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http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781615424252.do Learn what’s private online (not much)–and what to do about it! Do you have anything to hide? Whether or not you think you do, your online activities are certainly tracked — and not just by well-meaning sites who want to keep you logged in or by marketing firms who want to show you targeted…

Why it’s ok to buy books and not read them “I used to feel guilty about books I own but haven’t read. They’d sit in piles making me feel unworthy as a writer, and reader. And no matter how many books I’d read in a year, I’d always find myself buying more. I couldn’t win.…

OS X: How to reset the DNS cache Windows (Vista): http://en.kioskea.net/faq/10548-vista-reset-the-dns-cache https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dns-cache/ – has usability issues according to the reviews http://www.techiecorner.com/225/how-to-disable-firefox-dns-cache/ – go for the manual approach:    This is the manual approach for Firefox: Introduce 2 new variables within about:config: network.dnsCacheExpiration (integer / 0) and network.dnsCacheEntries (integer / 0); my problem with this: if…

Root Checker – Android Apps on Google Play Once you are rooted, you want to be sure, you really are.

This is such a P.I.T.A.

http://get.cm/ http://www.get.cm/?device=i9100 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanogenmod http://www.androidauthority.com/galaxy-s2-gt-i9100-flash-cyanogenmod-10-1-144123/

So far I have been using rsync for this purpose, but there is still space for optimizations. If I locally rename a big file, next time my “rsync -vaz –delete-after” will copy the file using the new name and remove it using its old name. I would actually prefer to see the file getting renamed…

http://pragprog.com/book/dnvim/practical-vim