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Iceweasel/Firefox Edit->Preferences annoyance – solved!
One thing I like about Iceweasel with Debian (currently using the stable distribution “Wheezy”) is that it is 64-bit (if you’re running the 64-bit version of Wheezy). To me, the buttons do not look as classy and svelte as the Windows version of Firefox, but I’m slowly adjusting to that. One annoyance which I can’t…
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Devanagari calligraphy pen
“Ideally it should be 36 degrees” according to video Calligraphy Tools by Professor Santosh Kshrisagar. “Left oblique” nibs are made for left-handers, and also for right-handed people doing calligraphy in Devanagari or Arabic. from A Few Notes about Fountain Pens In summary: Nib should be left oblique Angle should be 36 degrees It may be…
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Telephony
…a telecommunications consulting engineer who was inspired by the incredible advances in CPU speeds that the computer industry has now come to take for granted. Dixon’s belief was that far more economical telephony systems could be created if a card existed that had nothing more on it than the basic electronic components required to interface…
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Trippy ancient music
Reading articles earlier and ended up at a page What Ancient Greek Music Sounded Like. There was another site with audio of people reading short stories in reconstructed proto-indo-european but I wonder if they got the phonology right because many of the words sounded harsh and not natural, like something some overly-theoretical linguists would come…
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Yes! Collaborative document editing is one of the all-time killer apps.
I rank collaborative document editing as one of the all-time ground-shaking, ultimate killer apps for electronic information appliances, up there with the word-processor, spreadsheet, and e-mail. But up till now it has been lagging way behind. But that simply can no longer be given that most people use multiple devices: a computer at work, a…
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Wow! A small, lightweight flying thing that has flapping wings.
slashdot.net: “Fully Autonomous Flapping-wing MAV Is As Light As 4 Sheets of A4 Paper“
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What do you do when the executive and legislative branches violate the Constitution?
What do you do when the executive branch of your country, and the legislative branch as well, violate the Consitution? What does it mean when the executive and legislative branches of a country violate its constitution? I think it means there’s a problem.