January 2012
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Slackware 13.37 and Broadcom wireless chip
Today I decided to install Slackware 13.37 into my 3 years old Dell Studio 1435. Ran into the same problem since this laptop is using a Broadcom wireless chip. Here are some of pointers to overcome this.
Beware, I’m running this as root. This post assumes you’ve installed Slackware 13.37.
Wireless
Check what kind of network chip are you using.
#lspci #09:00.0 Ethernet controller:...
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GNU jokes
Q: What do you call a person who hacks while wearing no clothes?
A: A gnudist.
Q: What do you call a novice hacker who keeps pestering you with foolish questions?
A: A gnuisance.
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“Authority is won not by rants but by experience and insight, which require...”
– http://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2011/12/esmereldas-imagination.html
December 2011
11 posts
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Kids Ruby →
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A busy person's introduction to Clojure →
eddology:
Have a few hours spare and fancy getting to know Clojure and ClojureScript?
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The Twelve-Factor App →
Insights and ideal practices on working with SAAS products. Targeted towards “Any developer building applications which run as a service. Ops engineers who deploy or manage such applications.”
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The Bastards Book of Ruby →
Practical Ruby for everybody (journalists, researchers, scientists etc.)
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Pat Shaughnessy - Learning from the Masters →
His articles are good explaining Rails core codes. Check it out if you want to dig in deeper into Rails core.
He writes about commit messages, the reason behind them and some insights or opinions regarding these code commits.
The concept of code gardening makes Rails organically grow. There are similarities between our codes and our gardens. Maybe by looking at this similarity we will better...
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Reminder : Don't use MP3 in your HTML5 games →
Short and brief post on using MP3 with HTML5 games.
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Janki Method →
Using spaced repetition systems to learn and retain technical knowledge.
The core of Janki Method is the use of a spaced repetition flashcard system, Anki, programmed by the brilliant Damien Elmes.
Worth checking out for coders.
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Learn Web Design, Development and iOS →
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10 things your clients need to know →
A great post over at netmagazine if you’re doing client work.
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Clojure & Complexity →
A great article on the negative points of Clojure. A great read indeed.
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The Ultimate Collection of Emacs Resources →
November 2011
10 posts
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“I’m sorry this ain’t a tale of advanced persistent threats and stuff, but...”
– (via Hacker Says Texas Town Used Three Character Password To Secure Internet Facing SCADA System)
Yes, that stupid…
(via redteams)
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Occupy the web!
Occupy Flash
Occupy HTML5
Which one is the 99%? :D
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The top 25 books for web designers and developers →
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One of the Best Bits of Programming Advice I ever... →
Don’t make objects that end with ‘er’.
Some er’s that I’ve learned to avoid over the years:
Managers - Every time I see one of these, I cringe. People will usually tell me what it does, long before they can tell me what it is. Is it a registry? Fine call it a registry. Is it a history or a log? Call it that. Is it a factory? Call it that.
Controllers - Only good...
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Programming language development: the past 5 years →
Some non mainstream yet pretty hardcore languages. Check it out.
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A Modern Guide to Threads (Ruby) →
The simplest explanation on Threads in Ruby.
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Apple's Three Laws of Developers
yourhead:
A developer may not injure Apple or, through inaction, allow Apple to come to harm.
A developer must obey any orders given to it by Apple, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
A developer must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
— I. Developer
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One readme to rails style guide. →
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What feature would improve the web? →
Some of the stuffs I prefer to have now!
all HTML5 features supported by all browsers. ~chrisreister
force update IE. ~Fallion
A rock solid native WYSIWYG form element. With so much content dev being done online, this is an area that seems really behind. ~reinink
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12 RoR CMS →
October 2011
4 posts
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My Linux Rig: Ubuntu 11.10: Looks Kind of Cool But... →
mylinuxrig:
I decided to try out Ubuntu 11.10 on my Thinkpad T43. It was actually my first time using Unity, although I had used the Ubuntu Netbook Edition on a netbook, and I knew the two had similar UIs. This isn’t going to be a huge, in-depth thing because I don’t see how anyone is going to touch the…
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The 5 Most Critical Statistical Concepts
simplystatistics:
It seems like everywhere we look, data is being generated - from politics, to biology, to publishing, to social networks. There are also diverse new computational tools, like GPGPU and cloud computing, that expand the statistical toolbox. Statistical theory is more advanced than its ever been, with exciting work in a range of areas.
With all the excitement going on around...
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Steve Jobs - R.I.P - 1955-2011 →
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September 2011
28 posts
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"How much does a website cost?" and other pricing... →
folyo:
If there’s one thing nobody seems to want to talk about, it’s pricing. Most designers don’t publish their rates, and good luck getting a company to tell you how much they paid for their site.
The results of this situation is that it can be pretty hard to know how much to spent on design. Spend…
Red Teams: Books →
redteams:
One of the questions people keep on sending my way is about what books I recommend. Well, there are several out there that are good and worth reading. I’ll list a few here:
Unauthorised Access: Physical Penetration Testing For IT Security Teams by Wil Allsopp.
Social Engineering: The Art of…
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Practical Quantum Computers Creep Closer to... →
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The Best Way to Learn Ruby on Rails →
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A totally unofficial Ruby coding style guide →
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JavaScript is Not Web Assembly →
izs:
It’s fairly common these days to think of JavaScript as a sort of “assembly language for the web”. After all, it’s the language that is natively supported by web browsers, making it the most widely deployed runtime in history. With Node, we have a very relevant general purpose non-browser stack…
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“The more sophisticated the technology the more vulnerable it is to primitive...”
– (via redteams)
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10 papers for programmers
10 Papers Every Programmer Should Read (At Least Twice) - Michael Feathers
10 Technical Papers Every Programmer Should Read (At Least Twice)- Fogus
Awesome list (some are very academic).
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Unobtrusive Ruby →
thoughtbot:
Unobtrusive Ruby is any Ruby code that stays out of your way. It does not make you write lots of boilerplate, or stub methods, or open classes. It is decoupled. Its tests run quickly, its classes fit on one screen, its methods are tiny, and it is quickly refactorable.
Unobtrusive Ruby is a…
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Penetration Testing Bookmarks Resource →
redteams:
Quite interesting and comprehensive
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So you want to be a video game programmer? →
This is a series of articles by Andy Gavin
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Deft mode for Emacs →
Deft is an Emacs mode for quickly browsing, filtering, and editing directories of plain text notes, inspired by Notational Velocity.
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A Visual Introduction to Chef →
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I want to learn to code, what should I do? →
itsjaredc:
If you want to learn to code and build stuff and you’re starting by asking someone else what you should do, you’re already thinking about it the wrong way. Immediately, right now, with no preparation, in the blink of an eye, you can take a huge step toward your goal by realizing that you don’t…
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A free Rails 3.0 tutorial →