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This amazing little piece of history is the first ever *filming* of Alice in Wonder Land, from 1903! Yes it's over 100 years old. It's an amazing piece of heritage and slightly humbling to think (morbidly as I do occasionally) that everyone involved in it is dead (unlike most of our tv/movie heritage).
I'm a little blown away that Ubuntu 9.10 still has no DVD support and can't even install it. Pretty amazing 0_o.
Ah well, after seconds of googling I found a slightly popup laden answer:
http://shibuvarkala.blogspot.com/2009/10/how-to-make-ubnutu-910-karmic-koala.html
Not bad. a) install Mediabuntu repos, b) install DVD support.
Still, it's 2010 and Ubuntu has no support for DVDs. In any way. Lame.
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Story about how hard it is to get Crypto + Auth right and secure. A few pointers at the end for where to start.
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A good run through of netcat, Unix network swiss army knife
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A good run through of what lsof can be used for!
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Interesting predictions on where Google and Android seem to plan on taking the phone/cell networks, somewhat against their will. I'm hopeful :)
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The definitive evisceration of the Phantom Menace. An amazing and detailed dissection and comparison of episode 1 and the original movies.
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Interesting essay... well ok, lets call it a rant, about Ayn Rand and her effects on culture for the last handful of decades. Includes blaming her for the current economic crisis because as it turns out, people like Alan Greenspan are big Ayn Rand fans.
Also, tired of intellectual snobs and wondering where the trend came from? this essay is for you!
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Story of disappearing with public chase in the 21C
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Brain Carper looks at Google's new Go language from an entrenched Lisp/Clojure perspective and is unimpressed
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A lua-users mailing list post that compares Go to Algol 68. Hilarious, interesting, and a little depressing
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Lennart Poettering explains how Out-Of-Memory errors should not be detected by NULL returns from malloc but from SIGKILL from the OS, or basically why it's OK to stop checking for NULL's from malloc :)
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"Here we have tried to compile the best online learning Git resource available. There are a number of articles and screencasts, written and arranged to try to make learning Git as quick and easy as possible."
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Charlie Stross on America and its lack of mercy with respect to jail, medicare and war






