murrayb

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by murrayb 15y ago
> Right-Click on Excel Taskbar Icon > "Microsoft Excel" > A new window opens. Is that a windows 7 feature? It doesn't appear to work for XP. (Yeah yeah this desktop is in a govt dept that will get updated one day...) Like the sa
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Getting Great Things Done(incommunique.blogspot.com)
3 points by murrayb 15y ago|0 comments
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Peer-to-peer entrepreneurs gamble on patent suit(crn.com.au)
1 points by murrayb 15y ago|0 comments
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by murrayb 15y ago
Death Sentence ( http://www.amazon.com/Death-Sentences-Management-Speak-Stran... ) by Don Watson is the seminal work on the topic.
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by murrayb 15y ago
It does (or should) go to fallback mode however Big Kernel Lock (BKL) was removed on kernels >= 2.6.37 and VMWare Tools won't install so your joy would have been short lived. I Googled around and tried a couple of patches but none of th
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How To Complete Anything(incommunique.blogspot.com)
2 points by murrayb 15y ago|0 comments
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Profits plunge for maker of BlackBerry(guardian.co.uk)
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Murray's Guide To Learning/Mastering Anything(incommunique.blogspot.com)
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by murrayb 16y ago
The video "The Britten Bike Story" is well worth seeing if you enjoy mechanical hackery and motorcycles- http://www.brittendvd.co.nz/
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by murrayb 16y ago
My prediction FWIW: more lawsuits. This diagram is about to get some more lines- http://infobeautiful2.s3.amazonaws.com/whos_suing_whom.png
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Tunnelr: OpenSSH & OpenVPN Tunneling(tunnelr.com)
1 points by murrayb 16y ago|0 comments
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by murrayb 16y ago
I'm behind a corporate firewall where Chrome isn't allowed, any-one know of an equivalent which will run on Firefox? As an aside the Chrome Web Store tantalizingly says "Sorry, we don't support your browser just yet. You'll need Google Chro
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by murrayb 16y ago
I'd love a web based editor that uses Dropbox (or your cloud based storage) for storage. I use Elements editor on the iPhone but for when I just have a browser... (Similarly I'd feel a lot more comfortable with Google Applications if I cou
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Oracle shuts down PostgreSQL test servers(itnews.com.au)
72 points by murrayb 16y ago|39 comments
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by murrayb 17y ago
> With this move, Google is declaring war on a host of web companies that are heretofore thriving and collaborating and making tons of money. Actually I think Google is just escalating their war with FB, the other companies you refer to
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by murrayb 17y ago
Yes. The author of the article does not appear to be aware you can add your keys to ssh-agent (with ssh-add) and that way just type your password once.
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by murrayb 17y ago
Re Anathem first 150 pages- if the story had stayed in the Concents then the level of detail may have been justified, but in the end I was annoyed that he spent so long creating the Concents just to throw them away. Editor fail.
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by murrayb 17y ago
Interesting/Recommended: The Snowball, Alice Schroeder Shantaram, Gregory David Roberts The Art of Happiness, HH Dalai Lama Getting Things Done (I know I'm late to the party...) Shop Class as Soulcraft, Matthew Crawford (I heard about that
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Who Wants to be an Entrepreneur?(retailcommunity.biz)
1 points by murrayb 17y ago|0 comments
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by murrayb 17y ago
Sent, there you go :)
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by murrayb 17y ago
From reading the article what is obvious but unstated "Know and understand your target market intimately"
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by murrayb 17y ago
Try http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/ I couldn't live without it now.
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by murrayb 17y ago
I've used Anchor for web hosting (for myself & for clients) and I thoroughly recommend them. Not only is their service great they have technically competent staff. The norm in IT these days seems to be that you have to persevere/fight
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by murrayb 17y ago
Fatal Revenant by Stephen Donaldson The Art of Happiness by HH Dalai Lama
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by murrayb 17y ago
I've been doing the same thing for some time now as well. As well as what you have observed I have observed that you really can actually hack the traffic to reduce congestion. I've seen a gap that I brought to a merge point allow 8-9 cars
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by murrayb 17y ago
I can't refute your argument any more than you can prove it to be true which is why I said I'll have to wait for the apocalyptic user to arrive. But if you can demonstrate some Linux malware (trivial or otherwise) it would add a lot of wei
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by murrayb 17y ago
"If as many people used Linux as use Windows today, we'd have just as much of a problem with Linux malware as we do with Windows malware." I often hear that argument made and yet in the time I've been using Linux (since 1994) the total numb
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by murrayb 17y ago
Interesting I also really enjoyed BC and was disappointed with Diamond Age, it held me to a point and then lost me completely. Judging comments here and elsewhere I'm starting to think that if you are a fan of one then you probably won't b
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by murrayb 18y ago
I use and like Gnumeric- http://projects.gnome.org/gnumeric/ it tends to be lighter and faster than the Open Office equivalent and I haven't found any features which it lacks. Excel has more prettiness options for display/print but from