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could you guys talk to those other guys and then
Here, have some more volume control hate, this time from Dell. I have a Dell Latitude D600. It has three “multimedia keys” for volume down, up, and mute. It came with a Dell multimedia USB keyboard, with eight multimedia keys: volume down, up, and mute, plus five more for browser control, I guess — back, […]
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ui hall of shame: gnome-volume-control
This one’s a lot simpler than previous entries. The program illustrated below, gnome-volume-control, is the standalone volume control application for GNOME. The other volume control is an applet with a single slider, so this is the only way to change anything other than overall volume. Who in their right mind would let this go out […]
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Why Google Base?
Google Base has broken new ground for Google by being the first service they’ve introduced which I can’t understand the purpose of. Google is a search engine. GMail is a mail client. Froogle is a search engine designed for shopping. Google Groups is Usenet and mailing lists. Google Suggest refines searches, Google Scholar searches academic […]
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mysql argh
Fun MySQL problems at work today. An application update introduced a handful of regularly-run but poorly optimized queries — full table scans, temporary tables, the works — on a box that was already pretty heavily taxed. The end result was a run queue of 20-60 when things were bad, alternating with inexplicable periods of idleness. […]
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the what, where
Nice error message, LiveJournal.
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bash is terrifying me again
:) fishsticks$ exec 5<>/dev/tcp/www.perl.org/80 :) fishsticks$ echo -e “GET / HTTP/1.0\nHost: www.perl.org\n\n” >&5 :) fishsticks$ head -1 <&5 HTTP/1.1 200 OK :) fishsticks$ ls /dev/tcp ls: /dev/tcp: No such file or directory Potentially handy, yes, but yeeesh.
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linkythings
Item! ☞ The pedestrian menace must be stopped! ☞ MY NAME IS MIRIAM SESE-SEKO AND I AM THE WIFE OF THE LATE CHANCELLOR OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA. ☞ This article discusses (sort of) the naval forces of the Byzantine Empire. You know, that other kind of ship. The little one. ☞ Also from […]
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Packing your service now
I just went to install the Windows 2003 Server Administration Tools Pack on my Windows 2000 desktop, and got the following error: Windows Server 2003 Service pack 1 Administration Tools Pack can be installed only on computers running either Windows XP Professional 9with either Q329357 or Service pack 1 or later applied) or Windows Server […]