Update 2021: I’ve taken down fewer than twenty posts out of more than seven thousand in this blog’s history, and posts about this guy are some of them. MBMBaM’s tweet put it best explaining why, though I also have personal reasons. Thanks for understanding.
There are dozens, if not trillons, of guides out there showing us how to use reprepro to create and add packages to a deb repository. Much as the documentation for their end user package manager bretherin however, there's scant info anywhere about how to update an already existing package to a newer version.
To start, when you add a package you do this:
reprepro -b /repopath includedeb wheezy package_1.0.0_arch.deb
To update, you don't need to delete the previous, you just add the next version:
reprepro -b /srv/repopath includedeb wheezy package_1.0.1_arch.deb
From: info@binnacle.com
Subject: Good day to you my friend.
Date: 04 Apr 20:54
Hi there sweet! Would you mind to finding a young and nice girl of 24?
Hi there sweet. I'd rather avoid spam. Can you arrange?
And it’s called bad posture.
From the qBittorrent download page:
Note regarding the installation: There's nothing hidden in this app, no bundles, no unwanted ads or anything like that. It's 100% clean so the setup process should be easy enough and without any unwaranted advertising. Just remember that although the application itself is clean, you are responsible for the data that you will upload or download through a torrent.
It's a low bar for your platform when vendors have to say this.
Enough electronic ink has been spilled discussing the Apple Watch, from the more interesting technical aspects, to the utterly inane chatter about pricing. Good grief, even as an Apple user I'm embarrased.
But did you see how I referred to it above? That's right, I called it "the Apple Watch". Just like people do in the real world, I use the word "the" as an article in front of nouns.
The indelible Wikipedia defines a grammar article as "a word (or prefix or suffix) that is used with a noun to indicate the type of reference being made by the noun." It's important for sentence flow; or as Marco Arment said in defence of the Oxford Comma, it allows us to parse sentences more easily.
Granted, Apple have long since referred to their devices without the "the" article. If they did so for marketing, so be it. If they did it to foster that usage in the public, they've failed.
With the Apple Watch, the conceited cringe level is approaching epic proportions within certain members of the tech press. Fortunately, even the veterans do slip up:
On the Apple Watch Display [..] Apple hasn’t officially stated that Apple Watch uses an AMOLED display, but it’s sort of an open secret.
A few nouns throughout history have eschewed (gesunteit) "the", most notably Concorde. Last I checked though, the Apple Watch wasn't co-developed by the French, nor has this alternate naming scheme caught on despite more than a decade of Apple marketing.
So please, from the general public to the tech press, stop calling it "Apple Watch". You're embarrassing yourselves, and proving you're out of touch.
FriendFeed was a late 2000s social network that let you stream content from multiple sites into a profile. It was a novel idea in the mid to late 2000s, and set the stage for Facebook walls when the company was bought.
Unsurprisingly, the site has since whithered due to a lack of attention, and is being shut down. Preserved here is their blog notice:
Dear FriendFeed community,
We wanted to let you know that FriendFeed will be shutting down soon. We've been maintaining the service since we joined Facebook five years ago, but the number of people using FriendFeed has been steadily declining and the community is now just a fraction of what it once was. Given this, we've decided that it's time to start winding things down.
Beginning today, we will no longer accept new signups. You will be able to view your posts, messages, and photos until April 9th. On April 9th, we'll be shutting down FriendFeed and it will no longer be available.
We want to thank you all for being such a terrific and enthusiastic community. We're proud of what we built so many years ago, and we recognize that it would have never been possible without your support.
- The FriendFeed team
I used to be cynical about the routine shutting down of social networks that we all contribute to, but I've since realised it's just how the web works. Don't become too attached to (or reliant upon) a website or service, it won't be around forever.
Incidently, this will be the 9th social network that I've scraped and imported into my museum site. One day I'll make this public, if only for posterity.
SEO spammers are a unique breed. Whereas most people are happy to sell you junk, these people make it out that your very business is at stake. They're the online equivilent of a website protection racket. The good news is it's all baloney.
(Google's closed search algoritms don't help this. In fact, I'd say the entire SEO industry is built on Google's obtuseness).
Today's message was unique in that it even included contradictions.
My name is Emily, I work as a Search Specialist for a Marketing Company in Sydney, anyway I came across your site while doing some research in your industry.
And which industry would that be? But I digress; this was her footer.
Headquarters: Office 7003 X2 Tower,Cluster X, Melbourne Vic. 3000,Australia Other Offices: NZ | China | USA | Singapore | UAE
3000 is Melbourne's post code, but the rest of the address doesn't exist there. It's also not Sydney, where she claimed to work. A quick search of their address returned this post on SEO Spammers Exposed, which includes the same fake address.
I suppose spammers assume that an address; even a poorly formatted one; lends just enough credibility to sucker more people in.
Mac developer and lovely person Daniel Jalkut recently shared his This Is My Jam profile. The site is what you think it is.
Unfortunately, while attempting to add Tiger in the Rain by Michael Franks (my favourite song of all time), I kept getting the same error.
Sorry, that video can't be played on Jam due to restrictions from its owner. Maybe try one of these instead?
The next step will be to try tracks from his latest independent album. Darn music labels.
In the context of defence contracts, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott made the following regrettable comment.
In a rowdy Question Time, Mr Abbott went on the attack.
“Under members opposite Defence jobs in this country declined by 10 per cent,” he said.
“There was a holocaust of jobs in Defence industries under members opposite.”
Let that sink in for a moment. This was from the same gentleman who said the carbon price (I’m sorry, the carbon “tax”) would affect women doing the ironing, that “shit happens” when people die in war, and who feels “threatened” by homosexuals. These gaffs have made international headlines, and even reached America’s satire news.
We’re all familiar with political PR spin and filters. Off the cuff remarks like this give us a more realistic view into the person underneath.
To be fair, he later apologised. But it speaks to his state of mind that he would even go to that word in the first place. It’s scary.
Yesterday, Mr Abbott mocked suggestions an open tender should be held, saying that could result in “Kim Jong-il-class submarines” or “Vladimir Putin submarines”.
Regardless, I’m done. In words he would relate to, this Prime Minister and his cabinet are beyond salvation, and I will not waste any more of yours or my time discussing them.
