Les Orchard blogs at http://www.decafbad.com/blog/ 
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deusx : cloudhead.io - "toto is a git-powered, minimalist blog engine for the hackers of Oz. The engine weighs around ~230 sloc at its worst. There is no toto client, at least for now; everything goes through git."
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deusx : Op-Ed Columnist - America Is Not Yet Lost - NYTimes.com - "The truth is that given the state of American politics, the way the Senate works is no longer consistent with a functioning government. Senators themselves should recognize this fact and push through changes in those rules, including eliminating or
jcgregorio : Op-Ed Columnist - America Is Not Yet Lost - NYTimes.com - """But by now, we know how the Obama administration deals with those who would destroy it: it goes straight for the capillaries."""
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deusx : Bad Nomenclature » Blog Archive » A rant about PHP compilers in general and HipHop in particular. - "One saving grace is that they didn’t patent it. I have an email in my inbox from one of the HPHP developers saying he couldn’t talk to me about the compiler because they might patent it. That’s pretty shitty. Thank god they open-sourced it ins
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deusx : Displaying PHP APC Cache Information - "APC is the Alternative PHP Cache, which is a free, open, and robust framework for caching and optimizing PHP intermediate code. I posted about how to install APC on Linux a couple of days ago, and will now look at the apc.php script which comes with
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deusx : Microsoft Pulls Plug on Xbox 1’s Online Play - UNG» UnNamedGaming.com - "I wanted to let you know that on April 15, 2010 Microsoft will discontinue Xbox LIVE service for original Xbox consoles and games, including Xbox 1 games playable on Xbox 360. Our first step in this process will be to turn off auto-renewals for thos
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deusx : [#CASSANDRA-729] Bug in count columns. - ASF JIRA - Inserting and then deleting a column isn't reflected in a change in get_count
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deusx : Hack Brings Mac OS X to the Nokia N900 - PCWorld - "Finnish geek Toni Nikkanen has become the first person to successfully run Mac OS X--in this case, Mac OS X 10.3 "Panther" (released in 2003)--on a cell phone. The phone he managed to achieve this feat with - Nokia's N900 smartphone.
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deusx : Hackers Don’t Tinker Because They Got Invited | Smarterware - "Because while we're all ranting about how closed the iPad will be, the jailbreak community is planning competitions to see who can crack it first. The sun isn't setting on tinkerers; their desire to crack things open intensifies when faced
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deusx : Automate EC2 Instance Setup with user-data Scripts - Alestic.com - "The Ubuntu and Debian EC2 images published on http://alestic.com allow you to send in a startup script using the EC2 user-data parameter when you run a new instance. This functionality is useful for automating the installation and configuration of s
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deusx : TV | Star Wars | Dramatic Irony and Clone Wars | Overthinking It - "Here’s the key thing to remember about the galactic conflict known as the Clone Wars: they are a complete and utter farce. Palpatine is literally controlling both sides: he commands the Republic’s clone army as Supreme Chancellor, and he leads t
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deusx : Hivelogic - System-On-A-Chip: Why Apple’s new CPU Is So Important - "Apple’s subtle mention that the iPad features a CPU of their own making, the A4, was actually the most exciting part of the whole announcement. It’s pretty important."
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deusx : Pants for kids and parents - Matt Brown - "These pants will eventually be made in collaboration with my friend Lena. The project has been put on hold for a while since I left Sweden. The idea is to make pants that the parents wear and the kids can use. A pocket for the child to put things in
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deusx : This is why it's worth learning about advertising, by Rory Marinich - "The product is, simply put, a magical screen that can do anything you ever want it to, no matter what that is. Here you go. It’s five hundred dollars. If you pay me that, I will give you this magical thing that can do anything. You don’t have t
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deusx : n900Fly - An irresponsible app for the n900 - maemo.org - Talk - "Start the app and throw your phone into the air, it will show how long was the "flight" and a naive estimative of its height. (Yes, I got the idea from the much "acclaimed" iPhone Hangtime)"
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deusx : maemo.org - Downloads: The Ur-Quan Masters - Wow. Now we're *really* living in the future when this runs on a phone. "The Ur-Quan Masters is the public release of the legendary Star Control 2 from 1992. Starcon2 was a revolutionary adventure game which featured role-playing elements and 2D
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deusx : Keanu Reeves To Play Selfish Cryo Creep In Scifi Romance Feature - Passengers - io9 - "The film Passengers is set in the future, on board a spacecraft where the crew is making 100-year trip to a new planet via cryogenic sleep. Unfortunately for Keanu, his character is woken up a mere 10 years into the journey. Which means he can spend
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deusx : Firefox for Maemo RC3 « blog.pavlov.net - "We’re excited to bring you the third release candidate of Firefox for Maemo. Since RC2, we fixed several usability bugs that were found, as well as addressed a number of performance issues. Based on feedback we’ve received so far, we were able
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deusx : baltic-avenue - Project Hosting on Google Code - "This project allows you to host a "private instance of S3" on top of Google's infrastructure (big table, etc), leveraging existing client S3 libraries and applications - no need to reinvent the wheel."
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deusx : QDB: Quote #300636 - "Google Wave was built to show younger people how older people feel when they try to use the internet."
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deusx : Public Open Source Services / FrontPage - "You use the same Google Merchant account that App Engine debits as the one that accepts donations. This way no bank account is involved. Then you track the money that goes into the account (using the Google Merchant IPN equivalent). Then you look at
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deusx : Notify.io brings notifications to the web « blogrium - "In October 2009 I started a project called Notify.io and a month later announced it. I talked about how it will bring notifications to the web. Now that it’s basically alpha complete, I’ll give you a quick walkthrough of what makes it so great.&
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deusx : Cherry Apfelwein Recipe | Nada y Todo - "So I’ve decided to start a new batch of Apfelwein based around EdWort’s Apfelwein Recipe. Instead of following the recipe I’ll be using four gallons of apple juice and a gallon of black cherry juice. I’d also like to keep it on the “less
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deusx : Burr Oak Software - "M3U2iTunes is a helper application which overcomes the problems iTunes has with m3u playlists. iTunes, when downloading an m3u playlist, places all songs scattered throughout the main library (rather than, say, creating a playlist and organizing the
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deusx : In praise of git’s index // plasmasturm.org - "So what is the index good for?"
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