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The Coolest Green Charger Out There (4)
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Bold statement, right? But look at this thing! The Solar Cell Tree Charger is an engineered tree with 54 solar cells that charge your gizmos by the sun. While nothing is plugged in a battery charges that will power your devices when there is no power. All of the branches are adjustable so that you can make sure each is exposed to the sun. Read MoreContribute comment -
A Requiem For iTunes DRM (1)
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Let me say right upfront that I don’t support piracy. I believe that content creators do deserve to be paid for their work. So this post is not about freeing content for file trading. In fact, these methods will not remove the personally identifiable information from the files, so if you do put them on a file trading network they can be traced directly back to you. But I do believe in being able to ...Shared by vanerj (2)Contribute comment -
Curved ScrollBars using WPF 3D (4)
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Sometimes I get a blog comment a year or so after the original blog entry, and I never know what to do with it. Any "conversation" that might have been taking place about the blog entry has long since subsided, and everyone (including myself) has moved on. My blog entry Non-Affine Transforms in 2D? posted a year ago is about using WPF 3D to mimic two-dimensional non-affine transforms, which are not otherwise supported in WPF. ...Contribute comment -
Spiciest Peppers of the World (1)
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There are many spicy peppers all over the world but only some of them should actually be called spicy. These peppers are measured on a scale called the scoville scale. These spices are grown from all around the world. The spices are listed in order form the spiciest. The Naga Jolokia pepper (SR: 1,041,427 in its hottest form) Image SourceThe Naga Jolokia Pepper is grown in Bangledash and is one of the hottest peppers in ...Shared by vanerj (2)Contribute comment -
Dear Julia, I can't find anything to buy for my boyfriend/sister/mom/friend/ fake "friend." Oprah keeps recommending diet books by Dr. Phil. I do not think that will go over well. Help! Love, Perplexed Wannabe Shopper (1)
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Tired of the same old bullshit here’s-a-giftcard-to-Starbucks-enjoy-free-coffee-for-6-whole-days kind of gifts?? Of course you are! They are a pile of SUCK. In no particular order, here are a few which are WAY FUNNERER:For the girl/guy/dog who has everything, except their own URL and a blog Buy them a URL from GoDaddy.com (it’s only $10!), then set up a Tumblr account (the blog software even your mom can figure out). Then, when it’s time to exchange gifts, ...Shared by vanerj (2)Contribute comment -
Just washed my sheets, and going to bed at an hour so... (1)
onJust washed my sheets, and going to bed at an hour so preposterously reasonable, it’s ridiculous. Goodnight! PS. Don’t you hate when you’re beyond exhausted but your sheets are sitting in a heap on top of your bed, and you sort of just want to curl up on the rug rather than to stuff pillows into pillowcases and tuck in corners and whatnot? That’s where I’m at right now.Shared by vanerj (2)Contribute comment
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Debugging Silverlight applications with windbg and sos.dll (4)
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If you have hangs, performance, memory issues, exceptions or crashes in Silverlight applications you can debug them using windbg and sos just like you would if the issues occurred in other .net applications. The difference is that Silverlight in IE runs a subset of the framework where the main dll is coreclr.dll rather than mscorwks.dll so you can't use the regular 2.0 version of sos.dll that you can find in the framework directory. Instead you ...- mattw said: windbg + Silverlight = wow
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Moving (347)
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- npike said: I think we've all been through this one at some point..
- kebernet said: The alt tag is great today.
- Ian said: so, so true.
- Aneel said: so precisely true
- LM said: Particularly apropos given my current apartment situation.
- Dimitri Glazkov said: This one is about me.
- Brandon said: This makes me want a Cantenna even more!
- Jessica said: Yeah, this is totally me in a couple weeks.
- Goyal said: Agreed :)
- deadlyicon said: heh yes! Fee Linksys day!
- Ashe said: So. True. Right, @mathiasx?
- Chris Schrier said: This is why I had internet at my apartment and house for a couple of weeks.
- тaмás said: There are few forces more powerful than geeks desperately trying to get internet in a new apartment.
- WindPower said: My thoughts exactly pendant les vacances
- Derick Valadao said: This brings back memories :)
- jschultz said: So true.
- Guttorm said: Cute
- Rob said: as someone currently using wireless named "linksys" from a neighbor, i applaud this comic
- Dustin Diaz said: "geeks desperately trying to get internet in a new apartment." Ha!
- Simon said: shared for the alt text
- James said: More times than I can count.
- Eric Atkins said: Pringles can = LOL
- tonyleachsf said: Ha, this is pretty close to my experience !
- Joshua said: bwahahaha ... when we moved last week, I had the DSL order, the backup cable order (they could give a more reliable-sounding install commit), and the netshare-on-3g-iphone plan 'c'. [DSL made the date, fortunately.]
- Steve said: soooooooooo true ;)
- Daniel said: I can relate to this :/
- Zaki said: I need to date the girl stick figure in xkcd cartoons
- Nick Campbell said: I agree with the comment on unsecured! Great!
- Alexandar said: gotta love the linksys people :D
- choffee said: Must have internet.
