19/08/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
kayodeok : Linux.com | Best practices for the Linux home office, part 3 - In this final installment, we'll talk about protecting the data on your hard drive.
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19/08/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
deusx : Questionable Content #429: I tried so hard - "I am full of impotent, adolescent rage! Now suddenly Linkin Park songs make sense to me!"
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19/08/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
deusx : Disposable Software [@lesscode.org] - "In reality, a good software developer should be able to do just that — deliver a disposable, short lived product that addresses only the pressing needs of the moment, and then simply disappears."
Matthew M. Boedicker : disposable software
Paul Hammond : Disposable Software [@lesscode.org] - be prepared to throw it away, and to move on, not looking back
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19/08/2005 @ 22:55 GMT
deusx : 365tomorrows.com - Deo’s Hole - "At fourteen, I had never before been exposed to the idea that people, young people, could die and not be fixed."
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19/08/2005 @ 21:57 GMT
Linkorama : Geek Friendly - Obvious misquote, the press release said "Greek"
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19/08/2005 @ 21:57 GMT
deusx : Welcome to Bergen Street Software - "Control-click a document, application, folder, mounted volume, zip disk, anything, and easily copy the full path to that item directly to your clipboard!"
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19/08/2005 @ 21:56 GMT
deusx : Stupidfool.org: The Joy of Splicing - "but sometimes I like to see a combined view of just her activity in the past couple of days: all of the posts aggregated from her various feeds, combined into reverse chronological order."
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19/08/2005 @ 21:56 GMT
deusx : search.cpan.org: Benjamin Trott / POE-Component-BlogCloud - "Client interface to blo.gs streaming cloud server "
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deusx : search.cpan.org: Tatsuhiko Miyagawa / XML-Atom-Stream-0.01 - "A client interface for AtomStream "
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19/08/2005 @ 21:56 GMT
deusx : bulknews.typepad.com: Atom Stream - "Brad released a prototype for Atom Stream server for LiveJournal today, Ben was working on TypePad to support the upstream push from TypePad weblogs."
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19/08/2005 @ 21:56 GMT
deusx : del.icio.usdel.icio.us: json feeds - "You can load a javascript object that contains your latest bookmarks, by including the following script"
kayodeok : del.icio.us / doc / feeds / json - You can load a javascript object that contains your latest bookmarks, by including the following script
jimray : del.icio.usdel.icio.us: json feeds - Del.icio.us linkroll as a javascript object, not just an unordered list!
Philippe Janvier : del.icio.us: json feeds - "...a javascript object that contains your latest bookmarks...". POssible to filter the links by tags. [via] #
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19/08/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
deusx : del.icio.us: we rolling - "But if you are looking for a really simple way to have your latest del.icio.us bookmarks displayed as part of your website, you might want to try our linkrolls."
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19/08/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
deusx : Achewood - August 19, 2005 - "Russia is thought of as a cold place, where serious men eat snow and throw cats at walls."
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19/08/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
gleuschk : American Scientist Online - Group Theory in the Bedroom - theorem: S_4 and Z2xZ2 are not isomorphic
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19/08/2005 @ 21:55 GMT
jkottke : Is Jesus the son of the Flying Spaghetti Monster? - Inspired by Kent Hovind's $250,000 prize for evidence of evolution, Boing Boing is offering a $250,000 prize to anyone providing "empirical evidence which proves that Jesus is not the son of the Flying Spaghetti Monster". I'll throw another $250,000 into
plasticbag : Boing Boing's $750,000 Intelligent Design challenge for the non-Pastafarian - "This brings the total purse for anyone capable of proving that Jesus is not the son of Flying Spaghetti Monster to $750,000."
deusx : Boing Boing: Boing Boing's $250,000 Intelligent Design challenge (UPDATED: $1 million) - "We are willing to pay any individual *$250,000 if they can produce empirical evidence which proves that Jesus is not the son of the Flying Spaghetti Monster."
