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November 6, 2006 by Leave a Comment
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This is the pinnacle of viral marketing. (My faves are Spain, Italy, and England.)
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“curl -F” with values that contain embedded newlines didn’t work (truncated after the newline) in curl versions prior to 7.11.2 (see src/main.c rev 1.254 for patch).
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October 30, 2006 by Leave a Comment
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“The Tesco Direct site advertises the kit with the words, “Unleash the sex kitten inside…simply extend the Peekaboo pole inside the tube, slip on the sexy tunes and away you go! / “Soon you’ll be flaunting it to the world and earning a fortune in Peekab
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In case anyone was wondering what that smell was: “The two were found Sept. 17 after a neighbor complained to police about an odor coming from their Main Street apartment.” Yikes.
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Generate passwords based on master password (private key) and URL fragment. Never have to remember more than one password ever again!
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Probably harvested from Fark.
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October 23, 2006 by Leave a Comment
del.icio.us/dossy (RSS) links since October 16, 2006 at 09:00 AM:
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A lot of the “magic smoke” in Sybase is in the DBCC machinery. Here’s a quick reference guide to all the various DBCC commands.
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What is Whonk? Guess you’ll have to wait and find out.
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Old but free ZCTA data (zip codes corresponding lat/lon).
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The pizza-making bible for DIY’ers.
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Wow, Nevada may actually win the “war on drugs”! Awesome.
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“If you lose your eyes, you lose your life. Get true eyes, and you get everything.”
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Looks like this might be the perfect headset for my laptop … anyone have one of these and want to tell me about it?
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October 16, 2006 by Leave a Comment
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Brad does some useful research on common greylisting 4xx patterns.
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“The reason that a product “everyone likes” will fail is because no one “loves” it. The only thing that predicts success is passion, even if only 10% of the consumers have it.” Uh oh, I think Scott’s trying to eat Seth Godin’s lunch.
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Scott relates a story about how persistence, curiousity and ignoring conventional wisdom can possibly lead to great successes. Of course, you experience many more failures in the process, but that’s what the persistence is all about.
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“Charles Matthew Simonet, 55, admitted the distribution and possession offenses to state Superior Court Judge Salem Vincent Ahto in Morristown and faces three years in state prison when sentenced, tentatively, on Nov. 9.”
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Joe Cooper explains why he’s not going to use OpenACS any more. Lots of lessons to learn here.
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If you have kids in Montessori school and listen to them recite the alphabet and wonder where these cute associations come from … here’s a good reference.
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Virtual Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) emulator as a Java applet. Play vintage Nintendo games right in your browser. Almost 400 games to choose from. (via C. K. Sample, III)
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October 9, 2006 by Leave a Comment
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“As pioneers in the recycling and reclamation of CRTs and electronic equipment, these companies can save you the expense and worry of an EPA ‘green audit.'”
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“Digital rectal massage was then performed resulting in abrupt cessation of the hiccups.”
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As Kent reminds us in Real Genius, “Didn’t anyone ever tell you to make sure your optics are clean?” So, there’s a literal bug in Google Maps. Awesome!
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Karl Lagerfeld nails it: “Asked whether the fashion industry was to blame for eating disorders of many young girls who were starving themselves, the designer said: “No, that is something to sell papers.”” Amen.
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It appears that Ahmed Rashed gave Linda Kay the hand-in-a-jar from a cadaver while at UMDNJ. I didn’t think “hands” were listed on your typical organ donor card … :-)
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“The idea is that a person passes through three stages of gaining knowledge: […]”
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October 2, 2006 by Leave a Comment
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“[…] dedicated to electing public officials who respect evidence and understand the importance of using scientific and engineering advice in making public policy.”
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“D. Bruce McMahan, then 65, and his daughter Linda Marie Hodge McMahan Schutt, then 35, pronounced themselves husband and wife on June 23, 2004.”
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A Flash version of “Dark Tower” … the music is really annoying (hello, where’s the “mute” button?) but it’s an interesting possibility for online games. (via LJ: boutell)
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Probably one of the most famous voices of our times.
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This video from Tom’s Hardware Guide shows exactly why I haven’t bought an AMD CPU since my K6-233 long ago. Intel all the way, now.
