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Inline GraphViz DOT evaluation for graphs using Emacs, org-mode and org-babel(vxlabs.com)
1 points by cpbotha 12y ago|0 comments
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by cpbotha 12y ago
Emacs org-mode with babel is definitely the bee's knees. I can intersperse org-mode markup (much richer than markdown) with syntax-highlighted and executable code snippets. I can export all of this to my wordpress blog or to great-look
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by cpbotha 12y ago
Thanks, your mozilla wiki link answers my group video calling question: Loop / Hello is primarily meant for 1-to-1 video calling. Although this is an awesome development, group video would have made it a killer application. (for now, y
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by cpbotha 12y ago
I dropped Dropbox when the Snowden era began. Since then I've been searching for a suitable replacement: btsync (broke git index files) -> unison via star topoogy (no history) -> syncthing (0.9.17 - very promising, but too memory
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by cpbotha 12y ago
Here's Vodacom's (in South Africa) $50 Android KitKat phone: http://www.techcentral.co.za/vodacom-smart-kicka-review/5018... -- it's at the very least prettier. :P (This smartphone at this price-point is
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by cpbotha 12y ago
Open the Control Panel, then select Security (under "Connectivity"), then the "Auto Block" tab and check "Enable auto block". Kiddies will scan, this blocks their IP numbers after N (by default 5) failed attemp
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by cpbotha 12y ago
Maybe he should have hosted his page on Google Sites?
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Howto: Publish to Wordpress with Emacs 24 and org2blog(vxlabs.com)
1 points by cpbotha 12y ago|0 comments
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by cpbotha 12y ago
I remember that OSX colleagues used to be quite enthusiastic about Papers. As a Linux and sometimes Windows user, I used to use Mendeley quite intensively, until I rediscovered Zotero, which is open source, and for my use case much better t
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by cpbotha 12y ago
Obsessive note-taking lab-journalling knowledge organizer here. * For years simplenote, first using RespohNotes under Wine, then writing https://github.com/cpbotha/nvpy - a cross-platform and open source simplenote cli
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by cpbotha 12y ago
Here's part of my current home office: http://imgur.com/ERUHALo * Motorized adjustable standing desk from the Ikea (Linak legs; whole thing was under €600), in standing mode. Yes, fixed standing desks are not going to
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Syntax-highlighting markdown fenced code blocks in Emacs(vxlabs.com)
2 points by cpbotha 13y ago|0 comments
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by cpbotha 13y ago
For a few years Ikea has been selling a _relatively_ cheap motorized adjustable standing desk with Linak legs: http://www.ikea.com/nl/nl/catalog/products/90088946/ -- this also only has the two legs
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by cpbotha 13y ago
There are a number of existing jsonfield implementations. This one, probably the best of the lot, DOES make use of the PostgreSQL JSON field: https://github.com/bradjasper/django-jsonfield/blob/master/j..
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by cpbotha 13y ago
Are you sure about that? It's hard to find benchmarks, but things seem to point in the direction of fastcopy still being faster. See e.g. http://www.sepago.de/e/helge/2011/05/17/fastcopy-free-fi
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by cpbotha 13y ago
FastCopy does everything TeraCopy does, but faster and better: http://ipmsg.org/tools/fastcopy.html.en (this is the only tool I miss when working on Linux)
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by cpbotha 13y ago
A good reason for using a non-linear tool such as this, is that you're able to layout your points (slides) on an infinite canvas, and make use of that specific layout to better explain how each point fits into the whole structure. For
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Embed html5 webcam feed in impress.js for online presentations(vxlabs.com)
1 points by cpbotha 13y ago|0 comments
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by cpbotha 13y ago
Thanks for the tip! I use Linux on all my laptops and workstation, so unfortunately I can't use airmail or postbox (windows + osx) for this.
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by cpbotha 13y ago
Fortunately I've been using my own domains on top of gmail for the past few years. I still have my gmail account to see what mail ends up in there (and then notify people), and to use google+ (not going to stop that yet). Already proba
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by cpbotha 13y ago
You are correct. However, I am simply taking all MY email out of gmail, so that MY database is not the one that's used to get information about others. Besides this, because I'm not using gmail anymore, I'm using OpenPGP more
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by cpbotha 13y ago
Dear USA, You are probably correct. My point is that I can make it slightly more complicated for you to sniff around in my data, and that was the whole point of this move. If more people do this, it will get progressively harder for you to
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Dear USA, my data has left your building(cpbotha.net)
256 points by cpbotha 13y ago|151 comments
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by cpbotha 13y ago
It even does screen sharing! This could be useful for software demos where Google Hangouts are not supported / allowed.
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by cpbotha 14y ago
They are over your budget, but I would still consider the Asus UX31A (the A is important) or the Asus UX32VD, both the models with full HD 1920x1080 IPS displays. The UX31A comes with SSD, but the spindle HDD in the UX32VD (it also has a sm
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SSDs with usable built-in hardware-based full disk encryption(vxlabs.com)
2 points by cpbotha 14y ago|0 comments
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by cpbotha 14y ago
Are all of your employees using two-factor authentication? Are you 100% that this could not have happened via a normal security breach via a number of your employees' accounts? GMail accounts get hacked regularly, often due to users using t
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by cpbotha 14y ago
nvPY is my ugly but cross-platform (Linux, Windows, Mac) and open-source (new BSD) simplenote-syncing keyboard-friendly realtime-searching note-taking tool! https://github.com/cpbotha/nvpy
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by cpbotha 14y ago
Err, SwiftKey anyone? It's been around since 2008 and even has an xkcd comic featuring it: http://xkcd.com/1068/
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Startups vs. Academic Research Groups: FIGHT(cpbotha.net)
3 points by cpbotha 14y ago|0 comments

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