Hoosgot

http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/gerv/archives/2008/05/remigrating_to_firefox_3.html asks Hoosgot,
Dear Lazyweb, I’ve upgraded to Firefox 3 RC 1 and now Firefox gives me an old version of my bookmarks file. Clearly, migration ran when I tested an earlier version, and isn’t rerunning. How can I persuade it to do so? I can’t be the only person with this problem, surely? […]

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http://overlap.org/2008/05/25/dear-lazyweb-need-simple-encrypted-backup-method-to-usb-on-linux/ asks Hoosgot,
Ok, the title pretty much says it all. Lu bought me a new 250 gb backup drive for locking down my backups while on the road (and I already have a halfway solution at home thanks to advice from readers). I’m curious what is the best option for syncing up my 80 […]

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http://rejon.org/2008/05/26/dear-lazyweb-need-simple-encrypted-backup-method-to-usb-on-linux/ asks Hoosgot,
Ok, the title pretty much says it all. Lu bought me a new 250 gb backup drive for locking down my backups while on the road (and I already have a halfway solution at home thanks to advice from readers). I’m curious what is the best option for syncing up my 80 […]

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http://thomas.apestaart.org/log/?p=623 asks Hoosgot,
Dear lazyweb, I have a 4 GB Cruzer Micro USB Drive. When mounted there’s a /dev/sr1 device which is pretending to be a CD-ROM, and a normal sdc1 device that is a VFAT/WIN95 partition with some files on. I deleted everything on there, and then copied a flash image for my BIOS […]

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http://www.gamesetwatch.com/2008/05/gamesetlinks_a_crop_off_the_old_block.php asks Hoosgot,
Swinging happily into the long weekend, a look at a typically diverse (yes, OK, random) set of GameSetLinks - headed by Andrew Glassner’s special language for describing crop circles (his ‘Morphs, Mallards and Montages’ book is awesome, by the way, even if Ernest Adams perhaps correctly doesn’t rate his book on storytelling.) […]

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http://alexmc.livejournal.com/371964.html asks Hoosgot,
Dear lazyweb, What educational video programmes do you know of which are legally obtainable through the internet. I am mostly interested in ipod compatible video but am happy to hear about other formats, resolutions, and even audio only be it podcast, or whatever. I’m thinking of tutorials, university material, documentaries, both […]

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http://krow.livejournal.com/596271.html asks Hoosgot,
Dear LazyWeb, Today is “green” day, and for “green” day I want to turn on and off some computers by remote. This means I want to be able to telnet/ssh into a power supply to bring them up and down. Cheap, I want cheap. Web interface is “ok” assuming it works […]

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http://www.craigslinkedlist.com/posts/stupid_dotnet_tricks_12 asks Hoosgot,
Disclaimer: There may, in fact, be a good reason for the following .NET behavior. However, if there is, it’s certainly not clear to me. I pose a question at the bottom; dear lazyweb, please explain. .NET’s type inference lets you avoid specifying the type of a generic parameter on a method call […]

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http://www.aquadoodiloop.com/index.php?id=1334 asks Hoosgot,
Most of you will never need to know this, but someday someone will search google and find this and thank the lazyweb that I wrote them down. Non-nerds can scroll to the bottom for Sad Kermit. Unix: TAR and file permissions Use the P flag dummy When you un-archive a file using tar […]

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http://massivelyparallel.tumblr.com/post/34694392 asks Hoosgot,
Lazyweb Poll: LLC or S-Corp?
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