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- The new Safari beta is available, and it's totally sweet. The tabbed browsing is the nicest I've seen, and they've also rolled in support for auto-filling forms on web pages into this one (useful for both username/passwords and for filling in details from your personal Address Book entry). One thing that may be non-obvious for the NetNewsWire crowd is how to get links from NNW to open in tabs in Safari. The answer is to go to the Safari Preferences, and in the General pane, select "Open links from applications in the current window." If you have tabbed browsing enabled, then this will open the links in new tabs instead of reusing the main view. |
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- A new meme is quickly spreading around: positioning Python as a programming language for Agile development. Ward Cunningham and Kevin Altis launched the idea at PyCon. In this weblog entry at the O'Reilly Network, Uche Ogbuji gives a good explanation of what is meant and where it came from. |
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- This afternoon, I managed to finish off my end of year P14's and P60's very quickly with the help of Sage Payroll. The only problem I encountered was that the P14/P60 report is slightly off compared to the office IR... |
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- Dell VNUnet, 4/14/03: We're all on the road to Dell Guy Matthews Michael Dell continued his quest for global domination by stating the obvious when he told a press conference that corporate chief information officers were looking for standardised technologies to drive down the costs of their IT infrastructure. By "standardised", he meant Intel-based hardware, and he went on to say that Linux was the world's fastest growing operating system. Notable for its absence was any reference to Microsoft, an oversight easily explained by the fact that Dell was sharing a platform with Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison - no friend of Microsoft. |
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- In between restoring email spool files and bringing other services back on line, I've poked around the log files from the compromised machine. There is a picture that's starting to emerge. In syslog, I found some attempts from a particular IP address (obscured in case my suspicions are wrong): Apr 11 22:27: |
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- AUSTIN – Gov. Rick Perry today announced that Texas will receive an additional $1.2 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to fund the City of Houston’s cleanup efforts after Tropical Storm Allison in 2001. |
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FunGlasses (Apr 14 2003 15:59 GMT) - I'm sure this is an ancient idea in SF circles, but how far we from having smart sunglasses that not only dynamically adjust to the light conditions but that also do cool and maybe even useful things like adjusting contrast, enhancing edges, dimming background objects, and making the entire world look like a Peter Max painting?... |
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- Baghdad Electric Woes One break in a critical natural gas line occurred well north of Baghdad. The natural gas supply powers auxiliary generators that, in turn, fire the 8-story-high boilers linked to the much larger steam generators. This sleeping giant,... |
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- Mickey Rourke' coffee break with Loki Hollywood, CA ... |
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- Plastic::FilmTV::Protest: The debate over the war in Iraq hits the holy shrine of baseball. |
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- After receiving some good comments from the author of VB.NET Step By Step. I want to publicly state that this author was not specifically being singled out; |
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- It is simply gorgeous here today. It's supposed to hit 80, the sun is shining flowers are blooming for the... |
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- The Utah Supreme Court reversed the dismissal of a lawsuit filted in 1999 over the Murray City Council's refusal to allow an unconventional non-religious prayer prior to a city council meeting. Murray City responded by indicating they may eliminate prayers prior to future meetings. [Utah Supreme Court Opinion] |
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- I just had the distinct joy of finishing Eliot Cohen's outstanding Supreme Command. Conventional wisdom states that politicians should set the broad parameters of military engagement, but leave the actual fighting to the experts who have been fighting wars for decades. Cohen challenges this "normal" view of civil/military relations by pointing out the extrordinarily active roles taken by Lincoln, Clemenceau, Churchill, and Ben Gurion in the Civil War, WWI, WWII, and the war for Israeli independence. Each leader was shockingly active in all aspects of military planning, both strategic and tactical. Churchill constantly barraged his subordinates, Clemenceau often visited the frontlines of the Western front, and Lincoln changed his generals more than Scott changes his underwear. |
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- Radio subscription list from Mike James' Radio weblog (2002) about computing, politics, and faith |
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- MorganJ77: don't suppose you'd want to go to the Field Day Festival on June 7-8th? Nora: field day festival? Nora:... |
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- I had to read over the Privacy Promise from the DMA today. It's a good starting point for publishers and marketers alike when deciding how to run your direct email programs. |
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- Apprently, the COG video which has been floating around the net (and which I talked about earlier) was real! Ok... their is 1 second of CGI in it, but all of the rest of it is real. In addition to the link I posted before, here is the official one. Take a look and see if you can figure out where the CGI is. |
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En daarom (Apr 14 2003 15:57 GMT) - doe ik niet aan fitness!! Liflog mode on Heb trouwens wel vette spierpijn van twee uur basketballen gisteren in het warme zonnetje lifelog mode off Fok it, ik ga helemaal niet meer sporten.... gawddaaamn!!!... |
