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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About six weeks ago, in anticipation of GNOME 2.16, I switched my desktop from an Ion window manager-based X11 environment to the JDS environment integrated with Solaris. Now, with the delivery of Build 53—not yet on the Download Centre, apparently—the wait is over: A few keyboard shortcuts input, a tweak of the window preferences, and [...]

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Tools at OpenSolaris.org

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PlanetDreamcast: Games – Best Dreamcast Games

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MogileFS Danga’s userland distributed file service.

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[cs/0611108] On the Complexity of Processing Massive, Unordered, Distributed Data Compares complexity of single stream algorithms to multiple stream algorithms on “massive, unordered, distributed” data.

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OpenSolaris Forums: Progress with System z Port … Neale Ferguson shows some early startup output for a port of OpenSolaris to a System z9 (IBM) mainframe.

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Redwood City Center of Palo Alto Medical Foundation, Redwood City, California PAMF’s new office is now the closest to our home.

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Planet OpenSolaris Brought to life by Gman and stevel! Now, how do I get a kooky headshot up there…?

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chandanlog(3C): Copyrights, Licenses and CDDL Illustrated Chandan developed these diagrams a couple of months ago, but since I keep explaining these distinctions over and over, it seems best to make it easier to find.

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On opensolaris.org, we host Mercurial and Subversion via their ability to tunnel through an SSH connection. A slight gotcha with Mercurial is that it turns off compression when tunnelled through SSH, as described in hg(1): $ man hg …. – Mercurial doesn’t use its own compression via SSH; the right thing to do is to [...]

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Ajaxian » Dojo Charting Engine Released Another AJAX charting library; pleasant looking. Apparently SVG.

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milek – ZFS saved our data Robert describes how end-to-end checksum detected and protected against a failing disk controller.

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UCSB Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics: Talks Published talks and public lectures given at KITP.

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Each of the community groups that make up OpenSolaris is experimenting with different styles of introductory materials (or procedures), so that potential contributors don’t get blocked on the details and can focus on their real intention—contributions. The Documentation community group has been energetically pursuing a complete offering: they have a large document tree, they’re using [...]

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