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excel 2010 displays garbage when opening xls documents from the web

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while migrating few dozens of users to new desktops with the new office 2010 i’ve encountered a problem: when users open xls [saved in the excel 97-2003 format] directly from the web browser and allow editing excel displays garbage. amount of garbage depends but sometimes it makes the spreadsheet completely unusable. things get even worse ... Read More

gtd

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i like gtd, i’ve heard first time about the idea around 2006. since then i use some tiny-little-miniature form of it on daily basis; it boils down to writing things down, using reminders, tasks and todo lists. in other words – having OCD / being anal. i still manage to miss things, but in general ... Read More

higher TCP ICW – real world tests

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this post inspired me to check how much performance can we gain by just upgrading to more recent kernel on the internet-facing proxy servers at work.

[pl] petelicki

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dobre podsumowanie serji brutalnych samobojstw tutaj. a lemingi w najlepsze griluja cieszac sie co tym co im mainstream podrzuci. ciekawe komentarze na stronie michalkiewicza. + dla przeciwwagi – confirmation bias aka efekt potwierdzenia.

asia trip 2/4 – singapore

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after 10 days in Hong Kong my next stop was Singapore. i had 2.5days to use for some meetings and sightseeing.

asia trip 1/4 – hong kong

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i’ve spent last month in Asia – Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand and Philippines. totally new experience in many ways.
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[pl] to nie jest kraj dla mlodych ludzi

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Film Fundacji Republikańskiej – To nie jest kraj dla młodych ludzi http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHG3bm_MvRk jako bonus: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5HOP82rsso – grzegorz braun, cork. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFbPq8UxFb4 – ziemkiewicz

Benford’s law

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by a coincidence [process well described in this xkcd’s comics] i’ve stumbled on the definition of Benford’s law. since i have access to quite a lot of different economic & financial data i’ve decided to check if that law applies also to it.

morocco

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in search for some February sunshine i’ve spent 11 days in Morocco.

extracting single database from a [large] mysqldump

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extracting the whole database: sed -n '/^-- Current Database: `databaseName`/,/^-- Current Database: `/p' /path/to/the/fill/dump.sql > output.sql single table: sed -n '/^CREATE TABLE `tableName`/,/^\-\- Table structure for table /p' /path/to/the/fill/dump.sql > output.sql [via this blog]

aspies

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few articles about mild form of autism: Jeff Atwood – Software Developers and Asperger’s Syndrome Tracy Mayor/computerworld – Asperger’s and IT: Dark secret or open secret? sounds familiar?

sopa/pipa/acta

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while sopa/pipa legislation in the US seems to be postponed after a wave of protests acta in EU/Poland is doing just fine; acta possibly will be ratified [at least in Poland] without much of the mainstream attention. is pushing this law through the EU parliament going to be the only ‘success’ of otherwise pathetic polish ... Read More

surge 2011 presentations

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playlist: here most interesting [to me] talks: Keynote ~ Ben Fried A journey through the full stack in search of performance and reliability Theo Schlossnagle – Closing Plenary Theo Schlossnagle – Architectures for real-time data Scaling Etsy: What Went Wrong, What Went Right

[pl/en] Czeczenia / Chechnya

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Czeczenia – Cena prawdy / Chechnya – the price of truth. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFzKh9ls5YI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VTTwVJojxQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIICOHGz94Q http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XZKSJLZeso http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkCkbzoomnM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkeUeLj1t_0 Chechnya The Dirty War http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_2medFkNhI another movie by the same director [ Mariusz Pilis ] Exit afghanistan – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo-R_Yp2py0