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- I am not feeling too whippy today, so I am gonna bypass the usual introduction and let you get after it. Have a great week, and feel free to come back on days without an "M" in them sometime! PromoGuy's Monday Mission 3. |
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- Columnist and self-described "liberal iconoclast" Harley Sorensen has this nice little historical summing up in today's SFGate.com: Occupational hazard. A... |
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- Columnist and self-described "liberal iconoclast" Harley Sorensen has this nice little historical summing up in today's SFGate.com: Occupational hazard. A... |
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John Pilger (Apr 14 2003 15:56 GMT) - Out of the Frying Pan into the FireCrime Against Humanity by John Pilger is an excellent and passonate piece. Take time out to read it.We have found our prisoners of war and by all accounts they were well looked after. The world rejoices. Where are the Iraqi prisoner's of war? |
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- Sean Neakums tries to confuse me with fancy talk about cameras and steep drops: I have a feeling that the cause is that your camera has a very wide depth of field. If the stuff beyond the drop were out of focus, and the precipice itself in focus, then the precarioutiveness might thus be captured. We're simple folk 'round these parts. We just point and shoot. |
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- On the Penguinal Ebullience blog, a fascinating transcript of the DMCA exemption hearings from Friday: The first of several hearings... |
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- New blog Political Aims from Princeton Sociology students and occassional journalists Amy Sullivan and Jake Rosenfeld has a few good posts up, but their permalinks aren't working so you'll just need to hunt and peck around.... |
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- There are many in Europe who believe that war in Iraq confirms the status of the U.S. as no longer just a superpower, but an imperial power. By Richard Bernstein. |
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- With looting already easing in Baghdad today, Iraqis and U.S. troops began jointly patrolling the streets, the U.S. military said. |
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- The U.S. will examine possible diplomatic or economic measures against Syria, which the United States suspects of developing chemical weapons. By Reuters. |
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- Auf Axis-User bin ich zufaellig auf einen JDK 1.4.1 Bug gestossen, der speziell im XML Umfeld fuer grosse Probleme sorgt. Problem: Wiederverwendung von StringBuffer fuehrt zu extremen Memory Leaks. |
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- "Karol Lewandowski discovered that psbanner, a printer filter that creates a PostScript format banner and is part of LPRng, insecurely creates a temporary file for debugging purpose when it is configured as filter..." |
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- I give up I'm to attached to blogging! I did get a break this weekend and it was nice but... |
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- Something I'd noticed myself wincing at lately, but hadn't seen mentioned as bothersome by anyone else, is the jaunty little... |
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- Something I'd noticed myself wincing at lately, but hadn't seen mentioned as bothersome by anyone else, is the jaunty little... |
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- I'm now reading Year of the Griffin by Diana Wynne Jones. This is the sequel to Dark Lord of Derkholm that I finished the other day. This is a much better book. The plot gets going right away, and is altogether an easier read. It may be because I know ... |
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- You don't have to be the brightest bulb in the toolshed to be an effective president, especially if you're a skilled orator. GW may be smarter than people give him credit for, or at least more politically savvy, but it's clear that public speaking isn't exactly his strong suit, especially when he begins to stray too far from what other people have written for him. |
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- You don't have to be the brightest bulb in the toolshed to be an effective president, especially if you're a skilled orator. GW may be smarter than people give him credit for, or at least more politically savvy, but it's clear that public speaking isn't exactly his strong suit, especially when he begins to stray too far from what other people have written for him. |
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- Below is a statement circulating among democratic left/socialist folks, largely by members of Democratic Socialists of America, condemning the recent... |
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- Every morning when I get in, I turn on my computer, and I process the mail that came in the... |
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- The K-Byte 512MB PC2700 DIMM fell to $74.99 at BestBuy.com and retail stores. A $35 mail-in rebate knocks the net price to $39.99. |
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- I've always wanted to add flash to this site and didn't really know where to start. There are virtually no... |
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- SupermediaStore offers the Maxell 2x DVD-R media 25-pack for $49.75. Coupon code "mte10& |
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- SupermediaStore offers the Maxell 2x DVD-R media 25-pack for $49.75. Coupon code "mte10& |
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- ConsumerInfo.com - Free Online Credit Report. ConsumerInfo.com will provide you with an instant credit report on-line from Equifax for signing up for a trial membership of their CreditCheck® |
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- Buona apertura per tutte le borse mondiali, da Francoforte a New York. Sul Numtel scatto di E.Planet |
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- Recently, the RIAA sued four college students for alleged copyright violations, including contributory infringement. The contributory infringement claims are based on assertions that the students ran search engines that can be used to find infringing files. Jacques Distler asks this... |
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