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Comment Reliability more important than speed (Score 3, Insightful) 108

I have AT&T. I live in San Francisco. AT&T regularly drops calls. I cannot make calls from home without dropping them a minute or two into the conversation. I could not make calls from work until they installed an expensive repeater. Notice that AT&T lost EVERY SINGLE reliability comparison.

For my needs, that makes them the worst provider.

Comment Re:Did His Contract Specify "Internal Waters"? (Score 1) 410

Being an unfortunate customer of AT&T wireless, this means there is no acceptable tower anywhere.

I live in the middle of San Francisco, and AT&T usually provides no service where I work (North Beach), volunteer (Mission), and live (Castro). I once thought sprint was the worst mobile phone company ever but at least I got signal.

Comment Re:grep and emacs integration (Score 1) 412

Love it! Same thing with file pattern.

(defun my-grep ()
  "grep the whole directory for something defaults to term at cursor position"
  (interactive)
  (setq default (thing-at-point 'symbol))
  (setq needle (or (read-string (concat "grep for [" default "]: ")) default))
  (setq needle (if (equal needle "") default needle))
  (setq pattern (or (read-string "in files [all]: ") "*"))
  (setq pattern (if (equal pattern "") "*" pattern))
  (grep (concat "egrep -s -n " needle " " pattern " /dev/null")))

Programming

Second Life Open Sources Client 208

An anonymous reader writes "Just noticed that Second Life released their client under the GPL today, and that they're up to 2.4 million users. Article says that 15% of users contribute scripted objects."

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