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Network Timeout? Substitute the Airport kexts

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in Command Line defence

With this close connection, learning about the command line makes more sense in GNU/Linux than in many operating systems. You do not need to be full of command line macho, believing that the only real computing goes on at a command prompt, to appreciate the connection. While the command line is in many ways the opposite of the desktop, in that it is thorough and encourages the gaining of expertise, the two interfaces are complementary. For simple, routine tasks, the desktop is often preferable, especially if you are viewing graphics. If you want to administer your system or fine-tune performance, then the command line is the interface you need.


 
 
via The GNU/Linux Desktop and Borrowed Assumptions about Usability | datamation.com

 
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Shorten this – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report

[S]hortening services add another layer of indirection to an already creaky system. A regular hyperlink implicates a browser, its DNS resolver, the publisher’s DNS server, and the publisher’s website. With a shortening service, you’re adding something that acts like a third DNS resolver, except one that is assembled out of unvetted PHP and MySQL, without the benevolent oversight of luminaries like Dan Kaminsky and St. Postel.

There are three other parties in the ecosystem of a link: the publisher (the site the link points to), the transit (places where that shortened link is used, such as Twitter or Typepad), and the clicker (the person who ultimately follows the shortened links). Each is harmed to some extent by URL shortening.

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Mac Chromium 3.0.196 allows you to edit bookmarks

Thanks to my pal Nezmar I see that mac's build of "Chrome" is developing real fast and become actually usable and almost ready for everyday use!

Check also the chromium category on his blog!

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