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Funny pictures post
About DRM (this is floating around the interwebs, I’m not entirely sure about its origin): The second one is from a webcomic (added to my reader :-)) which I discovered via Bruce Schneier’s blog: And finally, for all the programmers out there (found it via The Reinvigorated Programmer’s blog):
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RegEx which matches strings not containing a substring
This is an interesting problem which can appear in certain cases (although not very often). A little searching around led me to many posts stating that there is no easy solution and the following easy solution: ^((?!my string).)*$ It works as follows: the matching string must contain zero or more characters which are not preceded…
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Java import statement gotcha
There is a lot of debate on the intertubes if one should or shouldn’t use wildcard imports. I’m mostly indifferent to the discussion (mainly because all the package references are resolved compile time – so there is no performance overhead – and because today’s IDE’s contain a lot of smarts to help you figure out…
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delicious/cdman83
Common shell script mistakes Posted: 18 Jan 2010 04:38 AM PST Invalid techniques of proof Posted: 18 Jan 2010 04:07 AM PST Your Bookmarklets, On Steroids – Quix Posted: 20 Jan 2010 03:38 AM PST DNSCog – DNS reporting and diagnostic tools Posted: 19 Jan 2010 11:26 PM PST From DynDNS – a little slow,…
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FindersUK review
Finding relatives was always a topic which interested me marginally, so I was interested in checking out the Finders UK website (which BTW, can also be read in other ways because URLs don’t have the concept of capitalization implicitly – lets just leave at that). They offer different services like tracing heirs. Unfortunately (for me)…
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BrickHouse Alert review
After looking at the site of this Medical Alert company I’m left with troubling questions in my mind. Having an ill grand-parent makes me acutely appreciate the need for Medical Alert services, but this company leaves many open questions, especially considering the fact that this is a company which requires a monthly subscription. Their site…
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Globe Runner review
The second review for today is also for a SEO Consultant: Globe Runner SEO. From all that I can gather, they are a legitimate company (here is their BBB page – so hard to tell these days
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Softline Local Review
Many say that local online marketing is the “next frontier”. While I have some doubts with regarding this phenomenon (my money is on the ever expanding global economy – even though I’ve got “slapped” a couple of times by companies refusing to deliver to Romania), I’ve looked at softline local. They seem like a company…
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You go PHD Comics!
PHD Comics is always great and hilarious (and worth to subscribe to if you are even vaguely related to the academic world – like trough a friend of a friend :-)) but there are those occasions when it is epic, like this one: The media can almost never be trusted to get things right and…
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Carving out files with Perl
I’ve had to use this trick a couple of times the last few years, so I decided that I might as well document it: If you have an image of a storage media (like an SD card or CD/DVD) which you can not mount (either because the filesystem is hosed – that’s a technical term…