David N. Welton: Geek Dad: "Skywalker Story"
I don't usually talk about personal stuff here, but I'll make an exception: I got tired of telling our two year old daughter the same old stories about children lost in forests, bears, witches, evil...
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Edward J. Yoon: 타블로, 인터넷 익명성/비대면성, 사이버 폭력
요즘 타블로가 한국 네티즌들의 hot issue. 그런데 문제는 "스릴 넘치는 "타블로의 학력논란", 그 음모의 진상과 미스테리를 파헤쳐라!?" 와 같은 식의, 일종의 "탐정 놀이" 수준으로 변질되어 온가족을 향한 무차별 사이버폭력이 난무하는 상황. 네티즌들이 협동적으로 한편의 "추리스릴러" 소설을 써내려가며 한사람과 그의 가족들을 난도질하고 있고 그것이...
View ArticleOrtwin Glück: [Code] Gentoo: hal broken after glib upgrade?
If hald seems not to properly startup after a glib upgrade, make sure to re-emerge dbus-glib. See forum.
View ArticleSam Ruby: Syndicating SVG
Eric Seidel: One of the cool new features of the HTML5 parsing algorithm is the ability to embed SVG and MathML directly in HTML pages. To embed SVG, you simply add an <svg> tag to your HTML...
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Nick Kew: Untainting in Apache HTTPD
Back in the early days of the web, before there was ever an Apache web server, the first widely-used language for web applications was Perl. And the Perl community took a lead in raising awareness of...
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Bryan Pendleton: May 6th Flash Crash is still not well understood
Today is the 3 month anniversary of the "Flash Crash", the peculiar trading behavior that occurred during the afternoon of May 6th, wildly disrupting the markets and resulting in thousands of cancelled...
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Danny Angus: I've been Scammed! (not really... but he tried his best)
Be safe.. the following describes an attempt to scam me into giving someone remote access to my PC, I was in a playful mood so I strung him along, don't you do that same thing unless you *know* what...
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Bryan Pendleton: Bug-fixing and broken windows
People often ask me why I get so passionate about fixing bugs, and why, in particular, I routinely take the time to fix "minor", "unimportant", or "harmless" bugs. Sometimes the discussions get...
View ArticleTony Stevenson: More Apple toys…..
So, today on the day that the new apple store opened in Covent Garden, London i went ro y local Apple store and picked up a new 32GB iPad, and one of the new wireless trackpads. Firstly the trackpad....
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Steve Loughran: Gelato
First, the meal Then, time to walk It's night, but the buildings are lit up Everyone else is out and about too And what is available: gelato. Ice cream. Lovely
View ArticleSteve Loughran: Ubuntu 10.04 upgrades
ubuntu 10.04 upgrades I am currently upgrading the last machine in the portfolio to Ubuntu 10.04 from Ubuntu 9.04, that being the last version I liked. The only ways to do this upgrade is a complete...
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Anton Tagunov: Hamcrest 1.1, AllOf, DSL, SuppressWarnings And Maven Central
Hi,I've never used Hamcrest before; today is my first day with it. And I have already had a lot of "fun" which I would like to share.My experiences today have been centred around the AllOf matcher. Or...
View ArticleGlen Mazza: Web Services Links (8 August 2010)
Web service related links of interest this week: JAXB2 Basics 0.6.0 and Maven JAXB2 Plugin 0.7.4 released - Aleksei Valikov (July 2010) Java Web services: WS-Security without client certificates - IBM...
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Nóirín Shirley: Rock-Paper-Scissors-Lizard-Spock-Friends-Pie
By popular demand (no really, half a dozen requests or more!), I give you the hand shapes and rules for Rock-Paper-Scissors-Lizard-Spock-Friends-Pie: Each player forms a fist, and swings it seven times...
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Edward J. Yoon: I just changed to 350z from bmw z4
IMO, a performance, exhaust and interior are better than z4.
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Yoav Shapira: Great TED talk: Sweat the Small Stuff
Fascinating TED talk / presentation by Rory Sutherland:
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Garrett Rooney: One Year Down
It's been a heck of a year.Last week we celebrated Eleanor's first birthday. It was a smashing success, with a nice mix of my friends, Joanna's friends and both of our families. The new deck in the...
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Andrew Savory: Service this
Serviced offices make an awful lot of sense for some companies. I've spent many years working in them, for example at The Royal (with ballroom!) and the Norwich Bio-Incubator (with swimming pool!)...
View ArticleAndrew Savory: Unstoppable forces and immovable objects
It's been a busy few weeks, so I'm a bit behind on writing up events. At the end of July I was in Cambridge for another of the Open Source and Software SIG meetings. This time the theme was "Open...
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Howard M. Lewis Ship: Tapestry 5.2 leaves the gate
It's been a long time coming. Originally, I had thought we'd be producing Tapestry 5.2 six to eight months after Tapestry 5.1 ... instead, it's been more like 14 months just to get to the alpha...
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