George Takei Helps Facebook Troubleshoot MySQL

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miller60 writes "Actor George Takei recently helped the Facebook infrastructure team troubleshoot issues with its MySQL databases. Takei, a veteran of the original Star Trek series, now has more than 1.2 million fans on Facebook. Takei recently noticed…

8 March 2012

Linux From Scratch 7.1 Published

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Thinkcloud writes "The Linux From Scratch (LFS) project has published version 7.1 of its manual for building a custom Linux installation. The new release of the step-by-step instructions is 345 pages long and uses more up-to-date components than…

7 March 2012

Ian Wienand: Investigating the Python bound method

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You work with Python for a while and you'll become familiar with printing a method and getting I think there is room for one more explanation on the internet, since I've never seen it diagrammed out (maybe for good reason!). In the above diagram on the…

6 March 2012

Vasudev Kamath: Lato Fonts for Debian

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For giving new look to my blog I was trying out a lot of fonts from the FontSquirrel website but none of them satisfied my taste. While searching for the fonts identi.ca website fonts attracted my notice and the font used was Lato. I found it and used in…

4 March 2012

On Complaining About Xcode

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For a Cocoa developer, Xcode is a synonym for air. So we grumble when it gets hard to breathe. If you don’t sympathize at least a little with the Open Radar report Xcode just doesn’t work worth shit, then I think you’re not working hard enough. But Daniel…

2 March 2012

Git branch management with Xcode

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Copyright © 2019 - K Harrison Privacy and Cookies Terms of Use, Xcode has supported Git for version control since version 4.0 but I generally prefer to perform my version control from the command-line. The only version control operation that I do…

29 February 2012