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links for 2010-03-10

11-Mar-10
  • Gundlach's mind combines that feverish quality with a near-total recall of endless minutiae. But somehow, when it comes to investing, he's able to process huge quantities of details and extract a big-picture message. The result has been superb performance: His flagship $12 billion TCW Total Return Bond Fund returned nearly 8% annually over the past decade. Those results beat 99% of competitors, and his nonpublic funds have done even better.
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  • So how did corned beef and cabbage become the quintessential Irish-American food? The usual theory is that immigrants couldn’t find or couldn’t afford the bacon they were used to, so they switched to corned beef brisket, readily available at kosher delis.

    “It’s Jewish” with slight changes, Harrington says. “The Irish took out all the seasoning. Basic is the key.”

    Andrews scoffs at the unobtainable bacon idea, noting that the Irish settled in cities full of German and Polish butchers, and Darina Allen, the Julia Child of Ireland, notes in her 1998 book Irish Traditional Cooking, that salt-brined beef was a major export of Cork until the 1800s.

    Yet no one has explained why corned beef all but vanished from Ireland and became fundamental in Irish America. Did everyone who liked it move here?

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  • Further, Microsoft’s strategy to get IBM to license Windows had failed. IBM had rejected Windows in favor of its own character-based DOS application windowing product called TopView. With IBM still the dominant PC seller, Microsoft would have to market Windows directly to IBM PC users. It would be the first time the company sold an OS level product directly to end-users (unless you count the Apple SoftCard, a hardware card that enabled Apple II users to run CPM-80 applications on their Apple IIs, which I had also previously managed). Since I had been the product manager that had the most experience with marketing technically oriented products through retail channels (rather licensed to PC vendors), Ballmer thought the job might be a good fit. In addition, he pointed out that since Windows was intended to expand the appeal of PC through its easier-to-use graphical user interface, it should appeal to my more end-user product experience and interests.
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  • Ophcrack is a free Windows password cracker based on rainbow tables. It is a very efficient implementation of rainbow tables done by the inventors of the method. It comes with a Graphical User Interface and runs on multiple platforms.

links for 2010-03-09

10-Mar-10
  • We offer some of the best sightseeing and guided tours in Barcelona and Catalonia. We also airport transfers, guide services and hotel accommodation.
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  • Yesterday I needed to fix the MBR of a ProLiant (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1) by reinstalling grub and grub-install just won’t work. grub-install assumes that the boot device is in the form /dev/hda or /dev/sda and since most ProLiant use a SmartArray RAID controller its boot device is typically /dev/cciss/c0d0.

    So, in order to recover this is what I did:

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  • After a wildly prolific decade of screenwriting and directing that made him the king of teen comedy, John Hughes receded from the cinematic landscape, his legend preserved by the classic 80s trilogy of Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Following Hughes’s sudden death, at age 59, last summer, the author delves into his intense connections and sudden breaks with his Brat Pack actors, as well as the essential anomaly of his brief Hollywood reign.
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  • Even when Metallica's quiet, they manage to make noise.

    On a mid-January morning, in the middle of the longest respite from touring and recording the band had ever taken, Metallica issued a terse but emotional press release, in which bassist Jason Newsted announced his departure from the group because of "private and personal reasons and the physical damage I have done to myself over the years." A few hours later, a source close to Metallica told Playboy that Newsted's decision had capped a nine-and-a-half-hour band meeting the day before at the RitzCarlton Hotel in San Francisco, the sequel to a similar marathon caucus a week earlier. Newsted's resignation, the source said, had been "very well discussed" by the band.

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  • ​The Google Public Data Explorer makes large datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate. As the charts and maps animate over time, the changes in the world become easier to understand. You don't have to be a data expert to navigate between different views, make your own comparisons, and share your findings.
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  • There are times when you inadvertently overwrite your Master Boot Record. The end result being that you are unable to boot into Linux. This is especially true when you are dual booting between windows and Linux OSes. Once when I was working in Windows XP, I accidentally clicked the hibernate button instead of shutdown. And windows somehow overwrote my MBR which housed the GRUB boot loader. At such times, it pays to have this cool tip at hand.

