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Are you dissatisfied with the usability, performance, lack of type-safety, and lack of / difficulty with extensibility of the printf()-family, Boost.Format and the IOStreams? Do you value speed, robustness and internationalisation support? If the answer to these questions is yes, meet FastFormat, the best C++ output/formatting library you'll ever use.

I had this similar wonkiness with git-svn, and this helped me pull my ass out the fire. Thanks to dbt for pointing me at it.

git cheat sheet. Looks to be handy in my learning phase

mod_evasive is an evasive maneuvers module for Apache to provide evasive action in the event of an HTTP DoS or DDoS attack or brute force attack. It is also designed to be a detection and network management tool, and can be easily configured to talk to ipchains, firewalls, routers, and etcetera. mod_evasive presently reports abuses via email and syslog facilities.

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I apparently have unusual hearing. Ever since i was a kid, I could hear a very high pitched tone in most malls, which I always assumed was just the noise of the security systems bouncing arround the rafters. I notice it less now, but it’s still there, and it still annoys me. Heck, I can tell you if a tube tv is on anywhere in the building i’m in usually, I can hear the flyback transformer or something.

Enter those media frenzy stories about kids and their secret ring tones, that adults can’t hear…. although i’m 37 and have no problem hearing them.

The times ran a graphic that shows the usual ages you can hear these frequencies, and you can test some various frequencies here. I’m getting a little older. I can’t really hear the 18hz tone any more, but I can tell you if there’s one playing or not (it’s like a pressure in my ears when it’s on). I guess that means my body is 13 years older than my calendar age?

For bloggy goodness, here’s a memegraphic.

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Based on seeing some Twitter traffic about TokBox, I decided to let you leave me some video mail. I’m just playing, you should be too. Show me your asses!

Teensy USB Development Board The Teensy is a complete USB-based microcontoller development system, featuring a 16 MHz AVR (AT90USB162) processor, in a very small footprint! All programming is done via the USB port. No special programmer is needed, only a standard "Mini-B" USB cable and a PC or Macintosh with a USB port.

Learn how to share a single iPhoto library for editing among multiple users.

Firefox Plugin: The Drag & Drop.io 2.0 - create drops and post files with just a flick of the wrist

The Rhodes framework is an open source Ruby-based platform for building locally executing, device-optimized mobile applications. It is similar in concept to MVC frameworks such as Rails, Merb and Camping but much lighter weight (and hence executable on a mobile device) than any of these. Along the way of course, we had to implement Ruby for these device operating systems (iPhone, Windows Mobile, RIM and Symbian).

I always forget how to do this.

Generally, I really enjoy using Twitter.  I’m not exactly sure why that is, but all in all I like it.  I think it mostly has to do with exposing me to a subset of people that I don’t get in my IRC and IM windows.  However, there are some trends in use that piss me off…

1. Thanking people for following you. Stop it, right now, everyone.  Just freaking stop it.  If over 1% of your tweets are thanking people for following you, I will smack you when next I see you.  Maybe I’m bucking the etiquette, but this annoys me more than anything else.
2. Feeling that you need to follow the people that follow you. No, you don’t.  Its a broadcast medium, and while it can be used for chat, it doesn’t mean you have to.  The closer your following:follower ratio is to 1:1 the less I think you actually have to say and thought you put into Twitter.  If you’re reading the whole world, how to you have time to create your own thoughts?
3. Changing your avatar more often then you change underwear. You’re not that pretty nor witty, knock it off.
4. Tweeting only that you have a new blog post. Stop it! I already have an RSS reader, kthx.

That’s my top four.  I’m sure I’m guilty of some from time to time, but damn it, stop it! I try to.  And I’m sure I’ll come up with more, maybe I’ll make this a series.