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Mar 26, 2005
make bittorrent go faster

I never realized this before, but you can in fact make bittorrent go a LOT faster if you are behind a NAT box by correctly configuring port forwarding. All you have to do is make sure that ports 6881-6899 (or if you like with newer versions, 6999) get forwarded to your local machine. You can get your local address, if you’re on OS X, using the command ifconfig.
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Mar 25, 2005
How to program a computer, for children

Part 1. Instructions
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Mar 7, 2005
more great infographics

Birds-eye views of various forts and other notable places.
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Mar 7, 2005
marie neurath

Check out this amazing book “Around the World in a Flash” with Marie Neurath’s brilliant information graphics.
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Mar 4, 2005
I've got DRM in my DNA

God doesn’t want anyone to steal his (or her) work.
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Feb 23, 2005
Jason Garlough is back on the map

I lived across the hall from Jason Garlough in first year university. In second year we stayed connected but then he kind of drifted off (to be a tin-smith, I think actually) … didn’t much like UW I guess and well, neither did I but I missed my cue. So now you know who’s the wiser one.
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Feb 17, 2005
photo of Chaska Potter by Paul Schreiber

Paul took this photo of Chaska Potter (of band Raining Jane ) and I think it’s pretty good. Also see the original full-rez image .
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Feb 13, 2005
the latest in web oddities

I was snooping through my logs last night and I found the following oddities. Search terms (in google): retractable claws will bring up my page on Roarians, in my ever popular (actually surprisingly…) Edion Sourcebook ; km vs miles and all the variants you can think of bring dozens a day to another part of the sourcebook ; surprisingly my nokia hs-4w review brings in a few dozen more, in fact my review is apparently the 2nd most popular page on the site at the moment.
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Feb 13, 2005
java headless on OS X

Want to run some command line java app on OS X, but tired of getting the whole dock-launch app-icon thing? Just add -Djava.awt.headless=true to the java command line!
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Feb 11, 2005
the band's new repertoire

Here’s some recordings I found out there on the web for our new repertoire. Unfortunately the Hannaford Overture (which I quite like, by Canadian J. Scott Irvine), and Dance Sequence (by Marco PÌ_tz) I can’t find.
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