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Oracle has a love-hate relationship with open source technologies. In a whitepaper (PDF) for the Department of Defense, Oracle claims that TCO (total cost of ownership) goes up with the use of open source. Great, coming from the company that owns MySQL and Java
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So look sharp, may MySQL and Java Programming Language vanishing from open source palette...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is (V).
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Why did they acquire mySQL and Java?
That is the kind of thing to worry about...
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Because the anti-trust regulators were convinced not to force them to divest them when they bought Sun.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Microsoft is ending all support for Windows XP in April 2014, and doing its best to move users to newer versions of its desktop operating system. But Google isn’t letting go so easily. Well, I know what you should be doing with the Internet Explorer running on XP
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They're not doing it because they care. They're doing it because they're hoping Luddites who drink their koolaid on XP will keep drinking it on their next computer. Won't work though; most of them are unaware anything without a big blue E could be the internet. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote: most of them are unaware anything without a big blue E could be the internet.
Oh so true. I couldn't believe how long it took the SO to start clicking the Safari button.
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TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Oh so true. I couldn't believe how long it took the SO to start clicking the Safari button.
Dare I ask what your SO did on her iPride until you managed complete the retraining process?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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That was back in the day when there still was IE for the Mac, so that *had* to be installed. I kept moving it around on the desktop (replacing with the Safari icon) in the hopes that lessons would be learned.
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TTFN - Kent
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I'm hoping you've got a macro for this. Otherwise that really would take a while. I'm impressed though. 
Have a few ![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif) yourself.
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TTFN - Kent
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Sort of. IIRC it took about 30-60 minutes a year or so ago when I was really bored.
0) Drew it with X and O in Excel.
1) Saved as CSV to import into a text editor.
2) Used a regex to turn it into a set of X| and
3) Twiddled manually to get a somewhat better fit.
Now I just recycle[^] it as needed.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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The latest effort, from researchers at Germany's Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, has set a new world record for wireless data transmission. They've managed to hit 100 gigabits per second while transmitting data over 20 meters, using a frequency of 237.5 GHz. A previous effort by the same group reached 40 Gbps over 1 kilometer. Frying everything that moved between the two antennae
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...transmit data at 100Gbps and/or shoot down planes.... two birds with one super highly concentrated stone. 
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So the focus is on Gbps over space? or is there a ratio?
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Front end frameworks have, in recent years, helped web developers improve design consistency and maintain mobility in today’s responsive web world. Twitter’s Bootstrap framework quickly became the unanimous favorite thanks to its large community, strong developer backing and topnotch compatibility. Because Web pages deserve to look good
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Microsoft's Scroogled campaign seems to actually be having a decent effect on the public's perception and trust in the Google brand. In fact, it's even pushing some to make the switch from Google services like search and Gmail over to Microsoft's Bing and Outlook email. "You can fool some of the people some of the time..."
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Huge collection of (seemingly) legal programming books. Ex libris internetis
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There is also this link it-ebooks.info ... But I'm almost sure that some of these books should be sold and not freely distributed... 
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Yeah, that one is looking more than a little bit shady.
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TTFN - Kent
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Governments at all levels have been using GitHub for some time now to build better, more accessible websites, publish laws and data, and even collaborate on policies themselves.
Today we're proud to announced the launch of government.github.com, a website dedicated to showcasing the amazing efforts of public servants and civic hackers around the globe. Fork the government (before they fork you)
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fork (v) - To raise, carry, pitch, or pierce with a fork.
I believe pitch we had already here...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is (V).
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That's the best way to deal with them.
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TTFN - Kent
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Apparently our NSA buddies have a bit of a spam problem. Think about it. If they're grabbing every bit of email metadata they can get their hands on, what are they really getting? "But what's puzzling you is the nature of my game"
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That's a whole lot of viagra adds... 
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