- Matt said: This seems familiar...
- Walter DeFoor said: agreed and a half.
- Zach said: OOh man, have I done this before >:D
- Ben said: Damn straight.
- Terrence said: I was just thinking about this when I move ...
- Bill said: Yeah, why weren't there any of those kind souls near my new place! (See mouse-over text)
- eric stimmel said: this could be us in a week and a half...
- FelipeC said: Hahaha, so true.
- mernisse said: How true... How True..
- Chris said: just like moving in to our apartments. number 1 priority = internet
- Josi said: i was using an open network i found in my building when i first moved in
- Randy said: Pretty relevant if you ask me
- Joe Smith said: Oh man. This was me all last week..
- Blaise said: This will be me on Monday. Heather, I really hope you've got the internet (and bears) sorted out in Nipissing.
- Matthew said: this is how its been for me for the last 4 days
- Sermed said: In memory of Adam's wifi attempts
- mac said: this is exactly my situation right now. Wish I bought that "Netshare" app for my iPhone that lets me share my EDGE connection with my laptop
- Jaemi kehoe said: Priceless
- Jakob said: I have actually done this with a cantenna before. Fortunately Brady lived in the dorm facing my apartment building, so I was able to get college internet access/network.
- cassio said: I have already tried that too :D still looking for internet...
- justin said: happy 'linksys' day!
- Murz said: Ooooh... how true.
- purplesque said: Afraid this is going to be me..
- Jon G. said: How ironically appropriate for my situation
- tom said: essid "linksys" - yeah!
- KeVroN said: fine I'll do share it too because I do it every day at bucketworks anyhoo
- Andrés David said: In a few weeks I'll remember what this feels like
- Steve M. said: the sad truth
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Two-Factor Authentication for the rest of us (10)
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I’ve always been skeptical of the usability of two-factor authentication. Specifically, Microsoft employs a form of Two-Factor authentication using a Smart Card. To get access to our corporate resources from outside our network you are required to enter your username + password and enter your Smart Card (which is our Badge) into a Smart Card Reader entering your PIN number. The Smart Card contains a certificate that is used to identify you to Microsoft (in ...Shared by cek (2) EricAppel (2) ilennox (10) Keyvan Nayyei (0) Nitin Badjatia (3) Peter (1) PiAir (20) Rob (2) steven.vorefamily.net (1) vanerj (2)Contribute comment -
Kirk Allen Evans's Blog : XmlWriterSettings Encoding Being Ignored? (2)
onI had an interesting exchange in an internal mailing list today, and thought that my readers could possibly benefit from this clarification as well. Scenario You are working with the XmlWriter class and trying to write the contents to something. You are expecting the XML declaration to look like:<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> However, when you inspect the generated XML, it instead looks like:<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?> Background The XmlWriter method has an overloaded Create method that accepts ...Shared by Patrick (17) vanerj (2)Contribute comment
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Building a custom thread pool (series, part 2): a work stealing queue (1)
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The primary reason a traditional thread pool doesn’t scale is that there’s a single work queue protected by a global lock. For obvious reasons, this can easily become a bottleneck. Two primary things contribute heavily to whether the global lock becomes a limiting factor for a particular workload’s throughput: As the size of work items become smaller, the frequency at which the pool’s threads must acquire the global lock increases. Moving forward, we expect the ...Shared by vanerj (2)Contribute comment -
Clearing out "temporary asp.net files" (1)
onWhen I am testing out issues with ASP.NET dynamic compilation and shadow copying, I frequently need to ensure the contents of the "temporary asp.net files" folder have been removed so that I get a clean and consistent repro each time. Normally I just do an IISRESET /STOP, delete the files manually and then do an IISRESET /START. But I got bored of that so thought I would try to automate it with a command file. ...Shared by vanerj (2)Contribute comment
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Tru Blood spill in Houston (1)
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Courtesy of Endlessdeep on LiveJournal: Tru Blood Spill Closes Highway SUGAR LAND, Texas — A big rig hauling a load of synthetic blood overturned on the Highway 59 feeder in Sugar Land Thursday afternoon. Police believe it will take up to four hours to clean the bloody mess off the roadway. Meanwhile, the southbound feeder of Highway 59 and Highway 6 eastbound have been closed since 4:30 p.m. Sugar Land police said the tanker truck ...Shared by vanerj (2)Contribute comment -
How to tether your iPhone to Vista in 5 easy steps (11)
onHere are some very easy steps for how to tether your Vista laptop to your iPhone. First you need to get the following pieces of software: NetShare – this is an iPhone application that bridges your 3G and WiFi radio on the iPhone and creates a SOCKS proxy for your PC. Apple has been publishing and removing this application over the past day, so it might not be available in the Apple Store. Sorry! Proxifier ...Shared by Alan (24) EricAppel (2) ilennox (10) Josh (0) Paul (5) Rob (2) shawnmor (20) sylvainbriant (1) Trey (5) vanerj (2) Warner (6)
- Trey said: Mojave is at it again, wait, I mean Vista.
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