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Entries from January 2009

OCR and Neural Nets in JavaScript

January 25th, 2009 · No Comments · JavaScript, hacks, news

A pretty amazing piece of JavaScript dropped yesterday and it’s going to take a little bit to digest it all. It’s a GreaseMonkey script, written by ‘Shaun Friedle’, that automatically solves captchas provided by the site Megaupload.

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Nothing is Original

January 20th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized


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Pair Programming vs. Code Review

January 20th, 2009 · No Comments · programming

In code reviews, people sit down to review someone’s code. Everyone has an opinion but not everyone is going to be working with the code on a daily basis. At the time, everyone seems to be involved in the process but there is no vested interest. They are just looking at some code and [...]

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Use ‘wicd’ As Your Network Manager To Get Rid Of Network Problems in Ubuntu 8.10

January 7th, 2009 · 3 Comments · linux, ubuntu

 
 
Couple of days ago I installed Ubuntu 8.10 on my Dell Latitude D830 laptop and network management applet worked well with my home wireless network where there are no security. But when I was back to office default network management applet comes with Ubuntu began to connect and disconnet my wireless connection time to time(after [...]

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