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Uniq New York, Uniq New York

Why isn't GNU uniq 6.12 working as I expect?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Blazecock Pileon at 12:00 PM on July 17, 2008 (3 comments)

Online banking, credit and investing through one package

What basic, personal accounting software do you recommend?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Blazecock Pileon at 11:30 PM on June 24, 2008 (15 comments)

Clustering techniques

What clustering technique to use?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Blazecock Pileon at 2:04 PM on June 11, 2008 (6 comments)

X11 leaking?

Does my X11 server have a memory leak?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Blazecock Pileon at 3:24 PM on June 3, 2008 (7 comments)

Shell scripting or something better?

Faster techniques for grabbing lines of a file and doing text manipulation and arithmetic via shell (or other) scripting?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Blazecock Pileon at 2:19 PM on May 9, 2008 (20 comments)

Correlation measurements of unequal vectors?

Can one perform Pearson's correlation or a variant with unequal numbers of rows?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Blazecock Pileon at 8:07 PM on May 1, 2008 (7 comments)

Doing JOINs the Rails way

How can I do a Rails find JOIN without SQL, using the two tables' existing has_and_belongs_to_many relationships?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Blazecock Pileon at 1:37 PM on April 18, 2008 (5 comments)

Off the rails...

Any good Rails 2.0 books for beginners?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Blazecock Pileon at 5:09 PM on April 9, 2008 (6 comments)

It's Slinky, it's Slinky, it's fun for a girl and a boy.

How fast would a typical escalator need to operate, in order to keep a standard metal Slinky moving indefinitely (i.e., in place)?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Blazecock Pileon at 1:21 PM on March 27, 2008 (5 comments)

A change for the better...

Where can I trade spare change for bills in Seattle, without fees?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Blazecock Pileon at 9:18 PM on March 18, 2008 (14 comments)

No time like the present

I'm interested in aspects of benchmarking with the help of UNIX's time, specifically, what user, system and elapsed times correspond to, within the functional context of the system and the tested application.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Blazecock Pileon at 11:24 PM on March 4, 2008 (4 comments)

RPy problems

Stumped with RPy, need help badly!
posted to Ask Metafilter by Blazecock Pileon at 9:05 PM on February 25, 2008 (4 comments)

Measuring overlap in graphical objects

SVG or Java: Measuring the overlap of graphic objects
posted to Ask Metafilter by Blazecock Pileon at 5:17 PM on February 18, 2008 (5 comments)

Latex-flavored coffee tastes horrible

How do I avoid burning coffee with a stovetop espresso maker?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Blazecock Pileon at 3:04 PM on February 5, 2008 (14 comments)

I got the blues, baby

1. Is blue antifreeze special? 2. If the coolant reservoir is half-full, can I keep driving until I can get what I need?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Blazecock Pileon at 2:30 PM on January 25, 2008 (12 comments)

Leapless in Seattle

Physical therapy recommendation in Seattle metro area?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Blazecock Pileon at 11:56 AM on December 29, 2007 (5 comments)

What to get for a new teacher?

Gifts for soon-to-be teachers?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Blazecock Pileon at 5:01 PM on December 14, 2007 (21 comments)

SVM, HMM, and wavelets in bioinformatics

I'd like to learn about SVM, HMM and wavelet algorithms in their usage in bioinformatics. I have a somewhat rudimentary understanding of the underlying mathematics from Wikipedia and a couple other sources, but I find that a concrete demonstration of their application fleshes it out. Are there texts, software packages (preferably free) or papers you'd recommend that: 1) includes good starter problem sets, or; 2) demonstrates how these techniques are used in research applications (beyond "we used xyz here"). Thanks!
posted to Ask Metafilter by Blazecock Pileon at 8:49 AM on November 24, 2007 (7 comments)

Multiple subnetted-and-failovered DHCP servers?

Can ISC's dhcpd run in both failover and multiple subnet modes?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Blazecock Pileon at 9:34 PM on November 15, 2007 (3 comments)

Looking for a non-superfluous third nubbin

iNubbin for iPhone?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Blazecock Pileon at 4:38 PM on November 6, 2007 (5 comments)

Help me feed Drupal!

Can I obtain RSS feeds from Drupal, on more than just the (root) front page, and with a calendar View?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Blazecock Pileon at 7:46 PM on October 24, 2007 (4 comments)

Help me ID this piece!

What is the music behind this page?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Blazecock Pileon at 12:01 AM on October 16, 2007 (4 comments)

Images, WYSIWYG and Drupal

Trying to get TinyMCE, IMCE and Drupal working together to post inline images...
posted to Ask Metafilter by Blazecock Pileon at 10:53 PM on September 28, 2007 (7 comments)

My ears! My ears!

