Month: March 2012
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the printtool process on my Mac OS X Lion MacBook goes wild – related to my “Samsung SCX-4623F” MFP
“Killing” the printtool process itself doesn’t help, because it gets restarted and shows the same problem again: eating up CPU resources. The device is an MFP, i.e. it’s also a scanner, and what seems to help me here, is to “kill” the “Smart Panel” (AKA SPanel) process. I couldn’t find a recent driver update on…
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Wikipedia’s Next Big Thing: Wikidata, A Machine-Readable, User-Editable Database Funded By Google, Paul Allen And Others | TechCrunch
Wikipedia’s Next Big Thing: Wikidata, A Machine-Readable, User-Editable Database Funded By Google, Paul Allen And Others | TechCrunch The article links this to Google’s announcement regarding semantic queries.
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“How Emacs Changed my Life” – a presentation by Yukihiro Matz (Ruby’s creator)
How Emacs changed my life
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Ecquire: reads all your social networking and stores it in a CRM
Ecquire Plugs itself into your Gmail, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook. Stores data into your CRM: Salesforce, Highrise, Google Docs, MailChimp, … Found it through this tweet.
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LESS (stylesheet language) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
LESS (stylesheet language) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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a rather obtrusive Chrome / Chromium extension: YAGBE – Yet Another Google Bookmarks Extension
YAGBE – Yet Another Google Bookmarks Extension It attempts to add ads on deliberate pages, that you view. Those pages are not at all related to YAGBE. If consider that rather appalling and not at all tolerable.
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o’Reilly Media book: The Data Journalism Handbook
The Data Journalism Handbook: This collaborative book coordinated by the European Journalism Centre and the Open Knowledge Foundation aims to answer questions like: Where can I find data? How can I request data? What tools can I use? How can I find stories in data? How can I make data journalism sustainable? It had a…
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O’Reilly Media book: LPIC-2 Linux Professional Institute Certification Study Guide
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781118000151.do: The first book to cover the LPIC-2 certification Linux allows developers to update source code freely, making it an excellent, low-cost, secure alternative to alternate, more expensive operating systems. It is for this reason that the demand for IT professionals to have an LPI certification is so strong. This study guide provides unparalleled coverage…
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o’Reilly Media book: Database Design and Relational Theory – Normals Forms and All That Jazz
Database Design and Relational Theory: Because databases often stay in production for decades, careful design is critical to making the database serve the needs of your users over years, and to avoid subtle errors or performance problems. In this book, CJ Date, a leading exponent of relational databases, lays out the principles of good database…