    This is what you do to restore the GRUB boot loader when faced with the above problem. First you need a Linux distribution CD. If you are using Fedora (RedHat) then the first CD is sufficient. But you may also use any of the live CDs like Knoppix, Ubuntu Live CD and so on.

links for 2010-03-08

09-Mar-10
  • Had Pandora died, it would have joined myriad music start-ups in the tech company graveyard, like SpiralFrog and the original Napster. Instead, with a successful iPhone app fueling interest, Pandora is attracting attention from investment bankers who think it could go public, the pinnacle of success for a start-up.
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  • =========================================================== :* T.B.B.S. The Computer Guild *: :* October 12, 1986 Edition *: :* Directory of Chicago Metro Bulletin Board Systems *: :* (312) 640-7980 *: :* Copyright <c> 1986 by: Richard J. Sonka *: ===========================================================
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  • Set on a plain rising gently from the sea to a range of wooded hills, Barcelona is Spain's most cosmopolitan city and one of the Mediterranean's busiest ports. Restaurants, bars and clubs are always packed, as is the seaside in summer. You might get the impression it's dedicated exclusively to hedonism, but it's a hard-working, dynamic place hoping to place itself in the vanguard of 21st-century Europe with a heavy concentration of hi-tech and biomedical business.
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  • Dogpatch, which opened in January, offers start-ups a place to work, rent-free, for several months, along with the possibility of securing an investment down the line.

    Socks, crumpled pieces of paper, scribbled-upon white boards and empty beef jerky packages are scattered around Dogpatch’s roomy office. “It’s been called a frat house for geeks,” says Peter Flint, a partner at Polaris who spends several days each week in the New York office.

    “There is a lot of excitement and interest budding in New York,” he says. “And if we can help convince entrepreneurs to think about staying in New York versus going to Silicon Valley, then that’s a huge win.”

    Currently, 13 companies are housed in the space, including Postling, the newest spawn of the founders and early employees of Etsy. Locals cite Etsy, an online shopping bazaar specializing in handmade crafts, as one of New York’s shining start-up success stories, along with DoubleClick; TheLadders, a jobs search site; and the Gilt Groupe.

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  • Now, I had been taught in school that scurvy had been conquered in 1747, when the Scottish physician James Lind proved in one of the first controlled medical experiments that citrus fruits were an effective cure for the disease. From that point on, we were told, the Royal Navy had required a daily dose of lime juice to be mixed in with sailors’ grog, and scurvy ceased to be a problem on long ocean voyages.

    But here was a Royal Navy surgeon in 1911 apparently ignorant of what caused the disease, or how to cure it. Somehow a highly-trained group of scientists at the start of the 20th century knew less about scurvy than the average sea captain in Napoleonic times. Scott left a base abundantly stocked with fresh meat, fruits, apples, and lime juice, and headed out on the ice for five months with no protection against scurvy, all the while confident he was not at risk. What happened?

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links for 2010-03-07

08-Mar-10
  • I used to use utorrent's RSS feature to automatically download shows via this guide (see "How do I use the RSS feed in my client ?"). This allowed me to automatically have shows downloaded into appropriate folders, which are monitored by XMBC which scrapes thetvdb.com to add the shows to its own library. While XBMC was able to identify episode information with the naming system the torrents used, I preferred to have the episodes better organized using TVRename. Every so often I would run TVRename and scan my library for files that had to be renamed and rename them.

    There were problems with this method, though. The obvious problem was that I would have to remember to run TVRename, which really wasn't that big a deal. The bigger problem was that depending on when XBMC scanned my TV folder for new media, if the files were renamed with TVRename, XBMC would then have to rescan the file with the new name, leading to dead files and dupes in library view.

  • We love a good media center almost as much as we love automation, so self-confessed media geek Alex Ward's fully automated media center caught our eye. It's all the benefits of an awesome media center without all the hassle.
  • The name Bratwurst comes from brat, a fine chopped meat, though some hold it was from braten, to fry. Bratwurst are very popular in Germany and in the American Midwest, particularly Wisconsin and Ohio where large numbers of Germans settled. These sausages are usually made from pork or pork and veal but sometimes from pork and beef. Originally from the region of Thuringia where the local version is called Thüringer Rostbratwurst, it is now made all over Germany and the U.S. with minor variations of size and seasoning.

links for 2010-03-06

07-Mar-10
  • Taking a home inventory isn't really hard, it's just time consuming. It's also extremely important; a good inventory will speed up the insurance claims process and ensure your insurance takes care of everything you lost. (You do, of course, need the insurance.)

    Many tools can guide you through taking your inventory and storing it (we'll list some below), but the basics are pretty simple. You'll want to take pictures of all your stuff. (It's also a good idea to snap pictures of serial numbers of your gadgetry.) If you've got a video camera, you can simply walk through your home and film every room for a good and simple start.

