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Rubenerd's 2012 Bookmarks

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2012-12

• Slashdot schnell (10): One of the more level-headed Slashdotters.
• ganaha hibiki idolmaster idolmaster shiny festa vector | konachan.net - Konachan.com Anime Wallpapers: Mmm, hashtag!
• File:Evening Port Louis.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Joe Hockey blocks bloggers on twitter. | Frogpondsrock...: Stay classy, Joe Hockey
• Judges 19:22-30 NIV - While they were enjoying themselves, - Bible Gateway: The Bible is a scary, scary book.
• Michael Franks | Flickr - Photo Sharing!: Michael Franks had a bus? ;D
• Princess of the Crystal 1/8 Figure ~ Mawaru Penguidrum **Preorder**: WANT!
• Amazon.com: Michael Franks: Chanteur & Musicien Autodidact- Incontournables: Michael Franks: Music: Another Michael Franks album I didn't know about!
• Improve disk I/O performance in KVM: Wish this still worked in the latest QEMU.
• Rebel Science News: The Myth of the Bayesian Brain, Part I: It ain't all probability, folks...
• AboutUs: Rubenerd.com is a weblog of nerdish interests: When was this created? Who made this? Why has it never been updated? Weird.
• Happy 25th birthday, Perl! | InBeta: Douchebag
• Beanstalk — Secure, Private Subversion, Mercurial and Git Hosting: Been (HA!) meaning to check these guys out.
• Ruben(nerd) Schade Twitter Stats & Rankings (Rubenerd) | Twitaholic.com: I'm tagged with "TheFunkSoulBrotherCheckItOutNow"

2012-11

• Full-Text RSS Feeds | fivefilters.org: Interesting client for extracting full text from sites that only do annoying abbreviated RSS.
• AsiaBSDCon 2013: Want! "AsiaBSDCon is a conference for users and developers on BSD based systems. The next conference will be held in Tokyo, in 14-17 March, 2013. The conference is for anyone developing, deploying and using systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFlyBSD, Darwin and MacOS X. AsiaBSDCon is a technical conference and aims to collect the best technical papers and presentations available to ensure that the latest developments in our open source community are shared with the widest possible audience."
• Gpt Office, Sydney | OpenBuildings: That is an amazing office!
• Luke Maurits' Homepage: This is who I want to be.
• The FreeBSD Ports Open Source Project on Ohloh: Another alternative view of the FreeBSD ports system
• File:Hershey, Pennsylvania.JPG - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Tasty roadsigns
• [Solved] Cannot edit /etc/rc.conf - The FreeBSD Forums: # fsck you check the filesystems, # mount -u / mounts the root partition read/write, # mount -a -t ufs
• [Phoronix] The Sad State Of GPU Drivers For BSD, Solaris: Sad, but true
• Back on XFCE 4.10 with FreeBSD ;) - YouTube: He has an anime background, though I'd choose a different one! Video doesn't need Flash.
• Thomas Repantis - FreeBSD on IBM Thinkpad T40: " To be able to use the middle button disable the touchpad from the BIOS." Hmm, interesting.
• [Phoronix] FreeBSD 10 To Use Clang Compiler, Deprecate GCC: For fans of the BSD licence and philosophy, this is a Good ThingTM.
• FreeBSD Monitor: All your FreeBSD feeds, port commits, security bulletins etc in one easy place!
• noitaminA - Television Tropes & Idioms: Forgot to add this mob to my Wikipedia user interest navbox... what a crime!
• Blue Drop - Television Tropes & Idioms
• How to reduce power consumption - ThinkWiki: Some good tips.
• Hong Kong Kitchen, Chatswood - Restaurant Information And Reviews - yourRestaurants.com.au: Need to go here with Clara again :)
• Baker Hotel (Mineral Wells, Texas) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Fascinating historical building
• Template:WikiGnome topicon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Concord Records - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Hubert Laws - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• File:Absolute ponts couverts 02.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Pretty~
• Expressions (album) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• D5vPM.jpg (JPEG Image, 719 × 960 pixels): Just... wow XD
• File:Express Building Manchester.jpg - Wikimedia Commons
• File:Marina Bay and the Singapore skyline at dusk - 20110311.jpg - Wikimedia Commons
• File:KORAIL EMU361000.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Hurricane Sandy Oct. 28 & 29, 2012 - a set on Flickr: New York looks so empty...
• dBase Homepage: That's right, dBase is still around!
• Samsung: power, corruption and lies – Mic Wright – The Kernel: "You’re welcome to love Android and hate Apple. Just don’t be fooled into thinking Samsung are the good guys."

