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"I was very sad to see staffing levels cut to the bone on Melbourne's public transport system, along with the introduction of stupidly inconvenient off-station ticket outlets, on-station ticket machines that often didn't work, and the introduction of..." [
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2 ¾ hours ago
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"Black Eyed Peas - My Humps
George Harrison - Got My Mind Set On You
Both strong contenders, but for sheer inescapable fingernails down the blackboard of my mind vapid horror, there is only
Whitney Houston - Greatest Love Of All
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favorited 2 times, recently by nooneyouknow, JMOZ
Almost 5 hours ago
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"Assuming that this thing is going to be running Windows XP Home, and that it's new and hasn't already been crapped up with spyware, here are the things I'd do to it, in order:
1. Make sure Service Pack 2 is installed.
2. Uninstall PC-Cillin...." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by logic vs love
6 ½ hours ago
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"Short answer: only the destination volume would need special treatment if you were going to use LVM snapshots.
Once you'd created your backup filesystem on an LVM logical volume, you'd just rsync stuff into it like any other filesystem. Then,..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by SemiSophos
2 days ago
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"Little LCD panels are usually connected to the boards behind them via a rubbery-looking strip consisting of hundreds of alternating layers of conductive and insulating polymer. The strip will be about 1mm x 2mm x the length of the display. If it's..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by kryptos
6 days ago
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"The elevator buttons just went from 12 to 14, no 13th floor to skip over
Best you check the stairwells, just to be sure :-)" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by emelenjr
8 days ago
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"Our boss is opposed to mulch because it robs the soil of nitrogen and other nutrients as it breaks down
This, like most bullshit, is oversimplified. Regularly adding organic matter to your soil by topping it with mulch is generally one of the..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Joh, pullayup, kamelhoecker
2 weeks ago
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"Guy walks in, asks for a set of spare strings and an effects pedal battery... I sez to him, you're a drummer, aren't you, and he sez yeah, how did you know, and I sez this is the fish and chip shop, the music shop's next..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by krautland, loiseau, bonobo
2 weeks ago
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"The server doesn't have to rush to meet an incoming ball, and is therefore better able to put it exactly where they want it to go. The returning player has to put the ball somewhere hard for the serving player to get to after rushing to meet it,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by hatmandu
2 weeks ago
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"If that were my problem, I'd be doing the following:
1. Get a copy of the Trinity Rescue Kit.
2. Boot it up and select Memtest86 from the boot menu. Let Memtest86 run at least overnight. If Memtest86 finds even one RAM fault, replace your..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by harkin banks
3 weeks ago
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"Gnu ddrescue (apt-get install gddrescue on Ubuntu) is an improved dd_rescue. I wrote up the procedure for copying a damaged DVD with it here and added a few corrections here.
The procedure for using it to clone a failing hard disk is the same..." [
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3 weeks ago
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"No reasonably sized air conditioner will be able to cool an indoor space that has a significant amount of air exchange with outdoors. The fact that your unit is making vast amount of condensate says to me that this is what's happening. Water..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by BrotherCaine, zippy
3 weeks ago
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"In Australia, our cheap beer is a toxic brew called Victoria Bitter
Oh we loves our green medicine, green medicine, green medicine!
Oh we loves our green medicine, we drinks it on down!
It comes in a green can, a red can a blue can,
It comes in..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by turgid dahlia
3 weeks ago
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"Put a band aid on it, and DON'T KEEP RIPPING IT OFF
Totally solid advice." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by KAS
Last month
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"Since unleaded has recently topped AU$1.50 per litre here, I get some of those hmmmm... looks whenever I fill up my Mira (ten feet long, 3 cylinders, 5 litres per 100km - that's 47 miles per US gallon). I love high fuel prices. I can drive in, fill..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Soulbee, Solomon
Last month
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"Clearly time to bring out the tripping stories... a friend of mine reports that his friend, while tripping hard and visiting the smallest room (and isn't that a hilarious experience, space cadets?) suddenly had a vision, with typically profound..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by TheOnlyCoolTim
Last month
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"Has my friend found a way to make free money?
Regardless of clarifying details, this question has a universally applicable answer.
I think you already know what it is...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Who_Am_I
Last month
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"If you get a sudden loss of resistance near the bottom of the plunger stroke, your pot probably has a marked outward internal taper near the bottom. I've seen this with quite a few plunger pots. It makes them quite susceptible to breakage, too;..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by thisjax
Last month
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"Nature is not 100% repeatable; every part of Nature is unique, and not exactly like any other part. But there are patterns, and these show up as probability distributions, given sufficient numbers of measurements of similar experiments.
