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How to ‘close comments’ on old WordPress posts without manual intervention for each posting
If you have a huge old WordPress blog with thousands of postings – especially if you have migrated it from a non-Wordpress platform – the older postings may be an attractive nuisance for spammers. The simplest thing to do is to close comments on those postings. The problem with this is that WordPress provides a button to
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Where does ‘The North’ begin?
It’s one of those Pub debates which my colleagues are currently arguing about. Various semi-humourous suggestions like “The M4” or “Watford Gap” – but practically and culturally speaking? I’m not sure. I know that when you get to Leeds there’s still a whole lot more “North” above you. As a Midlander I’ve always mentally drawn
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On “Data Compression Using Long Common Strings”, McIlroy & Bentley
Am just reading up on BMDiff: [BigTable] compression looks for similar values along the rows, columns, and times. They use variations of BMDiff and Zippy. BMDiff gives them high write speeds (~100MB/s) and even faster read speeds (~1000MB/s). …which led to reading the paper: We propose a data compression scheme that recognizes the second occurrence
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“The DeWitt Clause” – #Oracle, really? Is this latter bit true?
Several commercial database vendor’s end-user license agreement includes a provision, known as the DeWitt Clause that prohibts researchers and scientists from explictly using their systems’ names in academic papers. In essence, DeWitt Clauses forbid the publication of database benchmarks that the database vendor has not sanctioned. The original DeWitt clause was established by Oracle at
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Bill Cheswick re: On Doing #Security Work For The Government
A job in Washington? The upside: the government certainly has smart people working on interesting projects. Some of the ideas and technology are astonishing. Most of the problems are well-worth solving. Some friends even get to carry guns. What are the downsides? I made a list, as I heard discussed at the conference: It’s hard
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Cure Yourself of Female Weakness with Sharum’s Vegetable Tonic!
See also: CONSTIPATED 66 YEARS! From Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, 1904. Don’t wait until you’re worse!
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What it looks like inside Amazon.
What it looks like inside Amazon.. – Imgur. wow.
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Alash Ensemble with Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, 12.12.08 #tuva
The theme is “Dyngyldai”, also recorded by Huun Huur Tu on “Where Young Grass Grows”.
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Residential Data Feeds, Inc. # Bill Cheswick Home Automation #MUSTREAD (+ includes @stephenfry) /ht @wcheswick
Our home intercom has been connected to a computer for about fifteen years. The auxiliary input of the intercom is connected to the audio output of the server. We almost never use the other intercom inputs. The computer has been supplying us data about the outside through canned announcements and text-to-speech. What sort of data?
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Pierre Curie has an entry in the 1922 Larousse Universel Encyclopaedia. Marie Curie does not.
She gets a mention. Under her maiden name. In her husband’s entry. With no separate entry for herself, even. Hmm. Context