2012-10

• FEDORA 17 New Installation Guide | Geekface.ca: I'd abstain from Flash (and the Adobe repo) and would use curl instead of wget. Solid list though.
• ubuntu - PHPMyadmin xampp error - Stack Overflow: Dang xampp
• Microsoft’s Downfall: Inside the Executive E-mails and Cannibalistic Culture That Felled a Tech Giant | Vanity Fair: Interesting to read in the context of Windows 8.
• Blog on Linux and technology (Specially XFCE): Bluebird – A refreshing new theme for gnome and xfce: This with the Elementary icon theme on XFce on Fedora is rather lovely :)
• Ministry of Silly Walks clock tumblr_mccowwbz9n1qzocx4o1_400.jpg (JPEG Image, 325×375 pixels): From @adasifs on Twitter. Made my day!
• Ah, the wonders of DHTML... | Web Builder Zone: A blast from the past!
• Maryland's Governor Explains his War on Sprawl - Politics - The Atlantic Cities: I'm all for such plans like this. Urban sprawl makes public transport and utilities hard to distribute. If you want lots of space, you should live in the country not suburbia.
• Carbon Pricing Explained - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
• My Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Mac OS X (2012 Edition) — carpeaqua by Justin Williams: Possible blog post
• Microsoft claims ownership of the number 45, asks Google to censor the US government and Bing: Uh huh.
• Lunduke.com: Such a nostalgic site design, I may need to do something like this at some point :)
• Psy on Sunrise: Wednesday 17th October - Sunrise - Channel Seven - Yahoo!7 TV - Yahoo!7 TV: Went to this with Clara and Vadim! :D
• Naive Bayes with R
• Data Mining Algorithms In R/Classification/Naïve Bayes - Wikibooks, open books for an open world: r, datamining, uts
• Usage — pip 1.2.1.post1 documentation: How to use pip to install Python packages. Much nicer than easy_install ^_^
• Expectation–maximization algorithm - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: From data mining lecture
• SSL Certificates with Apache 2 on CentOS 5 & 6 – Linode Library: Self-signed certs for the win!
• CentOS repo mirrorlist: Returns geographically close repos. From Sydney, I'm getting servers mostly in Australia, Singapore and Taiwan.
• Apache Web Server Tutorial for Linux: I do a lot of things differently, but if I were to write a blog post about how to start from scratch, I like the flow of this one.
• Creating a CNAME DNS Record | NetDNA Support Site: Wow, has it for ALL the domain registrars you could ever want
• useit.com: Jakob Nielsen on Usability and Web Design: From lecture slides for Digital Multimedia.
• core - Apache HTTP Server - virtualhost: For setting up multiple virtual hosts for domains on Apache

2012-09

• Traynor's Eye: Meeting A Troll...: A bit melodramatic, but a good read.
• Photos: Boeing 747-251B Aircraft Pictures | Airliners.net: What happens when you slap two different liveries together? This weird thing!
• Berusky – Freecode: Looks like a classic little game I have to get :)
• North Korea’s Art of the March: Stunning, chilling photos.
• git.kernel.org - editors/uemacs/uemacs.git/tree: Linus Torvald's custom build of uemacs
• Twitter / Recent images by @danbenjamin: So much of his studio setup was the same as mine back in the day, only somewhat more expensive!
• Neat tricks with iptables » Lost in Technopolis | Lost in Technopolis: A solid list of defences and explanations.
• How to: Linux Iptables block common attacks: Incomplete, but a good start
• LAMP Server on CentOS 6 – Linode Library
• http://www.thegeekstuff.com/scripts/iptables-rules: Not perfect, but a great place to start for configuring a custom iptables chain
• ServerHardening - yubikey-ksm - Server Hardening - YubiKey Key Storage Module - Google Project Hosting
• Linux IPTables: Incoming and Outgoing Rule Examples (SSH and HTTP)
• MySQL :: MySQL 5.6 Reference Manual :: 14.2.5.1 InnoDB Performance Tuning Tips
• Subversion Commands and Scripts
• rapidsvn.tigris.org