QM is a..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by dilettanti, bent back tulips, lalochezia, saulgoodman
Last month
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"Have you seen Othello?
It's a pretty good parable about the results of not learning to trust properly.
Trusting is better than not trusting, because if you get hurt as a result of trusting, it typically happens quickly, hurts for a few months,..." [
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favorited 8 times, recently by Nabubrush
Last month
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"why shouldn't the dominant species on the planet be rightfully allowed to have massive environmental effects?
Yeah!
I yelled at the Lorax, “Now listen here, Dad!
All you do is yap-yap and say, ‘Bad! Bad! Bad! Bad!’
Well, I have my rights,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by owhydididoit
Last month
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"Try eating more protein, more vegetables, and less refined starch and sugars.
The effect of this kind of regime (which I generally use to keep excess weight under control) on my inclined-to-fungus feet is just remarkable. Before I turned 40, I..." [
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"Equip yourself with a bottle of water, a notebook and a pen, and take a bus to somewhere nearby where there are lots of people. Walk to another bus stop about two miles away, heel-to-toe: with each step, make the heel of your front foot touch the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nasreddin
Last month
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"Hey, have you ever heard of MAME?
General purpose processors faster than they used to be! Film at 11.
MAME is not doing anything massively, overwhelmingly parallel. The architectures it's emulating are not massively dissimilar to the..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by lukemeister, nasreddin
Last month
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"...an unshakeable belief in Moore's law. It's not that they haven't noticed the processing speed gap, it's that they're counting on exponential growth to get them past it
My money's on project scope expansion continuing to outpace technology's..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nasreddin
Last month
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"Yellow Dog Linux is a fairly well established PPC-only distro. Most of the tiddlers are, as you've found out, x86-only unless you feel like building them yourself.
If you're going to put Linux on this box, I would strongly recommend going the RAM..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Monochrome
Last month
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"TOCT, I'm not sure you grasp how much raw processing power is required to simulate a single protein vs. small-molecule interaction, how many such interactions there are within a single-celled embryo, the effect of combinatorial explosion on the two..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by roystgnr, ghost of a past number
Last month
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"They are not saying we don't know. They are saying we can't know, that the principles underlying the emergence of consciousness are unknowable
As a self-described Singularity skeptic, this strikes me as a straw man. The problem is not that the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nasreddin
Last month
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"Newton's mother must have been smarter than he was
Only if you're assuming that she designed him." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by eyeballkid, rusty
Last month
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"Too long; didn't red." [
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favorited 16 times, recently by shiu mai baby, arcticwoman, bettafish, The Loch Ness Monster, litlnemo, confusionball, smich, iamkimiam, aclevername, The Bellman, SpacemanStix, unknowncommand, Devils Rancher, owhydididoit, Tube, the.carol.baxter.experience
Last month
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"Rust doesn't cause tetanus, in and of itself. The reason rusty nails have a bad rep is that rust is rough, and that roughness considerably increases the surface area on a microscopic scale, making a nice home for all kinds of bacteria. Tetanus is..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by nasreddin, wfrgms, owhydididoit
Last month
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"English is changing, but not so quickly that the superbly awful "its'" has any place in it." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Miko
Last month
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"You're modding more than 8.
You're going to get wow on your top.
You take that negative feedback down through your rumble filter - to your woofer - what do you get?
FLUTTER ON YOUR BOTTOM!..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by loquacious
Last month
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""Fighting for peace is like fucking for virginity" is another slogan that's not too bad as slogans go.
you will be unable to understand why people join anything that places danger or hardship on them, including military service
I..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by marble, lalochezia
Last month
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"flabdablet and ericb, do you seriously mean to say that the U.S. and its NATO allies did not have justifiable cause to invade Afghanistan and overthrow the regime that harbored the perpetrators of 9/11?
Can't speak for ericb. But for me, yes: I..." [
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favorited 18 times, recently by Pater Aletheias, Mayor West, dabitch, Drexen, Jpfed, Artichoke Dance Off!!, dopeypanda, flaterik, OolooKitty, lupus_yonderboy, The Card Cheat, Bistle, dobbs, dilettante, vewystwange, Hot Like Your 12V Wire, notreally, glycolized
Last month
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"I can't think of a stronger or more effective vote against war than a personal refusal to join the military, and I can't think of a more effective way to increase the size of this vote than employing reasoned argument in public places.
Hence the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by lupus_yonderboy
Last month
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"I keep my gloat on a tether in the back yard. He's an angora. Today he found a pumpkin in the long grass and ate half of it. He bleats a fair bit. Sometimes I worry that he's got worms...." [
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