October 2011
2 posts
Get your TITs here: How to set network device... →
Something I needed to do recently… W7 seems to, by default, put Wireless devices ahead of wired ethernet; annoying!
truthintech:
1. Click the Start Button
2. Right Click “Network” and then left Click Properties
3. From the “Network And Sharing Center” window click “Change Adapter Settings”
4. On the “Network Connections” window, press the ALT key on your keyboard to being up the menu...
boingboing's tribute to steve jobs →
August 2011
1 post
“I’d been running for 5 hours and it was getting dark, meanwhile my bowels...”
– While training for an Ultra Marathon - The Oatmeal
July 2011
2 posts
One Hour Ago - PHP vs Python
truthintech:
date(“YmdH”, strtotime(‘1 hour ago’))
vs
datetime.now() - datetime.timedelta(hours=1)).strftime(“%Y%m%d%H”)
Not actually as bad as I had thought.
June 2011
7 posts
“…according to Hesse, is that the merger will give AT&T and Verizon a...”
–
Sprint CEO doing his damndest to stop AT&T’s T-Mobile purchase
“…offering a cloud platform as a service is not core to Google’s...”
– http://m.infoworld.com/d/open-source-software/googles-aging-tech-raises-questions-about-relying-google-app-engine-459?page=0,1
“…trying to shoehorn Python into a “pass-by-reference” or...”
– How does Python pass arguments to a function? By value or by reference?
TIT - Truth In Tech
A collection of Truths that the Tech world champions.
'rm -rf /usr /lib/nvidia-current/xorg/xorg' →
May 2011
3 posts
MacOS X is an Unsuitable Platform for Web... →
http://emergency.cdc.gov/socialmedia/zombies_blog.a... →
http://www.eia.gov/state/state-energy-profiles.cfm?... →
April 2011
1 post
“The next book in George R.R. Martin’s bestselling A Song of Ice and Fire series...”
– http://shelf-life.ew.com/2011/03/03/dance-with-dragons-date/
March 2011
1 post
February 2011
2 posts
“dependency injection is that it is simply a re-branding of existing...”
– http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependency_injection
January 2011
3 posts
“A pidgin language is a simplified language that develops as a means of...”
– Pidgin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via slantback)
“The company still gets eighty percent of its profits from subscribers, many of...”
– AOL’s “Dirty Little Secret”: 60% of AOL’s Profits Come From Misinformed Customers (via slantback)
WatchGreat composition of audio, visual and the evolving science of conservation of energy as it applies to new trains
December 2010
1 post
“…when the microbe was grown on arsenic did the arsenic actually became...”
– NASA-Funded Research Discovers Life Built With Toxic Chemical
November 2010
3 posts
Stop using login/password pairs for SSH logins →
“…only the very tips of the cats’ tongues touched the water. Their...”
– How do cats drink? Very efficiently
“Under the ban - scheduled to take effect December 2011 - restaurants in the...”
– Happy Meal Ban in San Francisco
October 2010
5 posts
The Final Fantasy Retrospective Series; a epic... →
September 2010
2 posts
RIP Bloglines 2003-2010 - Google Reader supersedes →
August 2010
3 posts
July 2010
1 post
June 2010
11 posts
“About 26.33% of oil production and about 14.36% of natural-gas production in the...”
– wsj
“[Got to admire the Apple arrogance in telling customers ‘you’re...”
– all freakin over the web and the iphonehold tumblr blog
“You agree a domain name that has expired shall be subject first to a grace...”
– godaddy domain backorder agreement
“…’There is not a single retailer out there that can guarantee that...”
– Don’t boycott BP gas stations, it does no good.
“It does not matter how slow you go so long as you do not stop.”
– Wisdom of Confucius
“Fun fact: “World of Warcraft” nets Blizzard about as much every year...”
“we will be retiring the Bing cashback feature, which means that the last day you...”
– farewell to bing cashback
via slickdeals
“Dozens of studies by psychologists, neurobiologists, and educators point to the...”
– The Web Shatters Focus, Rewires Brains
May 2010
11 posts
“In order to prepare for the final phase of [Starcraft II] beta testing, we plan...”
– StarCraft II Beta Test Schedule Update
“For personal reasons, I do not browse the web from my computer. (I
also have...”
– 2.5 year old message, apparently from Mr. GNU Richard Stallman