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€4.8M on renovating the canadian embassy http://bit.ly/aaAGKE after the Dept. of Finance suggested closing it http://bit.ly/9GNk3s ?
RT @darraghcurran: Good explanation of why to use bcrypt instead of MD5, SHA1 etc when storing passwords http://codahale.com/how-to-safe ...
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pixelbeat_ on Stallman Number. six degrees of rms in FOSS. a successor of Bacon number, Erdos number.
Meh it doesn't work very well: grep -E --only "(Brady|Stallman)" ~/git/coreutils/AUTHORS | sort -u | wc -l 2 Maybe it doesn't process accents correctly?
pixelbeat_ on What do you guys think of debuggers? Essential tool? Or crutch?
Some tend to write code in the debugger and hence get lost in the detail. But used correctly, they're incredibly useful. I wrote a few notes here: http://www.pixelbeat.org/programming/debugger/
pixelbeat_ on Which video codec and format to use for archival purposes?
I've been wondering that myself. I tried theora a while ago but that quality was _terrible_ but that was before Thusnelda. I've also to try http://diracvideo.org/ Here are some comparisons: http://saintdevelopment.com/media/ http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~nick/theora-soccer/