    It's also very important that you store your inventory outside your home in some form.

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links for 2010-03-05

06-Mar-10
  • Did I Just Say That Out Loud: He does this a lot. His internal yellow caption box monologue is often 'broken', usually without his realizing it, meaning everyone else on the page can hear what he thinks. Sometimes, he only thinks he's doing an internal monologue, when he's really talking out loud. Also, he tends to have very disturbing dreams, plus a habit of sleeptalking just before he wakes up, creating very embarrassing moments for everyone involved.

    Deadpool: No, G.I.Joe, don't do that to Barbie… It's so very, very, wrong… — Uhm… I wasn't dreaming anything too embarrassing, wasn't I?
    Irene (staring): No… Not by your standards, no.

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  • If you spend any percentage of your time doing web design or development, Firebug is the single must-have extension that you cannot live without. It's not just that it lets you debug Javascript, but it allows you to edit the page HTML and CSS on the fly, and even has extensions like YSlow and Page Speed to help keep your web site nice and speedy. Since you really wouldn't want to have the hefty Firebug extension running all the time, it's best to create a new profile specifically for web development.
  • We start by finding our man Foyle near-death in a starship that has been cast adrift in space. As this not-too-bright crewman struggles to survive, a ship approaches that could help him. However, it doesn't. Instead, it flies away. The rest of the book consists of Foyle's angry, obsessed quest to get revenge upon that ship and the people who own it. We encounter telepathy and "jaunting" (instantaneous travel through the power of the mind–a mixture of telepathy with a Star Trek transporter). We find robber barons, three-ring circuses, violence. Bester does not apologize for the violence in his story (unlike some fiction today), he is writing a straight adventure story, with all the pitfalls and danger and violence that come with it. This is "guys' sci-fi" writ large. If the ending had been resolved a little more realistically, it would have been perfect. That said, buy it anyway.
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  • At the start of this violent and intense noir and espionage hybrid from Swierczynski (The Blonde), David Murphy, the CEO of a Philadelphia financial company, summons his seven staffers for an important Saturday meeting, where he informs them that the business is being shut down, and that unfortunately he has to kill them all. Every escape route from the 36th-floor office has been sealed off or rigged with lethal sarin gas. Suddenly, mousy Molly Lewis pulls out a gun and puts a slug in Murphy's head.
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links for 2010-03-04

05-Mar-10
  • Prerequisites. Here's what you'll need to get started:

    * Broadband Internet connection
    * Rock-solid NAT router/firewall. Recommend: $35 dLink WBR-2310
    * $200 PC on which to run PBX in a Flash or a Proxmox Virtual Machine
    * Free Google Voice account (HINT: Under $2 on eBay)
    * Free SIPgateOne residential account (Use cell to get SMS invite)

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links for 2010-03-03

04-Mar-10
  • More specifically, prototypes of a new Mac mini — Apple's smallest and most affordable system, commonly employed by tech savvy Mac users as an ad-hoc living room media server, has been making the rounds with an HDMI port in place of its legacy DVI connector, according to two people familiar with the matter.

    The port sits besides mini DisplayPort connector and marks the first instance of full-featured HDMI connectivity on a Mac. It also represents only the second Apple product to feature the port outside of the company's fledgeling Apple TV streaming media device. Cosmetically, the Mac mini is otherwise said to look identical to existing models, with no other visible changes to its enclosure.

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  • Now you can know what Big Brother knows about you and get access to the same dirt everyone from your boss, landlord, insurance agent, to your favorite casino has on you. Here is a comprehenisve list of websites and phone numbers for most of the "specialty" consumer reports, like your employment, rental, and check writing history. Be sure to check them out and correct any errors, before a crisis hits.
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  • Evolution is not a linear or a constant process, and there are times when small pockets of a previous age are left behind. Most of the world has long since abandoned 3-5-2, but for Egypt, who face England at Wembley on Wednesday, it remains very much alive. Their coach, Hassan Shehata, has experimented at times in friendlies with 4-4-2, but in competitive games, he has always used 3-5-2.

    Egypt's veteran captain, Ahmed Hassan, acknowledges that the rest of the world may have left 3-5-2 in the past, but – quite reasonably – asks what the point would be in changing when it continues to bring such success. "We are all comfortable in the system," he said. "We are an experienced team and we have played this way together for a long time."

