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byjackb_guppy
2014 @05:36PM
(#46441777)
Attached to: Metadata and the Intrusive State
METADATA has a meaning. It defines the column characteristics and use help text associated. Think as "standing" on a row, in a column, what is the definition of that spot.
DATA defines the other items on that same "row".
Someone started to talk about a picture, that date, time and location of that picture is the METADATA. It is not, is the DATA on the same row storing the blob called picture. NSA is using this same misinformation to minimize the from number, to number, start time and duration of the call.
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byjackb_guppy
25, 2014 @07:26PM
(#46340601)
Attached to: How Mobile Apps Are Reinventing the Worst of the Software Industry
There is no WHY.
I get asked over and over about using this or using that. There is no why they need it. How will it be used. Who will see it.
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byjackb_guppy
07, 2014 @07:03PM
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Attached to: Slashdot Tries Something New; Audience Responds!
BETA cannot display a meaningful page... Canot figure out how much whitespace is needed for text. Just like the ACCOUNT information, half the test is missing.
BETA cannot let you post, just a META will not allow me to post. It keeps trying to refresh and has Jscript that I have cancel to get the page to work.
Do not break original.
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rday January 25, 2014 @03:17PM
jackb_guppy writes: Legislation that would let students use computer programming courses to satisfy foreign-language requirements in public schools moved forward in the Kentucky Senate on Thursday.
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byjackb_guppy
23, 2013 @09:36PM
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Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Why Do Mobile Versions of Websites Suck?
I can barely use Google's Mobile. Why?
1) They have turned off the ability to reverse pinch to make the text bigger.
2) They are using White Background with Gray Letters.
Really guys, does anyone test their software in enviroment that is not a designed "normal" mode.
The internet with it's structure allowed for the user to adjust character size to make it readable... Now, you turn it off! Some great help or equallizer!
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byjackb_guppy
17, 2013 @02:25PM
(#45449659)
Attached to: Raspberry Pi Hits the 2 Million Mark
This weekend I found IPFIRE (Linux firewall/router follwoing IPCOP like design). Installed a UML295 LTE internet usb dongle with the on-board ethernet, up and running 10Mb/s (Both Up and Down) backup for my internet connections. Can also use it as base for mobile router in the car for the kids. Not bad for the low cost investment.
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byjackb_guppy
05, 2013 @03:48PM
(#45046823)
Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Best Open Source Project For a Router/Wi-Fi Access Point?
Please do not talk to my 486sx25 with 12M of memory and 283M harddrive running an old IPCOP version. Works just great.
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byjackb_guppy
r 02, 2013 @11:18AM
(#45015163)
Attached to: Tom Clancy Is Dead At 66
Just like a spy... die one day to live again on another with a new name.
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byjackb_guppy
01, 2013 @05:50PM
(#45008977)
Attached to: Come Try Out Slashdot's New Design (In Beta)
It looks like apple ios7 - unreadable. I had to turn on the invert display just to read. It the sames as this white box white on gray YUCK!!! Make things readable!
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byjackb_guppy
r 03, 2013 @06:13PM
(#44751771)
Attached to: Writing Documentation: Teach, Don't Tell
The article misses something critial - the use of common language.
The biggests example of this is HIS use of "user". A "user" for all my time in this business is the person sitting in front of the computer using the software to preform a business funtion... not programming a business function.
This leads to second issue a developer is person that uses an embedded function written by another developer - generally with a higher skill or at least akill peaked before the new developerl. That developer is trying to come up to speed about cause and effect of using a given piece of code and trusting the original developer actual did his job right.
How can you trust a person that says what documentation is to be, that cannot teach it following his own rules? The first rule of any teaching is placing terms that you are going to be using, to teach the others what you mean. You see this legal documents to prevent confussion of common terms being used in a more defined or limited manor.
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byjackb_guppy
17, 2013 @03:04PM
(#44595743)
Attached to: IPTV Providers To Pay Same Regulatory Fees As Cable Companies
I do not see how FCC thinks they will collect on those fees. I been watching shows for years off the net and all has been free. So 5% of $0 is $0.
Maybe they are trying to collect on ad clicks? I don't click them so again $0.
Lastly most of the sites I watch is outside the US. So they are like what? $0
To be far though, I did have Netflix, but my wife canceled that subscription after buying ChromeCast and finding out no 3mo free NetFlix becuase she bought it 30 minutes to late. Also Goolge did not document that well, seemed "bait and switch".
We actually have only 2 TVs: 32" on wife;s desk she uses as montior and 23" in bedroom w/ annena to watch late night after kids go to sleep. But then again 8 compters with screens, who needs TV.
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byjackb_guppy
17, 2013 @02:33PM
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Attached to: Yahoo Deletes Journalist's Pre-Paid Legacy Site After Suicide
Need to right the release of rights page, read his last line.
Release of Rights
I, Martin Manley, being the creator and owner of all information on the site "MartinManleyLifeAndDeath.com", neither hold nor retain any claim or copyright on any part of this web-site. I do not grant these rights to any individual person or entity either in life or upon death. Rather I release all rights to this work - making it public domain. Anyone can do with it whatever they wish.
Martin Allen Manley
August 15, 2013.
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byjackb_guppy
2013 @06:04PM
(#44395649)
Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Secure DropBox Alternative For a Small Business?
They are storing the internet traffic anyway...
By definition it is in US territory...
Their sites are secure... Opps!
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byjackb_guppy
2013 @04:23PM
(#44338337)
Attached to: Compared to my 1st computer's memory ...
I solved the cost problem... I hand wired a machine a little at a time, took about 1 year. 4k of static ram, Z-80A processor, switches on the front panel and leds to display. Yes, the big cost was the Z-80A at ~$400 but the rest were mainly 74xx chips which were cheap in Bay Area at the time. Then added Hex Display and Hex Keyboard, Then add Video and Keyboard. Finally a 555 timer to change single stepping switch into a "gas petal" - let it run faster or slower as needed to debug.
2 years later bought a Timex/Sinclar with 16k module for about 1/2 the price.
But had wiring was a good way to learn and understand the computer as well as ports and singaling between the chips. It helped when I wrote my first and last C program for IBM PC (not even an XT) to handle communications between two async ports at 9600 baud.
Then again the smalest computer I built was 4bit computer with 256 bytes of memory. All from about 30 74xx chips and another 555 timer.
Good Times.
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byjackb_guppy
2013 @04:15PM
(#44338275)
Attached to: Compared to my 1st computer's memory ...
You missed the "high-tech" solution I did for mine... Folded paper into a "roll" and taped it to the memory module between the computer and module bodies. Add tesion to connection - so no wiggle.
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