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19/08/2005 @ 20:56 GMT
jimray : Editor attacked over ‘intelligent design’ article - Evolutionary biologist Richard Sternberg smeared as creationist. This is bad, scientists shouldn't be stooping to the level of the creationists in this debate
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19/08/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
jimray : Blogger takes issue with NY Times bit on the re-invention of online comics
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19/08/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
WillPate : life of a liquidator - Blog of a nice lady I met at the Blog Business Summit who runs a designer fashion liquidator
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19/08/2005 @ 20:55 GMT
jkottke : Make your own magazine cover - Using your favorite Flickr photo, you can use this handy widget make your very own magazine cover. I knocked up an issue of Hello, Cowboy! magazine featuring Tom Coates wearing a gigantic hat. Magazines have never been so much fun.
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19/08/2005 @ 19:58 GMT
kellan : rc3.org: Ruby the gateway drug.... for Java - I tend to think life is too short to use compiled languages, but Rafe is absolutely correct when he says Rails (and Django) is a port of the J2EE web stack state of the art, and people should acknowledge that heritage. #
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19/08/2005 @ 19:57 GMT
kellan : women@apache.org - Glad to see this practice catching on among open source communities. Its a best practice for any large organization that does net based organizing. #
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19/08/2005 @ 19:57 GMT
jimray : Comics Escape a Paper Box, and Electronic Questions Pop Out
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19/08/2005 @ 19:56 GMT
jimray : Personal, Portable, Pedestrian - The MIT Press - Japanese culture and mobile phones
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19/08/2005 @ 19:56 GMT
jimray : Hendrik Hertzberg takes on evolution v. creationism - Hendrik Hertzberg's weekly column is worth my subscription to the New Yorker
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19/08/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
Ethan Marcotte : Things Koala Bears Would Say - Look, a pouch!
Rod Begbie : McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Things Koala Bears Would Say - "Let's prevent a forest fire!" #
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19/08/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
jkottke : Death by caffeine - I'm in luck because it would take more than 260 cans of Pepsi to ingest enough caffeine to kill me. How much of your favorite beverage can you drink before suffering death by caffeine?
deusx : Energy Fiend - Death by Caffeine - It would take 142.85 cups of Coffee (Brewed) to put [me] down.
veen : Death by Caffeine - "How much of your favorite energy drink or soda would it take to kill you?"
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19/08/2005 @ 19:55 GMT
jkottke : Josh Davis interview - Short interview with Josh Davis. More of his work can be found at joshuadavis.com and once upon a forest.
Paul Hammond : Cool Hunting: Joshua Davis, 6 Questions - The type of work that you present is the type of work you'll get hired to do
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19/08/2005 @ 18:56 GMT
Nelson Minar : F1 steering wheel - Zillions of knobs (via BoingBoing)
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Nelson Minar : The real RSS 3.0 - Aaron's been on this for years.
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jimray : Arms race between Bug-me-not and less-than-clueful newspaper sites escalates - Begun, this registration war has
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19/08/2005 @ 18:56 GMT
kayodeok : GMailRSS: Using GMail as an RSS Feed Reader - If you're enough of a geek to know your way around Perl and be able to install a Perl progam, you might want to check out GMailRSS, a series of scripts that translate incoming RSS feeds into e-mail and then send them, properly labeled, to your GMail accou
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19/08/2005 @ 18:56 GMT
kayodeok : Windows Spyware Survival Tools - Spyware is the new scourge of the Internet. You can get tools to remove it, but wouldn't it be better to prevent it in the first place? Here are some inexpensive tools that can help you keep your PC from getting infected with nasty spyware
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19/08/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
kayodeok : The Search: Perfect Search - Third Book Excerpt: Perfect Search
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19/08/2005 @ 18:55 GMT
kayodeok : Migrating from ADO "Classic" to ADO.NET: An excerpt from Hitchhiker's Guide to Visual Studio and SQL Server 2005 (7th Edition) - Bill Vaughn discusses the process of converting Visual Basic 6.0 ADO code into code that can be used in a .NET application to perform roughly the same operations. (11 printed pages)
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19/08/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
jkottke : Interview with Chip Conley - Great interview with Chip Conley, founder of Joie de Vivre Hospitality, a boutique hotel group based in SF. "All of our employees get to stay in our hotels for free. Anyone who is a salaried employee gets one month paid sabbatical every three years. And w [via]
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19/08/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
jkottke : History of the hamburger - Who knew the history of the hambuger was so convoluted? Here's what we know: somewhere between Kublai Khan and the Big Mac, someone somewhere invented it.