    For six years under Shehata, to be precise, in which time they have never lost an Africa Cup of Nations game, lifting the trophy three times. So, if 3-5-2 is really outmoded, how can Egypt's continued success be explained?

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  • Lower thirds are also often known as captions, or occasionally chyrons in North America,[1] and astons in the United Kingdom, after the major suppliers of broadcast caption/graphic generators. Other common terms include superbars (or simply supers) (US) and name straps (UK).

    Video with lower thirds is known as a "program as broadcast" or as "dirty"; video without lower thirds is known as a "clean feed" or as "textless." For international distribution, programs often include "textless elements" on the master tape – these are all the shots to which lower thirds (and other graphics) have been applied, placed end-to-end so a clean master can be created if necessary.

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  • Well, first you mustn't. You can't learn to write that way –- by writing directly for the screen. Wait until you're 30. You've got to learn how to write! Screenplays are not writing. They're a fake form of writing. It's a lot of dialogue and very little atmosphere. Very little description. Very little character work. It's very dangerous. You'll never learn to write. You've got to learn to write well and then you can survive. You must write all kinds of things: Essays, poetry, short stories, novels, stage plays, and screenplays. That's what I do. All those things.

    -Ray Bradbury, upon being asked, "But let's say a young writer really wants to break into Hollywood, how can it be done?"

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links for 2010-03-02

03-Mar-10
  • Simple Scan makes scanning, emailing, printing and saving documents much less complicated. Sure, many of us geeks might want something like XSane that offers much more control over our scans, but for beginners, Simple Scan should take all the mystery out of scanning. Scanning documents and attaching them to an email in Evolution is now just a few-click process.
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  • After the defeat of Xykon, he possesses a Ring of Jumping +20, discovered during the Order's quest through the Dungeon of Dorukan. Belkar chose the ring when dividing up the loot after the quest, because he felt that it would not only allow him to rain death from above onto his enemies but also to reach things on high shelves.
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links for 2010-03-01

02-Mar-10
  • The Twitter Times, Feedtrace, and Cadmus are simple ways to find great content being shared on Twitter, personalized to your taste. Each of them has a different interface and style. You can choose whichever suits your needs the best and enjoy the best of Twitter without suffering from information overload. If you have any other tips, share with us in the comments!
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  • So because the player moves so quickly in Doom, and because most enemy attacks are dodgeable, the player can avoid a significant amount of damage simply by moving. A skilled player can often deal with large numbers of enemies sustaining hardly a scratch. This creates a feeling that’s quite rare in modern FPS: that you are powerful because you are agile, not because you’re a tank. This frees up Doom’s encounters to feature huge numbers of enemies, to vary scenarios by mixing in different proportions of threats, and to have huge, sprawling, often non-linear spaces that the player can traverse easily. There’s nothing quite like it today.
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  • sudo aptitude purge `dpkg –get-selections | grep deinstall | awk '{print $1}'`
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  • mp3cut is service that allows you to cut mp3 files on-line. From now on you don't need difficult programs to cut and create a melody for your cell-phone. Three simple actions and your melody is ready!
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  • Last month I attended the ScraperWiki Hacks and Hackers event. During the day, and with the sterling efforts of two Python developers, a scraper was written. This scraper does something relatively simple (though was a little complex to write). It inputs each company into the EI website here and then outputs the Development Advisor (if any) for that company. It then puts that data into a .csv file. This data is raw and incomplete (many returned with no DA). If people want the code for the scraper do leave a comment.
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  • The east end of St. Croix is something of a tourist spot, but the west end, where they decided to settle, is where the Crucians live, and it has a Jimmy Buffett feel to it that they like. In Frederiksted, the west end’s tiny town, there are a couple of coffee shops, a KFC, a Wendy’s, a few churches, a post office, and a promenade by the sea with concrete picnic tables. Not many people about. Farther out along the coast, there are beach bars with plastic chairs and Christmas lights, men with beards and very tanned middle-aged women sitting and smoking in the afternoon.

    “The west end is where the whites who’ve gone native live,” Wells says. “They have a couple of beach bars with not very good blues and jazz bands. They were playing Neil Young as we went by the other night, and Paul said, ‘Boy, that was an awful rendition.’ ”

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  • Several days after Ames returned to Moscow, the dour Federal Service officials, three men led by a woman, arrived at the paper’s office. When they walked in, a staffer old enough to remember some of the worst parts of the Soviet era, crossed herself and simply ran from the office, Ames says. The officials questioned Ames for more than three hours, going through issue after issue of The Exile, by turns offended, disgusted, baffled. Ames suppressed his urge to start cursing at the officials in mat, Russian’s profane slang, as he watched them thumb through his life’s work, but his restraint meant little: news of the interrogation soon got out, and stories appeared in the Russian press, The Wall Street Journal, and Reuters. Ames’s investors broke off contact. The distributors stopped sending trucks. “They worried that everybody would be sent to Siberia,” Exile sales director Zalina Abdusalamova says.

