opinion-and-editorial
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JeOS
Just enough Operating System, JeOS, pronounced like Juice. Is a term used to describe an operating system that has been stripped down from unecessary packages. It is a bare bones system for all intents and purposes. Some of the JeOS releases have optimized kernels for various virtualization platforms making this type of distro favorable if…
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Tree
Tree is a simple and unique utility. It sticks to the Unix motto of doing one thing and doing it well. As stated in the info page, it list contents of directories in a tree-like format If you’re a visual kind of person, this utility is very useful at times. I use it when I…
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Columns on WordPress posts
Last night, as I was writing one of the posts for my blogging tutorial series, I wanted a way to get columns working in a post. Newspaper style, or magazine style some may call it. I thought it would be really cool if I could wrap content around short tags that would automatically make columns.…
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Multiple Profiles in Firefox
Firefox has a neat built in feature that allows you to have multiple profiles in one computer. It can serve many different purposes, for example, if you share one computer with multiple people, each person can have their own profile. If you’re a parent and want to maintain some basic controls on your children’s internet…
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Robots that eat bugs to earn their keep!
Check these out! Two guys from the UK designed a series of robots that mimic some of the carnivorous plants in the wild. Well, kind of. These robots are functional, like a lamp that attracts bugs, and then “eats” them so it can continue to provide light. That’s cool. Or a mechanical art piece –I…
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et alia, What is it? When should you use it?
Rather it should be et aliæ , or et alii depending on whether the subjects are female or male respectively. Roughly means “the rest.” Apparently you can use et alli or the abbreviation: et al. for groups with both men and women making the whole gender issue a moot one. I’ve seen this used before,…
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What’s a euphemism?
A euphemism is a way of saying something with words that are nicer. It replaces a more coarse term or name, and it usually makes it sound good or not as bad as the original. Most politically correct terms are euphemisms. For example, instead of calling somebody fat, you’d call them big boned or curvy.…
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iPhone 3.0 is here, so is 3GS… still no single inbox view.
This is freaking ridiculous. Apple, why must you make us click out of our inbox just to go check another account? We have to click back a number of times just to go check another account? WTF is wrong with you guys. Blackberry has been doing this for years, every other smart phone out there…
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Subconjunctival hemorrhage aka Zombie Eyes
Today is day #11 after my eyes suffered what is technically known as Subconjunctival hemorrhage. In layman’s terms, the tiny blood vessels in my eyes burst, creating a pretty freaky zombie type of effect. On Saturday morning, eleven days ago I had really violent vomiting, and after 3 or four times of painful dry heaving,…
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