Month: August 2015
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Tox is a free and open-source, peer-to-peer, encrypted instant messaging and video calling software
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tox_(software) https://netzpolitik.org/2015/auf-der-suche-nach-einer-skype-alternative-tox/
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CPAN history – edited by Neil Bowers
https://github.com/neilbowers/history-of-cpan/blob/master/history.md Very nicely made. I truely “love” CPAN.
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joke: silence is golden
As Air Force One arrives at the Heathrow Airport , President Obama strides to a warm and dignified reception from Her Majesty the Queen. They are driven in a 1934 Bentley to the edge of central London, where they change to a magnificent 17th century carriage hitched to six white horses. They continue on towards…
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Emoji cheat sheet for GitHub, Basecamp and other services
Emoji codes used by GitHub, Basecamp, Slack and other services. Searchable. With emoji meanings. http://www.emoji-cheat-sheet.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji It seems intriguing to use the English-language-codes of those emoticons in places, where you can’t select the respective emoticon from a graphical list, hoping it gets replaced by its graphical counterpart anyway.
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cross-compiling BusyBox is a piece of cake
http://www.busybox.net/FAQ.html http://landley.net/aboriginal/downloads/binaries The FAQ told me where to get a ready-made cross-compiler. I downloaded the most recent busybox sources TAR file. Within the untarred busybox sources I ran make menuconfig; make; make CONFIG_PREFIX=target_root_dir, then I ftp-ed the statically linked busybox to my target system, and halas!, it runs like a charm. What did I change within…
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1945-08-09: the U.S. Army Air Force bomber Bockscar dropped an atomic bomb named “Fat Man” on Nagasaki killing at least 35,000 people outright
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_Man
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1945-08-06: the U.S. Army Air Force bomber Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb named “Little Boy” on Hiroshima killing as many as 140,000 people
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Boy