    Just like that, The Exile’s era was over.

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  • If you spend any percentage of your time doing web design or development, Firebug is the single must-have extension that you cannot live without. It's not just that it lets you debug Javascript, but it allows you to edit the page HTML and CSS on the fly, and even has extensions like YSlow and Page Speed to help keep your web site nice and speedy. Since you really wouldn't want to have the hefty Firebug extension running all the time, it's best to create a new profile specifically for web development.
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  • The benefit to buying tools as you need them for projects as opposed to buying a generic and cheaply made catch-all variety pack of tools—you know the kind, the $20-30 made-in-China all-in-one tool kits with dozens of unbranded and poorly made tools—is that you end up, after several projects, with tools in your tool box that are high quality and purchased as needed. It feels much better to buy a really nice wrench that gets years of service than it does to buy a bunch of cheap wrenches in a kit that just rust away at the bottom of your tool box or workbench drawer.
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  • Exchange 2003:

    Exchange 2003 introduced a new facility to filter email messages if the email address doesn't exist in the Active Directory. This will stop spammers from sending messages to non-valid addresses. The rejection is done at the SMTP level – so the email message isn't even delivered.

    Enabling the Option on Exchange 2003

    1) Expand ESM, Message Delivery.
    2) Right click on "Message Delivery" and choose Properties.
    3) Click on the tab "Recipient Filtering".
    4) Enable the option "Filter Recipients who are not in the directory."

    You then need to enable the Recipient Filter on the SMTP Server.

    1) Still in ESM, Expand Admin Groups, , Server, , Protocols, SMTP.
    2) Right click on SMTP Virtual Server and choose Properties.
    3) Click on "Advanced" next to the IP address on the first tab.
    4) With the IP address selected, choose "Edit".
    5) Enable "Apply Recipient Filter".
    6) Click Apply/OK until clear.

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links for 2010-02-26

27-Feb-10
  • KENILWORTH ELECTRICAL
    Sales & Service Centre Ltd.
    253 Harolds Cross Road
    Dublin 6
    Tel: (01) 496 8036
    Fax: (01) 496 3993
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  • New Orleans is indeed in a salary pickle and I was a little surprised they weren't more aggressive in addressing it at the trade deadline — by trading Mo Pete and a future first, for example. It seems like they're hoping Peja will show up on opening day with a rack of guns in the locker room so they can take the Arenas route and get his contract off the cap; in fact they may be discussing how to frame him for this as we speak.
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  • He’s certainly bringing it a résumé and panache that aren’t the norm. And he’s transporting them — in the unlikely event that you haven’t yet heard — in a green GMC Canyon pickup truck. Seldom has a politician got more mileage out of a vehicle, and I don’t mean Brown’s crisscrossing of Massachusetts during the campaign. He constantly mentioned his truck in speeches, built an entire commercial around it and, during an appearance on Jay Leno’s show just two nights before “S.N.L.,” announced the availability of a toy version of it, packaged with the motto “Driving the establishment crazy.” The Boston Herald actually interviewed the mechanic who services it. It’s Brown’s most visible populist credential, shorthand for his kinship with the common man, an automotive analogue to Joe the Plumber. And it was the setting for the review he volunteered of the “S.N.L.” skit.
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links for 2010-02-25

26-Feb-10
  • #606
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  • Background Details:
    I have 4 of these Gateway M-151x Laptops that came with Vista. Three must run XP, the 4th can run Vista.

    Gateway's website does not have the Audio drivers, their tech support states to put Vista back on the computer.

    List of drivers that I've attempted, and HAVE NOT worked:

    <snip>

    Everything shows up in Device Manager, however I get:
    IDT High Definition Audio Codec: This device cannot start. (Code 10)
    With a Yellow Exclamation mark in the Device Manager.

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  • So you're dealing with a character who seems perfectly normal. He's friendly, sociable, and well-adjusted, saving stray kittens and helping old ladies cross the street on the way to his day job of working at a soup kitchen.

