I’m having trouble imagining the chain of events that would lead to this being in the final script. The most likely explanation I can think of is that their local “tech” guy either was a moron that threw together random buzzwords, or (IMO more likely) wanted to mess with them by getting them to put [...]
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I’ve been using Chrome for days now as my main browser in Windows, and I’m very happy with it. It’s ridiculously fast (around 3x faster according to this test). One thing it lacks, however, is an ad blocker. Luckily, I have been using Privoxy for a while, and it blocks ads regardless of what browser you’re [...]
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Yup, a Genius “MousePen 8×6.” I played with it for an hour or so in Photoshop. My first thought was that I wasted my money — the pen and tablet didn’t change the fact that I’m a crappy artist — but after I got the hang of it I began to like it. Sure, I [...]
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I just installed TinyXP on a system I’m building for a friend, and I was amazed. I chose the “BARE” install without IE/OE/WMP, and it worked like a charm. It booted very quickly, and the ram usage was just above 70mb total!
The idea behind TinyXP is that most of the useless junk that comes with [...]
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Fluxbox is a minimalistic window manager for *nix systems, based on Blackbox. You can replicate its look and feel somewhat well with complex shell replacements like Litestep, but there’s no reason to settle for that. Blackbox itself was actually ported to Windows, and there are several projects now in development based on that code. The [...]
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I run several websites, a few of which have user-generated content and have to deal with spam. Because of this, I’ve occasionally had to use CAPTCHAs. If you don’t know what they are, they’re the little images with letters/numbers in them that you need to reproduce to prove you aren’t a bot. They’re generally thought [...]
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I got my invitation to be a beta tester for [true knowledge], and I’ve been playing around with it. Basially, it’s a search engine that can handle natural language search queries, and find relevant information even if the specific terms used in the search query aren’t found. This is a fascinating technology that I wish [...]
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