First Dog on the Moon (1)
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Kevin Rudd gets a frosty welcome in the US of A, whereas John Howard WILL NOT DIE!!!
SQL Server 2008 Plan Guides (3)
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So here’s how it’s done.. So here’s how it’s done..I rarely know more about SQL Server than my friend Beatrice so I was surprised when I mentioned plan guides and she hadn’t heard of this new feature. I have to say this is not a big mainstream thing and it takes me back query hints in SQL Server 2000. Essentially you get the optimiser to generate a plan for you and then apply this to ...
The Confessor comes for sinners’ souls (1)
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The latest mecha from Mark Stafford (Nabii) is named simply “6600M Confessor”: It’s no secret by now that Mark is one of several LEGO fans who’ve joined The LEGO Group recently as set designers. (Others include Pierre Normandin, Jamie Berard, and Adam Grabowski.) Mark’s set design credits so far include several Exo-Force sets, Mission 3: Gold Hunt, Mission 6: Mobile Command Center, and MT-201 Ultra-Drill Walker. Even though building with LEGO has now become his ...
The Confessor comes for sinners’ souls (2)
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The latest mecha from Mark Stafford (Nabii) is named simply “6600M Confessor”: It’s no secret by now that Mark is one of several LEGO fans who’ve joined The LEGO Group recently as set designers. (Others include Pierre Normandin, Jamie Berard, and Adam Grabowski.) Mark’s set design credits so far include several Exo-Force sets, Mission 3: Gold Hunt, Mission 6: Mobile Command Center, and MT-201 Ultra-Drill Walker. Even though building with LEGO has now become his ...
Beef, it’s what’s for dinner (1)
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Vegetarians turn away, Andrew Lee uses a Duplo steak as the head of a mecha in a novel genre called Meatpunk, blurring the line between delicious and creepy. But for now, we can say that this awesome mecha is deliciously creepy, and it’s all suited up for some chopping action.
Spider-Monkey is coming to get you! (1)
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YouMail Replaces, Transcribes Your Voicemail [Cellphones] (25)
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Webapp and voicemail service YouMail replaces your default voicemail with a beefed up, feature-rich alternative. We first featured YouMail for its personalized greeting features, but it's been busy since then, adding visual voicemail, caller filtering, and voice-to-text transcription of messages that it delivers as a text message. The transcription feature—which left beta today—is the only feature that comes with a price. For $4/month, YouMail will transcribe and text 50 messages to your phone; for $18/month, ...
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angelchrys said:
I've been using YouMail for about a month now and I've been enjoying it. My favorite part is getting mp3s of my voicemails! Might have to check out the transcription service, however.
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Glenn Batuyong said:
"Webapp and voicemail service YouMail replaces your default voicemail with a beefed up, feature-rich alternative. We first featured YouMail for its personalized greeting features, but it's been busy since then, adding visual voicemail, caller filtering, and voice-to-text transcription of messages that it delivers as a text message. The transcription feature—which left beta today—is the only feature that comes with a price."
More Aftermath Bumbling in the Cheye Calvo Raid (1)
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Cheye Calvo, you'll remember, is the Berwyn Heights, Maryland mayor whose home was mistakenly raided by Prince George's County, Maryland police. Calvo's two black labs were shot and killed, and he and his mother-in-law were bound at gunpoint for hours, even after it was clear that the police had made a mistake. The raid came after police intercepted a package of marijuana sent to Calvo's address through a delivery service. Police conducted no additional investigation ...
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Download and install Ubuntu 8.10 AMD64 (or x86_64): Download 64-bit flash from here. If you have flashplugin-nonfree installed, now is a good time to remove it as we will be using the labs version: ~$ sudo apt-get remove flashplugin-nonfree This leaves behind some junk. To remove them: cd /usr/lib sudo find . -name "npwrapper.libflashplayer.so" | xargs rm And now install the plugin: cp path_to_so_file_you_extracted.so /usr/lib/firefox/plugins Start firefox and have fun. Pandora.com no longer crashes: And ...Contribute comment
