Month: September 2010
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APRESS.COM : Learn Objective-C for Java Developers
Today for just USD 10 – use this link:APRESS.COM | Books for Professionals, by Professionals … Otherwise: Book Details By James Bucanek ISBN13: 9781430223696 ISBN10: 1430223693 520 pp. Pub Date: 2009-09-25 eBook Price: $27.99 Learn Objective-C for Java Developers will guide experienced Java developers into the world of Objective-C. It will show them how to…
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“Your nerd knows very little about a lot”
From: Michael Lopp’s book Being Geek – O’Reilly Media In chapter 23, the author addresses the nerd’s significant other. Here are a few pretty significant sentences: Your nerd knows very little about a lot. For many topics, his knowledge is an inch deep and four miles wide. He’s comfortable with this fact because he knows…
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local Perl Monger admin boards: do you want them to behave the democratic way or does Democracy not really matter there?
Shall the admins of mailing lists be publicly known? Shall their decisions get filed to somehow public places, shall these decisions be reviewable by committees? Shall they ask for permission for disciplinary acts (like elimination of group members) at more central instances? Shall it be possible to appeal their decisions? Shall it be possible to…
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how to test procmail rules?
This may sound utterly silly, but within all these years, that I have been using procmail, I never came around to find a way of testing procmail rules other than by testing them in production for my incoming e-mail. The problem is, procmail gets called through sendmail and they deliver the messages. If I resend…
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a recruiter asked for some changes in the style of my CV, and I changed the XSL stylesheets
Quite a couple of years ago I picked up xmlresume as my way of maintaining my CV. A while ago I had to recognise, that xmlresume should be regarded vaporware nowadays. I started looking around, considered to migrate to HR-XML and its CV resp. profile style, but that didn’t really convince me either. In the…
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Sunday late evening some guy dragged me into an absurd emacs/vi/textmate war
OMG, I decided long ago not to waste any 10 seconds time on any such foolish thing, but sometimes the devil comes in disguise …
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had a problem executing “ssh -X” into my new Linux box
Googled for the obvious messages, found myself in an Ubuntu forum, and I must tell you this: Never look for help in any such forum! More incompetence than competence, you only find yourself fooled by school kids. This solved my problem. It had to do with IPv6, which was set up for the kernel, but…
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AVM – FRITZ!Box Fon WLAN 7390 (20002448)
Fatal error: Database connection failed. in /home/bibleserver_com/public_html/v2010/classes/Database.php on line 110
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zsync fills a gap in the technology available for large-scale file distribution
zsync Found this through an openSUSE-11.4 announcement.