my favourite albums of 2012


2012-12-21 links

A collection of links from the last week or so. Stuff you might have missed that I think is awesome, and stuff you will have no interest in.

Are you a Lone Wolf programmer?
Kim Dotcom: "We believe within five years half of all Internet traffic will be encrypted with …

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Updating to Eclipse 3.8 broke ADT plugin

I recently updated to Ubuntu 12.10 and Eclipse 3.8 Indigo. My ADT plugin was gone, and I was having trouble installing it again.

I was getting this error in the software installer:

Cannot complete the install because one or more required items could not be found. Software being …
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my presence is a present

I accidentally wget'd the contents of a Github page instead of the "raw" link to the file. In trying to figure out what was going on, I found this near the bottom of the file:

    As Kanye West said:
    > We're living the future so
    > the present is our past.

Bahaha …

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quick update.

The one-year anniversary of this blog is coming up. This post was made on the 13th Nov 2011.

Looking back on the archive, the frequency of posting hasn't quite kept up for the whole year -- but it's been fairly evenly-spaced.

There are plenty of things I have been meaning to …

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2012-09-09 quote

After this work, Left 4 Dead 2 is running at 315 FPS on Linux. That the Linux version runs faster than the Windows version (270.6) seems a little counter-intuitive, given the greater amount of time we have spent on the Windows version. However, it does speak to the underlying …
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fix apt-get and update repositories on TonidoPlug 1

I've done this so many times now, and each time I've needed to google it to remind me how, so I'm putting it here for safe-keeping and reference.

The first TonidoPlug (the white one) comes with a custom Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty image. Unfortunately that's no longer supported by Canonical …

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fix root user in botched TonidoPlug mysql install

For some reason the settings for the /var/tmp directory conflict with a mysql install on TonidoPlug 1, and the root user does not get created. The solution for this is to change the permissions BEFORE installing mysql.

chmod 777 /tmp

But what if you didn't already know this, or …

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Netflix's open source centre

This is nice.

Netflix's custom Github page for it's open-source projects.

About makes up for their proprietary nature in general.

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2012-08-04 quote

Well, you know, I try to save a life a day. Usually it's my own...
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