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Where can I find a super-simple standalone MIDI sequencer?
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at 3:32 PM on October 3, 2008
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I'll be in San Francisco in two weeks (Aug 30-Sep 1). What are some geeky things to see (without a car)? I've already covered the Exploratorium and City Lights several times, but that's the sort of thing my tastes run towards.
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at 9:21 AM on August 19, 2008
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How can I get Quicksilver-style completion in the bash shell?
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at 6:44 AM on July 11, 2008
(11 comments)
Is there such thing as a PCI-X video card that will work in a Mac G5 tower?
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at 2:06 PM on April 29, 2008
(5 comments)
Is there a service that will let you to subscribe to notifications of new artist (music) and/or author (books) releases, but is not spammy?
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at 2:46 PM on March 14, 2008
(2 comments)
Somewhere, a while ago, somewhere on the internet (here? BoingBoing? somewhere else?) was posted a PDF (I think) of a cookbook (?) from the 19th century (?) that had various recipes used by kitchens in wealthy households. Somewhere in that cookbook was a detailed description of how to store turtles (for soup) long-term (cool, mostly dry) in stacked boxes. Please hope me find it!
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at 4:34 PM on December 21, 2007
(4 comments)
I want to make a promotional mug that has a picture of a brain on it, where some 'brain activations' appear when the mug is heated. I've seen color-changing mugs like this around, but I can't seem to find out where to get them made.
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at 1:28 PM on December 5, 2007
(8 comments)
My aunt's family has been listening to the same Christmas tape (as in, the same physical tape) repeatedly for about 25 years. The tape was originally made by dubbing from vinyl. I'd like, as a gift, to remaster the whole thing, but I need help identifying all the song versions.
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at 8:12 PM on November 20, 2007
(25 comments)
When I connect to my VPN in OS X (using the built-in client), all DNS requests are sent through the VPN. How can I prevent this?
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at 6:52 AM on September 11, 2007
(12 comments)
How do I compare averages in JMP (statistical software)? Help me stop using Excel.
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at 2:40 PM on July 22, 2007
(8 comments)
Customizing MATLAB axes: Transform unixtime into date labels?
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at 7:55 AM on June 12, 2007
(5 comments)
What happened to character-by-character chat? I miss the intimacy, subtle nuances of meaning, and most of all the ability to interrupt one another and complete one another's sentences that was inherent in old-school unix 'talk'. How can I replicate this nowadays?
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at 1:29 PM on May 21, 2007
(21 comments)
Why are old film clips always played at super-speed, in spite of the ease with which this could be fixed?
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at 9:07 AM on May 9, 2007
(15 comments)
Where can I purchase a color-nicely bound reproduction of the Voynich Manuscript?
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at 11:58 AM on April 17, 2007
(7 comments)
Rcodetools, possibly in conjunction with
Icicles, seems like it should be the bee's knees for doing Ruby code completion in Emacs. I need help getting it to actually work.
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at 4:09 PM on March 7, 2007
(2 comments)
I need help brainstorming creative ideas for visual stimuli which vary independently on two dimensions.
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at 8:14 AM on February 21, 2007
(22 comments)
We have a
Air-O-Swiss 7135 humidifier. Is it necessary to fill its tank from Brita-filtered water, or will straight tap water do?
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at 7:58 PM on January 28, 2007
(6 comments)
How can I efficiently and elegantly calculate a rolling sum of count-of-events in a time period from a list of event times?
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at 4:43 PM on January 11, 2007
(10 comments)
How can I allow remote connections to the remote side of my ssh tunnel? -g doesn't work. Neither does GatewayPorts.
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at 8:42 PM on December 11, 2006
(6 comments)
What do all capital letters in legal documents signify? Many legal documents contain stretches of normal text alternating with stretches that are in all-caps. Is there a legal meaning to it? What would be the ramifications of printing the all-caps portion in normal capitalization - i.e., could that render the document ineffective?
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at 7:06 AM on November 22, 2006
(8 comments)
I need help finding code to draw (not extract) fourier descriptors.
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at 2:55 PM on November 5, 2006
(15 comments)
How can I store files on an untrusted linux server such that only I can read them - and such that only I know what they are? I'd like the files to be encrypted and the filenames not to reflect the contents.
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at 8:17 AM on October 17, 2006
(15 comments)
GPS with extremely large memory? I'm looking for something pretty much exactly like the
Sony GPS-CS1 (reviewed
here )... but that will allow me to download the data to a Mac when I'm done. (Though the GPS-CS1 mounts as a regular drive on a PC, it won't on a Mac...)
