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Ireland jailed a 3 or 4 bankers after the crash. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Drumm It took 10 yrs to convict them mind you, and as I understand it they’re all out now.

I worked in London in the mid 00's with someone who did this. - He worked 2 Days at London Office, 3 days WFH in Spain. - He would book his flights about 3 weeks in advance and sta…

I mostly use web sequence diagrams, and commit the text. https://www.websequencediagrams.com Otherwise I just draw on a white board and take a photo Then finally Visio if needed.

I believe redhat staff use thinkpads (t-series and x-series)), meaning support for Linux is pretty good out of the box, and you can find a fix/ workaround for most issues on a fedo…

Lenovo X1 usually has good support for Linux. https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Thinkpad/X1%20Car...

Lenovo X1 usually has good support for Linux. https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Thinkpad/X1%20Car...

If you download from java.oracle.com as apposed to java.com these nasty toolbars aren't included.

My top 5 (in no order): ted radio hour http://www.npr.org/programs/ted-radio-hour/ radiolab http://www.radiolab.org/ linux outlaws http://sixgun.org/linuxoutlaws techzing http://te…

I would normally have to look it up on google or within my existing code base. But, I still think its a good idea to refresh yourself on stuff like this before hand, because in an …

I moved to consoleZ: https://github.com/cbucher/console Its a fork of console2. + Adds Splitting Tabs into views Console2 development seems to have slowed down.

How about just showing them in the best or bestcomments list page or creating a new list page that shows them?

I had just started tinkering with play, with the idea that I might introduce it for a project at work. But the fact that their going to rebuild 2.0 from scratch puts me off a bit T…

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I haven't tried the others but I can highly recommend prey. You only have to subscribe once your laptop goes missing. Its also open src so I believe you can setup the serverside yo…

Yeah, I decided from the start that I wanted to stay on the right side of the law on this. Plus it was stolen from my house, so the guy knows where I live.

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So this happened to me in Feb. I had my MBP taken with http://preyproject.com/ installed. Now I live outside the US , (in Ireland) and while the police where helpful & curious abou…

So my house was burgled last night, 2 laptops were taken, a mbp and a windows xp netbook. :( I have prey source http://preyproject.com/ on the mbp so that should help. On the win x…

Lots of BASIC people out there, it really was very easy starter language to get into. Anyone know are the kids starting with these days?

Yeah, BASIC on the Atari 400 was my first experience too. It was the early 80's and I was about 7/8 yrs old, the guy in my local electronics shop used to allow my brother and I to …

For rails check out Michael Hartls tutorials by example railstutorial.org, it contains an ebook and videos. Only took me a couple of weeks to get through it and I can highly recomm…