Fortunes (11)
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Boy, n.:
A noise with dirt on it.
Fortunes (10)
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Coronation, n.:
The ceremony of investing a sovereign with the outward and visible
signs of his divine right to be blown skyhigh with a dynamite bomb.
— Ambrose Bierce, “The Devil’s Dictionary”
Eggdrop: Quick and dirty upgrade to 1.6.19
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True to neglected-category form, I’ve just recently upgraded my eggdrops from 1.6.18 to… wow… 1.6.19, a little less than seven months after the latest incremental version was released last April 18. YAWN.
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GMail now has voice and video chat
Filed under: Geek
Yey! GMail now officially joins the bandwidth-sucking bandwagon. *groan* How will their offering fare against Yahoo? Will people bite? How will this affect other VoIP providers? Who cares?
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Globelines Broadband DSL DNS servers
Filed under: Geek
Think of your ISP’s DNS (Domain Name Service) servers as your Yellow Pages to the internet. They translate human-readable addresses (hostnames) into the numbers that computers understand (IP addresses).
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Ishmael Bernal’s “Himala” voted Best Asian Film in history
Filed under: Film
Voters on CNN’s Entertainment Section chose Ishmael Bernal’s 1982 classic “Himala” as the “Best Asia-Pacific Movie” of all time. The film bested Akira Kurosawa’s “Seven Samurai” and Ang Lee’s “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,” among others.
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OpenBSD: Changing 104-bit WEP keys
Filed under: BSD
The 104-bit WEP key our home network uses has been in place since the 2nd quarter of this year. Time to change it.
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