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at 8:29 AM on September 26, 2006
(3 comments)
I have (a) a bad back (herniated L4-L5) and (b) very flat feet, so with every step I take when walking I feel a huge jolt go up my spine. Without resorting to the ridiculous looking Z-coil shoes, what's the next best thing?
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at 5:03 PM on September 9, 2006
(6 comments)
Is there such thing as a bluetooth ergonomic keyboard?
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at 2:35 PM on September 2, 2006
(2 comments)
Every car is advertised as "all new" each year. What exactly does this mean, if anything? Is it a completely empty phrase, or does "all new" have some technical meaning in the context of car advertising?
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at 1:50 PM on August 15, 2006
(12 comments)
Is there some "Web 2.0" (by which I mean "well designed", not "shiny and in large type for no good reason) style site or package out there for managing bibliographic references online?
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at 9:55 AM on July 26, 2006
(19 comments)
Why do all movie advertisements and trailers state that the movie will be shown "Only In Theaters"?
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at 11:30 AM on July 9, 2006
(16 comments)
What are some songs that were shocking or sensational when they first came out - even got banned from radio play - which are now considered so humdrum that they're played on "easy listening" or "soft rock" or perhaps even "family safe" stations?
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at 9:43 AM on June 19, 2006
(62 comments)
I am in charge of
a custom installation of a
web calendar application (ORS) that is feeling the strain of too many users and the consequences of some unusual policies. I need some advice on how to get better performance out of this application.
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at 12:01 PM on May 23, 2006
(12 comments)
We have several hundred old family photographs in various sizes, shapes, and conditions that we would like to have scanned. We're looking for advice from anyone who has had personal experience with specific companies.
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at 7:46 PM on May 3, 2006
(11 comments)
I have a huge list of unique identifiers. A person needs to enter, for each one of those identifiers, a list of tags, and I'd like to make it really easy for them to tab-complete those tags, based on the ones they've already entered.
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at 7:34 AM on April 18, 2006
(10 comments)
Is it possible to convert a FAT32 disk to HFS+ in-place (i.e., with all the data intact)?
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at 7:45 AM on April 3, 2006
(8 comments)
I'd like to be able to search my (MovableType)
blog via
Google Blogsearch, but they only update via RSS.
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at 2:30 PM on March 19, 2006
(4 comments)
I want a true vector-based (i.e., not merely a series of thousands of line segments) Postscript or Illustrator file of an
epicycloid where a=5, b=2.
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at 7:51 PM on February 19, 2006
(25 comments)
I'm looking for a book that teaches electricity
well. The
Mims book definitely doesn't cut it - I want something more along the lines of "
The Way Things Work" in clarity and accessibility, but I still want it to actually teach the underlying math; i.e., I want it to show me the material in pictures
and equations.
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at 5:55 PM on February 11, 2006
(10 comments)
We're getting
married in October. We've always avoided drinking and dancing at other people's parties, and we'd like to avoid having our own wedding consist primarily of drinking and dancing.
What are some entertainment alternatives for a fun party?
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at 11:46 AM on January 18, 2006
(47 comments)
The only thing keeping me from using Firefox on the Mac is that standard cursor navigation keys (C-a, C-e, and C-k, most importantly) don't work in textarea and other editing boxes. Is there a way to get them to work?
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at 5:10 AM on November 30, 2005
(3 comments)
Like many people, I have a "best of" directory on my web site where I keep various files I find on the net that I want to keep around in case the original host goes away. Right now it's just a
raw directory of files, mostly with their original often cryptic filenames. I'd like some kind of drop-in file manager that would let me easily add descriptions and tags. Users could click on tags to narrow the listing to, say, just "flash toys" or "zero wing spinoffs".
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at 7:53 PM on November 17, 2005
(10 comments)
On a Windows machine, both Firefox and IE by default map mouse button 4 (the "thumb" button) to the "back" command. How can this be done properly on a Macintosh? The usual answers like "use USB Overdrive-X or the Intellimouse driver software" have serious problems associated with them.
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at 5:51 PM on June 1, 2005
(5 comments)
After twenty years of twice-weekly migraines, Topamax has halted them completely for me; nary even a minor headache in three months. People with narcolepsy (and others with less severe sleep issues) have found a wonder drug in Provigil. Severe snorers, suffering from sleep apnea, arise from sleep studies on CPAP wondering what this strange "awake" feeling is. Cataracts disappear and vision returns. And then there's that other drug, so beloved by spammers.
What happens when a medical treatment truly changes your life? How does your life change when you've grown used to a condition over the span of years, and then in a matter of days it lifts? Any stories?
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at 6:50 PM on January 15, 2005
(22 comments)
