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ishkur101on Remember when people tracked bugs?

This seems very useful to me. I have struggled with a bug that I think is in Nouveau but I haven't reported it because im not sure what information would be required. This at least tells me what the dev requires to understand the issue.

ishkur101on UK ISPs block The Promo Bay

FWIW, I'm on BT and http://promobay.org/ is blocked

ishkur101on Hacker News supports browsing with a points threshold

I also like browsing the site in classic mode http://news.ycombinator.com/classic for submissions upvoted by long term members

ishkur101on Unix Commands I Abuse Every Day

Doc 1 & 2 are not changed but chained together to create doc.all

ishkur101on Unix Commands I Abuse Every Day

From the man page cat doc1 doc2 > doc.all concatenates the files doc1 and doc2 and writes the result to doc.all

ishkur101on Peter Jackson confirms third Hobbit movie

Non Facebook link http://www.metro.co.uk/film/906841-peter-jackson-confirms-th...

ishkur101on Hacker Opens High Security Handcuffs With 3D-Printed And Laser-Cut Keys

If the cuffs cannot be reused then costs go up. If costs go up I pay more tax to cover this.

ishkur101on The Pal-V flying car

A brief history of flying cars.

http://inventorspot.com/articles/experiments_flying_cars_683...

ishkur101on Show HN: Play scrabble, chess, checkers, etc with your friends by copying a url

http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl108.html

Copyright does not protect the idea for a game, its name or title, or the method or methods for playing it. Nor does copyright protect any idea, system, method, device, or trademark material involved in developing, merchandising, or playing a game. Once a game has been made public, nothing in the copyright law prevents others from developing another game based on similar principles. Copyright protects only the particular manner of an author’s expression in literary, artistic, or musical form.

ishkur101on Scamming the scammers – catching the virus call centre scammers red-handed

I must admit I am quite shocked to see that there is now a new account on HN called Comantra advertising this "service". I am also quite sure that no one that reads this site would fall for this scam.

Edit: spelling and punctuation