2012-08

• Desktop Entry Specification
• BurningSme..lorg - Old Art: Commander Keen Xorg! :D
• WD Black
• Savvio 10K Hard Drive | Seagate
• ID3 algorithm - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: From week 3 lecture - "ID3 (Iterative Dichotomiser 3) is an algorithm used to generate a decision tree "
• Built without government help, you say? 4GD4T.jpg (JPEG Image, 1023 × 789 pixels): Libertarianism/conservatism destroyed in a single image ;D
• Apple's Entire Case Against Samsung Summed Up in a Single Image | MacTrast: As much a swipe at the irrelevance of Windows Mobile as anything else.
• Channel Nine London 2012 YpeAU.jpg (JPEG Image, 960 × 878 pixels): Didn't watch the Olympics, but this is pretty funny ;D

2012-06

• Proactive Policy Measures by Internet Service Providers against Botnets - Papers - OECD iLibrary: "This report analyses initiatives in a number of countries through which end-users are notified by ISPs when their computer is identified as being compromised by malicious software and encouraged to take action to mitigate the problem. It reviews the core dimensions of these initiatives and provides high-level guidance for future policy development."
• mzl.fitucfml.320x480-75.jpg (JPEG Image, 480 × 320 pixels): Two things were apparently born in Sydney in 1986...
• /pub/cbm index: That is a LOT of classic CBM stuff!

2012-05

• Performance indicator - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Introduction to UML Diagrams: A good refresher!

2012-04

• Euro Coffee Bar Earlwood: Seems to be the only site with current opening hours
• Norwegians sing to annoy mass killer – This Just In - CNN.com Blogs: The best thing I've read all day
• Numeric error codes index - ThinkPad 600/E/X: I see these all the time, unfortunately!
• Hatsune Miku Toyota ad? by ~Sasuma-Girl on deviantART: These Miku advertisements just keep coming!
• bach - How to setup openssh chrooted sftp and SELinux in Fedora 16: Might do things a little different, but a good start.
• Alper Akcan : ~/projects/fuse-ext2: "fuse-ext2 is a ext2 filesystem (ext2fs/ext3fs) support for mac os x, with both read and write support. "
• Flying the Singapore flag abroad | The New Paper: They didn't use mine!
• JetPhotos.Net Photo » N815NN (CN: 33208) American Airlines Boeing 737-823 by Tim Bowrey: One way to beat the traffic!
• Finally – photos of new ThinkPad USB TrackPoint Keyboard | ThinkPads.com: Would make a great backup keyboard if my IBM Model M clone was too noisy for people to use late at night :D
• Tom Vincent ~ Jazz Pianist: Looks like beautiful stuff :D
• Singapore tutus just too much for Malaysia: Oh dear.
• Photos: Airbus A320-232 Aircraft Pictures | Airliners.net: Gives you an idea of the size difference!
• Netflix creates pro-SOPA super-PAC — RT: Boycott Netflix, if you live in the US.
• Poll: There's No Way My Favorite Anime Sold So Poorly: Shana 3?! :O
• Pollutionwatch: UK experienced top levels of air pollution in March | Environment | The Guardian: The picture alone is pretty scary.
• Twitter / @AtheistEarth: #Atheism It's very simple: Great quote!
• Thesaurus by Billy Collins: Cute poem :)
• Advanced Format - ArchWiki: Another good resource for 4kb drives.
• Linux on 4KB-sector disks: Practical advice: Most comprehensive review of 4kb sector drives I've seen. DeveloperWorks always has good stuff :)
• Why Some Cities Lose When Others Win - Jobs & Economy - The Atlantic Cities: Fascinating discussion
• Curbed SF: South Park Archives: Those are some pretty swish apartments and small houses!
• mirror.optus.net: A shame they still count towards quotas :/

