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Linux and QA: The Era of Playing Around is Over

I boot the PC from a linux live cd. It gives a kernel panic. I try another live cd, same thing, I try Acronis live cd- you guessed it- KP. This is a common HP desktop made in 2005. It has the media drive thingie.  The fact that the famous “thousands of eyes” across the [...]

Everyone Else: A truly German film

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It may be somewhat arrogant or racist to call this a truly German film. I can’t help it, my upbringing has been with stereotypes and conceptions about cultures and people. When I say truly German, I am trying to convey the film’s dedication to blunt reality. This is not a fairytale, its not a love [...]

AutoCad on the Mac, am I dreaming?

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My family and I think many other families have been waiting for this historic announcement for the last 20 years. My whole childhood I was puzzled as to why can’t my father work on the Mac when doing his “architect” stuff. As I grew up we always carried in the house a Windows Computer admits our Mac orgy.  I think [...]

August 20 2010 Coney Island Brooklyn NY – Fi...

First time I finally got the chacnce to take pictures of fireworks, I used my 70-200 F4L mounted on my Canon 40D on a Manfrotto monopod. For starters a monopod is not ideal for fireworks, a tripod with a remote shutter releaser connected or wireless to the camera would have produced much better pictures. Its ok there is next year. The idea is to [...]

Chain Email Response – All European Life Di...

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Today I was chained an email, my father had sent it to me, questioning as to why it was in Russian and yet it wanted to reach 40 million people. A quick Google Russian to English Translate, than a Google search yielded me the original Article by Sebastian Vivar Rodriguez. ( You can read the article on the bottom of this post. Summarizing the chain email: Auschwitz killed the [...]

The Golden Age of the Internet has ended or it had...

It may be unwise to proclaim that there is such a golden age at all pertaining to the Internet, even more to say that it has ended and the future is lost thanks to our immaturity. Immanuel Kant answers the question, “What is enlightenment”?, “Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity”, in An Answer [...]

the times square bomb incident was probably for so...

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my take is that it was a distraction for another crime blocks of buildings were evacuated, i might be a little hollywood high here, but if i am a thief this is one good distraction buying real explosives would have left trails, and this way the police would burry the case sooner or later because [...]

Poly wants to get rid of Club hour

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here is my response to their bollox , their survey is attached on the bottom I went to a high school that had club hour, when i told friends in other schools that we had club hour, they would be very very envious. Its not the “free” time, its the opportunity to interact with my classmates. When [...]

vitamovie.com new interface user test session

Website interface and function rebuild Vitamovie.com serves to a small community of asian movie enthusiasts. The community is compromised of mostly non-American visitors; the Alexa.com lists United Arab Emirates and Singapore as the top sources of visitors additionally Google Analytics lists Singapore, Philipines and Great Britain as the top 3 sources. Additionally the majority of the 1,530 registered [...]

I convinced my current client to go GPL

Some how I was able to convince a client of mine to release their theme under the GPL license once it is complete. The main reason for the agreement was WordCamp I talked of the conference and the roundtable discussion concerning GPL and how it really can improve your product and allow you to gain [...]

WordCamp NYC 2009

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I could not resist attending WordCamp this year. I am always busy during the NYC WordCamps but this time I canceled everything and committed my weekend to WordPress epicness. I also dragged camera gear and taped 12 hours of video (140 GBs in raw mov) which according to Jane (http://jane.wordpress.com/) will end up on wordpress.tv, [...]