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Taking apart the Dell Inspiron 9400
A word of caution: taking apart your laptop will void your warranty. Do this operation at your own risk. If you are not comfortable doing this operation, I would recommend against it. Disassembling a laptop is harder than taking apart a desktop computer (mostly because of the confined space), so you shouldn’t do it if…
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Watch out for those reviews…
Recently I was buying a notebook HDD, and after considering a Samsung SpinPoint model, I’ve looked around the net to see if there were any known issues with the model. So I stumbled upon this page and my blood ran cold. Quote: One of the most common problems Samsung SpinPoint hard drives experience is burnt…
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And now for some upbeat news
While I certainly like to rant, one shouldn’t forget about the more sunny side of life (unless you want to go berserk). So here are some random positive things: Some songs which I like: A funny image from a friend: A couple of great freeware programs for the Windows platform: CDBurnerXP – does everything Nero…
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The difference between additive and subtractive color schemes
I’ve known for the longest time that there are two ways of creating / describing colors: additive (RGB) and subtractive (CMYK). However I never really understood the equivalence between them, until recently, when I picked up a book which presented the general concepts of typography. This is very cool, so I’ll try to document it…
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If you use Perl…
Please take a minute an answer the poll “Which editor(s) or IDE(s) are you using for Perl development?“ (via perlbuzz and szabgab). Picture taken from Knightrider’s photostream with permission.
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delicious/cdman83
Comodo Instant Malware Analysis Posted: 30 Sep 2009 04:12 AM PDT Gomorra (2008) Posted: 30 Sep 2009 11:10 PM PDT A Unified theory of Superman’s Powers Posted: 07 Oct 2009 07:29 AM PDT Via http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2009/10/links-10409.html This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now myNetWatchman – Network Intrusion Detection and Reporting Posted: 11 Oct 2009…
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A couple of new challenges
Here are a couple of challenges I found on the interwebs: SSHliders – from ethicalhacker.net. This one is centered around *nix shell scripting and more advanced topics like pipes. Hugi Size Coding Compo #29 (from Hugi) – not much time left there, the deadline is the 28th of October. No flashy prizes either, just the…
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Using TarInputStream from Java
Recently I had to parse trough a bunch of logs, scattered in subdirectories and different types of archives (tar, bz and gz). My first thought was of course Perl (since it is the language for parsing quasi-freeform text), however I didn’t have “streaming” implementation for the archive modules, which in my case was very important,…
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Avalonix Wireless Camera review
A wireless security camera is quite an interesting piece of technical equipment, which – the conventional wisdom holds – can deter people from breaking the rules (whatever those might be) or help after the fact demonstrate “who done it”. Their real value is however questionable. For one, they can become a prime target for attackers…
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Grooveshark
Disclaimer: I received no compensation for this review. All the opinions are my own. There are a couple of actions you can do with music you have on your computer: You can listen to an arbitrary song from your library You can jump in the song you are listening to You can share it with…