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It's a really cool story, but I wonder how that bug made it through testing.Testing?-Deozaan (September 21, 2010, 09:01 PM)
That seems very odd to me..bits of end user javascript have been allowed to pass through twitter unaltered all this time?They did it for teh lulz!-daddydave (September 21, 2010, 02:54 PM)
I played one of the King's Quest games, but never managed to get more than 20 minutes into it. I couldn't ever figure out what to do, and I'd just get killed after wandering around long enough. Might have had something to do with my young age at the time though.It's not without good reason that the (LucasArts) developers mocks Sierra (the makers of King's Quest) in the Monkey Island 2 "director's cut" commentary-Deozaan (July 12, 2010, 10:34 PM)
(or rather, the icon with the lowest identifier number; usually you use 100, but afaik anything goes, as long as it's the lowest). I think it's actually the shell (explorer.exe) that chooses to show the lowest icon number, rather than having anything to do with the resource editor or compiler.If you look at the details of the process from within Process Explorer, you’ll notice that the ComSpec is set to cmd.exe, a clear indication that it’s hosting the command prompt.Oh really? I thought that was just the standard system environment variable that you'll see in every process
Wouldn't having a flash buffer make the drive more likely to fail earlier? Flash is rated for a relatively small number of read/write cycles compared to current HDD technology.It's a bit hard to get any hard numbers, and it depends on the quality as well as type (MLC vs SLC) flash. I wouldn't expect any problems with normal use, though - and if the firmware is any good, bad blocks will simply be ignored for any further caching.-mbrazil (September 17, 2010, 10:53 PM)
Security? From what? So you can browse the web "anonymously"? Sorry, but in the digital age there is no such thing as being "anonymous".Not entirely, no, but a VPN does offer a lot of concealing. You just have to be sure it's located somewhere that doesn't care about subpoenas, and that the service is run by people who aren't going to snoop on you. And then you have to be careful wrt. cookies, headers and whatnot.-Josh (September 16, 2010, 06:43 AM)
1. Its going at 10-12 Mbps for me when I download a file using a download manager (such as IDM).Then the guy is either using the wrong abbreviation, or hasn't configured rate-limiting properly-Zero3K (September 15, 2010, 05:56 PM)
Heh, heh - I'm just wondering if I should splash out for one of these drives...?Personally, I wouldn't - instead, go for a decent-sized SSD (64gig is enough for Windows + apps + documents/sourcecode with room to spare - the Vertex2 and 80gig intel X25-M offerings are almost affordable), and a decent mechanical drive for your bulk storage.-Darwin (September 15, 2010, 11:55 AM)
Is this similar in concept to what the latest version of eBoostr does (and to a lesser degree ReadyBoost)?Kinda - ReadyBoost and eBoostr have the advantage (dunno if they're using it, though!) of being able to know "stuff about files", whereas putting the flash cache on the harddrive means the disk firmware can only look at sector addresses.-Darwin (September 15, 2010, 11:29 AM)
The Java approach of hanging static methods on a final class with a private constructor and import static is ridiculous and everybody knows it.I used to cringe at it, but in reality it's really not that bad (if you don't mind namespaces, you shouldn't cringe at this), and it probably makes file formats, runtime environment etc. a lot easier to write.
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