As IBM continues to build out, Jazz, their community-oriented development site, technical lead Dr. Erich Gamma has offered to answer questions about Jazz or anything else in his realm of expertise. Among his many accomplishments, Erich worked for Kent Beck on the Java unit testing framework, JUnit, and was actively involved until JUnit 4. Dr [...]
Wire baskets can stash cables under a desk, but they don’t make it easy to yank out certain wires for laptops or other needs. A chain sinnet might just do the trick.
What is this mysterious and loopy creature? The Closet Entrepreneur blog explains how a sinnet handily tames cables:
The chain sinnet (aka chain braid, daisy [...]
SailorSpork sends in a BBC report that “China is delaying a controversial plan requiring all new computers sold in the country to be equipped with an Internet filtering software, state media says. The filter, called Green Dam Youth Escort, was to have been required from Wednesday, but the ministry of industry said computer makers needed [...]
You don’t want to play DIY plumber or call one just yet, but you can’t stand the harsh chemicals in most drain cleaners. Solution? Make your own eco-friendly drain cleaner.
We’ve covered a similar medicine cabinet methods before, but this “recipe” not only cuts out the middle step of tracking down some Alka-Seltzer, but adds to [...]
An anonymous reader writes “Kudos to NASA and the Japanese trade ministry for mapping 99% of the Earth’s surface, surpassing their previous effort, with which the new data will be amalgamated. Apparently, the data will be free to download and use.”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Everybody already knows that middle-clicking or Control-clicking in Firefox opens a link in a new background tab, but reader Raghav points out that you can also open a link in a new foreground tab instead.
It’s a tiny, simple tip, but one of those things that you might not have realized: just hold down the Shift [...]
Michael writes “Part of our business at my work involves transferring mission critical files across a 2 mbit microwave connection, into a government-run telecommunications center with a very dodgy internal network and then finally to our own server inside the center. The computers at both ends run Windows. What sort of protocols or tools are [...]
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Rand Huck writes “Amazon.com has now added Rhode Island to its blacklist of affiliates in response to its proposed budget changes to enforce a tax on Internet sales, which includes commissions on their affiliate program by content providers based in Rhode Island. The first state to be blacklisted was North Carolina, for the same reason. [...]
The New York Times’ Gadgetwise blog asked its readers to call a Google Voice number and leave voicemails to test and stretch the service’s transcription prowess. They responded with glee, reading parts of the Declaration of Independence (translation: “We hope you straight to be self evident …”), Monty Python skits (”this carriages no more in [...]
