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A few of my favorite net things

Wednesday, May 17, 2006

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It’s a bit long but quote good: http://youtube.com/watch?v=gCOvY45FhsE&search=linux

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New Virus warning

Tuesday, May 16, 2006

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There is a dangerous virus being passed electronically, orally and by hand. The virus is called Worm-Overload-Recreational-Killer (WORK). If you receive WORK from any of your colleagues, your boss or anyone else, by any means, DO NOT TOUCH IT. This virus will wipe out your private life and any fun you’d like to have, completely. If you should come into [...]

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The Linux project’s seductive Marxist ideology

Tuesday, May 2, 2006

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This just has to be a wind up, although the comments are pretty scary as some poeple are responding as if they believe it! Next time somebody asks you how Al Queda agents pay for their rifles and rocket launchers, you can tell them that foreign hackers make software called Linux which helps them steal from [...]

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MySQL Workbench

Monday, April 24, 2006

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I just downloaded MySQL workbench 1.06 beta. I stumbled across it after finding this message on the DBDesigner forum page: Dear DBDesigner4 users, Due to several attacks against the DBDesigner4 forum it has now been closed down. We simply cannot understand the sick motivation of people to attack Open Source projects. So please understand that we will not provide [...]

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Enabling spell checking within FCKeditor

Sunday, April 23, 2006

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CMS Made Simple uses the great GPL WYSIWYG editor FCKeditor and I noticed this morning that it has a spell checking facility. To get it to work, I: Installed aspell on my dev server: [code]apt-get install aspell Reading Package Lists… Done Building Dependency Tree… Done The following extra packages will be installed: aspell-bin aspell-en dictionaries-common libaspell15 Suggested packages: aspell-doc spellutils [...]

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Firefox web developer toolbar writer wins prize

Wednesday, April 19, 2006

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Chris Pederick the guy behind the <accent type=’american’>awesome</accent> Firefox Extension, the Web Developer Toolbar, has won one of the grand prizes in the extend firefox competition. He blogged the win and has subsequently blogged some pictures of his Alienwa^H^H^H^H^HDell PC. Completely unrelated to the prize, here’s some pictures of a Firefox branded bus.

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Firefox on my PDA

Monday, October 10, 2005

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I’ve a Dell Axim x30i and occaisionlly I use it to look at things on the int3rweb. Windows 2003 Mobile Edition comes with IE (suprise suprise) but I’d rather use something else. Minimo, sounds like the perfect replacement, though it’s still heavily in development (I guess) and on my first install seemed to be slow and [...]

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Internet Explorer developer toolbar

Monday, September 19, 2005

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Microsoft have brought out a toolbar for web developers: The IE Developer Toolbar provides several features for deeply exploring and understanding Web pages. Explore and modify the document object model (DOM) of a web page. Locate and select specific elements on a web page through a variety of techniques. Selectively disable Internet Explorer settings. View HTML object class names, ID’s, [...]

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Woo Hoo I’m rich AGAIN!

Friday, September 16, 2005

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From: XXXXXXXXXX To: bealers@gmail.com Date: Sep 16, 2005 11:45 AM Subject: PRIVATE MESSAGE / Darren Beale FROM: XXXXXXXXXXXXXX Corporate Legal Practitioner Arbitrators and Property Consultants. XXXXXXXXXXXXX,lome TOGO. Dear Darren Beale, I am Barrister: XXXXXX XXXXXXX,a solicitor of law, personal attorney to Mr.B.J.Beale,a national Of your country,who used to work with Shell Development Company in Lome Togo,as a registered contractor. Here in after shall be [...]

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Gmail Freecycle filtering HOWTO

Tuesday, September 6, 2005

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Recently I got into FreeCycle. If you don’t use it then I would strongly recommend that you at least try it out although it should be noted that the list has VERY high traffic. I think it’s a great concept and I’ve managed to get shot of lots of old hardware that was cluttering up [...]

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