    But then you make a mistake. You happen to mention in passing what you think is a fairly innocuous observation, maybe pointing out that the character could stand to lose a little weight, or is a little on the short side, or you do something that you think is no big deal in their presence, like question Who Names Their Kid Dude. And then the character is instantaneously reduced to screaming, incoherent fury, from which you will be lucky to escape with your life.

    You have just pressed the Berserk Button.

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  • On the evening of November 2, 1988, a self-replicating program was released upon the Internet (1) This program (a worm) invaded VAX and Sun-3 computers running versions of Berkeley UNIX, and used their resources to attack still more computers (2). Within the space of hours this program had spread across the U.S., infecting hundreds or thousands of computers and making many of them unusable due to the burden of its activity. This paper provides a chronology for the outbreak and presents a detailed description of the internals of the worm, based on a C version produced by decompiling.
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  • His Dark Materials is a trilogy of fantasy novels by Philip Pullman comprising Northern Lights (1995, published as The Golden Compass in North America), The Subtle Knife (1997) and The Amber Spyglass (2000). It follows the coming-of-age of two children, Lyra Belacqua and Will Parry, as they wander through a series of parallel universes against a backdrop of epic events. The three novels have won various awards, most notably The Amber Spyglass, the 2002 Whitbread Book of the Year prize, while the trilogy as a whole took third place in the BBC's Big Read poll in 2003.[1]
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  • Risk all your troops on a daring land grab. Use diplomacy to coordinate a group assault on the game leader. Feel the thrill of victory as you crush your last opponent.

    Welcome to Conquer Club, an online multiplayer world domination game.

    Designed for the casual gamer, playing Conquer Club is not a time consuming process. You can take your turn in 5 minutes with your morning cup of coffee or in between classes. A game typically lasts several days, but hardcore risk takers can play multiple games at once and stay up all night strategizing their next move.

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  • The NBA's salary cap is too restrictive for a team like the Knicks, which is situated in the most populous city, is supported by fabulously wealthy people, is about to have no problem raising huge sums of cash, and is using a basketball model predicated on outspending and outglitzing everyone. Replacing the stymying regulation of the NBA with the more commodious oversight of the Fed will allow the Knicks to–pun alert–break the bank this summer. If the team opts out of the NBA and converts to a bank holding company, it will be able to sign James, Wade, Bosh, and Joe Johnson. There will be no cap. New York could probably sign John Wall after convincing him to not enter the draft and simply leave college for a unique opportunity. There really would be no limits on what New York could spend.
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links for 2010-02-24

25-Feb-10
  • The National NGN Test Centre has commercially LAUNCHED the FIRST centre in Ireland with a Commercial Grade, Open-Access, IMS test Network! Technology providers worldwide working on new mobile phone applications can now test, trial and validate products, services and functionality on a PRIVATE carrier-grade test network before bringing them to market!

    THIS must attend EVENT, will bring together the BEST in the Telecommunication and Software Industry, including Ericsson, TSSG, 3CS and many more. Join us on March 10th at the Guinness Storehouse, Dublin and discover how to take advantage of developing NGN-compatible products and services!

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  • # Maximum Memory: 4096MB
    # Slots: 4 (2 banks of 2)
    # Standard Memory: 512MB removable
    # USB Support: 2.x Compliant
    # Installed in pairs of modules.
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links for 2010-02-23

24-Feb-10
  • "Finish your coffee," Louise said.

    "I said get me a beer." Marvin paged through the book of Western lore, stopping to inspect an occasional page. When he stopped, he would pause for a moment and then whistle, moving on. Then silence. Only the pages turning. Now and again, a whistle.

    "Where's that – - – - ing beer, baby?" He dropped the book on the rug. "Look, if I want to develop an image, I'll do it my own – - – - ing way."

    Louise went into the kitchen to get a beer.

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  • Using Andy’s method, I broke each interview up into roughly 5-minute clips and offered to pay any Amazon Turk worker $2 for each clip they transcribed. Remarkably, I usually had results within just a few hours of posting my HITs, and while the quality varied from worker to worker, the resulting transcriptions were good enough for me to do only some light editing before considering them ready for more attentive proofreading, perhaps by an undergraduate student assistant using the original interview video as a guide.
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  • TiddlyWiki is a single html file which has all the characteristics of a wiki – including all of the content, the functionality (including editing, saving, tagging and searching) and the style sheet. Because it's a single file, it's very portable – you can email it, put it on a web server or share it via a USB stick.

