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Twitter Updates for 2009-10-23
@LFoaB ping a message to @LaureenH, she's on a boat in Oakland, home schools, recently got a Mac. Also I'm happy to field mac tech q's in reply to LFoaB # @LFoaB ps: Frankly there's little wrong with the white MacBook at $999 although extra memory ($100) is a boon in reply to LFoaB #
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Twitter Updates for 2009-10-23
@LFoaB ping a message to @LaureenH, she's on a boat in Oakland, home schools, recently got a Mac. Also I'm happy to field mac tech q's in reply to LFoaB # @LFoaB ps: Frankly there's little wrong with the white MacBook at $999 although extra memory ($100) is a boon in reply to LFoaB #
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Twitter Updates for 2009-10-22
+1 RT @glynmoody GCHQ outsources net snooping to EDS – http://bit.ly/3x9cCL thank goodness… it'll be late and probably never work properly in reply to glynmoody # Anyone reading this familiar with creating #Ubuntu packages? Don't want to run a repository, just create an installable + dependencies… # @timburks http://themineproject.org – because data has reduced requirement…
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Twitter Updates for 2009-10-21
funny feeling when the house you grew up in gets sold. # Michael Jennings geeks-out on Windows version numbers: http://is.gd/4sZjE – I think SunOS can match/exceed MS on this one… # http://is.gd/4tPjC "SunOS 4.1.3_U1 is still God's Own Operating System in my mind: anything else is either new-fangled or obsolescent." # http://is.gd/4tGj8 Excellent Geek Reading:…
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A quick lookup table of Solaris vs SunOS names
Inspired by Michael Jennings’ History of Windows Version Numbers. As a Sun systems admin you had to know all of the below, and be able to translate in both directions, just to do your job. The changeover from SunOS to Solaris numbering was not a good time… Sources Wikipedia [1] [2] and first hand experience.…
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Twitter Updates for 2009-10-20
users like @LethaJefferso are amongst the reasons I would almost support banning of url-shorteners on twitter # do you remember the days when tinyurls were only 4 characters long? (now == 7) #
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Twitter Updates for 2009-10-19
@kurtsauer watching it now, looks great! in reply to kurtsauer # loading 2000 vurls into pymine so i can test pagination and stress it a bit in the morning. #themineproject #
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Twitter Updates for 2009-10-16
oy veh> Free Delivery on All Amazon.co.uk Orders This Christmas # @jimfinnis http://bit.ly/GIRfO – Ron "Typewriter" Mingo #
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Twitter Updates for 2009-10-15
@nmeth Best wishes! I know what you're going through – http://is.gd/4jDRL http://is.gd/4jE1w – it sucks, but life is far better afterward in reply to nmeth # re: http://is.gd/4jEeG – in theory http:/path/file.ext should go to localhost, no? # Thought for the day: Swarfega should release men's cosmetics. # @nmeth The hairy one only IM's me…
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Twitter Updates for 2009-10-14
That's another vat of "random vegetable soup". No need to think about food tomorrow. 🙂 # #carterruck #trafigura – greatest similie ever: http://bit.ly/Aj4Iu # @LaureenH nah, cheated with some swiss stuff. in reply to LaureenH #
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Trafigura debacle highlights inobvious URL-shortener problem #stopshortening
It’s not that bit.ly, tinyurl, tr.im or is.gd are *dying* you understand… although some people have reported that. The issue is that with the Trafigura and Carter-Ruck debacle generating multiple tweets per second, it shows up an issue which otherwise stays below the radar of annoyance: WHEN URL-SHORTENERS ARE USED EVERYWHERE IN A DISCUSSION, YOU…