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A great description of how few contribute to peer production systems. Some good ways to encourage participation.
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This is a collection of interesting sites. The latest is Scribd a site that lets you publish scanned docs on the web like YouTube does with video. The first doc I found has to have been written by Bill or Ted. Most excellent in any case.
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It doesn't mater if you lean left or right, any intelligent person should spot a fraud when they see one. Coulter is trying to make herself the news by saying ridiculous things in a rather pathetic atempt to get attention. It pains me to leave this note on her site driving a few extra eyes to it. My advice to those that agree with me is laugh at the comic below and forever after ignore Ann Coulter. The only way to fiight attention whores is to ignore them. 
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This trail takes you to several sites to profile Senator Barack Obama. 
You will find both positive and negative views of
You will find both positive and negative views of
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These cars are truly beautiful. They come from makers that are known for eccentric designs but these show restraint and a knack for just the right lines.
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This trails dlives into the Beryl UI subsystem's settings. Beryl is available for weveral operating systems. I have it installed under Ubuntu beta 7.04. The first topic is the reason that might get you to look at Beryl and linux if the eye candy doesn't. And that is the worspace manager and the skydome viewport cube.
How often have you piled up too many windows on your laptop and wished that you could group them together and hid or show them all at once? Beryl has a typically sexy way to do this with the skydome. here are its settings, I'll get to a screenshot in a minute.
How often have you piled up too many windows on your laptop and wished that you could group them together and hid or show them all at once? Beryl has a typically sexy way to do this with the skydome. here are its settings, I'll get to a screenshot in a minute.
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I just installed Ubuntu 7 beta and Beryl for UI candy. Here is a trail of Beryl themes. This one look a bit like Vista.
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Makes my Mac envious but OS X Leopard is only months away...
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These are some popular software industry and news blogs that I read.
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Solving an equation is what got me hooked on math and later engineering. I gotta read this one.
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I want to build a Media Center PC or Home Theater PC (HTPC) from scratch. I'll start with a PC backbone install Linux with the right drivers and software. This should be fun..
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Leave a comment on this trail and I'll add you to the editors list.
Also check out:
Leave a comment on this trail and I'll add you to the editors list.
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I'm shopping for a small light *fast* point and shoot with automatic exposure bracketing for use with high dynamic range software. Here goes...
And the winner is the Lumix FX30. Ultra fast at 3 fps for as many shots as you want. It has an incredible Leica 28-100mm lens, and exposure bracketing.
And the winner is the Lumix FX30. Ultra fast at 3 fps for as many shots as you want. It has an incredible Leica 28-100mm lens, and exposure bracketing.
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The only band that matters. The Clash had a left leaning message that was political as opposed to some other bands that favored anarchy.
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A homebrew kit with 1K of RAM. Not much marketing was done at this stage. Some ads in geek magazines was about it.
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This is really supposed to work. I think it would scare my cat though.
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We've come a long way from the Ramones to Swing Kids. If the Ramones stood for back to basics Rock the Swing Kids are an all out asault on the senses. My vocal chords hurt.
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This looks like a good mystery. four of five stars at amazon and stared review at Book Review.
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In the seventies rock music was getting flacid. Over production and formulaic writing produced a bland lifeless product. To counter this trend bands like The Clash and The Sex Pistols went back to the basics with lots of emotion and three chords played ...
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These four novel components of
human thought are the ability to combine and recombine different types
of information and knowledge in order to gain new understanding; to
apply the same “rule” or solution to one problem to a different and new
situation; to create and easily understand symbolic representations of
computation and sensory input; and to detach modes of thought from raw
sensory and perceptual input.
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This is across from the old school on U way. It gets good reviews.
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Internet TV is on the horizon but Internet Radio is fairly mature. Here are some sites that have free and for pay services and usually some personalization. Check MikeP's trail too.
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The standard Ubuntu fonts are purely open source and so do not have names you may recognize. Here are some to round your collection out.
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This project looks promising. It is a front end to other engines including beagle.
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A great set of things to check on your server. Most of these are taken care of in a standard installation but not all.
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Turning you Linux Desktop into a Mac. I've got a couple old laptops that could use a facelift. This should give them a new lease on life even though they can't run Vista.
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good summary. Looks like the
http://www.usbuirt.com/
is recommended but this is in 2006.
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I have no problem using Gedit and Nautilus to browse my linux machine, why can't I use TextEdit and Finder on the Mac to look at system files and raw unix text files?
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To cut to the answer. The easiest way to use your MacBook as an X-Windows terminal is to use the supplied X11.app. Run the terminal-xterm then enter the following.
ssh -X your-linux-username@linux-host-name.domain-name
now run any X11 program.
ssh -X your-linux-username@linux-host-name.domain-name
now run any X11 program.
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Uses
MapReduce is useful in a wide range of applications, including: "distributed grep, distributed sort, web link-graph reversal, term-vector per host, web access log stats, inverted index construction, document clustering, machine learning, statistical machine translation..." Most significantly, when MapReduce was finished, it was used to completely regenerate Google's index of the Internet, and replaced the old ad hoc programs that updated the index and ran the various analyses. [2]
MapReduce's stable inputs and outputs are usually stored in a distributed file system, such as Google File System. The transient data is usually stored on local disk and fetched remotely by the reduces.
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The issue of net neutrality is coming up in what would be a lame-duck congress. Let's hope the real issues are debated. A Multi-tiered net is ok as long as it is transparent.
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Mount Ranier, at 14,410 feet, is the most extensively glaciated peak in the continental United States. It offers limitless possibilities for both experienced and beginner mountain climbers.
