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Bugs and Broken Bits Reporting
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Hooray! The invisible release locations are appearing!
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They show up on the beta site, but not on the live site...
tlglenn
19 yrs ago
Did a release today via the beta site. The release location shows up in the journal entry when viewed on the beta site, but not on the live site. As a workaround I just copied-and-pasted that information into the journ…
tlglenn
19 yrs ago
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List of ports: http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers
Go to http://www.grc.com/default.htm and scroll down to, "Hot Spots" for some tests you can run against your firewall.
Bugs and Broken Bits Reporting
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I registered a Hebrew book and the author-search doesn't quite work...
tlglenn
19 yrs ago
I registered a book using Hebrew for the title and the authors (two authors, comma-separated). It now appears on my bookshelf.
On the beta site: If I click on either author to perform a search it returns the book p…
Book Talk
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Any Alan Turing admirers?
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If you want a textbook look at Turing's work some intro texts would be:
tlglenn
19 yrs ago
Derick Wood's, "Theory of Computation;" Christos Papadimitriou's, "Computational Complexity;" or John Hopcroft and Jeffrey Ullman's, "Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation." Each has at least a cha…
tlglenn
19 yrs ago
...pick a Hebrew character set and then hunt-and-peck the characters. It's a little annoying dealing with a right-to-left language on a left-to-right computer (the delete and arrow keys will act funky).
tlglenn
19 yrs ago
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I hope I chose the right encoding :)
Chit-Chat
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Grrrrrr! I'm getting spam at my Gmail addy and I don't even use it...
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Is your username short or a word that's in a dictionary?
tlglenn
19 yrs ago
Spammer scumbags like to perform dictionary attacks (which, incidentally, can bring a server to its knees if it can't handle the traffic).
tlglenn
19 yrs ago
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Quite frankly, 3001 disgusted me. Seemed to me that Clarke's vision of humanity's future was one big happy collective where "aberrant" personalities were adjusted.
Chit-Chat
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Anyone watch Farscape? (possible spoilers and geekiness)
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If the ratings are good enough...
tlglenn
19 yrs ago
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The Battlestar Galactica miniseries earlier this year had high enough ratings that SciFi commissioned a regular series that will debut in January. I hope that the Farscape miniseries will result in something similar. F…
Chit-Chat
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parent freak-out tales (possible contraceptive idea)
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One time in first or second grade I decided to walk home from school
tlglenn
19 yrs ago
My mom was delayed picking me up and an 8th grader from school. Eventually, I got tired of waiting so I decided to walk the 4.5 miles home. Almost made it, but a cop picked me up with less than a mile to go.
Now tha…
tlglenn
19 yrs ago
Chit-Chat
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What SciFi/ Fantasy Character are you?
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It's a good thing (he was one of the heroes) (nt)
tlglenn
19 yrs ago
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tlglenn
19 yrs ago
