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Register is reporting that Google has confirmed that it is working on a desktop OS. The OS is based on the Ubuntu GNU/Linux distribution (which I highly recommend if you like / want to try Linux). No one is sure if it’s an internal only desktop OS or if they might make it available to [...]
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If you write javascript, you hopefully comment your scripts well - maybe in NaturalDoc or HeaderDoc - but even if you don’t javascript files can get rather large even with just whitespace.
In the past I’ve just used a sed script I wrote to strip out comments and whitespace to make javascript files smaller, but I [...]
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I now have a work oriented weblog that I’ll be trying to post to more often. It’s totally work related so probably not quite as fun as this site. It’s web publishing and web community focused, and when the product I am working on comes out (which should be “soon”), it will be a tips [...]
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One of our new years resolutions is to get our finances sorted so that we can attempt to buy a house in this lifetime (c’mon housing bubble burst, burst). To help do this I’ve enlisted the help of Quicken 2006 for the Mac ($60).
On a side note, I used to use Quickbooks, but, to be [...]
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News.com.com.com.com is reporting that Disney is going to buy Pixar with stock. Every Pixar stock holder will get 2.3 shares of Disney. Which put’s Steve Jobs on the board of directors for Disney (news.com)
That is a nice stroke of luck (or über planning) on Steve Jobs’ part. I’ve heard that Walt Disney was one of [...]