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HOWTO Improve iPhone Battery Life

There are quite a few guides on how to improve the iPhone 4S / IOS 5 battery life. If you are just starting to research this search for: Disabling APP Notifications Disabling Location Services Disabling System Services I found a … Continue reading

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Name Based SSL Virtual Hosting

Wait, before you say to yourself that it’s impossible to use Name Based SSL Virtual Hosting and that you have to use IP Based SSL Virtual Hosting checkout this link: http://wiki.apache.org/httpd/NameBasedSSLVHostsWithSNI It turns out that there is an undocumented (or … Continue reading

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HOWTO Create ISO on Mac OS X

Found here: 1. Insert CD/DVD source 2. Fire up a Terminal, you can then determine the device that is you CD/DVD drive using the following command: $ drutil status Vendor Product Rev MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-835E GAND Type: DVD-ROM Name: /dev/disk1 … Continue reading

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Researchers Lie – Cure for cancer stolen

These two should be fired, they should lose their grants, and they should never work in this industry again. Why? Either they are: a) The biggest idiots in the world. If you’ve spent years researching a cure for cancer you … Continue reading

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The 80/20 Rule of Startup Founders

Our best estimates put the number of developers in the world at around 5 million. Applying the 80/20 rule you can estimate: Of those, 20% 1 million want to launch a startup Of those, 20% 200,000 have enough motivation to … Continue reading

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Bill Gates: Vaccine-autism link an absolute lie

Gates: Well, Dr. Wakefield has been shown to have used absolutely fraudulent data. He had a financial interest in some lawsuits, he created a fake paper, the journal allowed it to run. All the other studies were done, showed no … Continue reading

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schmongodb slides from Update Portland

Great Presentation on mongoDB scaling and replication. At Phyber we use mongoDB for schema-less non-durable data storage – in other words, if the database goes bye-bye it doesn’t matter. If you are using mongoDB, and you data is critical there … Continue reading

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Irving Picard is a Ponzi Scheme

This morning the lawsuit against the Mets owners was unsealed. Madoff’s actions were reprehensible and beyond belief. He deserves to sit in jail for the rest of his life. What I don’t understand is this: In the suit, Picard is … Continue reading

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Worlds worst hacker

This is what we’re up against folks. Probably one of the worlds worst hackers decided to hack his way into my honeypot last week. After enjoying his failure to accomplish anything useful, I decided to youtube the whole thing. via Worlds … Continue reading

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Success

This is just too cool, the Telegraph sent to announce the first flight. 176 C KA C8 33 Paid. Via Norfolk Va Kitty Hawk N C Dec 17 Bishop M Wright 7 Hawthorne St Success four flights thursday morning all … Continue reading

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