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19/08/2005 @ 17:55 GMT
jkottke : Vendy Awards - The Vendy Awards are being given out to the top street vendors in NYC. They're currently accepting nominations on the site.
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19/08/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
jkottke : On reading (or not). - On reading (or not). "Since when did a regular quota of suitably serious reading matter become obligatory?"
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19/08/2005 @ 16:55 GMT
jkottke : Interview with Josh On - Interview with Josh On, creator of They Rule. I hadn't realized he was quite so socialist.
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19/08/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
cameron : VD Attack Plan - Creepy Disney-made STD educational video from the 70's.
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19/08/2005 @ 15:55 GMT
jkottke : Why do bloggers blog? - Paul tries to figure out why people review products at Amazon that have already been reviewed by several people. "What motivates someone to submit the 1,282nd review of The Poisonwood Bible to Amazon.com?"
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19/08/2005 @ 14:55 GMT
cameron : BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Music | Britpop - Where are they now? - Elastica singer was the roommate of MIA?!
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19/08/2005 @ 13:56 GMT
deusx : SeeSS - Dashboard - Reference - "The SeeSS Widget is a quick and handy reference sheet for 140 CSS (1, 2 & 3) properties"
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19/08/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
deusx : del.icio.us warning: non-utf8 string! (sorry) - "This brief tutorial will show you how to make use of CRUD generic views in your Django application."
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19/08/2005 @ 13:55 GMT
deusx : OnDir - "OnDir is a program that automatically executes scripts as you traverse directories at a terminal. "
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19/08/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
kayodeok : Microsoft Security Advisory (906267): A COM Object (Msdds.dll) Could Cause Internet Explorer to Unexpectedly Exit - Microsoft is investigating new public reports of a possible vulnerability in Internet Explorer. We are not aware of attacks that try to use the reported vulnerabilities or of customer impact at this time. Microsoft is aggressively investigating the public
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19/08/2005 @ 12:55 GMT
kayodeok : New Scientist News - Baby comes with brain repair kit for mum - Initial results suggest that the fetal cells are summoned to repair damage to the mother's brain. If this is confirmed, it could open up new, safer avenues of treatment for brain damage caused by strokes and Alzheimer's disease, for example
deusx : New Scientist News - Baby comes with brain repair kit for mum - "Stray stem cells from a growing fetus can colonise the brains of mothers during pregnancy, at least in mice."
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kayodeok : Wired News: Look, Ma, No Schoolbooks! - The school issued iBooks - laptop computers by Apple Computer - to each of its 340 students, becoming one of the first U.S. public schools to shun printed textbooks
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19/08/2005 @ 11:56 GMT
kayodeok : The mobile that slows down children’s chatter - By toggling a switch on the side of the phone, the mobile phone instantly converts all incoming voices to 70 per cent of their usual speed, making the words much easier for the listener to make out.
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19/08/2005 @ 11:56 GMT
Paul Hammond : Read/Write Web: RSS 3.0? - Perhaps I'm being too harsh, but I can't see the point of RSS 3 at all.
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Paul Hammond : The Strange Zen Of JavaScript: The dark despair of DOCTYPEs - the use of different DOCTYPEs can change the DOM interface in unexpected ways
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Paul Hammond : Projects are Improvisations [Tesugen] - Projects are conversations, and conversations are improvised.
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19/08/2005 @ 11:55 GMT
Paul Hammond : The Reuse Fallacy, Or “This Will Work Because It Will Be Good If It Did†[@lesscode.org] - if I drop a calendar control into my app, am I reusing that piece of code, or using it?
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Paul Hammond : iPragma - xSort - xSort is a card sorting application for Mac OS X
deusx : iPragma - xSort - "xSort is a card sorting application for Mac OS X. It allows you to easily define a new card sorting problem, perform several sessions with multiple participants, and finally analyze the results (using multiple criteria) and generate printable reports. "
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19/08/2005 @ 11:55 GMT
Paul Hammond : Supernova '05: Jeff Weiner from Yahoo! (plasticbag.org) - The whole weblogging culture has - in my opinion - pretty dramatically changed the conference dynamic
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Paul Hammond : AJAX: telling it like it is… - Ajax Blog - if you decide to go AJAX, realize that you’re significantly increasing the risk that your project will “failâ€. Don’t try it where real money is involved
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19/08/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : The hidden currents powering Intel's next gen chips - And the reason for Apple switch?
deusx : The hidden currents powering Intel's next gen chips - "To date, Apple’s CPU switch to Intel has prompted a lot of speculation about the real reason as frankly, it didn’t made much sense. But if this speculation turns out to be true, reasons behind Apple’s switch are obvious."
