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30
Sep
2008
New Hardware Purchases
So I’m getting a bunch of new PC hardware. Today I get my HIS Radeon HD 4850 ICEQ4 Turbo 512MB and Corsair XMS2 TWIN2X2048-6400C4. And sometime next week I should get my BenQ V2400W 24IN Widescreen Black LCD Monitor.
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19
Jul
2008
Bookmarklets
Bookmarklets are little peices of javascript disguised as bookmarks that you can run on any site. They let you do things like Resize forms. You can test it out by dragging it into your bookmarks toolbar and trying it out on the comments section.
Other good bookmarklets I’ve come across are:
27
May
2008
Shell script to extract isos from a folder
I had to do this repeatedly manually at work so it took me like 2 minutes to make my first script to do it for me. It was horribly messy and looked something this:
for x in $(ls -1 .); do
mount -t iso9660 -o loop $x temp/;
cp -r temp/* .;
umount temp/;
done;
Which did the job but was horribly messing on doing it more than once with tons of errors and stuff.
When I came home I decided to make it much better. I even included how long it takes to do the whole process, which was harder than the process itself.
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27
Mar
2008
RSS Feeds
RSS Feeds are a way to check frequently updating sources of information on the internet. You need an application, on your computer or web based, to read these however. It will automatically get the updated file (usually xml) every once in a while and usually highlight new things and try to make it as user friendly as possible.
For those of us really into the whole internet thing, we need our RSS feeds so we can get our information as fast as possible. You should have this blag on your RSS feed already! *shakes fist*
Let’s take a look at two big web based feed readers: Netvibes and Google Reader.
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