Some sound design questions to follow up on this golden moldy oldie...
posted to Ask Metafilter by Blazecock Pileon at 2:20 PM on September 17, 2007 (14 comments)

Private Dancer

How do I make services publicly available behind a private network?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Blazecock Pileon at 9:18 AM on August 23, 2007 (12 comments)

Bubbles

Maximal volume of an ellipsoid...
posted to Ask Metafilter by Blazecock Pileon at 6:55 AM on August 7, 2007 (15 comments)

Mosquitos suck

Mysterious mosquito attacks within a small living space...
posted to Ask Metafilter by Blazecock Pileon at 12:03 PM on July 23, 2007 (8 comments)

Ringtones + Cingular

How do I add a custom ringtone to a AT&T (Cingular) 3100 Smartphone?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Blazecock Pileon at 4:53 PM on July 15, 2007 (5 comments)

"We should have recorded the album in Dubley..."

Wireless speakers for a Philips HTS3555 surround sound system?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Blazecock Pileon at 2:31 PM on June 26, 2007 (2 comments)

Between the hammer and the anvil...

A birthday present for someone into blacksmithing?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Blazecock Pileon at 7:57 PM on June 15, 2007 (6 comments)

The last misdirection, or deus ex machina?

Regarding the ending to David Mamet's The Spanish Prisoner (note: spoilers contained within).
posted to Ask Metafilter by Blazecock Pileon at 11:37 PM on May 30, 2007 (10 comments)

Please help me structure my wiki!

MediaWiki + hierarchies: Can it work?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Blazecock Pileon at 9:03 PM on May 23, 2007 (4 comments)

Autokleptovestiomania

Please help me steal my own trousers...
posted to Ask Metafilter by Blazecock Pileon at 9:12 AM on May 4, 2007 (34 comments)

Generating pure tones...

Generating pure sound tones at a specific power level, for recording to a CD...
posted to Ask Metafilter by Blazecock Pileon at 9:37 AM on April 17, 2007 (17 comments)

How to find a good injury lawyer?

How does one "shop" for a personal injury lawyer? What are features of a good injury lawyer?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Blazecock Pileon at 1:12 AM on February 16, 2007 (8 comments)

Firefox extension to control HTML forms?

Can a user install an extension, preference or script to have Firefox manipulate an HTML form element on loading, e.g., having a SELECT's default OPTION set when visiting a certain page.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Blazecock Pileon at 7:19 AM on January 30, 2007 (11 comments)

Mead-making and measuring alcohol content

Measuring alcohol content without a hydrometer?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Blazecock Pileon at 6:20 AM on January 10, 2007 (8 comments)

House purchase advice

I would like to find out how much a particular house was sold for and, in general, what economic conditions are like for a purchase.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Blazecock Pileon at 11:47 AM on December 26, 2006 (15 comments)

Better soup-making

SoupFilter: Why do soups taste better after aging?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Blazecock Pileon at 6:07 AM on November 25, 2006 (8 comments)

Fixing Firefox

Making Firefox behave like a Mac application...
posted to Ask Metafilter by Blazecock Pileon at 3:27 AM on November 13, 2006 (6 comments)

GET+POST in same form?

Is it possible to set the action attribute of an HTML form, such that the method is POST, but the action includes GET variables?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Blazecock Pileon at 9:02 AM on October 26, 2006 (8 comments)

Bridging PHP and Python object serialization

Bridging PHP and Python object serialization
posted to Ask Metafilter by Blazecock Pileon at 3:14 AM on October 10, 2006 (7 comments)

MySQL performance tuning

How to improve MySQL (5.0.22-max-log, PPC) + InnoDB table performance?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Blazecock Pileon at 4:28 PM on September 24, 2006 (9 comments)

Puff the Magic 9-3

An occasional-to-frequent puff of smoke when starting up a Saab 9-3, and the engine seems to threaten to stall out...
posted to Ask Metafilter by Blazecock Pileon at 8:15 AM on September 8, 2006 (11 comments)

Wide-format vs Pictrography

Wide-format printers: best models and per-print pricing? Or to go with a Pictrography?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Blazecock Pileon at 2:15 PM on August 21, 2006 (4 comments)

Can this be decrypted?

Is Scientific American's spell-checker broken? (via justkevin)
posted to Ask Metafilter by Blazecock Pileon at 10:52 AM on August 4, 2006 (9 comments)

Wireless 802.1x with Fedora Core 5?

Trying to get a wireless 802.1x connection working in a more-or-less vanilla Fedora Core 5 installation and not making much progress...
posted to Ask Metafilter by Blazecock Pileon at 2:37 PM on July 25, 2006 (2 comments)

Ethanol's pros and cons

How much does an x% ethanol gasoline blend product reduce mileage? Does the environmental benefit from ethanol blends outweigh the increased consumption of gasoline products? Or is the benefit negligible for the consumer?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Blazecock Pileon at 11:57 AM on June 19, 2006 (12 comments)