2012-03

• The Linux Experience: How to painlessly switch from Ubuntu to Fedora: Lots in common too, but yes...! "Fedora and Ubuntu are in fact different in many ways"
• BBC News - Do we really give introverts a hard time?: In the Western World, definitely.
• Ruben(nerd) Schade(rubenerd) - Hiwihhi.com: Why are old tweets of mine here? :O
• The John Pizzarelli Fan Page - Early Work: "This page is for those of you who have not had the opportunity to see or hear these early recordings. Included here are summaries and liner notes. "
• John Pizzarelli - One Night With You: The John Pizzarelli Collection: "It follows the wisdom of Basie, who said (and demonstrated) that all jazz is born in the rhythm section."
• Jazz Reviews: One Night With YouThe John Pizzarelli Collection - By Jack Sohmer — Jazz Articles: "[..] John Pizzarelli has developed into a major talent himself, one whose preference for classic pre-1950s pop music and jazz is rarely encountered in men his age."
• Obama to heckler: "Show me some courtesy" - Political Hotsheet - CBS News: Courtesy? In politics?
• LG Product Support for 42PC5R: They may as well have just said "turn it off, and on again"
• Asia Times Online :: Hong Kongers derail Beijing's election plans: Wow, this writer doesn't mince words.
• Is Google facing the beginning of the end? | The Industry Standard - InfoWorld: If they are, it's of their own doing.
• LÖVE - Free 2D Game Engine: Need to install this for Mari0!
• Submarine Cable Map: An interactive map of all the world's submarine telecommunication cables. As an *information* technology guy, I find things like this deeply fascinating :D
• Delays-Are-Good.mp3 (audio/mpeg Object): From the desk of CityRail ;D
• 800px-A-90_Orlyonok_4.JPG (JPEG Image, 800 × 600 pixels): Now that's a pretty goofy "plane"!
• Why the World Needs to Start Embracing Introverts: Introvert here! Glad to be able to embrace it, rather than having society telling me there's something wrong.

