Month: August 2011
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MacBook Pro: successfully upgrading memory [update]
MacBook Pro: How to remove or install memory Mine is a “MacBook Pro (17-inch, Mid 2009)“ The compatibility list said, I should add “PC3 -8500 DDR3 1066 MHz type RAM“, but that wasn’t available at my dealer (Saturn Berlin Europa-Center), so instead I installed “2*4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3” (), and that boots nice and…
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Mac OS X Lion: from now on the printer they suggest to you is “Last Printer Used”
“Last Printer Used” – that’s quite a convenient suggestion and choice IMO. If you don’t like that, you can of course choose your favourite standard printer. Actually they could have offered that ages ago. It feels like that was a standard long time ago, and it just got re-invented. Somehow a PITA.
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Virtualization: A Manager’s Guide – O’Reilly Media
Virtualization: A Manager’s Guide – O’Reilly Media dmoz.org lists VirtualBox et al. just as Computers: Emulators: Intel x86 Architecture. They show this in “see also”: Computers: Software: Operating Systems: x86. The author: Dan Kusnetzky. From the TOC: A Model of Virtualization (the Kusnetzky Group model of virtualization) Access Virtualization: Providing Universal Access Application Virtualization: Application Isolation, Delivery and…
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Ruby 1.9.3 previews licence change and speed-ups
Ruby 1.9.3 previews licence change and speed-ups – The H Open Source: News and Features
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Faraday: advanced HTTP requests finally made “easy” in Ruby, centuries after libcurl
Faraday: advanced HTTP requests made easy Just as usual … centuries after Perl (and other programming languages) had started enjoying the advantages of libcurl something initial had gotten picked up for Ruby! Congrats! It’s never to late! And that’s only because the youngsters didn’t want to share, what their grandfathers had already been practicing. Something,…
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phone calls from within Gmail
Calling from Gmail now in 38 languages, with lower rates to over 150 destinations – Official Gmail Blog … being deployed over the next few days …
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DHH on patents
David Heinemeier Hansson in a tweet: The standard for patents should be: Would this product not exist without protection? Maybe Viagra wouldn’t, but the iPad sure would.
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“nations which refuse monopolies of invention, are as fruitful as England in new and useful devices”, Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson on Patents and Freedom of Ideas ~ Moving to Freedom Found in a tweet by David Heinemeier Hansson.
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my GTalk / Adium / Lion problem is gone, and I was the problem
The lesson, I had to learn again: Be cautious with fake /etc/hosts entry, even if they make sense temporarily!