Computers

I’ve given something in the neighborhood of 100 interviews (probably more, but why overestimate) in the past dozen years.  When our teams were expanding and when people left I was given the opportunity to lead, craft and perform the technical interviews for my teams at Symantec and was given the opportunity to see the...
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In this interview we get this gem: Q – Ignoring IW.net, is the PC version a direct port of the console version? A - Mackey-IW: No, PC has custom stuff like mouse control, text chat in game, and graphics settings. No Mods, no console, no “lean” no self-hosting, no nothing.  You may as well buy the console,...
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Update: The very next day I received my disc via an overnight courier: The shipping date shows it being shipped 2 days after I received it.    Obviously a broken system.  I have it installed now, I’ll probably post about it here and there over at my twitter stream, watch for more there. Where the hell is...
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Number one Search term on Google for the past 2 hours, “Return to Halloweentown”  it’s after 7pm all over the US right now.  It is literally past the bedtimes of the majority of the people using Google to search now.  Nice.  Also, how is it that saltpeter became so popular?  Did someone on TV...
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You can have a command-line based tweeter! type the following into /usr/bin/tweet then type chmod +x /usr/bin/tweet (changing the username and password) #!/bin/bash #     This is a command line Twitter Client #    Set Username and Password –user “<username>:<Password>” #     Usage:  tweet “Content of Tweet up to 127 chars” #    Shorten the String to just 126 Chars (just in case) STATUS=$(echo...
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Yeah, I received this tonight on the Twitter.  It looks like either my friend has been exploited or has a virus, I have warned him via Face Book.  Ouch, that sucks.
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Number one Son.  Number one! Not Really, the post isn’t linked only my blog itself, too bad. This is a nice clawback at the SEO expert I was on about before. I really don’t have the Google Juice for anything beyond the most trenchant of topics (*cough* Drinking Games *cough*) but while I’ve been testing out...
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Two weeks in on the iPhone I’m very very very Impressed.  I was able to link it to my Outlook account and synch it over the air via a flawlessly easy to configure WiFi account, I was able to use SSH from the device to manage my home servers without an issue and I...
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Friday: Some Facebook groups that you may find helpful: journalspace js refugees (invitation only) Friday: From Andrew’s Blog: How to recover most or all of your journalspace posts/images using Google cache Friday: Hi there, Slashdotters. My blog has some more information which you may find interesting. Tuesday: Journalspace is no more. DriveSavers called today to inform me that the data was unrecoverable. Here is what...
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I’m writing this from my new phone, this is still very new to me. The keyboard is kinds finicky
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