Marc Abramowitz – Page 35

Possible fix for using apt through a broken HTTP proxy

Seen on a work email list. A possible solution to the problem where files downloaded through apt-get on Ubuntu at work (where we have a squid HTTP proxy) periodically get corrupted. Put the following in apt.conf:...

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links for 2007-10-29

The Django Book Welcome to the online version of The Django Book, a free book about Django. The book is due to be published in 2007 by Apress, but in the meantime you can read the "beta" book online. (tags: django python book...

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Pinnacles National Monument

Did some hiking at Pinnacles National Monument (Wikipedia article). We went to the West entrance, near Soledad (the East entrance is near Hollister)....

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WordPress 2.3.1

Just upgraded to WordPress 2.3.1. $ svn switch http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.3.1 ... Updated to revision 6294.

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links for 2007-10-26

Tutorial : Using JSON with Flex 2 and ActionScript 3 Adobe has some open source ActionScript libraries available that include JSON support (tags: json flex actionscript programming flash) Basking Ridge Wiki (tags: baskingridge)...

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Using an HTTP proxy (shown via netcat)

Ever wonder how applications talk to HTTP proxies? It's simple really (like the rest of HTTP) - there's a simple HTTP request method called CONNECT. It's easily illustrated with a quick session of netcat: $ nc -v proxy.foobar.com...

Fitness

30,000 FitPoints

This will mean nothing to anyone, except to me and Nicole, but it seemed like something I should keep a record of somewhere. Saturday's trip to the gym was my 101st and I reached the milestone of 30,000 FitPoints and received a...