A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Good proposal by Adobe as this is an actual problem we’re facing in web development right now. Results in better readability and as an extra it also prevents typographic widows The proposed CSS looks like this: h1 { text-wrap: balance; } Balancing Text for better readability → The original article seems to be gone. Link …
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Turns out it’s possible to enable autocompletion of git branch names when working on the command line. The script can be automatically installed on OS X using these commands: $ curl -G https://raw.github.com/git/git/master/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash > ~/.git-completion.sh $ echo ‘source ~/.git-completion.sh’ >> ~/.bash_profile Don’t forget to re-open any already open Terminal windows. (via @decthomas) UPDATE: I’ve been …
Evasi0n’s userland component is very unique, because it is entirely filesystem-based. It doesn’t require memory corruption to escalate privileges from mobile to root. Perhaps it was named evasi0n because it evades all the userland exploit defenses instead of attacking them head-on. Evasi0n Jailbreak’s Userland Component →
It’s a game. Like walking a tightrope. You have to see how long you can continue to use the operating system before losing all your data. Any time – any time – you type any remotely incorrect command, the interpreter creatively resolves it into rm -rf / and wipes your hard drive. Suicide Linux → …
Sometime last week BangWithFriends started going round. The app lets you (anonymously) mark Facebook friends you are sexually interested in. If the interest is mutual, you’ll both be notified. Brilliant app I must say (it makes our promiscue youth even more introvert)! It gets really interesting when combined with Graph Search: Looks like I don’t …
Microsoft released Modern.IE, a set of tools to help you support modern and older versions of Internet Explorer. Along with that, they’ve also released updated Internet Explorer Virtual Machines. Avaiable are VM’s with IE7 (Vista), IE8 (Win7), IE9 (Win7) and IE10 (Win8). An IE6 (XP) is coming soon. Modern.IE → Modern.IE Virtualization Tools (VMs) →
If your car is ever stolen, your first calls should be to every cab company in the city. You offer a $50 reward to the driver who finds it AND a $50 reward to the dispatcher on duty when the car is found. The latter is to encourage dispatchers on shift to continually remind drivers …