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Ask post: Firefox extension that lets me open links by dragging them?
Easy DragToGo, SuperDragAndGo, and Drag de Go
posted to Ask Metafilter by swapspace at 2:14 PM on September 26, 2008

Ask post: Decrease spam reaching Gmail inbox
No upsurge for me either. Although the damage is done, did you subscribe somewhere recently using this account?

A trick which works in gmail is to add +<website name or something unique> for each service that you subscribe to, for ex. if you are subscribing to example.com, give the id as <yourid>+example@gmail.com. This will land in your inbox but you can easily filter/delete and also figure out who is selling your id.

Sorry, no help for the current situation.
posted to Ask Metafilter by swapspace at 8:09 AM on September 24, 2008

Ask post: Schiesse! I just want sites in English, please!
2nding vac2003. You just have to go to ncr once and you are all set.
posted to Ask Metafilter by swapspace at 10:16 PM on September 20, 2008

Ask post: How much should I expect to pay for someone to create me a simple two page website and where is the best/cheapest place to host it?
You can probably do it yourself.

Try infogami or a free wiki like wikidot
posted to Ask Metafilter by swapspace at 1:57 PM on September 20, 2008
Also 2nding dbiedny
posted to Ask Metafilter by swapspace at 1:58 PM on September 20, 2008

Ask post: The Anti-Bollywood.
Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi is one of the best stuff that I've seen.
I would also suggest Omkara, an adaptation of Othello and Maqbool, an adaptation of Macbeth. Both these movies are by Vishal Bharadwaj.
posted to Ask Metafilter by swapspace at 11:14 PM on August 19, 2008

Ask post: Learning how to troubleshoot T-Carrier equipement
Did you try references on the wikip page, especially this book.

Some other links from a quick google search that _might_ help:
Additional Reading links on: http://safari.ibmpressbooks.com/0789725452/ch10lev1sec3
http://www.amazon.com/Guide-T-1-Networking-Install-Desktop/dp/1578200210/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1218032114&sr=1-9
posted to Ask Metafilter by swapspace at 7:18 AM on August 6, 2008

Ask post: Online Cryptic Crosswords
"indigestible food for example ... sent back [6]".
refuse?

posted to Ask Metafilter by swapspace at 1:50 PM on July 30, 2008
ah, ya. stodge
posted to Ask Metafilter by swapspace at 4:09 PM on August 1, 2008

Ask post: How to Integrate "Repeating Tasks" Into a Text File To-Do System?
If you mark tasks complete or remove them as you are getting done with them, you can start changing the timing of the repeating task to the next one, every time you complete it.

Another approach: When you add a repeating task, add a string of possible completion times in order(say, for a month) and then go on deleting specific times as you get done with them.
posted to Ask Metafilter by swapspace at 12:33 PM on July 7, 2008 marked best answer

Ask post: One form to rule them all...
Contrarian suggestion but if you can go with a web-based solution, do give wufoo a spin. No specialized software needed!
posted to Ask Metafilter by swapspace at 5:14 PM on May 1, 2008

Ask post: How can I become an early riser?
2nding mendel. Pavlina's advice works for me.
posted to Ask Metafilter by swapspace at 1:51 PM on April 30, 2008

Ask post: Help with MS Outlook 2002
The url for Redemption is http://dimastr.com/redemption . This does exactly what you need but afaik, it covers only MAPI and CDO. Moreover, you'll need to change the system to use this, which probably isn't feasible in your case.
posted to Ask Metafilter by swapspace at 2:44 PM on April 20, 2008
For a solution at the user's end, you can try clickyes or something similar
posted to Ask Metafilter by swapspace at 2:54 PM on April 20, 2008

Ask post: The Truth is in Here
Why-files.
Get your black oil right here.
posted to Ask Metafilter by swapspace at 2:34 PM on April 20, 2008

Ask post: Mac connected to server gets strange filenames, sometimes.
I've seen this a lot, especially in windows client/linux server situations. Samba, being an SMB/CIFS implementation, uses the most constrained set of allowed characters and converts to DOS style 8.3 filenames otherwise.
posted to Ask Metafilter by swapspace at 8:33 PM on April 10, 2008

Ask post: What is the "state of the art" with respect to Python on Windows?
You can try this module.
posted to Ask Metafilter by swapspace at 7:59 AM on April 3, 2008

Ask post: Give me your best book of taxonomies.
Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives. Check out the references at the bottom.
posted to Ask Metafilter by swapspace at 4:26 AM on April 1, 2008

Ask post: How do I open a ".tar.tgz" file?
If you don't have a linux machine handy, you can install unxutils on windows. It'll be faster/easier than installing cygwin, and it contains file, tar and gzip.
posted to Ask Metafilter by swapspace at 12:16 PM on March 29, 2008
Bingo Pronoiac! I was trying to match magic ids of gz/bz2/tar etc. in the text and hit it just after the first space - 1F 8B 08. Magic id info courtesy filext.com

Just removing the space does the trick.
posted to Ask Metafilter by swapspace at 9:24 PM on March 30, 2008

Ask post: Making a dumb form smarter
Not sure if it fits your requirements but do take a look at wufoo. It's awesome
posted to Ask Metafilter by swapspace at 4:43 PM on March 24, 2008

Ask post: Help me puzzle-hack with Python!
It doesn't fit your bill fully but you might try Project Euler. Some python solutions to these problems are at pyeuler.
posted to Ask Metafilter by swapspace at 1:12 PM on February 28, 2008 marked best answer

Ask post: New Computer, Random Restarts, Help?
nthing trying at some third place. I used to build friends' computers in college and have seen something quite similar to this. It worked even in a different outlet in the same room and other comps/laptops were working fine in that outlet. weird.
posted to Ask Metafilter by swapspace at 9:24 AM on February 14, 2008

Ask post: How can I export my Google Talk "Chats" from Gmail?
Landing quite late here but filtering based on Subject as 'Chat with' would be much better, in terms of false positives.
posted to Ask Metafilter by swapspace at 11:42 AM on May 31, 2007

Ask post: Which flash-based, non-iPod audio players have the lowest self-noise (lowest noise floor)?
Ditto knave's recommendation and caveat.
posted to Ask Metafilter by swapspace at 8:25 AM on April 14, 2007

Ask post: Python version of this Perl 4-line regexp script?
Book suggestion: Perl to Python Migration. Lots of minor typos though. It's also avilable in Safari Bookshelf.

This may also be useful: PerlPhrasebook
posted to Ask Metafilter by swapspace at 1:55 PM on November 12, 2006

Ask post: What is this non-alphanumeric character?
For finding it, as others mentioned, hexdump/vim/emacs on *nix. On Windows: In Textpad, hovering the mouse over that character shows the hex equivalent. Regex equivalent - \x{<hex code>}
posted to Ask Metafilter by swapspace at 10:08 AM on October 13, 2006

Ask post: Songs with words spelled out in the lyrics?
p-r-i-v-a-c-y is priceless to me

A small PJ song 'pry, to' from the album Vitalogy.
posted to Ask Metafilter by swapspace at 11:37 PM on August 8, 2006

Ask post: What is skype doing?
Check out this article, especially the part around and including this para:

The way Skype handles this so-called "NAT traversal" problem is by inserting a server in the middle that can be seen by connections at both ends. This server for Skype is called a "super node" and may well be inside your computer without your knowledge, because Skype super nodes use borrowed bandwidth and processing power. Lucky us.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by swapspace at 11:30 PM on August 8, 2006