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Entries from September 2008

Plotting the trip to Berlin

September 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

http://perfectpath.wordpress.com/2008/09/22/plotting-the-trip-to-berlin/ asks Hoosgot,
Steve Lawson blurted this idea out to me and we had a chat about this last week at CCC. So, as we all (and it does seem like an awful lot of people in my immediate network are going to be there) head for Berlin in October wouldn’t it be neat to […]

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My Tweets for the day:

September 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

http://jaberwockynmt.livejournal.com/377438.html asks Hoosgot,
10:04 @serafinak: Yay! # 18:19 @serafinak: How was the weather along the way? Did you stop for any cool photos? # 19:31 Lazyweb: I’ve got lots of books I want to sell. What’s the best way you know of? Thanks. # 23:48 I hate it when I can only recall the […]

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Lazyweb: How long is too long to marinate …

September 21st, 2008 · No Comments

http://blog.cheerschopper.com/post/49968000 asks Hoosgot,
Lazyweb: How long is too long to marinate pork?: I’ve got a recipe for pork belly that calls for marinating the meat overnight or, if possible, for several days. Lazyweb, given the pork belly will be marinating in the fridge, what the longest I…
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The Unnecessary Evil of RSS Cookies

September 21st, 2008 · No Comments

http://www.unicom.com/blog/entry/561 asks Hoosgot,
There is absolutely positively no reason whatsoever for cookies to be triggered by an RSS (or ATOM) syndication feed. They have no practical benefit to the user. Thus, they are a bad practice and should be stopped. Content providers should avoid advertising bureaus that use them. The primary promulgators of this evil […]

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@leahculver: pownced: Lazyweb: anyone using xgettext on mac osx? …

September 20th, 2008 · No Comments

leahculver asks Hoosgot,
pownced: Lazyweb: anyone using xgettext on mac osx? Apparently, Python isn’t a supported langu.. http://tinyurl.com/4vowac
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@workingwithme: lazyweb - it there an API I can …

September 19th, 2008 · No Comments

workingwithme asks Hoosgot,
lazyweb - it there an API I can use to build a webapp that accesses my MobileMe data?
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Nokia N810 and Videos

September 19th, 2008 · No Comments

http://movingparts.net/2008/09/19/nokia-n810-and-videos/ asks Hoosgot,
Dear LazyWeb, I have ripped/encoded a bunch of (my own) movies previously in order to watch them on my PSP. The command I’ve been using is a variation of this: mencoder -sws 9 -af volume=10.1:0 \ -vf pullup,softskip,scale=320:240,harddup,unsharp=l3×3:0.7 \ -ofps 30000/1001 \ -oac faac -faacopts br=128:mpeg=4:object=2:raw -channels 2 -srate 48000 \ -ovc […]

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Lucas Nussbaum: tool to mirror a website locally? …

September 18th, 2008 · No Comments

http://osspack.com/open-source/lucas-nussbaum-tool-to-mirror-a-website-locally/ asks Hoosgot,
Dear lazyweb, I need a tool to mirror a website locally (so I can browse it offline). Requirements: - not GUI-based (I want to run it in a script) - support recursive retrieval and include/exclude lists (like wget) - no output when everything is fine, but still […]

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tool to mirror a website locally?

September 17th, 2008 · No Comments

http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/blog/?p=310 asks Hoosgot,
Dear lazyweb, I need a tool to mirror a website locally (so I can browse it offline). Requirements: - not GUI-based (I want to run it in a script) - support recursive retrieval and include/exclude lists (like wget) - no output when everything is fine, but still output […]

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Python Timing - time.clock() vs. time.ti …

September 17th, 2008 · No Comments

http://www.testingreflections.com/node/view/7362 asks Hoosgot,
Python Timing - time.clock() vs. time.time() Submitted by noreply@blogger.com (Corey Goldberg) on Wed, 17/09/2008 - 16:56. Dear Lazyweb, Which is better to use for timing in Python? time.clock() or time.time()? Which one provides more accuracy? for example: start = time.clock() … do something elapsed = (time.clock() […]

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