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cdawzrd··on The MIT Guide to Hacking
Hint: Not everything on the world wide web is a HTML page.
cdawzrd··on Autocomplete your life with Greplin (YC W10)
Or maybe historio.us?
cdawzrd··on Wordpress 3.2 drops support for PHP 4 and MySQL 4
Is there another CMS that has the same featureset and the same extensibility? I've tried a few, but keep coming back to Wordpress, even though it is annoying and a resource hog. It's too easy to extend, and it has most of the stuff I need built in to the core (as of 3.0 at least). I wish there were an alternative platform that ran on Python and Sqlite with the same polish in terms of features and ease-of-use, but I haven't found one yet (correct me if I'm wrong!)
cdawzrd··on Veracity: The next step in DVCS
Well, I guess it depends on how they implement the "database versioning", but if I had a DVCS that would version a sqlite database inside a file (merge support, all the trimmings) in addition to the code surrounding that file, I'd switch away from git/svn in an instant.
cdawzrd··on DuckDuckGo's new privacy policy tried to explain why you should care
If you are using Firefox, you can modify the variable keyword.URL in about:config to point to DDG instead of Google. This also enables "bang syntax" in the firefox address bar.

For example, I can type "!cpp string::length" into the address box and be taken right to the reference page(s)

cdawzrd··on Ask HN: What to do for logos?
There are tons of designers who will do logo artwork for $150-200. I would suggest doing the typography yourself in Inkscape or Illustrator if you can, and then if you feel the need for a nice vector drawing to add to the text, pay someone later.
cdawzrd··on Opera 10.60 Released: WebM, AppCache, WebWorkers, Geolocation and Speed
In my testing (Ubuntu 10.04 x64) there are tons of bugs. Bookmark import dialog box won't close, some pages crash when restoring the session after exit, it's much slower than chrome or firefox... Am I the only one seeing problems?
cdawzrd··on California license plates might go digital, show ads
So now, even when the robber's car stops, the security cameras won't be able to get a clear image of the tag number. Awesome.
cdawzrd··on Rugged android phone
Oddly enough, the IP65 rating this phone has does not make it waterproof. IP_5 means it can survive being sprayed with a hose but not necessarily taken for a dive. The Garmin'x IPX7 means that it is rated for immersion up to one meter (the 7 in the second place). The X is not a valid part of the code so I'm not sure what it means. The first digit refers to physical ingress protection.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_Code

cdawzrd··on [dead]
To clarify this, (and yes, it still works this way), any student can request foo.mit.edu for their personal box (and bar.mit.edu for their other personal box, and so on). It's an automated system and there is usually not any moderation of hostname requests unless they would conflict with an existing MIT department.
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