check out mohamed sultan road where all the pubs/bars/clubs are and the majority of singaporeans go to party. zouk is hugely popular with the younger set.

boat quay and clarke quay have more restaurants and a more laid-back feel - and also more tourists.
posted to Ask Metafilter by mebibyte at 12:17 AM on June 27, 2008

Hm, that hasn't been my experience at all, unfortunately. I've visited the Gran Sole Real resort, Bahia Principe Akumal, and another whose name I've forgotten. None of the three had Internet access available outside of a small, expensive Internet cafe.
posted to Ask Metafilter by mebibyte at 10:11 PM on May 9, 2008

You will, essentially, be choosing between Telus (or a Telus reseller) and Shaw.

If you are a student, or you have students in your family, I highly recommend Shaw. Telus's student deal is one-time only, and Shaw's is available for one's full lifetime as a student. The savings are incredible too. For less than the price I used to pay for my cable TV package, I now get the exact same cable TV package and Shaw's High-Speed Xtreme service (10Mbps down/1Mbps up).... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by mebibyte at 10:20 PM on April 20, 2008

cgomez, I'm curious about this too - what about the iSight she mentioned?

http://www.powerbookmedic.com/xcart1/product.php?productid=17034&cat=0&page=1
does thiss contain the iSight?
posted to Ask Metafilter by mebibyte at 7:21 PM on March 1, 2008

Freelance Switch Rates Calculator

It might not be as detailed as you specified, but I think it could serve as a decent start. Of course, you should replace 'hours billable' with 'widgets produced' or something similar.
posted to Ask Metafilter by mebibyte at 11:52 PM on February 10, 2008

roue, zackola, DJWeezy: Unfortunately, both CGI Proxy and its PHP port (Poxy) state that their Javascript stripping is imperfect. This doesn't work for me :( Thanks anyway, though!

Freaky: Interesting. I've never used these libraries before - the HTML that's being generated isn't really all that semantic... there are no IDs or classes to watch out for. Is that a problem if the layout suddenly changes?

AmbroseChapel: Yeah, I know that the domain... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by mebibyte at 5:07 PM on September 13, 2007

Hi everyone! Thanks for all your answers. I checked all the online retailers listed, and they either did not offer the book, did not allow online purchases, or did not accept a billing address in North America.

SMeoCMP is right in that it is actually cheaper to buy from Amazon and have them ship it as a gift (I ended up saving about $4 on shipping)
posted to Ask Metafilter by mebibyte at 12:30 AM on September 7, 2007

Wine is actually surprisingly easy. After you apt-get install wine, run 'wine' and you get ~/.wine/drive_c which corresponds to the C:\ drive on windows. Download programs into there and run them as command line parameters to wine - eg:

~/.wine/drive_c:$ wine setup.exe

It's getting to be very mature and most of the time, that will do the trick, even for large pieces of software like World of Warcraft (note - you don't need to copy files to the... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by mebibyte at 11:40 AM on July 25, 2007

For quick and dirty hackery (you mentioned telnet, so security is probably not #1 on your list here :) ), you can use the hacker's swiss-army knife - netcat!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netcat
posted to Ask Metafilter by mebibyte at 10:51 PM on June 18, 2007

I'll second LyX. It's all the power of LaTeX with a (passable) UI on top. LaTeX pretty much is the best solution for typesetting math, and is definitely worth learning - the markup is simple and mostly intuitive, a lot of resources exist for reference (lshort.pdf is great, as likedoomsday mentioned), it's free as in speech, usable for things outside of math, and the documents you produce will look *very* professional.

Highly reocmmended :)
posted to Ask Metafilter by mebibyte at 6:44 PM on June 18, 2007

I really enjoyed the Golden Compass, and Dark Is Rising and Wizard of Earthsea are really great series as well (haven't read any of the other ones mentioned).

Another great series that I'd fully recommend is David Eddings's Belgariad (and the Malloreon series that follows it).
posted to Ask Metafilter by mebibyte at 5:34 PM on June 12, 2007

Regex would work, but the OP just wanted to search for a substring within a string, in which case the strpos/stripos/strstr/etc etc functions are a better choice (higher performance)

From the PHP manual:

Do not use preg_match() if you only want to check if one string is contained in another string. Use strpos() or strstr() instead as they will be faster.
posted to Ask Metafilter by mebibyte at 11:37 AM on June 12, 2007

Try this:

<html>
<script type="text/javascript">
var i = 0;
var sites = new Array (
"http://www.google.com",
"http://www.cnn.com",
"http://www.yahoo.com"
);

function startSurfing() {
document.getElementById("surfFrame").src=sites[i++];
if (i != sites.length)... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by mebibyte at 12:40 AM on June 11, 2007 marked best answer