $25.

ard0r··on Shuttleworth: Ubuntu is heading to phones and tablets
At the very least, their unique take will be their commitment to openness, which iOS abhors and Android also makes difficult. Hopefully this means we can decide what software to install ourselves, and that we won't need to "root" our phones because they gladly give us root access.
ard0r··on Poll: Your preferred music for working?
Recently I've been tuning in to rainymood.com for some background noise to drown out the chaos where I work.

It's about a 45 minute track of a thunderstorm.

Edit: fixed link, thanks for the correction.

ard0r··on How fast can you type? Free online touch typing speed test
80wpm with 1 mistake and 82wpm with 0 mistakes, which is about right.