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avallark··on LibreOffice 3.5.4 released with up to 100% performance improvements
100% performance increase!! thats a bit too much of a statement.

I am wondering if a product can have an 100% performance increase, then it must be pretty badly built the first time around. isnt it? I like openoffice, and didnt really think it needed a 100% performance upgrade, but hey more is better.

avallark··on Space Station grabs SpaceX Dragon ship
Good article. And I am not just saying it cos DaniFong just gave you a thumbs up! :D

let me know if you develop on this.

avallark··on Engineers with some free time... Click Ctrl - G - 6 at ZeroCater.com
good marketing ploy :)
avallark··on Afraid/disgusted of Facebook? Use this link to delete your account
you worry over a url?
avallark··on Afraid/disgusted of Facebook? Use this link to delete your account
I guess thats a personal call. After seeing the craigslist killer's subpoena , i d rather not have journals, that all my crazy rants and personal quotes and other moments being presented to cops and lawyers to read and laugh at.
avallark··on When the cops subpoena your Facebook information, here's what FB sends the cops
If you are frantically looking around for a link to "DELETE" your facebook account, here it is :

https://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_a...

I did this just a month ago.

avallark··on Poll: What's Your Favorite Programming Language?
PL/SQL
avallark··on Chrome beats IE market share for one day
Surely you jest!
avallark··on Chrome beats IE market share for one day
good point. Mostly administrative staff.

I think of interest to web startups would be the aspect of which browser is being used by those people who are willing to buy products based on the internet and those do not tend to be people who use IE. I am excluding buying things like ebay, amazon etc.

If you consider buying internet based things, like basecamp for e.g., you could see that this population would mostly use chrome, firefox or safari. This is purely my intuition, mainly because if people care about using an internet based product, they would want the product looks good, works well and is fast on their browsers and they will thus be using one of the better browsers.

avallark··on Chrome beats IE market share for one day
From experience, our organization use OWA (outlook web access). The only way we can change password for my email id is on OWA and that works only on IE!
avallark··on Chrome beats IE market share for one day
Chrome beats IE market share. It showed that over the weekend Chrome is the most used browser, while on a weekday, people go back to work and use IE. This has two implications: 1) Companies are still locked into some solutions like OWA and sharepoint because of which users still use IE at work. 2) Users have started distinguishing between browsers and at home they prefer using Chrome.

For companies with most of their clients using their own personal computers (like for us), we could expect a fair share of Chrome over IE and hence the following: 1) Our QA should have a major focus on testing with these browsers. 2) Architecture needs to focus on this stat. as a guiding principle while deciding future architecture.

Another interesting statistics is the second screenshot with the Mobile Operating systems. 1) The highest share of internet browsers still run a Nokia Symbian phone. Most likely these are traffic from developing countries, where monetizing from these clients is extremely difficult. 2) iPhone and Android are tied and very close.

So focusing only on iPhone could be a mistake. We need to open up to focusing on Android just as much.

avallark··on A+ for O'Reilly Customer Service: Keep the books and donate them
Brilliant. I like what they do with the digital versions of the their DRM free books as well. I currently have atleast 9 books from them and you can download .epub/.mobi/.pdf all drm free! Love them.

And of course , big thanks for docbook!

avallark··on How I hacked 37signals job board to save $400
would definitely agree. the only thing that's sure for now is that there is confusion and frustration with search engines.

I do not think a one-size-fits-all search engine would be the answer here. :)

avallark··on New Linux kernel fixes power-saving issues
"The patch only has this effect on systems with the firmware problem detailed above, which can be identified by using dmesg to display kernel messages and looking for the message "ACPI FADT declares the system doesn't support PCIe ASPM, so disable it"." >> Not for all!
avallark··on Support an Open Internet, create your own freedom.txt
bravo campion!
avallark··on FileSonic disables all filesharing
they arent really responding. I am sure they are busy preparing papers for bankruptcy filing.
avallark··on Support an Open Internet, create your own freedom.txt
"Hi, my name is XXX XXX and I own this website. I no longer wish to stay Anonymous"

are you a part of Anonymous? :))

avallark··on FileSonic disables all filesharing
I asked for a full refund on my lifetime membership.

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I subscribed to filesonic when sharing of links were allowed. I am no longer interested to have this account if there is no sharing of links allowed. The functionality of the service that I signed up for has signifcantly reduced. Thus I would like a refund of my subscription fees. Since my membership was for Lifetime $149. I would like a full refund of this amount please.

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avallark··on US customs blocking DVDs that depict "insurrection against the US"
1984
avallark··on All the charges against megaupload were framed before Internet
All the charges against megaupload were framed at times when man did not even have the concept of internet, collaboration, file sharing or even copyrighting..

Conspiracy to commit racketeering - 1962 Conspiracy to commit copyright infringement Conspiracy to commit money laundering - 1956 Criminal copyright infringement

Of these the level of charging these that are defined in 1962 and 1956, at this point the level of racketeering charge or the intensity of money laundering charges must definitely different from that of the situation now. This does not seem like a just system.

avallark··on BASH autocomplete for SSH
bash_completion does this for most systems. Its also available in mac ports
avallark··on I quit my high-paying job to follow my dream of launching a startup. Here it is.
Congratulations on starting out on your own. Takes courage.
avallark··on Interview Programming Problems Done Right
You can learn a lot about a programmer, the way he thinks etc by asking very simple questions .. my favorites being "reversing a string" and frequency of characters in a given sentence etc.
avallark··on GoDaddy no longer on SOPA supporter list.
I think this is a moral victory for all of us who took a stance and started the domain transfer from godaddy to other providers.

I personally shifted to Gandi.net, simply for the want of moving to a Europe based provider. I think US based providers are eventually going to be forced in if the Act goes through anyway.

avallark··on An Indian Inventor Disrupts The Period Industry
If you weren't right, then the whole point of industrialization, division of labour etc, would be all wrong isnt it?

The advantage here is they will be able to sell napkins to a community at a MUCH lower price and still make a profit using these small machines than the industrial ones.

avallark··on It’s official: Google+ will be connected to everything
I think its time to de-couple ourselves from providers like Google, facebook, twitter. I for one am not very comfortable in getting into a 1984 situation!
avallark··on Make your meetings more efficient
Would very much like to receive feedback and suggestions on making this tool more useful.
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