Marc Abramowitz – Page 211

Bay Area home prices hit new record

Prices of Bay Area houses rose nearly 20 percent over the 12 month period ending in February, reaching a new record median price of $569,000 paid for existing single-family houses. Story here My gut feeling is that it's just a...

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Podcasted: Yahoo Search Sidebar for Firefox

Just creating a post with an <enclosure> tag so that anyone who subscribes to my feed with podcasting software such as iPodder can automatically get my Yahoo Search Sidebar extension for Firefox. Not that the file is...

Music

Testing WordPress 1.5’s integrated podcasting functionality

According to this page, all I need to do is add a link in my post to an absolute URL and WordPress should pick that up and add an <enclosure> tag to my RSS feed. Let's see if that works... Marc and Cynthia playing "This...

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Upcoming Firefox books

Neil Deakin has collected the titles of upcoming Firefox books. Firefox and Thunderbird Garage by Chris Hofmann, Marcia Knous and John Hedtke Firefox for Dummies by Blake Ross Firefox Hacks by Nigel McFarlane Kurt Cagle's Firefox...

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Numbered backups in jed

Cool. I'd been wanting to have this for a while. Turns out that it is built into jed. Just put this in your .jedrc: backups_on (); % numbered backups instead of just ~ - see backups.sl Instead of foo~, now you get foo.~1~,...

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Accessing a remote CVS server over ssh

A lot of pages discuss using the pserver method to remotely access CVS, but my web hosting provider doesn't allow pserver and I have a shell account anyway so I just wanted to use ssh. It's quite easy once you know the trick -...

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Are there any podcasts that don’t suck?

Yesterday, I decided to see what the fuss about podcasting is about. I downloaded iPodder and subscribed to 10 or so feeds. I listened to them this morning and they pretty much all sucked. They were amateurish and rambling and...