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By sigizmund On June 15, 2010 · 3814 Commentshttp%3A%2F%2Fsigizmund.com%2Fremote-madness%2FRemote+madness2010-06-15+08%3A41%3A04sigizmundhttp%3A%2F%2Fsigizmund.com%2F%3Fp%3D381

Tried to assist my sister with filling in an online payment form to her summer college in London. I couldn’t make TeamViewer (which is great by all means) to work on my laptop (it just keeps failing and closing), so I had to make an SSH tunnel to my home iMac via my NAS, forward [...]

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Bodean’s BBQ: treating your customers fairly

By sigizmund On May 3, 2010 · 380Leave a Commenthttp%3A%2F%2Fsigizmund.com%2Fbodeans-bbq-treating-your-customers-fairly%2FBodean%27s+BBQ%3A+treating+your+customers+fairly2010-05-03+22%3A11%3A35sigizmundhttp%3A%2F%2Fsigizmund.com%2Fbodeans-bbq-treating-your-customers-fairly%2F

One thing about dealing with clients, who pay you money and you give them something back instead — is that disasters happen. They really do, and this is a sort of a natural law to me — if they didn’t, the whole concept of customer service could become an abstract. But how would you [...]

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Google Fast Flip — have you seen it?

By sigizmund On April 19, 2010 · 378Leave a Commenthttp%3A%2F%2Fsigizmund.com%2Fgoogle-fast-flip-%25e2%2580%2594-have-you-seen-it%2FGoogle+Fast+Flip+%E2%80%94+have+you+seen+it%3F2010-04-19+15%3A28%3A21sigizmundhttp%3A%2F%2Fsigizmund.com%2Fgoogle-fast-flip-%25e2%2580%2594-have-you-seen-it%2F

I didn’t — and now it occurs to me it’s a nice way of browsing through news. Granted, it isn’t the most productive way if you need to find what’s going on in the world — quickly, but can certainly be used to kill some of that invaluable resource we all love to [...]

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apt-get install wife

By sigizmund On April 19, 2010 · 373Leave a Commenthttp%3A%2F%2Fsigizmund.com%2Fapt-get-install-wife%2Fapt-get+install+wife2010-04-19+15%3A15%3A13sigizmundhttp%3A%2F%2Fsigizmund.com%2Fapt-get-install-wife%2F

Shamelessly stolen from here.

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How to answer a question, without actually answering it

By sigizmund On April 19, 2010 · 370Leave a Commenthttp%3A%2F%2Fsigizmund.com%2Fhow-to-answer-a-question-without-actually-answering-it%2FHow+to+answer+a+question%2C+without+actually+answering+it2010-04-19+14%3A03%3A42sigizmundhttp%3A%2F%2Fsigizmund.com%2Fhow-to-answer-a-question-without-actually-answering-it%2F

An absolutely brilliant bit which I came across on T-Mobile’s website:

Can I use the internet on my phone or mobile broadband in Europe without buying a Booster?

We have boosters to buy so that you’ll always know exactly how much you’ve spent and know that you won’t get any unexpected bills. Using the [...]

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Easiest way to login to your home Mac

By sigizmund On April 6, 2010 · 367Leave a Commenthttp%3A%2F%2Fsigizmund.com%2Feasiest-way-to-login-to-your-home-mac%2FEasiest+way+to+login+to+your+home+Mac2010-04-06+11%3A18%3A12sigizmundhttp%3A%2F%2Fsigizmund.com%2Feasiest-way-to-login-to-your-home-mac%2F

Well, there’re few prerequisites to this method:

You should have a DMZ’ed (or accessible from outside world in some way) server running in your home network which you can SSH into. Your home Mac should be on (you can use etherwake command from within your network to wake it up first).

As long as these [...]

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Stephen Fry about iPad

By sigizmund On April 2, 2010 · 365Leave a Commenthttp%3A%2F%2Fsigizmund.com%2Fstephen-fry-about-ipad%2FStephen+Fry+about+iPad2010-04-02+07%3A57%3A44sigizmundhttp%3A%2F%2Fsigizmund.com%2Fstephen-fry-about-ipad%2F

Guess who — and what is this about?

After he leaves, I am finally left alone with an iPad. Finally I get some finger time. I peep under the slip holder, and there it is. When I switch it on, a little sigh escapes me as the screen lights up. Ten minutes later I [...]

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Rainbow outside

By sigizmund On March 26, 2010 · 363Leave a Commenthttp%3A%2F%2Fsigizmund.com%2Frainbow-outside%2FRainbow+outside2010-03-26+15%3A09%3A57sigizmundhttp%3A%2F%2Fsigizmund.com%2Frainbow-outside%2F

In a hindsight, it appears that it could’ve been a better idea to take this photograph through the clean window rather than the one close to me. But whatever’s done — is done. Too bad it didn’t last more than couple of minutes.

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Hadoop’s “DistributedFileSystem vs DistributedCache” mystery

By sigizmund On March 23, 2010 · 352Leave a Commenthttp%3A%2F%2Fsigizmund.com%2Fhadoops-distributedfilesystem-vs-distributedcache-mystery%2FHadoop%27s+%22DistributedFileSystem+vs+DistributedCache%22+mystery2010-03-23+16%3A52%3A22sigizmundhttp%3A%2F%2Fsigizmund.com%2Fhadoops-distributedfilesystem-vs-distributedcache-mystery%2F

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 try { FileSystem dfs = DistributedFileSystem.get(hadoopJobConfiguration); final FileStatus[] sts = dfs.listStatus(new Path(this.hdfsDirectory)); for ( FileStatus s : sts ) { if ( s.getPath().toString().endsWith(".jar") ) { log.info("Jar found: " + s.getPath().toString()); DistributedCache.addFileToClassPath(new Path(s.getPath().toUri().getPath()), hadoopJobConfiguration); } } } catch (IOException [...]

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Have you ever tried TrailRunner?

By sigizmund On March 18, 2010 · 351Leave a Commenthttp%3A%2F%2Fsigizmund.com%2Fhave-you-ever-tried-trailrunner%2FHave+you+ever+tried+TrailRunner%3F2010-03-18+09%3A37%3A39sigizmundhttp%3A%2F%2Fsigizmund.com%2F2010%2F03%2F18%2Fhave-you-ever-tried-trailrunner%2F

No, really, have you seen it at all? I bet you didn’t because otherwise you would’ve tell the world about it — I’m using it for quite a while now, and I can firmly say: this is a program which just works, and makes my life substantially easier.

What is it anyway? Here you go: [...]

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