    But it's not just a wiki! It has very powerful plugin capabilities, so it can also be used to build new tools. You have full control over how it looks and behaves. For example, TiddlyWiki is already being used as:

    * A personal notebook
    * A GTD ("Getting Things Done") productivity tool
    * A collaboration tool
    * For building websites (this site is a TiddlyWiki file!)
    * For rapid prototyping
    * …and much more!

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  • The decision to close your Google account has to be carefully considered—after all, this is the place that stores your email, your documents, your contacts, your photos, your news, and even your health records. But this level of investment to one service is as good a reason to leave as it is to stay: If looking at your Google Dashboard, which lists all the services you use, and the amount and type of information you store on them, doesn't make you feel a little uneasy, then hell, what would?
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  • The Facility

    # Designed by HNTB – Other HNTB facilities include Dayton's Fifth Third Field, Lansing's Oldsmobile Park
    # Catered by WellBread Catering – Other facilities catered by WellBread include, Busch Stadium, Comiskey Park, Jacobs Field, Miller Park, and many other sports facilities across the country
    # General Contractor – River City Construction
    # Facility covers area of 2 square city blocks
    # Wrought iron fencing surrounds the facility
    # Handicap access to field along both baselines
    # Tunnels between dugouts and locker rooms
    # Will be utilized for special events, concerts and family-oriented entertainment.

    The View

    # Jefferson – View of seating bowl, suite levels and most of playing field
    # Adams – Outside façade and outfield picnic plaza Seats – Grand view of downtown Peoria, some will be able to view the river from Suite level

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links for 2010-02-22

23-Feb-10
  • We've previously covered a couple of these as part of our feature of top 10 apps that boost your media center, but we thought that Windows Media Center (WMC from here on) deserved its own special loving list. It also fills out the capabilities and powers of WMC, as many commenters felt our media center comparison chart didn't give the big picture when it came to their Windows boxes. Fair enough—here's an extended list of powers that the little blue-green app can pull off.
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  • So why not install from USB or whatever other removable media your computer can boot from? Insert your removable media into a Windows XP or Vista PC and run the following commands from an elevated command prompt.

    1. diskpart
    2. list disk (find the disk number for the removable media)
    3. select disk #
    4. clean
    5. create partition primary
    6. select partition 1
    7. active
    8. format fs=fat32 quick
    9. assign letter=y (or any free drive letter)
    10. exit

    Once that is complete mount the ISO and run the following command.

    xcopy x:\*.* /s/e/f y:\

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links for 2010-02-17

18-Feb-10
  • # Name Roger Ebert
    # Location Chicago
    # Web http://rogerebert…
    # Bio Film critic since time immemorial.
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  • So what I basically do is commit myself fully to whatever the story lends itself to, and give Marty everything he needs, and try to push myself to the extremes that I can go to. Ultimately, I know he has the best intentions and has such unique, distinct tastes that I trust that any journey he wants to go on will be one that's the right one.
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  • But it is unusual for Woods to skip the Match Play, which begins Wednesday. And if he isn't there, you can forget about an appearance next week at a tournament whose name could be linked to Woods' predicament: the Waste Management Phoenix Open.
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  • But now everything he says must be written, either first on his laptop and funneled through speakers or, as he usually prefers, on some kind of paper. His new life is lived through Times New Roman and chicken scratch. So many words, so much writing — it's like a kind of explosion is taking place on the second floor of his brownstone. It's not the food or the drink he worries about anymore — I went thru a period when I obsessed about root beer + Steak + Shake malts, he writes on a blue Post-it note — but how many more words he can get out in the time he has left. In this living room, lined with thousands more books, words are the single most valuable thing in the world. They are gold bricks. Here idle chatter doesn't exist; that would be like lighting cigars with hundred-dollar bills. Here there are only sentences and paragraphs divided by section breaks. Every word has meaning.
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links for 2010-02-16

17-Feb-10
  • The SQL Server 2005 Best Practices Analyzer (BPA) gathers data from Microsoft Windows and SQL Server configuration settings. BPA uses a predefined list of SQL Server 2005 recommendations and best practices to determine if there are potential issues in the database environment.
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  • I had the best luck with FastPencil. In order to reduce the size of your exported blog, you’ll first want to go to your comments section, click on the “spam” link and clear out any spam comments by selecting all the spam comments and clicking “Empty Spam”. Then you can export your WordPress blog (from the Dashboard, click Tools, then Export) as an XML file that you can download to your computer. From there, FastPencil lets you upload the .xml file and then select which blog posts to include in the book. You can also filter by time, which I had to do. Even my blog posts (no comments) from the last year and a half still made a 350+ page book, and FastPencil choked on turning my entire blog into a book.
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links for 2010-02-15

