Notices tagged with til, page 6
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C'est ce qu'on faisait quand on était tout petit avec le tourne disque d'arrière-grand-maman, donc ? !til
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!TIL that today is #US National !YoYo Day! http://people.howstuffworks.com/culture-traditions/holidays-other/national-yo-yo-day.htm
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!TIL: When you mark a row or some rows in a LibreOffice Calc table and move its contents, and the row gets marked by „running ants“, Xorg (!) needs lots of CPU time in order just to show these „running ants“. In this case: ~ 50 % CPU on an AMD Dual Core 4850e with 2,5 GHz. I wondered why Xorg wants so much CPU time – until I closed LibreOffice … m(
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!TIL: Wenn man bei der Postbank Überweisungen auf Papier abgibt, dauert es schonmal ein paar Tage, bis sie überhaupt ins System erfaßt wird.
Ja, es gibt Leute, die kein Online-Banking machen möchten. (Nicht ich. Freund von mir.)
Nein, das ist kein Grund, die Überweisungsfrist – zwei Bankverkehrstage – massiv zu überschreiten und das Papier erstmal vier Tage lang beiseite zu legen. -
Wow: !TIL that #keybase was founded on a fundamental misunderstanding about how the #PGP / #GnuPG #weboftrust works: http://web.archive.org/web/20141027135352/https://keybase.io/docs/tracking https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2014-December/051939.html https://www.linux.com/blog/pgp-web-trust-delegated-trust-and-keyservers
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#TIL that the word geek comes from Hindi and was originally used to describe a carnival personality who performed disgusting acts.
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!TIL about SSHFP Resource Record: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSHFPResourceRecord
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!TIL: copytruncate and dateext as parameters in /etc/logrotate.d scripts. First one empties and contiues with the same file after copying it for rotation as some programs don't use the file name as handle but the inode number and then (at least sometimes) continue logging into the rotated logfile. Second extends the names of the rotated logfiles by the current date.
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!TIL
whois
queries happen on port 43 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHOIS#Protocol The things you learn with restrictive firewalls on. -
!til of ViewTube (http://isebaro.com/viewtube/). ViewTube lets you watch videos on YouTube (and other sites) without proprietary javascript.
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!til that #Fdroid has an issue tracker for package submissions. Yay, for no more crappy forum! https://gitlab.com/fdroid/rfp
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!TIL: It is not (yet) possible to run an icecast2 with a Let's Encrypt cert. :-(
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!TIL that black idols exists >> http://nextshark.com/amina-du-jean-meet-the-first-black-idol-in-japan/
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And !TIL that #NoSquint is currently without a developer: https://urandom.ca/nosquint/ "Unfortunately I'm not able to dedicate the time required to keep pace with Firefox's evolution."
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!til the French overseas departments are printed on the € bank notes: https://gnusocial.de/url/3850156
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awesome, didn't know that one. !TIL
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#TIL Debian's finest games https://packages.debian.org/jessie/games-finest
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!TIL how to make #ejabberd automatically give !xmpp logins for users in a !gnusocial DB: http://status.hackerposse.com/url/14906
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!TIL: .Xdefaults – in fluxbox the xterm uses a white background which I don't like. So I found ~/.Xdefaults to change xterm settings, not only background and foreground colour, but also font and font size. Yay :-)
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!til Porn actress Asia Carrera is a member of Mensa with an IQ of 156. An atheist, Carerra wore a colander for her driver's license photograph. State law normally prohibits hats in such photos but she used an exception for religious headwear (the religion of the Flying Spaghetti Monster). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia_Carrera
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!til of !emacs pdf-tools (https://github.com/politza/pdf-tools), a much better replacement for the built-in docview-mode.
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!TIL about #CSS3's
image-orientation: from-image;
property/value: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/image-orientation