Author: John
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Standing Workstations: Sitting down all day is killing you
Get off your butt and make some tea if you want to live By Simon Sharwood, Posted in Science, 27th March 2012 07:11 GMT I am writing this blog entry at a standing workstation which a lot of people still view as an oddity despite the data provided in each study that is being published. …
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Movies as code – Free your coding mind…
What would movies look like if they were entered as code? Movies As Code has an answer. "Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself." Morpheus, The Matrix Raiders of the Lost Ark
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Moodle2 Installation Error with Fedora 16: The Zip PHP extension is now required by Moodle
A new installation error when installing Moodle 2, today I was working on Fedora 16 with Moodle 2.2.2+ and received this error on the Package Check Screen Installation error: The Zip PHP extension is now required by Moodle, info-ZIP binaries or PclZip library are not used anymore. The trick is that the Zip PHP extension…
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How Red Hat Became a Billion Dollar Business
How Red Hat killed its core product—and became a billion-dollar business By Jon Brodkin | Published 10 days ago on Ars Technica Read the entire article on their site, better links, related articles, comments, and serendipitous reading opportunities. I am saving the article here as I am an unabashed RedHat supporter. Disclaimer: I have taught…
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Use ifttt to get alerted of new Netflix ‘watch instantly’ Titles
I setup my ifttt account based on an article by Jason Cipriani on CNET. Using an RSS feed, you can bring in a lot of other sites and services that aren’t currently available as a channel on ifttt. One example of a service you can bring into ifttt via RSS is Netflix. Select Feed from…