Nano-nonsense: 25 years of charlatanry « Locklin on science.
Interesting post about why nanotechnology is cobblers
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Nano-nonsense: 25 years of charlatanry
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010Prospective new StackOverflow site
Tuesday, August 10th, 2010Announce: Spotify Premium Plugin Beta – Squeezebox : Community : Forums
Monday, July 5th, 2010Announce: Spotify Premium Plugin Beta – Squeezebox : Community : Forums.
triode has spotify working on the squeezebox… I’ve tried it, it’s fantastic.
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Free WiFi in Dartmouth
Sunday, June 27th, 2010Fixing “split” compilation albums in iTunes
Saturday, May 15th, 2010If you have self-made compilation albums in iTunes that appear as multiple albums with the same name on your iPhone / iPod, try wiping the “album artist” field even if it appears empty. Select all songs, get info, check the album artist box & OK.
With the id3v2 commandline tool (available via fink in MacOS), it should be as simple as:
id3v2 --TPE2 "" *.mp3
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Kanellos the Greek protest dog
Friday, May 7th, 2010Small bash script to check if a port is open
Thursday, May 6th, 2010#!/bin/bash
checkport () {
echo | nc -w 1 $1 $2 &> /dev/null
return $? }
checkport google.com 801
RES=$?
if [ $RES -eq 0 ]; then
echo open
fi
Requires netcat
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Get wireless working with Ubuntu 10.04 on the Lenovo S10e
Monday, May 3rd, 2010Add
b43
to /etc/modules & reboot
(also I had better luck with the 2.6.31-20 kernel)
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Fix AAC / mp4 playback on squeezeserver
Sunday, May 2nd, 2010Disable Google Reader’s Social Features
Saturday, May 1st, 2010Disable Google Reader’s Social Features.
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