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timgwson Displayport: A Better Video Interface

> The Level1Techs KVM switches are rebranded Startech switches.

Another commenter posted that the L1Techs KVM are Rextron devices. The Startech switches are rebranded ConnectPro KVMs.

timgwson Displayport: A Better Video Interface

I had the same issue with this device. I ended up writing some code that you could run on a machine to operate the switching via the RS232 port: https://github.com/timgws/kvm-switch/

Bonus for adding 'glide and switch' functionality, so you can move the mouse to the edge of the screen and it would jump the input to the next display in your layout. It's like a hardware version of Synergy.

Very finicky device, but if you don't touch it - and you don't use any of the shortcuts - it works.

timgwson [dead]

Same here, AU.

timgwson Invoke Win32 applications with Bash on Windows

I second this. Someone porting iTerm2 to Windows would make my day.

timgwson Researchers achieve speech recognition milestone

There are 33% less errors with the Microsoft solution then with Kaldi... one could say that is quite significant.

timgwson Arch Linux adapted for Windows Subsystem for Linux

have you seen the VS GDB Debugger extension?

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2015/11/18/announcin...

timgwson How I wrote and published my novel using only open source tools

Run a competition on 99designs.

timgwson PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux

https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/releases

Microsoft has an SSH server for Windows right now.

[Edit] Here is a guide from the WinSCP peeps on how to get it running. https://winscp.net/eng/docs/guide_windows_openssh_server

The native SFTP works well!

timgwson Forget Comcast. Here’s a DIY Approach to Internet Access

What gear are you looking to deploy? What I have seen most WISPs deploy is either the Canopy (Cambium Networks) hardware, or the Ubiquiti hardware.

How many people are you going to service per point of access?

How are you going to deliver connectivity to all your points of access?

timgwson Android Security Bulletin

> If someone could document currently shipping devices that are still vulnerable Chances are at this point in time: every single device.

timgwson Ubuntu on Windows

Doesn't stop you from installing homebrew, and installing a newer version of bash though.

timgwson Ubuntu on Windows

PIDs from Windows are not exposed when looking at /proc, so I am guessing you will not be able to `kill -9 explorer.exe` unless there is some real voodoo going on (and then it would not be POSIX compatible, anyways).

I think the command that you meant to say was killall :) `kill` will only kill pids, not process names.

timgwson Google can't search anymore

Check out http://www.theusenetarchive.com/

timgwson Google can't search anymore

A quick Google search shows that most commercial usenet providers do not have more then 3000 days worth of text retention. (ie, you can get a little more then 8 years worth of history).

* Altopia has 499 days of text retention (https://www.altopia.com/retention/retention.html)

* NewsDaemon has 720 days of text retention (http://www.newsdemon.com/newsgroup-retention.php)

* Giganews has ~ 960 days of text retention (http://www.giganews.com/news/article/retention_grows.html)

So, unless someone out there has terabytes worth of text storage from way back when (which is one reason why Google bought Deja News in the first place), I don't think it will be possible to get all that history.

timgwson React Native for OS X

It does have access to a camera. Check out react-native-webrtc.

timgwson A History of the Windows Start Menu

> and it was the first version, alongside the enterprise-focused Windows NT 4, to introduce the Start menu

Didn't NT 3.51 have the Shell Technology Update that included the start menu? http://everything.explained.today/Windows_NT_3.51/

timgwson Show HN: Svven – Discover interesting people and news based on what you tweet

I had this too. It turns out refreshing the page once or twice makes the feed show up.

timgwson Bidding farewell to Google Code

Consider it done. http://i.imgur.com/Xdmlj6v.jpg

In all seriousness, though, I started my own open source project hosting website back in the day. It was the first to offer public Mercurial and Git hosting.

Google Code existed then and the interface and functionality has not really changed since I released the first version of the site.

timgwson Introducing Swift

Actually, WebKit was a fork of KHTML, correct, but it is licensed under the terms of LGPL. One extra letter, but a world of difference. This is why they had to open source KHTML, but they could get away with not open sourcing Safari (if KHTML was licensed under the GPL, any app that linked against the library would need to be licensed under the GPL, too.)

Let's not forget that webkit when it was released was little more then a code dump - one big patch that had to be applied to KHTML.

timgwson Phpng – New generation PHP

If PHP keeps going this way, it will be sticking around for another 19 years.

timgwson The next version of DuckDuckGo

The one thing that kills be about DDG is that when I search for "who is the prime minister of australia" it get's nearly everything wrong.

Google gives me a result of a name ("Tony Abbott"), while DDG starts giving me an article from Wikipedia describing the role (this one is forgivable...)

DDG Images shows the first six images as being previous prime ministers.

http://imgur.com/a/wWgXD