I was looking around for an Amazon S3 browser and cam across digital inspiration talking about CloudBerry Explorer. The first thing that caught my eye was this screenshot. If you read around it, you can see you have two options of moving files between S3 instances. While options are nice, I’m not sure why anybody in their right mind would want to select the slow and expensive way. If you move between S3 instances on S3, it costs zero dollars....
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software development with some really amazing hairWorth watching. Twice. Joel Spolsky RailsConf '08 keynote
Great talk from Joel Spolsky at last year’s RailsConf. Can you turn Javascript on?
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Emacs and termcap
I’ve had this problem before, but never wrote down how I fixed it. emacs would whine about not being able to open a termcap database file, and wouldn’t start on the console. The X version worked fine, but using the -nw option resulted it in dying. The fix! infocmp -C rxvt-unicode | sudo tee /etc/termcap If you strace emacs when you start it, you’ll see it tries to open that file, which doesn’t exist on Ubuntu by default. I tried everything els...
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TurnKey Linux
I discovered TurnKey Linux while I was running around on the web, and found it quite interesting. From the site: TurnKey Linux is a new open source project that aims to develop high quality software appliances that are easy to use, easy to deploy, and free. The appliances are based on Ubuntu 8.04.2 which is an LTS release, so updates are supported until sometime in 2011. They even provide a base setup of either plain JeOS or the the basic st...
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Notepad++ for the win++
Who actually uses notepad anymore? Notepad++ is pretty much the bomb, so use it instead. .:: NOTEPAD++ ::.
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Borland C++ Builder 5, how I hate thee
I’m pretty sure Borland’s C++ Builder 5 is the worst IDE ever. It’s slow. If you try to use tooltips or code completion, it takes a good 5 seconds before anything shows up. On top of that, since they didn’t put the tooltip activity in a separate thread (I haven’t seen source code, but it’s pretty obvious), the entire application is frozen and you get the hourglass while it’s looking for something to display. Super. Not only does it take foreve...
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Renaming SharePoint sites with stsadm
I needed this when I worked back at Matrikon. I don’t imagine the process has changed since then. It’s kind of sketchy when you have to delete, then restore, but whatever, it worked for me. Your mileage may vary! Don’t blame me if your entire site gets deleted :) Matthew Cosier’s Blog: How to rename a WSS site
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