Author: malliemcg
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? How higher RPM hard drives rip you off | George Ou | ZDNet.com
? How higher RPM hard drives rip you off | George Ou | ZDNet.com A very interesting article dealing with a solution to the percieved slowness of lower RPM HDD’s and how to improve the partitioning scheme to have the OS run faster, and large non frequent seeking scenarios for the slower parts of the…
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SSH Port Forwarding VNC under Mac OS X
If you’ve ever needed to remotely administer Mac OS X remotely, VNC combined with port forwarding can be very handy. A command like the following below, will forward localport 5901 to 5900 on the remote machive via a ssh tunnel. ssh -L 5901:localhost:5900 bugga.net Under recent versions of OS X however this does not work.…
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Majella – Coonawarra Shiraz – 2001
This is a decent shiraz hailing from the Coonawarra region of South Australia. Has all the right amounts of fruitiness, spicyness and astringincy. Grab a bottle, goes down well! M
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Duck Fadar: – The Dark Side of Rubber Duckies??
Duck Fadar: “Luke, I am your bath toy.” – Gizmodo This is one rubber duckie that will play with you, before force choking you to cleanliness! Cool in its complete and utter geekiness! M
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BBC – Video Nation – SAUSAGE by Jean Lee
BBC – Video Nation – SAUSAGE by Jean Lee A short clip (real media) regarding the creation of chineese sausages. Not quite as informative as I had hoped, but interesting none the less.
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Google Pack Goodness
If you don’t already have the google back, grab it now. It contains many useful app’s all bundled in a handy installer from google and will keep the apps in the pack up to date, you can use as many or as few of the apps as you like and it is easy as pie…
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New Super Mario Bros. FAQs – New Super Mario Bros. Walkthroughs – New Super Mario Bros. Guides
New Super Mario Bros. FAQs – New Super Mario Bros. Walkthroughs – New Super Mario Bros. Guides A handy place with links to several New Super Mario Brothers for Nintendo DS.
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Saffron Butter Prawns
Saffron Butter Prawns Preparation time: 25 mins Cooking Time: 25 mins Serves 4 or more!!!!! 5g Saffron threads ? tsp salt 6 cloves garlic, pealed 1kg medium green prawns 125g cultured butter 2 red Serrano chillies, sliced (optional) BUTTER RICE 30g cultured butter 1 onion 1cup long grain rice (basmati) 1cup chicken stock 1cup white…
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Treehugger: America Says Hi to Cleaner Diesel, and Some Engines That Any State Could Like
Treehugger: America Says Hi to Cleaner Diesel, and Some Engines That Any State Could Like Damn tree hugging hippies! I am torn between my love of cars and my dislike or left wing radicals that the hippy movement seems to be so filled with. If you have not visited my site before, you may not…
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Segond de Dufort 2002 Margaux – Gonzague Lurton
This is a French wine. Other than its name I know very little. While most certainly it was pleasent, I would not consider this drop to be spectacular. No idea which variety it is, but at a guess I’d be leaning toward either a Pinot or Merlot, perhaps even a blend of the two. M