TypeMatrix EZR 2030 Keyboard Skins Cool silicone skins for TypeMatrix keyboards. Need to get a black Dvorak or two.

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Amateur Astronomy Magazine

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clever, witty blog title » Blog Archive » Collaborative filtering made easy Bryan explains the use of “slope one predictors” for collaborative filtering, with an example in 40 lines of Python.

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We’ve been working through bits and pieces of opensolaris.org, looking for the troubling portions where regular human touches are currently required. These are troubling because (a) someone forgets to touch when someone else is on vacation, sick, or whatever, and then (b) someone depending on that resource being touched gets annoyed/loses time/sends us Kafkaeque email [...]

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Hypertext Markup Language – 2.0 – The HTML Coded Character Set I keep using this page, so best simply to bookmark it.

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Slightly better nfs v4 support for nomadic systems Chris offers patches to modify nfsmapid to allow more convenient assignments between IDs from different NFSv4 domains. Useful on a laptop transiting between two NFS environments.

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Infinite Knots: Ideas On Issue Tracking in the FLOSS World Some thoughts on inter-product issue tracking, mostly from a user perspective.

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Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles, Index Many applets illustrating various numerical, logic, and visual puzzles.

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Since I bumped into a couple of problems after moving to Build 53, I thought I should make a note and save folks some time. My laptop’s a reasonably standard install, but I do turn off a few more daemons, in the hope of squeezing out a few minutes’ more battery life. With the new [...]

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[cs/0612009] Users’ participation to the design process in an Open Source Software online community A study of the Python Enhancement Proposal, as an OSS design process. Included field interviews, discussion analysis, etc. as part of study.

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