February 2012
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“And at last the warrior arrived at the Router. It was a dusty black box with an...”
– McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: In Which I Fix My Girlfriend’s Grandparents’ WiFi and Am Hailed as a Conquering Hero.
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January 2012
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“People think that Napster liberated recorded music by making it available at no...”
– n 1: 5.4
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“This appears to be yet another example of the kind of takedown abuse we’ve seen...”
– Universal Censors Megaupload Song, Gets Branded a “Rogue Label” | TorrentFreak
I create a song with my lyrics and music featuring your artists who like what I’m doing and fully agree to participate. You send content takedown notices in an abuse of power to rain on my parade as it goes...
December 2011
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“Until 2011, I was largely detached from these trends. An OCD approach to...”
– The Year My Music Library Moved to the Cloud « The Bygone Bureau Socially streamed music sharing is awesome.
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“A system call is a request by a running task to the kernel to provide some sort...”
– Linux System Calls | Linux Journal
November 2011
3 posts
“Do Java programmers make more money than .NET programmers? Anyone describing...”
– Don’t Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice | Kalzumeus Software
Plenty of interesting (mostly good) advice).
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“I don’t miss the weight. I don’t miss the keyboard getting warm when I’m...”
– yieldthought
Working only with an iPad in the cloud. Someday…
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“If all readership is on the website and an iPad app, how much of the layout...”
– Some responses to the magazine counterarguments
I think it’s sort of funny that Marco has basically suggested magazines move to something more like Instapaper. The content is key, but design can help tell the story.
September 2011
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Human brain may have reached its peak of...
dkalab:
in order to become any more intelligent the human brain would need vast amounts of extra energy and oxygen – and we simply cannot provide it.Cambridge University researchers have analysed the structure of the brain and worked out how much energy its cells use up. http://bit.ly/oWS478 -> I thought only CPU has power wall, it turns out our brain suffering from the same problem
I am so...
August 2011
8 posts
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First you copy as much data as possible, without retrying or splitting sectors:
ddrescue --no-split /dev/hda1 imagefile logfile
Now let it retry previous errors 3 times, using uncached reads:
ddrescue --direct --max-retries=3 /dev/hda1 imagefile logfile
If that fails you can try again but retrimmed, so it tries to reread full sectors:
ddrescue --direct --retrim --max-retries=3 /dev/hda1...
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“Reptiles evolved a three-bone multihinged lower jaw to permit swallowing large...”
– The Tell-Tale Brain, VS Ramachandran via pith.
This explains duct tape (although I do prefer gaff tape).
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http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Male_Programmer_... →
via @lia
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“I deliberately use a gender-neutral name so that I could focus on my job instead...”
– Val http://my.nameis.me/ via @ginatrapani
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“If your WordPress theme is bundled with an unmodified timthumb.php as many...”
– Zero Day Vulnerability in many Wordpress Themes | mm
July 2011
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Vlad 2.0 dies when you try to use :scm => :git →
More Lion upgrade fixes. Some change in rubygems, bundler, ree or vlad broke one of the little crufty configs needed to deploy a client’s app. This helped me pinpoint the problem to vlad-git. I’ll need to avoid the latest versions of both for awhile.
Upside, getting this to work with the newer code might be worth it in the end, but I want my workday back.
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Cant install Ruby Enterprise Edition with RVM on... →
I’ve been using RVM for awhile. It’s great for keeping things tidy and I love the ability to switch between rubies.
Lion and XCode 4 switch the default compiler to LLVM. Cool, but this breaks the installation for ruby. Stack Overflow had the answer as usual.
$ rvm remove ree # if you had it installed
CC=/usr/bin/gcc-4.2 rvm install ree
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“Here, every time my code gets reviewed, it helps build my confidence that what...”
– Girls Go Geek… Again! « Fog Creek Blog via @rands
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“It doesn’t work! I get some “permissions” error when I try to install stuff!
If...”
– Gems, Eggs and Perl Modules
Had to reset the permissions to get non-sudo installs working again. The upgrade wiped out my whole toolset!
