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More Posting… MOAR!
Jerry Seinfeld once came up with a neat productivity secret: Years ago when Seinfeld was a new television show, Jerry Seinfeld was still a touring comic. At the time, I was hanging around clubs doing open mic nights and trying to learn the ropes. One night I was in the club where Seinfeld was working,
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Step by Step : Install a Minecraft Server on Ubuntu
There are a few guides out there on the internet, but since I run a few Minecraft servers myself, I thought I’d catalogue the process here for prosperity. This guide will deal with installing Minecraft on Ubuntu 12.04, hardening the install a little, then opening up the necessary ports for making your server available on
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Android to Android Tethering over Bluetooth
I have a Galaxy Nexus (GNex hereafter) phone and a Nexus 7 (N7 hereafter) tablet. Since the N7 is WIFI only, it’s not much use on the bus unless I use some kind of tether back to my phone. Until recently, I’d simply created a WIFI hotspot on my GNex and the N7 would happily
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Let it all out (part #1)
Sometimes you just have to get it out there, get it off your chest and have a good rant. In no particular order, here’s a tidy list of things that pissed me off in the world of technology recently : This bug, in launchpad, where an issue with bad web servers can cause TLS negotiation
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Living in Stallman’s World
Recently, Richard Stallman posted that we should now shun Ubuntu because it includes (in his exact words) spyware. He’s referring to the fact that the most recent (12.10) release of Ubuntu includes the Shopping Lens by default, which integrates search results from Amazon into your Dash. Of course, this is hardly “spyware”. Such a term
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