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Comment on Test post (ignore) by yo@awesome.so

yo@awesome.so — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 03:05:31 +0000

whee, foobar!

Comment on Facebook, the Borg, and Utopias by Daniel Howard

Daniel Howard — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 17:52:14 +0000

I would add that there is a feedback loop between the shape of the whole and the quality of its constituents. Sometimes positive feedback, sometimes negative feedback. The new technology may be promoting an ethic of openness and sharing among the constituents of our civilization, which may subsequently manifest itself in business and government practices. That is a good thing.

But I also reason that manipulative and deceitful practices are basically weapons, and I reckon that those who come to perceive the world from an open sharing perspective are going to be a naive and vulnerable in the face of deception.

For example . . . in earlier times, all media were understood as self-interested and biased. Broadcast news brought an era of news reporting that sought to be unbiased. Then when Fox News comes along, people find it difficult to perceive that the news is anything either than wholly true or wholly untrue, rather than a biased perspective that needs to be filtered through a bit of skepticism.

I guess what I am trying to say is that if a Borg Cube shows up hovering above the White House lawn, they may not be capable of dealing with our lies.

-danny

Comment on Making the delete key work in screen (termcap capabilities) by larsr

larsr — Fri, 07 May 2010 06:46:13 +0000

Thanks! This worked perfectly!
(I’m ssh:ing from a Terminal.app on Mac OS X Snow Leopard laptop to a Ubuntu Feisty box and running screen on the ubuntu box. I put the termcap in the ~/.screenrc on my ubuntu box.)

Comment on New Shoes: Vibram FiveFingers KSO by Rich

Rich — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 20:20:26 +0000

Thank you for this article, my shoes were getting pretty funky. I googled can you wash vibram shoes and this popped up. I just bought 2 pairs of toe socks to reduce the funky smell, I know the socks will take more washes than the shoes. I love these shoes! I will warn everyone who does not have a pair of five fingers, these will start many new conversations whether you want them or not. I still love them though.

Comment on Using ALSA for sound with VMware Workstation 6.5 on an Ubuntu 8.04 host by Roumen Semov

Roumen Semov — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:58:06 +0000

Nope, not working for me. Yes, I run Vmware workstation 6.5

Comment on Making the delete key work in screen (termcap capabilities) by Ludovic Kuty

Ludovic Kuty — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 15:02:56 +0000

Googling “screen delete key”, it made my day. Thanks !

Comment on Making the delete key work in screen (termcap capabilities) by Lazy Hacker Babble » Blog Archive » GNU Screen and Bash

Lazy Hacker Babble » Blog Archive » GNU Screen and Bash — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 06:43:48 +0000

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Comment on Video Hosting with Flowplayer and S3 by Paul Gibson

Paul Gibson — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:05:37 +0000

Hi,

ok, so flowplayer is the swf based flv player. I am assuming there are ways to extract the first frame as JPG in PHP. The comes the S3 object creation and referencing in the local web app.

Will this work?

Thanks
–
Paul
http://show-the-ip.info

Comment on First FPGA project ideas by Neo Cambell

Neo Cambell — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:06:41 +0000

Very good starting points…

Neo
http://www.expertcore.org

Comment on Making the delete key work in screen (termcap capabilities) by KTR

KTR — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:38:41 +0000

Yay !

Thanks :D