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waitwhaton Nokia launches 808 PureView with 41MP camera

If the technology really is any good, they'll be offering it on several phones soon.

waitwhaton How Jetpac Built a Photo Quality Algorithm for $5k in 3 Weeks

Spoiler: The algorithms actually work by doing text analysis on the captions and other metadata, and no actual image analysis.

waitwhaton Get an Email an Sms when the Raspberry Pi is available

They have said that they will pre-announce the starting time anyway.

http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/696#comment-12562

waitwhaton Useful use of cat(1)

Like the grand-parent, I have definitely used a Unix variant (CX/SX?) which required a command to do redirection.

waitwhaton Moving 6 Billion Messages Without Being Noticed

ChronicDB is a hosted solution. That isn't even remotely what DeviantArt were looking for.

waitwhaton Moving 6 Billion Messages Without Being Noticed

They needed the Percona toolkit (previously Maatkit). http://www.percona.com/doc/percona-toolkit/2.0/pt-table-sync...

waitwhaton Lessons I Learned from Shark Tank

The Dragons' Den has always fundamentally been an entertainment show, but earlier seasons were excellent at also including bits of good, solid advice on how to launch and run a small company that the astute viewer could pick up on.

Later seasons dropped this, they go into the business side in less depth, and even the editing became lazy (you can predict who's going to get a deal when they walk in by just looking at your watch.)

waitwhaton Ask HN: (how often) do you clear your cookies?

Wrench -> Options -> Under the Hood -> Privacy -> Content Settings... -> Cookies -> "Clear cookies and other site data when I close my browser"

waitwhaton Ask HN: (how often) do you clear your cookies?

I set Firefox and Chrome to clear everything when they're closed. All my logins are managed through KeePass, so logging back into a website is just one keypress away.

waitwhaton PHP: v8.js

apparently I have to spell it out to the downvoter...

    <script src="/client-side.js"></script>
    <noscript><img src="/server-side.js"></noscript>

...which fulfills the requirement of "executing some JS code even if JS is disabled in browser".

waitwhaton Flickr disables Pinterest pins on all copyrighted images

Depending on how the work is split between the pinterest bookmarklet and the pinterest server, it is possible that Flickr would just have to omit the <meta> tag for my own photo pages if I'm logged in.

waitwhaton PHP: v8.js

waitwhaton Piracy and the Four Currencies

You can actually backup&restore local content on Steam, so you can do the "download elsewhere then copy to memory stick" thing as well.

waitwhaton Please Steal These webOS Features

Have you tried recalibrating it?

http://www.iphonehacks.com/2011/12/how-to-fix-you-iphones-un...

waitwhaton Apache releases first major new version of popular Web server in six years

Unfortunately, still no sign of per-host logfiles with dynamic virtual hosts (mod_vhost_alias).

waitwhaton CrypTweet: Strong Encryption for Twitter DMs

1) https://twitter.com/ (and if someone can do a MITM on that, they can also do it on your cryptweet server)

2) environments where "your survival depends on efficiently communicating and organising" tend to ignore habeus corpus and standards of evidence. Realistically, your survival depends on external factors (your side winning) rather than hoping you and everyone you've been communicating with can withstand torture indefinitely.

2b) digitally signing a message reduces plausible deniability

waitwhaton Introducing /etc/os-release - End to distribution specific release files

(Sorry, it's hard to judge the right amount of sarcasm on the internet.)

The author of this blog post, Lennart Poettering, apparently works for Red Hat. Even Hat Enterprise Linux is missing from the list. As is CentOS.

waitwhaton Introducing /etc/os-release - End to distribution specific release files

recently the majority of the big distributions adopted /etc/os-release and many small ones did, too[2]

[2] To our knowledge at least OpenSUSE, Fedora, ArchLinux, Angstrom, Frugalware have adopted this.

So "OpenSUSE, Fedora, ArchLinux, Angstrom, Frugalware" is "the majority of the big distributions" now?

waitwhaton FireFox heading for 15% market share?

What is really hitting Firefox hard is the lack of a viable (or at least popular) mobile browser.

As the mobile web explodes, and Mozilla is barely even competing in that market, then their overall market share will fall.

waitwhaton [dead]

"You are signed in as x@y.z, but you don't have permission to access this item."

waitwhaton Running Dropbox affiliate ads cost me my Adwords account

Not really. Many online products have a permanent special, and many offline stores are holding a permanent sale.

waitwhaton V for Vendetta and the Rise of Anonymous - by Alan Moore

Releasing some Symantec source code is hardly a great act of terror. Mild embarrassment maybe, but that's about it.

waitwhaton Get up to 4.5GB of extra space on Dropbox for free

It's permanent.

waitwhaton My experience of runnning Google Ads for Dropbox referrals

If people are googling for a brand which only has one product, then the sale had effectively already been made.

This extra "advertising" doesn't actually bring in any extra users, and is only an extra cost for Dropbox.

waitwhaton Kelpie — A fast and lightweight PHP web server

Honestly, if I wanted to attract users to a PHP project, I wouldn't make the entire "about" section (also the only text above-the-fold for me) solely about Ruby.

waitwhaton XFS: the filesystem of the future?

"It looks like this will finally be released by the middle of February." -- http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTA0Njk

waitwhaton Startup ideas that I’m sick of hearing about

(it's not just you -- same problem here on Chrome 16)

waitwhaton Megaupload: A Lot Less Guilty Than You Think

You appear to be confusing how the law really is with how you wish it were.

You just don't get to keep the data file and hide it behind more links.

Why not? (A genuine question, btw. I'd be interested in any tested case law.)

waitwhaton Format string vulnerability found in 'sudo'

CentOS 6.2 (and hence RHEL 6.2, the current version) is on sudo-1.7.4p5.

waitwhaton The Five Stages of Hosting

Local hard drives, and I guess the (re-)install just boots from the network.

You can customise the partition layout, but otherwise get a standard set of packages for whichever distribution. There's a choice of the usual Linux suspects in 32- and 64-bit, FreeBSD, Open Solaris and Windows Server 2008.

The process is fully automatic and a CentOS install takes about 20 minutes.