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“Sure enough, that turned out to be the case. Running that MPKG file, by the way,...”
– The Adventures of Systems Boy!
XCode4 takes up way too much space (~15GB with the installer). After you’ve downloaded the 3+ GB installer, right click and select “Show Package Contents”. Under Contents > Resources there will be a mpkg that will allow you to customize your...
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“The other cost of security, beyond implementation time, is the ongoing cost...”
– rc3.org - Security is a cost
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“Where is the disconnect? Nesta, Wordpess and Drupal produce great blogs....”
– The Twilight of the CMS | TPM Media Labs
Good points all around. The CMS ecosystem is like playing whack-a-mole. A Unix-like approach (do one thing and do it well) to modularizing the process is an interesting response.
hat tip Lyle Troxell
“I’ve gone back and forth on whether managers should code and my opinion is:...”
– http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2011/07/12/bored_people_quit.html
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June 2011
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offlickr - Back up Flickr photos, videos, and... →
Annual backup before I decided whether or not to re-up my Flickr Pro account or not. This script made it so easy!
If your on OSX, just run this in terminal (if it doesn’t work prefix ‘sudo’):
mkdir flickrbackup cd flickrbackup svn co http://offlickr.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ . pip install ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/python/libxml2-python-2.6.21.tar.gz pip install flickrapi mkdir...
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Javascript PC Emulator →
stevenf:
PC emulator written in Javascript that boots Linux.
Whoa.
May 2011
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April 2011
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How Apple tracks your location without consent,... →
So your iPhone—and probably your computer—now both have a file that mirrors data that was previously limited to law enforcement, which itself was only able to obtain it from a court order. Without encrypted backups, someone who has access to your computer can see your whereabouts. “By passively logging your location without your permission, Apple have made it possible for anyone from a...
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March 2011
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“The magical part here is the extreme level of hardware integration: the CPU has...”
– Coding Horror: Revisiting the Home Theater PC
I think I drooled a little…yeah lemme get that.
February 2011
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January 2011
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“Just as we have long stored our personal papers and effects in our desks or file...”
– Why you should always encrypt your smartphone
I have a feeling I’ll be needing to explain encryption more and more to my non-technical friends.
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“It’s like a playbook,” said Ralph Langner, an independent computer security...”
– Stuxnet Worm Used Against Iran Was Tested in Israel
The whole thing is like a geeky spy novel, but this part is a bit chilling.
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“This objective, as much as the desire to boost transparency and reduce...”
– Wikileaks, The Pirate Party, And The Future Of The Internet | The New Republic
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What They Know - WSJ.com →
Comprehensive look at the lack of privacy with mobile apps.
December 2010
6 posts
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“In a landmark decision issued today in the criminal appeal of U.S. v. Warshak,...”
– Appeals Court Holds that Email Privacy Protected by Fourth Amendment | Electronic Frontier Foundation
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“Put another way, thumbing your nose at an entire world’s population of crackers...”
– The Real Lessons Of Gawker’s Security Mess - The Firewall - the world of security - Forbes
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“The attack of WikiLeaks also ought to be a wake-up call for anyone who has rosy...”
– Live with the WikiLeakable world or shut down the net. It’s your choice | John Naughton | Comment is free | The Guardian
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“Amazon’s dumping of WikiLeaks at one senator’s request brings into stark relief...”
– WikiLeaks, Amazon and the new threat to internet speech - CNN.com
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“If it’s OK for a democracy to just decide to run someone off the internet for...”
– Wikileaks and the Long Haul
October 2010
3 posts
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Stuxnet →
A story about a Windows worm that reads like a spy movie, but with real geeks.
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What technologies are geeks pioneering today? →
marco:
But what if this effect, on a larger and less age-specific scale, is the bigger trend that Ben’s seeing?
What if most geeks today really are just buying Macs instead of building their own overclocked Windows PCs from Newegg parts?
What if PC gaming really is on a decline because only a very small slice of the population is willing to pay $500 for a giant, hot, loud video card and...