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ethernet-memo.jpg (780KB)Robert Z. Bachrach knew that ATM was better than Ethernet back in March 1974. Goes to show how the inferior solution can become successful for the wrong reasons. (Betamax, anyone?)
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Brad Fitzpatrick says, “MogileFS “evaluation server” VMWare virtual appliance now available” … awesome.
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Dossy looks at various popular languages and explains why they’re not suitable replacements for Tcl within AOLserver. However, JavaScript might fit the bill.
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September 25, 2006 by Leave a Comment
del.icio.us/dossy (RSS) links since September 18, 2006 at 09:53 AM:
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Dogster, Inc. raises $1M in funding … and is profitable?! This is crazy …
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Christel Dahlskjaer’s blog entry about Rob Levin’s passing.
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Is there any chance that Rob is still alive and the news of his death were mistaken?
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Good instructional video for any salty sea-dogs who be plunderin’ booty.
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September 18, 2006 by Leave a Comment
del.icio.us/dossy (RSS) links since September 11, 2006 at 11:16 AM:
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I just can’t believe this … my prayers go out to Rob’s family. I am still in shock …
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Firefox extension that gathers a whole bunch of metadata and plugs it into Google and Yahoo! SERPs, putting useful information at your fingertips when you’re doing research.
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A lightweight (2.6K SWF) Flash Video (FLV) player. It has a volume control slider but no mute.
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“[Van Jacobsen] developed a new tool, pathchar […], that allows any user to find the bandwidth, delay, average queue and loss rate of every hop between any source & destination on the Internet.”
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“You need to set either: “JkOptions ForwardURICompatUnparsed” or “JkOptions ForwardURIEscaped” to have mod_jk pass the encoded/escaped URI to Tomcat.” Good to know.
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Very thoughtful essay on why Perl is a dying language. Language geeks, pay attention, this could (or has) happened to your favorite language.
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I like this, the battery is external to the power supply, so in theory as long as utility power is stable, you should be able to service/replace the battery with no downtime.
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“[… Data] processing power demands require a fresh look at how things are done […]. DC UPS technology […] provides a highly reliable, cost effective alternative to traditional AC UPS systems, […]”
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PC power supplies with UPS built in. Makes a lot of sense, although power supplies aren’t exactly safe to open and self-service, so I’m guessing the batteries aren’t self-serviceable. Unless the power supply is hot-swappable, that’s kind of a drag.
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Justin is a guitar god. I hope he stays clean and lives a long life, continuing to pursue and refine his talent.
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Greg turns 30 a few months before me, and waxes philosphic about our “broken society” in America. This is something we should re-read 10 years from now and see if we’re still shaking our heads, sadly.
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I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. Judge Pendleton Gaines has a good sense of humor, at least. (via Mike Dillon)
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Oh, how I love that clean Fender guitar sound of the surf style … and classical music. What will the Japanese do next?! (via John Scalzi)
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Carl announces the new “AOL My eAddress” at domains.aol.com.
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Pete Wright blogs his own Apple “switch” ad. After a legacy of worshipping at the foot of the Microsoft alter, he’s done.
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September 11, 2006 by Leave a Comment
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Japanese medley of Queen songs (“Bohemian Rhapsody”, “Bicycle Race”, “Killer Queen”, “Flash Gordon”, “Another One Bites The Dust”, etc.) … oh, my, word. I don’t know if this is cool or outright disturbing. (via LJ: subtitute)
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“Chinmi, literally meaning odd taste, are local cuisines that have fallen out of popularity or those cuisines that are peculiar to a certain area.” The basis for my “things I have to eat before I die” list.
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Adam Harrsion runs Firefox 1.5.0.6 through Klocwork and finds a bunch of issues. Should really run AOLserver through it, just to see what pops out.
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Sanju Bhagat’s medical condition was “[…] fetus in fetu. It is an extremely rare abnormality that occurs when a fetus gets trapped inside its twin.” For 36 years. Wow.
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Cory Doctorow: “An SF writer’s biggest problem is obscurity, not piracy.”
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(via Russ Nelson)
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