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Monday, March 17th, 2008
This weekend I went to the local Botball workshop at UMUC where they gave our team the lego kits and an instructional CD. I head home and pop in the CD only to find that I can't unzip the included Zip file. I suspect that the file is protected (with ...
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Friday, December 21st, 2007
Yesterday I made an automatic backup script for external drives on the Mac. A few of my friends have wanted a Windows version, so here it is:
Step 1: Create a file called backup.bat in the root of your flash drive. Use Notepad, or any other editor. Copy and paste this ...
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Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
OS X.5 came with a cool new feature called Timemachine which automatically backs-up your internal Mac harddrive. People like me live off their flash drive, and losing it would mean disaster, and you can never remember to manually back it up. When I learned that Time Machine didn't backup external ...
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Sunday, July 15th, 2007
A while ago I posted about MPlayer, the Mac media player that plays DVR-MS files. There were a few problems with it:First of all, it's skip feature was not so great. Another problem was that it didnt play many file types. Every once and a while I would get a ...
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Thursday, May 31st, 2007
http://code.fiyocom.com
Its a place to upload small, simple java programs made using Rails (the irony!). I made it for an end of the year computer science projects titled "Passing on the torch." The idea was to make learning easier for incoming CS students, and what better way to learn than by ...
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Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Today at 8 pm EST (6 pm CST) Beyond the Beltway will have their first nationally broadcasted AP review program. The “2Regular Guys” will have their review on Chicago-based WLS-AM 890. Students can also listen to the review streamed form online.
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Monday, April 9th, 2007
The Qur’an belongs to us all, not just to scholars. What does this mean? This means that you can now search Allah’s words yourself. But I don’t understand Arabic…? That’s okay, because communityquran.com gives 5 different translations for each verse of the Qur’an, so you can ...
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Monday, October 30th, 2006
All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.
- Stanislaw J. Lec
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Tuesday, October 24th, 2006
Firefox 2 is out officially today! New features include;
Spell check
Faster browsing
Close tab buttons
Phishing filter
Resume browser from previous state
Reopen closed tabs
And its faster!
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Monday, October 16th, 2006
About a month ago I bought a SanDisk Sansa e260 MP3 player. It looks like this;
Its a 4gb player that plays music, video, has an FM radio, a voice recorder, and expanable memory.
This is a great MP3 player. Like the old 1st generation iPod it has a scroll wheel ...
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