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Spectropoetics
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poetic philosophical inquiry regarding the humanities, science and religion.
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Fix Fedora 12s Broken User Access
Fix Fedora 12s Broken User Access A hotly debated topic this week has been a decision made with the latest release of Fedora. The 12th release has made it so that local users can install signed packages from the repositories, without root access. Yo...
California requires TVs to be more energy-efficient in 2011
California requires TVs to be more energy-efficient in 2011rnPower-hungry televisions will be banned from store shelves in California after state regulators adopted a first-in-the nation mandate …...
Simply select the text to duplicate it on clipboard: AutoCopy
Simply select the text to duplicate it on clipboard: AutoCopyrn Duplicating text from a webpage is often required, and no doubt this task is pretty easy. You need to choose the text and copy it either by right click menu or simply by ‘Ctrl+c’. n ...
How to Freeze Gems with Rails >= 2.1
How to Freeze Gems with Rails >= 2.1rn I spent a couple of minutes trying to figure out how to ‘freeze’ gems with a recent Rails app (2.2.2) I’m developing. A bunch of git repositories have this vendor/gems folder a bit like in Merb, so I was p...
Thoughts on IronRuby and .Net Testing
Thoughts on IronRuby and .Net Testingrn This day I wrote some IronRuby tests targetting C# code (using both MSpec and the bundled Test::Unit). Things went out totally well. nnn While I won’t share the code in question yet, here’s a working exampl...
How to Retrieve Delicious Tags and Number of Bookmarks for a Given Url
How to Retrieve Delicious Tags and Number of Bookmarks for a Given Urlrn In case that’s of any use to you, here’s how you can query Delicious if you want to retrieve informations about a specific url (ruby code, translate to whatever works for yo...


very deep!
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