16-Feb-10

links for 2010-02-14

15-Feb-10
  • We have mixed a super-optimized Linux that makes the most of your netbook hardware, battery, graphics and connectivity with a cool interface that will make your life easier.
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  • The group was started when Raines and Mercurio, childhood friends from the Washington D.C. area, moved to New Orleans together to attend college at Tulane and Loyola Universities, and became enamored of the local funk scene, populated by such legendary acts as The Meters and Dirty Dozen Brass Band and inspired by local legends such as Professor Longhair. There they teamed with noted New Orleans drummer Stanton Moore, saxophonist/harmonica (now producer) Ben Ellman, and Rich Vogel. In 2004, the band parted ways with vocalist DeClouet, and now continue as an instrumental group. They have been releasing ground breaking albums consistently since 1996. Many songs found on their latest album, titled From the Corner to the Block, include underground MCs widely regarded as elite and popular.
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links for 2010-02-13

14-Feb-10
  • Live in Hyde Park is the first live album released by the Red Hot Chili Peppers recorded over three record-breaking nights at Hyde Park, in London on June 19th, 20 and 25 2004. These three concerts became the highest grossing concerts at a single venue in history. A double album compiled from these three shows, it went straight to #1 in the UK and stayed there for a total of two weeks, selling over 120,000 copies.[1]
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  • tvrename.exe /renamingcheck /renamingdo /missingcheck /fnocheck /fnodo /quit

    From the TVRename forum: "That will make it check for files needing to be renamed, then rename them, then check for missing files, do a finding&organising check for them, move/copy the files found, then quit. Add "/hide" if you want it all to happen without the window coming up"

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  • Modern Christian ministry comes in all manners–whether it is in the form of a thrift store, overseas service or charitable hospital–and one local congregation is carrying their mission out in the form of a coffeehouse.

    Macomb's Cafe Aroma, 301 W. University Dr., opened in 2007, adjacent to owners and operators The Vineyard Community Church. Two years later, Cafe Aroma has established itself as the premiere place for coffee and community.

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  • Wednesday, Jun. 27, 2007
    Cocaine Country
    By VIVIENNE WALT/Bissau

    The four men park their sport-utility vehicle in the back lot of a five-star hotel, size me up carefully and make their offer: I can sample some high-grade cocaine, and then buy 7 kg for about $78,000 — roughly one-quarter of what I can sell it for on the streets of London, Amsterdam or elsewhere in Europe. It has taken me — a stranger in town — just one afternoon to locate a sizable drug deal.

    If Guinea Bissau had the money to paint a sign for arriving visitors, it might read: welcome to the world's newest narco state. This small country in West Africa is such a perfect base for cocaine operations that it could have been designed by Pablo Escobar himself. Escobar and other Colombian drug lords poured untold tons of cocaine into the United States in the 1980s, setting off a narcotics epidemic across urban America, and leading to drug wars which have taken decades and billions of dollars to combat.

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  • Python is a great object-oriented, interpreted, and interactive programming language. It is often compared (favorably of course :-) ) to Lisp, Tcl, Perl, Ruby, C#, Visual Basic, Visual Fox Pro, Scheme or Java… and it's much more fun.

    Python combines remarkable power with very clear syntax. It has modules, classes, exceptions, very high level dynamic data types, and dynamic typing. There are interfaces to many system calls and libraries, as well as to various windowing systems. New built-in modules are easily written in C or C++ (or other languages, depending on the chosen implementation). Python is also usable as an extension language for applications written in other languages that need easy-to-use scripting or automation interfaces.

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  • 1. Open Terminal
    2. Add Mozilla's sources by:
    * For Karmic:
    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa

    * For version older than Karmic:
    echo 'deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa/ubuntu ubuntu_version main' | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list

    sudo apt-key adv –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com –recv-keys 247510BE

    3. sudo aptitude update
    4. sudo aptitude install thunderbird-3.0 thunderbird-3.0-gnome-support
    5. sudo aptitude remove thunderbird-2.0 thunderbird-2.0-gnome-support
    6. sudo ln -s /usr/bin/thunderbird-3.0 /usr/bin/thunderbird

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