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Wim Leers: The iPhone Dock Bed
My girlfriend and I both have an iPhone. Every night when we go to bed, we plug them in for charging. We also use them as our alarm clocks.Until very recently, we did this by using the typical charger....
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Wouter Verhelst: Hard disk partition pregap and grub2
A week or so back, I was at a customer to upgrade his server to wheezy. This server had originally been installed, not as squeeze but as something older, and was installed using an LVM-on-mdraid...
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FOSDEM organizers: Call for participation: main tracks and developer rooms
We now invite proposals for main track presentations and developer rooms. FOSDEM offers open source developers a place to meet, share ideas and collaborate. Renowned for being highly...
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Lionel Dricot: Exploring Artistic Business Models in the 21st Century
Most artists don’t earn any moneyBeing a pirate, I’m often asked: “How would artists earn money if everybody was like you?”. My first answer is that, in general, artists are currently not making any...
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Frank Goossens: Music from our Tube; Karma Police, arrest this band
I’m not too big on reggae, but this Easy Star All Stars live cover of Radiohead’s “Karma Police” is really good.Watch this video on YouTube or on Easy Youtube.Easy Star All Stars have a song-by-song...
View ArticleWim Coekaerts: Oracle VM templates for Database 12c 12.1.0.1.0 both single...
Today we made available a few new Oracle VM templates on edelivery. A set of VM templates for database 12c and another set for database 11g 11.2.0.3.7. You can find more information on the otn pages...
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Lionel Dricot: Printeurs 1
Ceci est le billet 1 sur 1 dans la série PrinteursCoup de foudre ! Mon esprit conscient ne l’avait pas encore aperçue que j’eu l’impression d’avoir mis les doigts sur une capa de plusieurs microfarad....
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Wouter Verhelst: Debconf13
So debcamp has been going on for just over five days now, and it's been a success and a failure at the same time.A success, because the organization is wonderful, the food is good, the location is...
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Frank Goossens: Autoptimize; JavaScript in head and some deprecated...
Autoptimize 1.6.5 got just pushed out, with one new feature and one notification. The new option configures Autoptimize to output the aggregated JavaScript in the head-section instead of at the bottom...
View ArticleKurt Roeckx: Anti-piracy and privacy
In the Dutch language area (Netherlands and Flanders) most e-book publishers changed from using DRM to using a watermark since February. It's now something like 62% with watermark, 24% with DRM and 14%...
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Wouter Verhelst: Bloody spammers
2013-08-13 14:51:38 H=<censored>.hinet.net (ylmf-pc) [<also censored>] rejected AUTH LOGIN: Please use encryption for authentication! 2013-08-13 14:51:44 H=<censored>.hinet.net...
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Karl Vogel: It's no IDA, yet?
Since I didn't have an ST62 disassembler, I started writing something myself. Took the opportunity to get familiar with all the new C++11 constructs. Don't know yet if I'll take this prototype much...
View ArticleWim Coekaerts: Of updates and errata.
A frequently discussed topic inside Oracle and also outside with customers and partners is Oracle Linux versions and how to treat updates and support and certifications and minimum levels. Here's our...
View ArticleWim Coekaerts: The life of a Linux RPM (package)
Another frequently asked question related to Oracle Linux is how versions of specific packages (RPMs) are picked. A Linux distribution is basically a collection of a ton of open source projects that...
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Paul Cobbaut: independent Raspberry Pi
The Raspberry Pi is great, but by default it needs usb for power and utp for network.Luckily there is the Smart Power Base to provide power and the Netgear (I use the wna1100 for obvious reasons) for...
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Wouter Verhelst: Debconf bid voor Mechelen
Gisteren heb ik besloten dat, als ik ooit die vage plannen om Debconf in België "ooit" te laten doorgaan realiteit wou laten worden, dat ik er dan maar beter iets aan deed. Dus had ik iets van "foert",...
View ArticleTom Laermans: Playing a YouTube video on your XBMC Media Center from the CLI
I’m regularly sitting in front of my TV with my laptop, surfing and chatting; many YouTube links pass on IRC or while browsing forums and such. Watching these videos would be a lot nicer on the TV than...
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Mark Van den Borre: Amnesty International: UK: Detention of Guardian employee...
https://www.amnesty.org/en/for-media/press-releases/uk-detention-guardian-employee-heathrow-unlawful-and-unwarranted-2013-08-18 Writing this from a former Soviet republic feels rather strange.
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Lionel Dricot: Open Letter to Flight Attendants
Dear flight attendant,I’ve printed this letter that I’m handing to you because you are asking me to stop reading during take off or landing.We all know that commercial flying is nowadays full of...
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Frank Goossens: Music from our Tube; Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti with ‘Only...
OK, the man has pink hair, but “Only In My Dreams” has this beautiful sixties sound to it, pretty Byrds-like;Watch this video on YouTube or on Easy Youtube.Possibly related twitterless twaddle:Music...
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