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Debian Bug Leaves Private SSL/SSH Keys Guessable
via Slashdot by timothy on May 13, 2008
SecurityBob writes "Debian package maintainers tend to very often modify the source code of the package they are maintaining so that it better fits into the distribution itself. However, most of the time, their changes are not sent back to upstream for validation, which might cause some tension between upstream developers and Debian packagers. Today, a critical security advisory has been...
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Processing Visualization Language Ported To Javascript
via Slashdot: Developers by (author unknown) on May 15, 2008
Shared by Ihar Mahaniok that's really cool. In line with recently released SuperMario in JS. Hopefully, more developers will just use cross-platform JS for feature-full visual sites instead of flash/silverlight/whateverelse.Manfre writes "On his birthday, John Resig (creator of jQuery) has given a present to developers by releasing Processing.js. This is a Javascript port of the Processing...
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Introducing Google Doctype
via theGoogleBay.org by DeWitt Clinton on May 14, 2008
By Mark Pilgrim, Google Code TeamThe open web is the web built on open standards: HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and more. The open web is a beautiful soup of barely compatible clients and servers. It comprises billions of pages, millions of users, and thousands of browser-based applications. You can access the open web with open source and proprietary browsers, on open source and proprietary operating...
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Google about to launch Flash API for Maps
via Googling Google by Garett Rogers on May 14, 2008
Google just published a page detailing how Flash developers can now use the Google Maps ActionScript API. Unfortunately, as of right now all the samples still don’t work, but based on the documentation from a guy who has never made anything in Flash, it looks pretty easy to use.This API lets Flex developers embed [...]
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How Do You Organize Your RSS Feeds?
via Lifehacker: not Windows, not Mac OS X by Adam Pash on May 06, 2008
Newsreaders are a blessing for anyone who wants to stay on top of the constant flow of information available on the web, but if you're not careful your feedreader can get so clogged and disorganized that you lose many of the benefits of RSS. Blogger GenuineChris details how he combatted this situation using fewer folders organized by quality—like A-List, B-List, etc. At the end of the day...
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A $500 Million Week for Grand Theft Auto (Matt Richtel/New York Times)
via Techmeme by (author unknown) on May 07, 2008
Matt Richtel / New York Times:A $500 Million Week for Grand Theft Auto — SAN FRANCISCO — Grand Theft Auto IV, the latest iteration of the hit video game franchise, racked up first-week sales of $500 million, Take-Two Interactive, the game's publisher, plans to announce on Wednesday. The report exceeded the sales expectations of analysts.
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Version Control and “the 80%”
via iBanjo by Ben Collins-Sussman on October 16, 2007
11/17/07: Before posting an angry comment about this post, please see the follow-up post!Disclaimer: I’m going to make some crazy sweeping generalizations — ones which are based on my 12 years of observing the software development industry. I’m aware that I’m drawing some oversimplified stereotypes, but I think most of my peers who work in this industry will nod their head at some...
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How Little Do Users Read? (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
via www.useit.com by (author unknown) on May 06, 2008
Shared by Ionut The conclusion is that people don't actually read, they just scan the text.I was able to fit very nice formulas to describe users' reading behavior for pages containing between 30 and 1,250 words. For longer pages, reading became quite erratic. Pages with a huge word count are probably not "real" pages anyway � they're more likely to be either academic papers or...
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Turn Your Point-and-Shoot into a Super-Camera
via Lifehacker: Top by Adam Pash on May 06, 2008
If you're using a consumer grade point-and-shoot Canon digital camera, you've got hardware in hand that can support advanced features way beyond what shipped in the box. With the help of a free, open source project called CHDK, you can get features like RAW shooting mode, live RGB histograms, motion-detection, time-lapse, and even games on your existing camera. Let's transform your...
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Grimm’s Deutsches Wörterbuch for Free
via Language Geek by Josh on April 14, 2008
I discovered through the WordReference Forums today that the whole Grimms Deutsches Wörterbuch, which consists of 32 volumes, is available for free online. The project page for this is here; the direct link to the dictionary itself is here.The Grimms Deutsches Wörterbuch is rather like the Oxford English Dictionary, except that it’s for German (obviously). I’m not sure as to how helpful it...
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