Marc Abramowitz – Page 95

Weatherstripping

The foam weatherstripping around our front door has a bunch of gaps in it (so much so that when painters were pressure washing the other day, water was actually getting into the house!). I went to Osh thinking I'll just buy some...

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Foo Fighter

A bit of trivia for you... In the back of my mind, I've been curious about the origin of the name "Foo Fighters" for Dave Grohl's post-Nirvana band. And now I've stumbled on an explanation on Wikipedia. Turns out it's an...

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activeCollab – open source project management and collaboration tool

Free and open source (PHP) web-based project management tool; very similar to Basecamp from 37signals. http://www.activecollab.com/ There's a nice screencast on the site that shows you what kinds of things it can do....

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Boost application performance using asynchronous I/O

A short article from IBM developerWorks on using the POSIX aio extensions, which were added in the 2.5 series of Linux kernels. Boost application performance using asynchronous I/O Related books...

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Lessons in electric circuits

A free series of textbooks on the subjects of electricity and electronics. Lessons in electric circuits

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Flashing LED circuit

I've been wanting to learn more about electronics for a while. My wife bought me one of those Radio Shack electronic learning lab things as a gift a few months ago and I finally got the chance to try it out. I built the first...

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An evening in Berkeley

We went to our favorite Italian restaurant Locanda Olmo. Nicole asked for her leftovers to be packed up. They must've run out of those plastic clamshell containers, because they came back with her food in a ceramic bowl with...