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figgison Japan Will Make Its Last VCR This Month

No, VCR can only record SD.

Although I believe you can use a digital converter/tuner.

figgison The Lounge – Self-hosted web IRC client

If you use chrome/chromium you can always drag a bookmark into the apps at chrome://apps, right click and tick the "open as window" option. That will turn it into a pretty good standalone app.

Here's a quick example with clicker heroes.

http://i.imgur.com/ur5Y2KH.png

And another with swarm simulator.

http://i.imgur.com/ycevl2A.png

figgison How 'Pokémon GO' Can Lure More Customers to Your Local Business

http://cmmcd.com/PokemonGo/

figgison “PayPal has demanded that we monitor data traffic as well as customers’ files”

If you are using a torrent application, it is safe to say that either you or your actual torrent application can connect to the internet and create a key... If you chose to opt out than that is fine, if you choose to opt in you get what was discussed previously.

Not sure why you would go the route of having it predictable?

figgison Spaceship Generator

Because windows aren't unheard of even now on spaceships?

http://atlcoin.com/atlcoinblog/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/UF...

figgison CHIP $9 Computer

I'll admit, perhaps I am wrong in the greater picture of things here. But you are also wrong on some points. Particularly man pages being superior to info. troff/nroff markup is needlessly complex compared to Tex. You can also use your vi keys in info as well.. Perhaps you can just boil this down to being comfortable using man pages, but info pages provide more options and usability when it comes to created documentation, that's just a simple fact. If you have trouble quickly finding the information you need when using info, consider reading the info info page ;).

In fact TeX is used/preferred over nroff/others for a huge majority of physics/mathematics academic journals. And quite a bit outside of it. [0 - 3]

I will admit for stuff I already know and understand enough of to be considered proficient with it, man pages can be quicker. For something I just installed and still need to learn info pages provide a much better platform.

You may find the following link enjoyable to skim through. http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/77514/what-is-gnu-in...

> What you see on the screen (on UNIX, cannot vouch for Linux) when you type `man ls` is an actual professional typesetting system rendering the content for stdout instead of a printing press!

Love the enthusiasm but (La)TeX falls into that description as well.

> That's because you haven't had the opportunity to enjoy SMF.

Maybe, I've put it on my list of things to tinker with more. Thanks for the link.

> That's is quite ironic [...] I am not succumbing to GNU/Linux group think is what one could call disingenuous

I don't care about you succumbing to any group think or whatever other word you can come up with. I am trying to show you why it is actually superior in many ways. Just because you are comfortable with nroff absolutely 100% does not make it better. To put it simply, you may be a professional system/software engineer but if you can't keep up with why these systems are considered (and shown to be) better than what you have now than you will just continue to be frustrated/fall behind.

[0] http://www.math.ucla.edu/~tao/submissions.html [1] https://www.overleaf.com/gallery/tagged/academic-journal [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX [3] http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/ch18s03.html

figgison CHIP $9 Computer

To get full GDB documentation you need to use info gdb, the man page states that itself. Man pages are quite limited correct, so they offered a better solution just like what you are looking for... Not sure what the issue is here. The amount of documentation is massive, 2321 lines of text in an easy to browse format...

GDB also works on a large amount of computers. Windows, Linux, netbsd, etc.

>>>However, its use is not strictly limited to the GNU operating system; it is a portable debugger that runs on many Unix-like systems and works for many programming languages, including Ada, C, C++, Objective-C, Free Pascal, Fortran, Java[1] and partially others. [0]

>hmmm, that reminds me an awful lot of Microsoft Windows monoculture.

What? Actually they support windows, which is exactly the opposite of what you are trying to say here... I use GDB DAILY on windows (work.) with zero issues.

I'll agree that perhaps systemd doesn't cover all use cases or wants. But calling it a shoddy copy of SMF with a windows twist is disingenuous. I don't care for the for or against systemd arguments but after the initial reaction/learning phase when pulling away from upstart/sysv/init based shit/etc, many of us are actually starting to warm up to systemd. It handles services wonderfully, it handles logs wonderfully, perhaps it's a bit bloated whatever you can always revert to what you want if you decide to spend the time to actually do it.

>InfiniBand is a different technology than fiberchannel.

Fair enough, i'll have to read up more on it than.

You are making quite a lot of generalizations without doing proper research. If you want to be stuck in your "In the old days us Unix people had it right!" mindset than this discussion is pointless. Otherwise I would love to continue butting heads on this.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Debugger

figgison CHIP $9 Computer

>For example: --some-long-option comes to mind, or lack of proper manual pages ("see the texinfo page"),

What are you even talking about here? man/info works wonderfully, if I want more readable information a terminal sure as hell isn't going to give it to me easier than searching a wiki. And solaris absolutely had problems with documentation on their larger packages.

> lack of backwards compatibility support

Hardly even a real issue if you actually maintain your damn systems more than once every half decade.

>tar -z (tar is a tape archiver, not a compressor!)

... It still is a tape archiver AND a compresser AND a 100 different but completely valid and usable things.

ZFS absolutely is usable.

Why do you enjoy DBX over GDB?

SMF? One would think you would love and embrace systemd.

FibreChannel stack that works? https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/InfiniBand

I can't refute all that you have said here since I am not familiar with all of it. But, have you considered you are just doing it the wrong/difficult way?

figgison Microsoft Finds Cancer Clues in Search Queries

This is searches over a period of time before any diagnosis was actually made. Not "light stool, eyes slightly yellowed, cancer, " etc.

figgison A case against syntax highlighting (2007)

vi and emacs certainly support syntax highlighting. Nano does as well.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19444340/how-to-specify-s...

In fact the only text editors that I know of off the top of my head that do not support syntax highlighting is notepad and pico.

figgison A case against syntax highlighting (2007)

http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized

Best color scheme I have found, I use it for everything. I can't even imagine opening up some of my code in notepad or vi(m) with no syntax highlighting and actually trying to do a productive amount of work. This suggestion seems absolutely ridiculous if your syntax highlighting is sane.

figgison Show HN: Humans.io, a simple CRM to remember the people you meet

"Can I download a backup of my humans database?

Yes! Just click "Settings" at the top and you'll be able to download a full backup of your humans."

It also works offline and sync when online again.