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    ThinkPad X1 Carbon mini-review: Now even better, with improved battery life

    18 hours battery life is the greatest lie ever told on this website. You're lucky if you get 5 hours with web browsing. It's an absolutely ludicrous claim to make. Just google around and you'll find people complaining about it. Shame on Ars Technica for repeating this blatant lie. No other...
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    Ubuntu Groovy Gorilla adds Raspberry Pi as a “first class citizen”

    On a slightly off-topic point, what an incredibly obnoxious phrase is "First class citizen". How did this disgraceful concept grow legs? Is there any real analogue in the real world? Maybe the queen of England is a "first class citizen"? Ugghh, never using this hideous expression.
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    US may subsidize Huawei alternatives with proposed $1.25 billion fund

    So much for the free market, eh America? This is a very visible hand here.
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    The rise and fall of FireWire, the standard everyone couldn’t quite agree on

    An article mildy critical of Apple, on Ars Technica? What a time to be alive!
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    OnePlus 3 review: A great $400 phone you can actually buy

    >The switch seems to be the only way to change notification modes on the OnePlus 3—there is no software method—making it a "hard lock" into whatever mode you set. As a Oneplus 1 and current Oneplus 2 owner, this sucks. To think that a user would be fine with having to hit that button every...
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    Internet workers unite! EFF, unions call for net neutrality, open access

    This is what I don't get. Bandwidth has always been increasing. Isn't there a Moore's law for bandwidth?... Just googled, Nielsen's Law. <BR>What excuse will they use when bandwidth is virtually unlimited? Apparently it doubles every 21 months, of course this depends which country you're in...
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    AIX 5.3 Bash Scripting Question

    Thanks a lot guys! <B>sfind</B> it is. Appreciate the help...<BR>mik.
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    AIX 5.3 Bash Scripting Question

    It seems not. At first I thought I was reading it wrong or that the man entry was just poorly worded, seems bizzarrely useless to only check from n-1 to n minutes. But even your suggested command doesn't return any filenames in a directory of ancient files.<BR><BR>The -amin option gives an...
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    AIX 5.3 Bash Scripting Question

    Thanks LordHunter317, but yes find was immediately the most obvious way to do it but the mmin option only will find files that have been modified between 119 and 120 minutes ago.<BR>This would work fine if I cron'ed it to run every minute or less I guess.<BR>There's nothing else in AIX find...
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    AIX 5.3 Bash Scripting Question

    I need to check a directory on an AIX system for files that are older than 2 hours. I thought it would be a pretty simple thing to script this in AIX and mail us with failures but after a few attempts I've found one solution that works but I think there's just got to be a better way.<BR><BR>The...
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    Gears of War

    ahhh! Thanks PinheadX. Wasn't familiar with the mythology.
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    Gears of War

    and making sexual-innuendo psychoanalytic remarks to the poster who reviewed the review (or reviewer). What's that?<BR>Mental voyeuristic masturbation?<BR><BR>hey I'm just looking for a clarification...
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    Gears of War

    Last screenshot says: "No blood for immulsion!"<BR>What did he mean?<BR>Immolation? Emulsion?
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    Citing its underage eroticism, Sony America pulls plug on Japanese video game

    <blockquote class="ip-ubbcode-quote"> <div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div> <div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content"> <br>Again, who are we to judge the behavior of these cultures? Anti-semitism has been part of the fabric of European culture for centuries if not millennia, so who are...
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    Post your *.nix desktop

    View image: http://img398.imageshack.us/img398/6060/snapshot18gb.png
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    Citing its underage eroticism, Sony America pulls plug on Japanese video game

    <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">How DARE you presume to judge these cultures, you horrible ethnocentric bigot! Who are WE to cast aspersions on how other cultures behave? Our culture isn't any better than...
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    Citing its underage eroticism, Sony America pulls plug on Japanese video game

    <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">But what I do can be right or wrong. </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>Quite. However a culture <B>can</B> be wrong. In the Aztec culture the custom of throwing virgins down the steps...
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    Scripting help - rolling out fonts

    Thanks Iron,<BR>I'm going to do exactly that. I was hoping to keep it as simple as possible but I'm sure I'll get it together with what you've responded with.<BR>I'll repost the result.<BR>mik.
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    SQL 2000 - ODBC System DSN - TCP/IP connection problems

    Hi Flea,<BR>Is this relevant? this
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    Scripting help - rolling out fonts

    Hi All,<BR>I've been asked to install 5 fonts on ~30 XPPro laptops. As is usually the case, I'll have no idea if the laptops are online or offline, LAN'ed or dialled-in. All the same I've written a small batch script to check if they're online, if so, copy the fonts, if not, append to a file for...