Cool Tool: Six Great Long-Distance Bike Trails Without Cars
Many of these trails did not exist as bike paths even a few years ago. More are being opened every day. Theres great effort to sew short sections together into long haul bike-primary paths. Eventually you will be able to cross the country via a series [...]
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Fine-tuning SpamAssassin LG #105
Whitelisting is usually done with the settings whitelist_from and whitelist_to. These can be repeated as many times as you like. Simple globbing patterns (see “man bash” and search for “Pattern Matching” for a description) are used to specify wildcard matches. E.g., ‘?’ matches a single character and ‘*’ matches any number [...]
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Stranglehold Soundtrack?
M4G: Will there be an official soundtrack album release?
Rich Carle: Midway currently has no plans for a soundtrack release, but you never know…everything changes…
Please, please, please come out with a soundtrack. I can’t get the main theme with the flute out of my head!
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AnandTech: AMD Phenom Preview: Barcelona Desktop Benchmarks
We saw how competitive AMD became after the first round of price cuts this year, but after the second set Intel went back to dominating. The trouble for AMD this time around is that Phenom is a much larger chip than the outgoing Athlon 64 X2, whereas Intel’s [...]
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John Woo Presents Stranglehold - Barrage Like a Super Star
A developer of Stranglehold talks about why barrage is his favorite Tequila Bomb. Barrage is absolutely essential to taking down the bosses in Stranglehold. As he says, the animations are badass, and when you’re in barrage mode, you can not be touched while you lay down [...]
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SiliconValley.com - Tech Talk: Unopened rebate requests found in San Jose dumpster
Lately, I’ve been trying to buy things without rebates. I really don’t mind filling out the forms and cutting out the UPC labels, but there’s always a concern in the back of your mind that you’ll never receive the rebate. It’s also silly when [...]
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PC Perspective - Hardware Leaderboard
What is the PC Perspective HW Leaderboard? The PC Perspective Hardware Leaderboard is going to become the first place you look to find the components that will make up your next computer. On this page you will find our editor’s combined opinions on the best systems you can build based [...]
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Google Code - Updates: Announcing Tesseract OCR
Now that it’s a open source project supported by Google, I’ve decided to add Tesseract as an OCR program for FuzzyOCR. Hopefully, the open source and Google support will lead to making this the best open source OCR for my spamkilling needs. I also removed OCRtext and replaced it [...]
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Cool Tool: Kevlar Thread
Kevlar Thread
Tough sewing lineI tend to be rough on buttons (or maybe I’m just gaining weight). I started using Kevlar thread to sew fire toys and found it is very strong. I now use Kevlar thread for all my sewing. On buttons, I don’t need to use as much thread to [...]
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