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What is big data?: Big data is data that exceeds the processing capacity of conventional database systems. The data is too big, moves too fast, or doesn’t fit the strictures of your database architectures. To gain value from this data, you must choose an alternative way to process it. […]

Chromium 18.0.1002.0 showed a lot of form fields inverted

Jan 12, 2012

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That was quite a PITA. Chromium 18.0.1006.0 seems to be fine again. I am very glad.

vistaprint invoices vs currency characters: it’s safer to print those invoices from their web-site

Jan 12, 2012

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Flat text invoices – they are really not my favourite, because I anticipate problems with the taxman. The flat text invoices, they send me via e-mail, are even worse: my software says, they are in UTF-8, and that’s my select encoding, but still the EUR character gets displayed as “?”. I doubt, my taxman would…

To understand the Good Samaritan, you must know a Samaritan was the last person to whom Jews would look for help

Jan 12, 2012

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The Bad Samaritan – Biblical Archeology Society – Jewish Ideas Daily You can’t understand the story of the Good Samaritan without knowing that a Samaritan was the last kind of person to whom a Jew would look for help. Amy-Jill Levine, Biblical Archeology Society.

Google Chrome extension “Scraper”

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Chrome Web Store – Scraper A really nice and useful utility. Looks like it currently deals deal perfectly with spanning columns, but then … something must remain for the human factor.

Virtual Sweatshops Defeat CAPTCHAs

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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…

google-refine – Google Refine, a power tool for working with messy data (formerly Freebase Gridworks) – Google Project Hosting

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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.

HealthCheck: Linux Mint

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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 …

FSFE opens 2012 Document Freedom Award nominations

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