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@Anonymous Coward: UNIX took it farther than that. They are real entries, and originally they were made by ln and removed by rm, not by the mknod() system call (The call would only succeed if the...
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re: Keys duplicated from photo: Delayed reaction
@steveg: Yes, the cars of the 1970s were not especially secure. I drove a Gran Torino two-door that was loose enough in its joints that I could work a screwdriver through the gaskets and pop the lock....
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re: How do I print non-error messages during compilation?
Actually, I work hard to clear all warnings from the source code, and mark "surpress" for places where I think the warning can be safely ignored (like those generic related ones.) when I worked on Java...
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This security problem is solved in several ways. First, most cars are required to have immobilizers now and everybody uses the remotes. Chrysler thought about this and realized that they could...
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re: How do I print non-error messages during compilation?
> Print all the messages during compilation as you want; nobody will read them. Actually even in the days of WinXP where we only have 3 logs that can contain events, I use filtering to read all...
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Some years ago my car's immobilizer key stopped working on the friday afternoon before a long week-end. I rang the dealer and made a fuss. An hour later, a mysterious person rang me back, asked some ID...
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Um, re. "mechanical override": the override was clearly electrical - not mechanical - but it was activated mechanically (by actions X and Y).
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About 2 months ago, in Belgium, someone from the Ministry of Transportation was on TV outlining that the speed cameras in Belgium all have a cabin next to them (supplying power) with an 'On/Off' switch...
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re: Cultural arbitrage: The food-related sucker bet
The bone marrow from osso bucco etc, and the tail of toast chicken (the parson's nose)
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re: Why was there a font just for drawing symbols on buttons?
In my mind, the more interesting thing was that Windows made it a real font, instead of just using the Truetype renderer to render arbitrary binary data.
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San Jose. June 2008. Drunken shrimps in a Chinese restaurant. I walked out.
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re: Why was there a font just for drawing symbols on buttons?
Scott, I think it was done that way because it can be done completely with pre-existing infrastructure. You don't need to implement new entry-points into the Truetype renderer.
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re: Why was there a font just for drawing symbols on buttons?
Marlett also makes it easier to develop a custom non-client area (title bar). Documentation benefits, too.
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re: Why was there a font just for drawing symbols on buttons?
Any insight on where the name "Marlett" stems from?
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Poisonous shark, anyone? en.wikipedia.org/.../H%C3%A1karl
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We have McDonald's. It's hard to describe what they produce; some people don't even consider it food. There's a bit more info here: http://www.mcdonalds.com
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re: Why was there a font just for drawing symbols on buttons?
Huh, TIL. That could come in handy some day...
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re: Cultural arbitrage: The food-related sucker bet
Durian. You should not eat the eyeballs, though. Pesticides and chemicals accumulate in the vitreous humor. This is true too in humans and exploited in postmortem toxicology tests.
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re: Why was there a font just for drawing symbols on buttons?
I watched the following clip just an hour or two before reading this post! (WARNING: Coarse language) www.youtube.com/watch
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