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Schneier on Security: Data Mining for Terrorists
Finding terrorism plots is not a problem that lends itself to data mining. It’s a needle-in-a-haystack problem, and throwing more hay on the pile doesn’t make that problem any easier. We’d be far better off putting people in charge of investigating potent
(tags: politics security privacy)

Making Photos Better by Removing [...]

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Quicksilver to Flickr
(tags: macosx software web2.0)

The Gay Old Party Comes Out
The political party fond of demonizing homosexuals is as well-stocked with trusted gay leaders as virtually every other power center in America.
(tags: politics republicans religion)

20 Things the Average Person Doesn’t Know About Windows XP
Useful & interesting tips for windows XP.
(tags: windows tips reference)

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Baghira
A very nice OS X theme for KDE.
(tags: linux osx themes)

Freedom to Fascism | MetaFilter
(tags: politics)

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One of my big projects in the last week was setting up LDAP on my Linux server and configuring a Mac to use it for authentication. It took me a few days to get the server working, but once I understood the schema & naming conventions, I was able to figure it out easily.
I needed [...]

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The 7 Worst Fonts
Ugly fonts, cutesy fonts, unreadable fonts, bad fonts . . . they have terrorized us for far too long, infiltrating our homes via e-mail, IM, and low-rent ValPak ads. Here, LMNOP presents the seven worst fonts–and the people who use them.
(tags: design humor funny)

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Linux XP Desktop Home
(tags: linux windows opensource software)

ONJava.com — Demystifying LDAP
(tags: network HOWTO ldap linux)

Technical Note TN2137: Building Universal Binaries from “configure”-based Open Source Projects
(tags: mac programming opensource development osx)

Web 2.0 Validator : We’re the dot in Web 2.0
(tags: web2.0 fun tools)

King Abdullah bin Al-Hussein (1882-1951)
This fascinating essay, written by King Hussein’s grandfather King Abdullah, [...]

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I noticed a nice new feature in the Parallels Desktop update. It now shows the OS type as a badge in the dock icon.

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LinuxDevices.com — your embedded Linux resource
(tags: linux hardware gadgets)

Official Google Mac Blog
If you sit down at your Mac, start up your browser, and search for “Google mission statement”, this is what you’ll see
(tags: Apple google blog mac)

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Here’s a very funny article about Windows Vista features that didn’t make it into the RC.
Some of the features:

Mimesweeper

Safe Delete

Start Menu Action Field

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Linux Home Server HOWTO - Shared Address Book (LDAP)
(tags: HOWTO linux network)

How to create your own iPod screensaver - Lifehacker
(tags: ipod hacks)

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My MacBook Pro finally arrived safely, with a new 160G internal drive, along with the old drive, which I put in an external SATA/USB 2.0 case. I’m now partitioning the new drive and restoring my data.

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Grokking Drupal: ecommerce dependencies | Riff Blog
The Drupal ecommerce module suite is a rapidly evolving and quite massive part of Drupal, and newcoming developers may be overwhelmed by the sheer number of modules included in the suite. This UML dependency diagram chart should help understand how the mo
(tags: drupal)

LDAP Linux HOWTO
(tags: HOWTO linux)

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Getting Things Done: 12 Task Management Solutions for Mac Users
2006.10.04 Things Done: 9 Online Task Management Solutions
(tags: software apple tips GTD)

Recording HDTV
(tags: dvr HOWTO mac hdtv)

VirtualDVHS Timeshifting on Motorola 6200
(tags: dvr HOWTO mac video)

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This doesn’t surprise me and this isn’t the first time it happened. I spent all day today waiting for a package from DHL (unfortunately that was the only way they ship, otherwise I would have chosen another method), tracking it online continuously. All day it showed “with delivery courier” until around 7:30 tonight. Later in [...]

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Via Planet Drupal:
One blog is accumulating Google code searches that reveal information they shouldn’t. For example this search produces a list of some Drupal database usernames and passwords. Most are for distributions but a few folks have unwisely put backups of their configuration files in .tar files inside their web accessible directories.
Simply put, no [...]

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Linux NFS-HOWTO
(tags: Linux HowTo network)

The Third Party of America - Exploring Alternative Political Solutions
creating a platform truly of and by the people.
(tags: politics activism)

Google Code Search
(tags: programming opensource tools google)

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My company recently switched from Visual SourceSafe (which I accessed using SourceOffsite) to Visual Studio Team System for version control, which has caused me endless grief.
The first annoyance was there’s no way to see which files were changed locally in the file list. The bigger problem is it can’t handle Unix/Mac line endings. If you [...]

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People continue to throw their stuff in the bulk disposal dumpster even though it’s full. The city just picks it up once or twice a month & it’s scheduled for pickup tomorrow.

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Creating Awesome New Icons | Lullabot
Learn how to create new, great-looking icons for your web project
(tags: drupal icons HOWTO)

Reality Check: Fanpop
(tags: blog)

Triple Boot via BootCamp
This procedure allows you to triple boot OSX, Windows XP and Linux. It has been sucessfully used to setup a macbook, but is untested on the imac/mini.
(tags: hacks HOWTO mac apple [...]

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To save room on my internal drive (which will no longer be necessary after the drive upgrade), I tried putting my Windows Vista & Linux Parallels VMs on an external drive. I have two bus-powered 2.5″ external drives: a SmartDisk FireLite 60 with a FireWire connection, and a Western Digital Passport 120 with a USB [...]

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