Month: January 2012
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Virtual Sweatshops Defeat CAPTCHAs
From Four short links: 11 January 2011 by Nat Torkington. Virtual Sweatshops Defeat CAPTCHAs I knew there was an industry around solving CAPTCHAs (to spam comments on blogs, sign up for millions of gmail accounts, etc.) but this is the first time I’ve seen how much you can be paid for it: employees can expect to…
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google-refine – Google Refine, a power tool for working with messy data (formerly Freebase Gridworks) – Google Project Hosting
google-refine – Google Refine, a power tool for working with messy data (formerly Freebase Gridworks) – Google Project Hosting Watch at least the 1st video there! If you are interested in data, you may love it.
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HealthCheck: Linux Mint
HealthCheck: Linux Mint: The success of Linux Mint is down to its usability – easy to set up and get running and then use. The latest development is a new user interface, Cinnamon. Richard Hillesley looks at the history of Mint and considers whether Cinnamon marks a turning point for the distribution …
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“Firefox for Enterprises” – Delivering a Mozilla Firefox Extended Support Release (“ESR”) | The Mozilla Blog
Delivering a Mozilla Firefox Extended Support Release | The Mozilla Blog
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FSFE opens 2012 Document Freedom Award nominations
FSFE opens 2012 Document Freedom Award nominations: The Free Software Foundation Europe is seeking nominations for its fourth annual Document Freedom Award, which will be presented on this year’s Document Freedom Day … I would have loved to suggest AVM for supporting Ogg Vorbis in their FRITZ!WLAN (WiFi) Repeater series and their FRITZ!Fon series for receiving…
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No Starch Press book: The Linux Command Line
The Linux Command Line: The Linux Command Line takes you from your very first terminal keystrokes to writing full programs in Bash, the most popular Linux shell. Along the way you’ll learn the timeless skills handed down by generations of gray-bearded, mouse-shunning gurus: file navigation, environment configuration, command chaining, pattern matching with regular expressions, and…
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mbox — more technical information than you ever thought you’d need, to be saved for the time when you have to parse mailbox files
FGA: “mbox” is a family of several mutually incompatible mailbox formats.
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The Pragmatic Bookshelf: The Developer’s Code
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o’Reilly Media book: Hacking Healthcare – A Guide to Standards, Workflows, and Meaningful Use
Meaningful Use and Beyond: Ready to take your IT skills to the healthcare industry? This concise book provides a candid assessment of the US healthcare system as it ramps up its use of electronic health records (EHRs) and other forms of IT to comply with the government’s Meaningful Use requirements. It’s a tremendous opportunity for…
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o’Reilly OFPS (“Open Feedback Publishing System”): several nice free online books
Open Feedback Publishing System