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links for 2009-05-12
fit-PC2 Wiki "CompuLab introduces fit-PC2 – the smallest, most power-efficient Intel Atom PC to date. fit-PC2 architecture is what sets it apart from other nettop PCs – fit-PC2 is designed around the Intel Atom Z530 1.6GHz and the ultra low power Intel US15W system controller hub, rather than the Atom N270 and 945G used in […]
links for 2009-05-11
Open Letter To Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg | THE CUBAN REVOLUTION "The issue of the proliferation of Facebook groups that promote hatred of religious and ethnics groups and the hate speech those groups perpetrate. While you may have your doubts, I submit that this includes those who promote the fringe revisionist theory of Holocaust Denial." (tags: holocaust […]
links for 2009-05-10
Icojoy – stock icons shop, article 'Onebit free icon set' Nice set of webicons. (tags: icons webdesign webdevelopment) snopes.com: Texas Dividing into Five States Texas can leave the USA but only by dividing into 5 separate states. (tags: texas usa politics history) We Texans Are Patriots; Understand Our Shame … | American Constitution Society "Why […]
SQL: The Basics
SQL is a domain specific language (a language designed to do one thing and knock the socks off at doing it) that just accesses databases. Okay but what is a database? Well a database is essentially a collection of data, yeah I know that doesn’t help much. To clarify we’ll play a little mental exercise. […]
links for 2009-05-09
Server Fault Ask your sysadmin questions here. (tags: sysadmin windows linux technology hardware software stackoverflow serverfault apache support server) QuarkRuby: Why I moved from Prototype to jQuery What makes a developer switch JavaScript Frameworks? (tags: prototype jquery javascript webdevelopment programming css ajax library framework ruby rubyonrails)
links for 2009-05-07
Obama Will Propose $17 Billion in Budget Cuts – NYTimes.com "President Obama on Thursday will unveil nearly $17 billion in additional budget cuts for the coming fiscal year to showcase what a top adviser called a “constant” effort to find savings at a time when the government’s costs for bailouts, health care and wars are […]
links for 2009-05-06
BBC NEWS | Americas | US 'hate list' DJ to sue Britain "Conservative political commentator Michael Savage, real name Michael Alan Weiner, is one of 22 people barred for fostering extremism or hate." Freedom of the speech people we have it, Britain not so much. (tags: uk politics freedomofspeech) Indiana Bus Company Rejects Atheist Ad […]
links for 2009-05-05
Mozilla ponders policy change after Firefox extension battle – Ars Technica "The NoScript Firefox extension faced a major backlash last week when users discovered that it was surreptitiously disrupting the operation of AdBlock Plus. The developers behind the two extensions turned the browser into a battleground as their conflict escalated. Mozilla has responded by proposing […]
links for 2009-05-04
Signs That Borrow-and-Spend Policies Aren’t Sustainable – NYTimes.com "The rising tab has prompted warnings from the Treasury that the Congressionally mandated debt ceiling of $12.1 trillion will most likely be breached in the second half of this year." Which was raised to that amount under W. Bush. (tags: politics budget debt economy economics obama) With […]
links for 2009-05-03
RideCharge – Taxi, Sedan, Shuttle Booking Online Or With Your Mobile Smartphone Looks like a neat system. (tags: iphone iphoneapps business travel mobile) Never store passwords in a database! And another one on the same thing. (tags: password security programming database hashing encryption) Coding Horror: You're Probably Storing Passwords Incorrectly The absolute basics on storing […]
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