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Connecting to a localhost mySQL instance on OSX /Applications/MAMP/tmp/mysql/mysql.sock
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Tiime to install. I'm using Ubuntu 7.04 Fiesty Fawn. There are packages to automatically do it but here are some setup tips.
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This wouldn't be so bad if there were any kind of transparency provisions to allow end users to see what they are paying for. As it is we have to look hard to know the quality of service we are getting.
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Funny that the original anti-fashion movement has become fashionable
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type some text so you know the Mark had the keyboard focus. Then click on any image, link, or text and drag it into the text area of your mark.
Queen Elizabeth's White House visit
I grabbed the stuff above. Now save your mark and check back on the Trail Summary page by clicking the trail name (after saving of course). Notice how the clips are saved back on the summary page too.
Try this next time you make a trail and all the clips will be right there on the Trail Summary page. That's how I did my Camera Shopping trail.
Queen Elizabeth's White House visit
I grabbed the stuff above. Now save your mark and check back on the Trail Summary page by clicking the trail name (after saving of course). Notice how the clips are saved back on the summary page too.
Try this next time you make a trail and all the clips will be right there on the Trail Summary page. That's how I did my Camera Shopping trail.
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scriptalicious and various RoR resources including helper methods
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"Wow, hey, another social bookmarking company with a twist. WHY ARE YOU WRITING ABOUT THESE COMPANIES???"
How quickly an early adopter becomes a ludite. History stopped when del.icio.us was born? Hardly.
How quickly an early adopter becomes a ludite. History stopped when del.icio.us was born? Hardly.
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MasterView™ is a ruby/rails
optimized HTML/XHTML friendly template engine. It is designed to use the
full power and productivity of rails including layouts, partials, and rails
html helpers while still being editable/styleable in a WYSIWYG HTML editor.
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The report What's Wrong with Internet Searching, a study involving novice web users, noted that:
Nearly all participants from both trials had difficulty formulating good searching keywords even when they had all the information they needed. In the real world, users go into a library or a shop and express their requirements in verbose or imprecise terms, or alternatively they browse through items on offer. They are not used to elaborating an artificial text string to match their requirements.
Users may not understand that searching is an
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| Beds: | 2 |
| Baths: | 1.75 |
| Sq. Ft.: | 996 |
| $/Sq. Ft.: | $527 |
| Lot Size: | - |
| Type: | Condominium |
| Floor Number: | 4 |
| Style: | Condominium (Single Level) |
| Year Built: | 1986 |
| View(s): | Canal, City, Lake, Mountain(s) |
| Community: | Eastlake |
| County: | King |
| MLS#: | 27155895 |
| Status: | Active |
| On Redfin: | 16 days |
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This is the place to start in Seattle. You don't even have to dress in black.
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Polenta Arabiatta is my current favorite breakfast of all time. It is crunchy on the outside creamy and fluffy on the inside with a spicy sauce and a couple eggs it is killer.
You can usually get into this place easily for breakfast on the weekends. Try it out.
You can usually get into this place easily for breakfast on the weekends. Try it out.
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This is an intersting discussion which captures SEO lore. Notice that some factors are highly controversial, i.e. there is not broad acceptance that the factors have a real effect. If the factor is important *and* well accepted it probably means Google is really using it.
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This is an excellent article about how a few popular "Diggers" really control what happens on Digg. They are often benevolent and somewhat unaware of their power. The knobs at Digg are set to atenuate this effect with unforseen consequences. Digg better react or face customers moving to new communities.
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The following two commands will set up password-less authentication from your
computer to mycomputer.mycompany.com:
$ ssh-keygen -b 1024 -t rsa -f /home/username/.ssh/id_rsa
(do not enter a pass-phrase - leave it blank)
$ scp /home/username/.ssh/id_rsa.pub username@mycomputer.mycompany.com:/home/username/.ssh/authorized_keys
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Sorry, Flock is not supported yet. FF and IE today, Safari and Flock tomorrow...
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The Teddybears have hit the US in a big way with Soft Machine. They are a trio from Sweden that has a following in Europe. They produced this CD with the help of several English speaking guest singers including Iggy Pop, Heneh Cherry, Mad Cobra, and The Elephant Man. This trails has some samples.
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The Pixies were formed in 1986. They were part of the alternative/power pop/melodic side of punk. Their influence was wide even thought they never received much in the way of commercial success. Kurt Cobain once said that he was afraid someone would notice he was copying the Pixies. See if you can hear it. 
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My personal favorite flavor. Debian at its heart, with a strong GUI, regular updates, and an incredible update network. Recently they began supporting a server as well as the usual workstation/desktop version. I run it on a laptop quite nicely and on my video server.
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Basic setup. Linux home server with a static IP running rsync server. Set up anacron and use rsync client side for the Mac and PC to do backups over the internet. Sweet.
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One year I worked on creating a CD for the Theban Mapping Project during a vacation.
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This is a good set of guidelines for current web sites. Look at the examples first.
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Jacob Nielsen on the effect on screen resolution of site design.
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We can use this for rating control. How about when a user rates showing all segments of the control as blank then animating them filling with orange maybe expanding each as it is filled then shrinking down before the next is filled then highlighting the changed rating number then fading it back to normal.
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The Trailfire WebGuide helps you find stuff by topic. Click on a topics then keep refining by clicking on more to narrow your results. Start Here
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It's time. We don't have to wait two more years.
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You can go the Bootcamp route to getting Windows on your Macbook or you can install parallels and run Windows under OS X. With the soon to next release of Parallels the choice is easy-Parallels. Run applications in their own separate window on the OS X desktop or run in full screen mode. It even works with Vista. First buy and install Parallels from here. But follow the trail there is more.
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