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19/08/2005 @ 09:55 GMT
kayodeok : WordPress Backup to Gmail - The idea behind this posting is to show you how to use a WordPress Plugin that can do database backups of your website/blog and have the backup automatically emailed to a specified email address, your Gmail as an example
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19/08/2005 @ 08:56 GMT
Richard Rutter : Design in-flight takes off again - In an energy-saving web format.
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Jeremy Zawodny : Of Modes & Men - Of Modes & Men: some background on Larry Tesler
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19/08/2005 @ 08:55 GMT
Andy Baio : Vice Records' "Do They Know It's Halloween?" - insanely bizarre benefit recording with an all-star indie rock lineup
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19/08/2005 @ 07:55 GMT
ricmac : Blog Herald: Google's Sergey and Larry drink with black-hat SEOs - Not quite sure what to believe here, but check out the comments - dominated by self-confessed black-hat SEOs talking about content re-purposing and automated content. Bit of a worry...
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19/08/2005 @ 06:55 GMT
Nelson Minar : Top black metal pics - I had no idea there were so many metal bands
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19/08/2005 @ 05:55 GMT
deusx : del.icio.us warning: non-utf8 string! (sorry) - "She smiled at him, the warm, hopeful smile that had ensnared his heart ever since he had saved her life way back in Dungeon #23. It had been an amazing first date."
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19/08/2005 @ 04:55 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : a video of someone who is really good at bouncing quarters
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ricmac : Yahoo! - Walled Garden or Commons? - Peter raises an interesting point... consider this in regard to Yahoo's media aspirations: "Hollywood is not known for its open philosophy when it comes to content."
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19/08/2005 @ 03:56 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : discussion of the fictional Midwestern town in American Gods
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19/08/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
Charles Miller : While My Ukelele Gently Weeps - The title alone, "While My Ukelele Gently Weeps", sounds like it should have poor George Harrison turning in his grave. Surprisingly, it's damn impressive. (Via Ned)
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19/08/2005 @ 03:55 GMT
jkottke : Einstein PBS site - PBS has put up a companion web site to the Nova program on Einstein airing in October. Features include audio clips of several physicists describing e=mc^2 to non-physicists.
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19/08/2005 @ 02:59 GMT
joshua : voo2do : simple, beautiful web-based to-do lists
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19/08/2005 @ 02:58 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : Pinball Warehouse of Wakefield, MA
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Matthew M. Boedicker : Due to a shortage of robots ...
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19/08/2005 @ 02:56 GMT
erikbenson : Jonathan Ames's blog - The Stranger has an article about him, and I happen to be reading and loving all his books at the moment... not committing suicide in the process.
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19/08/2005 @ 02:56 GMT
ricmac : The link between AJAX and web 2.0 - "That's the relationship between AJAX and Web 2.0. AJAX applications have de facto public APIs, which are inherently remix-friendly."
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Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo! Local Features Page - Yahoo! Local Features Page: good stuff
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Andy Baio : DJ Lush Life's West Sounds - remixing Kanye West with Beach Boys' Pet Sounds [via]
Jason Shellen : Lush Life West Sounds - Kanye West's The College Dropout mixed with the Beach Boys Pet Sounds. #
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19/08/2005 @ 01:56 GMT
Matthew M. Boedicker : a graphic novel made for the PSP
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Matthew M. Boedicker : Hunter Thompson's ashes being launched in fireworks
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Matthew M. Boedicker : Deadprogrammer Does Japan: Morning Set
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kayodeok : Microsoft Internet Explorer Security - This paper examines the real state of Web browser security and the correlation between a browser’s vulnerability and its advanced functionality
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19/08/2005 @ 01:55 GMT
jkottke : Bitfall - Bitfall makes images out of falling water droplets. (via infosthetics) [via]
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19/08/2005 @ 00:55 GMT
kayodeok : How To Build A Computer - Wikibooks - Wikibook on building a Computer
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