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Setup samba folder shares 1 May 2013 | 04:25 pm
I feel like I have done this way too many times this week, but here I am again setting up folder sharing on Ubuntu. Installing the packages is easy enough: sudo apt-get install cifs-utils samba After ...
→ Posterous is going down 30 Apr 2013 | 11:16 pm
That day is here. The site will shut down sometime today, after which time blogs will no longer be accessible. If you haven’t moved your blog off Posterous yet, you’ll have an additional 30 days to ac...
→ Kickstarter: Ghost 30 Apr 2013 | 02:07 pm
Ghost, the future of blogging platforms, is finally on the move again. For two days in November, the world was buzzing about Ghost. Yesterday, the Ghost Kickstarter launched. It is already well over i...
→ Google Now on iOS and Android 30 Apr 2013 | 02:58 am
Owen Williams: This morning, an update for the Google Search application on iOS was released by Google and along with it came Google Now. The predictive search feature has been available on Android fo...
→ Linux Kernel 3.9 29 Apr 2013 | 11:32 pm
Ars Technica: Linux creator Linus Torvalds last night announced the release of version 3.9 of the kernel. Available for download at kernel.org, Linux 3.9 brings a long list of improvements to storage,...
→ Crockford’s Top Down Parser 29 Apr 2013 | 02:57 pm
Because I’m a sick person sitting in the computer science building’s lounge, I took the time to read (and sorta-understand) Douglas Crockford’s Top Down Operator Precedence. It’s basically writing a p...
→ A prosperous homework assignment on Twitter 29 Apr 2013 | 02:49 pm
The goal of the homework assignment was to design a system that would create a behavior change in a group of test subjects. The behavior change that I picked was getting people to follow me on Twitter...
error: expected unqualified-id before ‘ 27 Apr 2013 | 08:51 pm
While developing my class project, I came across this error without finding a solution on StackOverflow. RunTime.cpp: In member function ‘void IntegerComputer::set_output(int)’: RunTime.cpp:22:14: err...
→ Against DRM in HTML5 25 Apr 2013 | 02:27 pm
The web would certainly be better off without Microsoft Silverlight and Adobe Flash Player, but the idea that putting DRM into HTML itself to make them obsolete is absurd. The EME proposal would not m...
→ Office’s new release cycle 23 Apr 2013 | 07:34 pm
Microsoft’s Office team has an ambitious roadmap ahead of it. But can a team of 5,000 engineers move from delivering product releases every 2 to 3 years, to every quarter or even faster? Yes. It can. ...
