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Thanks to TweetPhoto.com Everyone Knows Im a Pervert

So tweetphoto.com plans to dominate the twitter photo upload marketĀ  by copying twitpic.com and adding very little to set it apart… except for the built-in tracking that reveals on the front page what I really think about day and night…

Fix Slow Scrolling in jEdit

So far jEdit is proving to be a great editor (FTP/SFTP support is great) but after tweaking it to my liking (BufferTabs plugin, fonts, etc.) I noticed that scrolling the main text area had become very slow. I didn’t want to just blame Java so I looked it up and found the cause.

Fix slow connections to Ubuntu SSH servers

As of Ubuntu 8.10 and older, connections to SSH servers with default configs can be annoyingly slow. This is because the OpenSSH daemon uses DNS to run a reverse lookup on the client to be sure that they aren’t faking their hostname. You can disable most look-ups by implementing the following setting: As root edit “/etc/ssh/sshd_config” [...]

Asides

  • Viigo has some great features and all but for simple RSS reading on my BlackBerry Google Reader Mobile beats the crap out of Viigo. (more...) #
  • New theme integration is progress. I just don't have the gas to do it all in one night... (more...) #

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