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Monthly Archives: August 2009

links for 2009-08-28

29-Aug-09

Big Star (band) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Re: rsync error: timeout in data send/receive (code 30) at /home/lapo/pa
You are reaching your idle-time timeout. Either make it larger (e.g. –timeout=360) or upgrade to a newer rsync version that has support for keep-alive messages in the protocol and see if that helps.
(tags: @2search)

Amazon.com: Rats in the [...]

links for 2009-08-27

28-Aug-09

Simpletons (sic) guide to git
This is simply a "click these buttons" guide to git. See the last section of the article for more advanced/better guides and resources.
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Japnuts
Personal Import Agent for Quality Japanese Vehicles
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Japanese car import guide
This is a guide for importing a car from Japan to Ireland. The car I imported was a [...]

links for 2009-08-26

27-Aug-09

San Antonio travel guide – Wikitravel
San Antonio is the second largest city in the state of Texas and 7th largest in the United States. San Antonio is a beautiful city at the axis of three different geological terrains: Hill Country, South Texas Plains and Prairie and Lakes. There's a lot to do in this city: [...]

links for 2009-08-25

26-Aug-09

25 Great Pirate Bay Alternatives
Private Trackers (open signup): Most of the larger private trackers require an invite to join, but there are always a few that allow new members. Below are four of these (open) private trackers and more can be found on Btracs. 13. RTN 14. BiteMyTorrent 15. BitShock [...]

links for 2009-08-24

25-Aug-09

Skyscanner
Skyscanner is a search engine technology company. Started by three founders in 2001, we are a small company based in Edinburgh with a big ambition to become the number one, online resource for travel information.
What makes Skyscanner different? * We aim to show you as many prices as we can * [...]

links for 2009-08-23

24-Aug-09

How to tell if you're American
Not long ago, one of those earnest-freshman puppydogs on the Net declared that there was "no such thing as American culture." Right. Fish have also been known to doubt the existence of water.
The following is a first crack at an ostensive definition of 'American culture'– things shared by the vast [...]

links for 2009-08-22

23-Aug-09

Dog Training Ireland
Welcome to the Dog Training Ireland website. We are a Canine Training and Behaviour company. Our mission at Dog Training Ireland is to help dogs live in our human world through better communication and understanding. This in turn will bring harmony and happiness to the home for everyone involved.
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HawkeVIPER’s Journal – Embedding [...]

links for 2009-08-21

22-Aug-09

Students
So true.
(tags: comics humour education)

"The Holy Hijacker"
On 2nd May, 1981 fifty-five year old ex-Trappist monk Laurence James Downey boarded Aer Lingus flight EI 164 from Dublin to London. Five minutes out of Heathrow Downey went to the toilet, doused himself in petrol before going to the cockpit with a cigarette lighter in hand. He hijacked [...]

links for 2009-08-20

21-Aug-09

Pride And Prejudice And Zombies | Books | A.V. Club
Almost any endeavor these days, it seems, can be enhanced by the addition of pirates, zombies, or ninjas. Nobody minds terribly much when Disney bolsters its bottom line with pirates, or a new crop of post-apocalyptic nights-of-the-living-dead lurch into theaters. But when the fiendish undead are [...]

links for 2009-08-19

20-Aug-09

OpenBitTorrent – An open tracker project
Why use the OpenBitTorrent tracker?
There are no open independent stable trackers out there, most of the trackers that can be used openly are either unstable or in some way connected to a bittorrent indexing site. We felt there was a need for a free, no strings attached, stable bittorrent tracker.
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links for 2009-08-18

19-Aug-09

Apophenia – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Apophenia is the experience of seeing patterns or connections in random or meaningless data. The term was coined in 1958 by Klaus Conrad, who defined it as the "unmotivated seeing of connections" accompanied by a "specific experience of an abnormal meaningfulness".
(tags: @2file)

Amazon.com: The Gross: The Hits, The Flops: The Summer [...]

links for 2009-08-17

18-Aug-09

ESPN.com – Sporting emotions at the highest pitch
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Amazon.com: Black Magic
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Robin Keir's home page – Software – Neutron
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Installing and Running Windows XP or Vista as a Xen HVM domainU Guest – Virtuatopia
(tags: @2read)

links for 2009-08-16

17-Aug-09

DeleGate Home Page (www.delegate.org)
DeleGate is a multi-purpose application level gateway, or a proxy server which runs on multiple platforms (Unix, Windows, MacOS X and OS/2). DeleGate mediates communication of various protocols (HTTP, FTP, NNTP, SMTP, POP, IMAP, LDAP, Telnet, SOCKS, DNS, etc.), applying cache and conversion for mediated data, controlling access from clients and routing [...]

links for 2009-08-14

15-Aug-09

OpenXML/ODF Translator Add-ins for Office
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Ignite Dublin #1 – Ignite Event
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links for 2009-08-13

14-Aug-09

While My Guitar Gently Beeps – The Beatles – Rock Band – NYTimes.com
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McSweeney's Internet Tendency: And Here's the Kicker: Mike Sacks's Conversations With Humor Writers.
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links for 2009-08-12

13-Aug-09

Bam-Bam in Bedrock: Lobsterpalooza ~ Part I ….
(tags: @2read)

8 Regular Expressions You Should Know
Regular expressions are a language of their own. When you learn a new programming language, they're this little sub-language that makes no sense at first glance. Many times you have to read another tutorial, article, or book just to understand the "simple" [...]

links for 2009-08-11

12-Aug-09

Assembly Cooking for Newbies
Another approach would be to whip up one casserole for every night you serve a protein, veggie and starch combo meal. Bag up the extras individually for faster meal prep later on. Taking on too much in the beginning and ending up in tears at hour thirteen is no way to feel [...]

links for 2009-08-10

11-Aug-09

COTW | Find Basketball Courts and Pickup Basketball Games
(tags: @2search)

Peer Block
PeerBlock is a new version (aka a "fork") of the popular Peer Guardian 2 software. It blocks "known bad" computers from accessing yours, for example governments, corporate entities, and those flagged for anti-p2p activities. Peer Block maintains the functionality of the original Peer [...]

links for 2009-08-08

09-Aug-09

Cafe Rua- Castlebar, Co. Mayo, Ireland
Café Rua was opened by Ann McMahon in New Antrim Street, Castlebar over ten years ago with the aim of producing uncomplicated food using seasonal and local ingredients. The business that Ann started is now run by her children Aran and Colleen, and the aim remains the same.
We now have [...]

links for 2009-08-01

02-Aug-09

Image Comics :: View topic – Bram Stoker's Dracula
It's like that line in the movie 'The Untouchables'.
"He put one of ours in the hospital? Then we'll kill his fucking drycleaner."
(tags: @2read)