Google sucks. Use Ecosia.

That Google sucks is not up for debate here. Google is evil. They are mean and mean people suck. Period. At this point — if you value the Internet and don’t think it should be owned by a mega corporation that has incentive to control the content you see — you should cancel your Verizon phone contract and stop using all Google services. Even the Google search engine. Instead, use any other search engine of your choice, but I recommend Ecosia. It’s free, fast, and backed by Yahoo, Bing and the World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). It basically works like any other search engine but, unlike others, Ecosia gives at least 80% of its advertising revenue to a rainforest protection program run by the WWF. (Now, if [...]

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So, if you found this blog post, I assume you’ve run into this particular problem in your installation of Confluence. And you’ve probably also found the Atlassian KB article, RuntimeException Multiple AttachmentData objects were returned when only one was expected, which is only marginally helpful at best. The “resolution” suggested by Atlassian — “Rename the attachment and upload again” — is not a resolution at all. It’s a workaround. It doesn’t even acknowledge the root cause of the problem: that Confluence and its underlying database disagree on the definition of integral attachment data, and the database somehow ends up storing data that Confluence doesn’t like. Of course, when a problem is worked around rather than resolved, it’s bound to come up again. In this particular case, as long [...]

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HOW-TO: Rip audio CDs to FLAC format with Rubyripper

So, you’ve liberated yourself from the prison of proprietary audio formats like MP3 and decided to move to an open format with growing industry support and a far superior sound quality: you’ve selected FLAC. And if you run a GNU/Linux distro on your computer, there may not be a more bulletproof tool than Rubyripper for making high-quality (almost exact) copies of your audio CDs in the FLAC format. How to install Rubyripper on a Debian-based distro To get the latest release, browse to http://code.google.com/p/rubyripper/downloads/list. At the time of this writing, the current version is Rubyripper-0.6.0. Download and extract to a directory of your choosing. You’ll need a few prerequisites and some recommended packages — on Debian 5.0.5 (lenny): $ sudo apt-get install cdparanoia ruby cd-discid eject vorbisgain normalize-audio [...]

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HOW-TO: Install VirtualBox OSE Guest Additions in Debian Squeeze

For the impatient or inattentive: the Debian installer currently detects when it’s executing in a VirtualBox guest VM and installs the guest additions for you during setup. If you think that your installation is bad for some reason, install the virtualbox-ose-guest-x11 package and you’re all set. So, you want to run Debian in VirtualBox at a screen resolution higher than 800×600. Admittedly, this is not a complicated problem to solve, which is precisely why this post is so short. But first, note that Beastie is eating a striped apple in the image to the left and his tail is actually a Debian logo. This is not important and has virtually nothing to do with this post — I just think it’s funny. About the environment Pretty straightforward. Host [...]

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Net Neutrality and what it means to you

Yeah, yeah, this is a bit of a rerun post, but I think it’s important you consider acting out to protect Net Neutrality. I woke up this morning and read a commentary from Al Franken at CNN: Net neutrality is foremost free speech issue of our time. Of course, this got me all bunged up and pissed off again, so I wrote another letter to my Congressman, Mike Capuano. Again. John Richard Sheaves Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-1203 August 7, 2010 To the Honorable Michael E. Capuano: I am writing to voice my concerns over the fate of Net Neutrality and the conduct of the FCC. I helped pay for the Internet and I rely on it every day. Net Neutrality is the bedrock of freedom of information, innovation, and [...]

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