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Living Room / Low Dosage Phenomena

« Last post by housetier on March 19, 2011, 06:41 AM »

From one of my feeds related to science comes this snippet:

Coulter and O'Reilly, arguing over science. America really has become an idiocracy.

-http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/03/will_radiation_hormesis_protec.php

On the one hand it is easy to laugh about fools, but I think these particular fools are dangerous because of their influence on other people.

Anyway, the actual article is longer and explains things better and more coherent (for me at last).

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Living Room / Re: The March 2011 6th Anniversary Fundraiser Has Begun! Cheer for Victory Thread

« Last post by housetier on March 19, 2011, 04:55 AM »

Cody's Club! I like that!

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Living Room / Re: Amazing LEGO Great Ball Contraption Breaks World Record

« Last post by housetier on March 18, 2011, 03:46 PM »

Just when I think "Wow that thing is HUGE" the camera goes up the tower, and up, and up, and up; and then there are even more of those machines.  amazing!

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Living Room / Re: First person mario

« Last post by housetier on March 18, 2011, 03:34 PM »

I'd love to see more, for example when he goes down the pipe!

Probably someone will hack a super mario 3D for kinect soon...

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Living Room / Nice close-up pictures of African volcano

« Last post by housetier on March 18, 2011, 08:40 AM »

The Big Picture usually has many striking pictures of various events and locations, and this one is not any different. A couple of scientists or researchers want to get REALLY CLOSE to an active volvano.

Above you see my favorite picture which shows a person really close to the crater and also gives a sense of scale. There is another picture with a person standing right on top of the rim! 

I believe all the nice pictures, including the one above, are by photographer Olivier Grunewald.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Why don't browsers show page title in the titlebar anymore?

« Last post by housetier on March 17, 2011, 04:31 PM »

browser.tabs.drawInTitlebar perhaps

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General Software Discussion / Re: Why don't browsers show page title in the titlebar anymore?

« Last post by housetier on March 17, 2011, 04:24 PM »

However, my FF4 shows page titles in window titles



Could it be a setting somewhere?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Bizarre Firefox Behaviour

« Last post by housetier on March 16, 2011, 11:15 AM »

Maybe FF renamed the file according to MIME-type?

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Adventures of Baby Cody / Re: Baby Cody arrives in Stuttgart, Germany

« Last post by housetier on March 16, 2011, 03:30 AM »

Yay new adventures and pictures!

Just when I was getting impatient and wanted to nag. Excellent! It's exciting to see Baby Cody taking part in the super critical house moving.

How do other members of shackspace react to Baby Cody?

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General Software Discussion / the vimperator comandeth

« Last post by housetier on March 13, 2011, 03:34 PM »

Yesterday my browser was misbehaving, but I could make it do what I wanted. I considered it challenging enough to share the experience

I added the style definitions to userChrome.css, restarted firefox and lo and behold — those bloody buttons where still there, taking up screen estate!

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Living Room / Re: The March 2011 6th Anniversary Fundraiser Has Begun! Cheer for Victory Thread

« Last post by housetier on March 12, 2011, 08:03 AM »

18 bucks and we'll be OVER NINETHOUSAND!!!111

for those that remember this meme

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Adventures of Baby Cody / Re: Baby Cody arrives in Stuttgart, Germany

« Last post by housetier on March 11, 2011, 03:35 PM »

very cool!

I am so glad to see him again

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General Software Discussion / Re: A New Name for StackOverflow

« Last post by housetier on March 10, 2011, 02:43 AM »

Back in the days I came across experts exchange, and used it a little. But their answers are hidden behind a registration wall. So when I needed As for my Qs stackoverflow had become popular, and I immediately saw its usefulness.

I use it every once in a while; it is my main source for information about "how to" do something. I appreciate them keeping all the information out in the open.

But I've never used any of their other sites.

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Living Room / Re: Do it yourself dropbox

« Last post by housetier on March 09, 2011, 02:06 AM »

I have several times thought about creating my own such synchronization service. But I have never actually started on it, that is, I never got past sshfs.

I want to have my personal service because I don't trust 'them'. Sometimes there terms & conditions are not really in my favor (all your stuff belong to us, but you are still liable). Having a system that works for clients on different platforms -- linux, windows, mac, mobile os -- would be awesome.

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Living Room / Re: Unsubscribe to 404

« Last post by housetier on March 05, 2011, 03:12 AM »

Ah and here I had a completely different understanding of "doublt opt-in": I thought not only do you (or someone else) have to provide your email address and tick the checkbox, but also you receive a confirmation email that asks to confirm the subscription. If no such confirming action is taken, the email address is not used.

Of course spammers will not care about confirmations.

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Living Room / Re: A Point About Grammar

« Last post by housetier on March 05, 2011, 03:10 AM »

There is a weblog about grammar as well: Throw Grammar from the Train

I have only glimpsed at a post about National Grammar Day.

It shows that we are not alone with our concerns about grammar

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General Software Discussion / Re: DVCS ?

« Last post by housetier on March 04, 2011, 04:12 PM »

I use git with great success, but it does have drawbacks, namely poor support for Windows platform.

It is very fast even with large repositories.

AFAIK mercurial has much wider platform support than git, but is also rather slow. This is from hearsay though.

I chose git at that time because it was the new shit.

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Living Room / Re: The March 2011 6th Anniversary Fundraiser Has Begun! Cheer for Victory Thread

« Last post by housetier on March 03, 2011, 10:03 AM »

That's the spirit! 

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Living Room / Re: The March 2011 6th Anniversary Fundraiser Has Begun! Cheer for Victory Thread

« Last post by housetier on March 02, 2011, 06:13 PM »

You should write more posts then, so the donations keep coming

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Centerbase CRM - Mini-Review

« Last post by housetier on March 02, 2011, 04:56 PM »

Yay thanks for writing this review!

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Fundraiser ONE-A-DAY Planning Calendar, Please Volunteer

« Last post by housetier on March 02, 2011, 04:32 PM »

timns:

I am in favor of option b) as well. That's something new

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Living Room / Re: The March 2011 6th Anniversary Fundraiser Has Begun! Cheer for Victory Thread

« Last post by housetier on March 02, 2011, 02:17 PM »

It's nice to see post at other sites supporting this fund raiser. It makes me feel warm inside

Here is my other site's post: http://nrrd.de/content/half-way-there

The image this time is from donationcoder, but it is still cute (are there any pictures of Cody that are not cute?): https://www.donation...y_coinwing_48xT2.gif

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Cannot change DC avatar to new uploaded picture.

« Last post by housetier on March 02, 2011, 07:04 AM »

Well for the record: it seems to work just fine in my case now

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General Software Discussion / Re: Splashtop: Linux for Windows users

« Last post by housetier on March 02, 2011, 01:13 AM »

I wonder how many users gripe about not having internet explorer available

The idea is nice I think: if it really boots in a very short time.

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Living Room / Re: Truly Stupid Email from Companies! Show Us Yours...

« Last post by housetier on March 02, 2011, 01:08 AM »

I bet from a marketing perspective it is perfectly normal and desirable!

But those marketing folks are different anyway...