By Hook or by Rook – Los Angeles Times
Boy, this would’ve made chess club more exciting in high school :).
IVR Cheat Sheet to Fine a Human
Amazing. A list of shortcuts for how to avoid those annoying “Press 1 if blah…Press 2 if blah…”, and get right to a human.
Hope he keeps it updated!
How To Write Unmaintainable Code
I’ve seen WAAY too much code exactly like this.
Guardian Unlimited | Guardian daily comment | Owning ideas
Essentially, an argument that ideas and ideas, and things are things. “Intellectual Property” is less about any tangible property and more about screwing the little guy.
SubSpaceDownloads.com – Free Online Multiplayer Action Game
Gotta try this out again. Still wish I could get my hands on Lunatic Fringe though…
Slashdot | Microsoft Lauds Scrum
Please, Cliff Dodd or Dave Watson, mandate eXtreme Programming for application development in KPIT!!
Palm: We’re not abandoning Palm OS | CNET News.com
So we’re just abandoning PalmOS for our flagship Treo phones?
Sigh.
1) go to www.mininova.org
– BROWSE SAFELY!! USE FIREFOX!! MAKE SURE POPUPS ARE DISABLED, AND DON’T LET THEM SET COOKIES UNLESS YOU ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO!
2) in the top search bar, enter the title you’re looking for, and click “Search”
3) in the results list, click on the “Added” column header to sort by date added
4) choose a torrent to download, and click on it’s name
-typically, i pick the first torrent posted, and one that has a fair amount of Seeds and Leechers
-an episode should only be about 350MB
-some common release groups are “VTV” and “eztv”
-episodes are commonly denoted as SxxEyy, where xx is the season number, and yy is the episode number
5) click on the download link to download the torrent file
6) open with “bittorrent (default)”, and click “OK”
—-
Software you’ll need to install:
1) http://www.lvllord.de/
-go to downloads
-choose “EventID 4226 Patcher Version 2.23d (english)”
or you can try this
link directly:
2) http://phoenixlabs.org/pg2/
-make sure you load the p2p list, and you’ll generally want to allow HTTP
Awesome Palm game.
Maybe this could be the beginning of reasonable IP laws? (Although it makes me gag to think of anything intellectual as property…information wants to be free.)
Phoenix Labs » PeerGuardian 2
For anyone who has had trouble with torrent speeds thanks to anti-p2p hackers.
http://www.lvllord.de/?lang=en&url=downloads
This happy little puppy helps uncripple the Windows XP SP2 TCP/IP stack to allow more connections.
Travis Bradshaw » Blog Archive » Subversion on DreamHost
Just about the most awsome geek thing I’ve seen this week. Thanks Travis!
More stuff here:
http://wiki.dreamhost.com/index.php/Subversion#Installing_Subversion_on_DreamHost
Note, when using Subclipse 0.9.33, make sure you set the option Window…Preferences…Team…SVN…SVN interface = JavaSVN (Pure Java).
Interesting commentary on how to use hibernate with DAO patterns.