June 2009
7 posts
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Garmin nuvi 265WT
I bought an automotive GPS unit a couple days ago <masculine>so my girlfriend won’t get lost</masculine>. Specifically I got a Garmin nuvi 265WT. This thing is very nice.
The mounting is a mechanical suction cup with a arm featuring a ball on the end. The ball goes into a socket on the device holding clip. The suction cup has a great grip on my windshield (and kitchen counter) and...
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Garmin nuvi 265WT
I bought an automotive GPS unit a couple days ago <masculine>so my girlfriend won’t get lost</masculine>. Specifically I got a Garmin nuvi 265WT. This thing is very nice.
The mounting is a mechanical suction cup with a arm featuring a ball on the end. The ball goes into a socket on the device holding clip. The suction cup has a great grip on my windshield (and kitchen counter) and...
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Half-game Downloads
It’s valuable to give you only half of what you paid for.
http://hellforge.gameriot.com/blogs/Hellforge/EA-Games-Everything-On-The-Disc-Is-A-Demo
So to foil pirates they’re only giving you half the game on the disk. The rest you have to download… having already paid for the game. This isn’t a patch or content update, this is content they just didn’t put on the disk.
Mr. Riccitello says:
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Web Log Retention
I hang out in some IRC channels to share questions and generally admire how smart I am. Sometimes parts of the discussion are worth sharing.
mnex: do access_log should be considered as confidential information ?
crunge: mnex: confidential, yes
crunge: mnex: at the very least it’s proprietary business information that helps in the analysis of the effectiveness of one’s website and marketing
crunge: mnex: business aside, your visitors probably don’t want everyone to know what they’ve been looking at.
crunge: mnex: also, sometimes URLs contain sensitive information like search terms, user names, addresses, phone numbers, etc
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Chicken Parmesan a la Kludge
Wikipedia describes a Kludge as:
A kludge (or kluge) is a workaround, an ad hoc engineering solution, a clumsy or inelegant solution to a problem, typically using parts that are cobbled together.
How could one cobble together a fancy Italian dish with random stuff?
Lower your standards for Italian food, dramatically.
Bake frozen chicken fingers according to their instructions.
I...
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The Duel
I may have dug myself into a hole but the results of the slide down should be interesting. My first “blog” was on Freenet and my most common post was to the effect of, “Sorry I haven’t updated in a while..”. I suspect that something of that nature is the most common update to blogs. Seeing a friend make such a reference I decided to open my big fat mouth and make a challenge.
I think this...
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Virtual Mail Hosting with Postfix, Cyrus and...
My sister makes delicious fudge and sells it online through her website http://sanfordfudge.com. Being the computer geek in the family I help get it set up and deal with a little of the day to day requirements of the website. One of those requirements is that order notification emails are routed properly. As a knowledgeable Linux geek I’m undaunted by the idea of running my own mail system...