2012-02

• Perl Regular Expressions: A good refresher :)
• HOWTO Install Fedora 12 on a MacBook Pro - Consultancy.EdVoncken.NET: A little outdated, but some good stuff.
• Fedora, Macs and EFI « the blog of Chris: "When installing Linux beside OS X, Fedora toggles the boot flag on for its partition. This causes GPT to see it as an “EFI boot partition,” rather than “Basic Data”... "To fix this, toggle the boot flag to off using parted and then sync the GPT partition table to the master boot record partition table."
• Bug 739389 – "you have not created a bootloader stage1 device" error: Problem with Fedora 16 i386 on some 32bit Intel Mac hardware, among others
• FreeWear.org: Need to get me some more of these KDE stickers! Bought a KDE shirt from these fine folks last year, partly because of the delicious pun in their name ;). Great stuff!
• Install PHP5, lighttpd and Imagick on Mac OS X Leopard: A little outdated, but the principle is the same
• Main Page - Wikipedia for World Heritage: A petition to get Wikipedia recognised as a World Heritage Site. Absolutely brilliant idea, I would never have thought of it!
• Scott Petito Productions: A blast from the past in website design! This is the studio where Michael Franks recorded several of his recent albums, including Rendezvous in Rio and Watching the Snow.
• Perl Hash Howto
• Perl Array Size
• Atelier Sai Kaze no Stigma Ayano Kannagi 1/8 Figure | eBay: I <3 Kaze no Stigma, but the only fig you can seem to get for a reasonable price these days is of Atelier Sai with all her clothes ripped. Nothing... normal!?
• Qantas' misguided Twitter tantrum | Technology Spectator: Eh, just write another #QantasLuxury tweet and be done with it
• File:Town Hall station 1932.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: It looks so eerily modern. Stunning photo.
• Morning Glory Spillway - Davis Wiki: That's a pretty big funnel.
• Brewed Fresh Daily: By comparison, here's a site that's simple and clean. We need more like this!
• Hacks delayed parliament website revamp - Communications - News - ZDNet Australia: It's still not as insane as those multi-million dollar sites in the US, but $3.1 million for some sickly, overwrought Web 2.0 gradient mess? This could be a blog post topic.
• UTS Library OverDrive - Cantonese: Now I just need one for German, and another for Hokkien and I'll be set! And maybe Korean... From @hanezawakirika on Twitter
• Michael Franks : Skin Deep | Flickr - Photo Sharing!: One of these days I'll be trying this. He even has the shirt right!
• A Stranger in a Strange Land » Blog Archive » Singapore, Michigan: And it's a ghost town, go figure!
• Installing Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn on a ThinkPad 600E - ThinkWiki: FreeBSD and OpenBSD boot fine on this old hardware, but every Linux distro I've tried has choked. Maybe these kernel options are the ticket.
• Rayman Origins Review: ‘a sugar coated feast for the eyes, and perhaps the most perfect platformer ever created’: The lead character doesn't have legs.
• Passive house - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Great idea! A shame it hasn't taken off outside Germany.
• Summit Place Mall; Waterford, Michigan | Labelscar: The Retail History Blog: There's something about abandoned shopping centres/malls I find fascinating. Why would a place that people frequent just vanish from relevance?
• Michael Franks at Jazz Alley, October 2011 - a set on Flickr: My mission in life is to see Michael Franks in concert in a jazz club. Mark my words.
• "michael franks" - Flickr: Search: Tried doing an advanced search for Creative Commons Michael Franks images on Flickr, and the only result... was mine XD
• The Spring | A.P.P.L.E: A new shopping centre in Malaysia. Kinda miss living there.
• DIGITAL: Blu-Ray - Westfield Comics: Interesting plot summaries for a wide range of shows, including anime and Doctor Who. Who'd have thunk it?!
• Soshiok.com - What the Obamas put into their mouths: An entire gallery of Barack Obama eating stuff. Why does this exist? XD
• Anonymous posts FBI/Scotland Yard phonecall - RTÉ News: "Hacker group Anonymous has released a recording of what it claims is a conference call between the FBI and Scotland Yard last month discussing counter-hacking operations."
• URA to launch tender for site above Farrer Park MRT Station: I rememeber that area...
• Ruby’s Diner Readies New Kobe Burger Menu | βurgerβusiness: Love the graphics, even if I wouldn't necessarily eat the food!
• U.S. expands case against ex-Goldman director Gupta | Reuters: "Federal prosecutors expanded their insider trading case against former Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS.N) director Rajat Gupta on Tuesday, saying the illegal activity lasted longer and involved more trades than alleged."
• yfrog Photo : http://yfrog.com/nvsd4pmj Shared by emi_wong: I need one of these, and it has to have LEDs too!
• Letters of Note: To My Old Master: A letter from a former slave to his former "owner". Amazing.
• Raymond Tallis - In search of the G spot | New Humanist: Food for thought.
• Positive Atheism's Big List of Richard Dawkins Quotations: Some good ones!
• Kim Jong-un's deputy sends Australia Day message - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation): Goody.
• New MRT trains for North East Line and Circle Line: The frequency on the NEL was never quite as good as other lines. More trains == good.

2012-01

• US killer spy drone controls switch to Linux • The Register: While the point that Windows is in places it shouldn't be, the real issue is drones are in place where they shouldn't be.
• The President's challenge - O'Reilly Radar: Best argument I've heard so far, from Nat Torkington
• Tony F*cking Abbott?!?!: Gold ;)
• Schriftglättung bei Snow Leopard?: People still linking to my site for the Mac OS X font issue.
• Dvorak.org: Terms of Use and Privacy Policy: Still the best example of both out there!
• The Startup Firehose helps aggregate Singapore startup blogs | e27: Looks like a worthwhile site to start following.
• @Sebasu_tan Can't… handre… (@Rubenerd): Absolutely stunning
• "Haiyore! Nyaruko-san" Anime Official Website Goes Live: A horror comedy? Count me in!
• How to write a product design review: Nokia N9 - Small Surfaces: Somewhat agree with this. Apple's use of textures in Lion was a step backwards in usability, alas. I would love an N9