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| bio | website | inspirehep.net/… |
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| location | Duchy of Grand Fenwick | |
| age | 42 | |
| visits | member for | 3 years, 10 months |
| seen | May 10 at 16:44 | |
| stats | profile views | 314 |
Experimental particle physicist. These days I'm doing neutrinos.
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Jul 22 |
awarded | Constituent |
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Jul 15 |
awarded | Yearling |
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Jul 3 |
awarded | Enlightened |
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Jul 2 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Jun 13 |
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Remove new tab with most visited websites in Firefox Thank god. That is absolutely the most bletcherous "feature" I've been subjected to as an "upgrade" in ages. |
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May 7 |
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What is the ⎋ key? That's Apple for you: breaking tradition to get a more culturally neutral iconography (i.e it means "escape" without be spelled as abbreviated English). Again. |
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Apr 17 |
answered | How can I tell whether a binary can be run in the terminal or requires X Window System on Linux without access to the Internet? |
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Apr 17 |
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Prevent write access for root in home directories In principle this should be possible with access control lists enabled and no root user (i.e. you set up specific administration users for various functions but no account with uid 0), but it would require very careful construction and a probably be a maintenance nightmare. |
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Mar 28 |
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Is Unix not a PC operating system? Windows in various incarnations, OS/2, various DOS's (not just the MicroSoft ones either), BeOS, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and I know I've missed some. The problem with "Unix" is that it is ill-specified, but then so is "PC". |
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Mar 26 |
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Replacing a Macintosh SE hard-drive Note that though the standard install didn't do it you could partition large drives. More partitions on a large drive would mean smaller blocks in each partition. |
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Mar 26 |
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Replacing a Macintosh SE hard-drive added 155 characters in body |
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Mar 26 |
answered | Replacing a Macintosh SE hard-drive |
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Mar 20 |
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Kill program after it outputs a given line, from a shell script added 136 characters in body |
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Mar 20 |
answered | Kill program after it outputs a given line, from a shell script |
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Feb 11 |
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Is there something like hardlinks that split into separate files on modifications? The general scheme is called "copy on write". I am not aware of any file systems that do that, but it might help with searching. |
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Feb 5 |
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Linux command line argument variations "widget gets the argument -fizz or --fizz exactly as it is written" Well, after alias substitution, variable substitution, glob expansion and history substitution. |
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Jan 20 |
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Are there ASCII characters that have the same keyboard input for both PC and Mac? Er..."a" is a character from the ASCII set as are "|", "2", "Q" and "%". Are you asking about non-printing characters? There are better ways to strengthen a password than that, and they are less prone to weird system dependencies. |
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Jan 20 |
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Are there ASCII characters that have the same keyboard input for both PC and Mac? I don't know the Windows way, and the "same purpose" comment was intended at a pretty high level: to get characters which don't have a simple representation on the keyboard, and as an alternate shifting key for programs that want a lot of hot-keys. |
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Jan 20 |
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Are there ASCII characters that have the same keyboard input for both PC and Mac? The option key on the Mac serves roughly the same purpose as the alt key on a Windows box (i.e. option-u, u makes ü, option-s makes ß, option-`, a makes à, etc...), though they certainly don't map precisely together. |
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Jan 20 |
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Are there ASCII characters that have the same keyboard input for both PC and Mac? You seem to be conflating concepts from several (many?) different levels of interpretation. Hardware, character set, OS level interpretation and program level interpretation. I think you need to be much more precise about what you are asking. Note, that almost all the ASCII characters use the same keystrokes on Macs and Wintel boxes, but that just the Latin alphabet, Arabic numerals a bit of punctuation and some control codes. Almost everything that you have to jump through hoops to enter is not ASCII. |
