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Did you mean to go...
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Are you annoyed by the recent Firefox updates that do a search instead of actually loading the web page when you type a non fully qualified domain (FQDN) in the location bar?
Usually the browser will show the search of the term and in the top the legend "Did you mean to go" and then whatever you typed.
This is a security breach and a privacy invasion from Google. It seems like this is a feature for "lazy" people which not only cannot search from the "search bar" but attempt to justify their lazyness by typing a search in the location bar.
Personally, I think this should be disabled on any corporate network by default, since it will allow Google to 'guess' internal structure of networks exposing very important information or even intelectual property.
Enough said! In order to disable this nonsense feature all you need to do is:
- Open a new tab
- Type 'about:config'
- Search for 'keyword.enabled'
- Double click on it to set it to false
Now you should be able to go back to use your short hostnames without google knowing about them.
Using Linux as a Router
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Using Linux as a Router
Jonathan Feldman
Linux can be a terrific "poor man’s" router. It takes a little more startup configuration than a typical hardware router, but once it is going, very little will stop it, at least in our experience. We’ve been using the router setup detailed below in production for six months now (a few months more worth of pilot-testing), and the only faults we’ve encountered were either service-provider related or due to water-soaked cables -- unbelievable, but true, and a really long story I won’t get into here!
Que es un Dogma?
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QUE ES UN DOGMA
Dice la Real Academia: “Proposición que se asienta por firme y cierta…” y, como podemos observar y comprobar, en tres y medio siglos, la Francmasonería -institución que creció hasta convertirse en un faro de luz en tiempos pasados- terminó combatiendo los dogmas religiosos para luego crear los suyos propios, sensatos o no, justificados o no.
Y como resulta obvio, igual que cuando discutimos con algún dogmático religioso empleando nosotros conceptos racionalistas, será en vano, puro tiempo perdido el entrar en argumentaciones con quien todo lo justifica en causas sobrenaturales. Otro tanto ocurre dentro de nuestra Orden.
Deje entonces en paz a los dogmáticos francmasones, respételos en sus términos y mejor busque unirse a aquéllos que sean como usted o que abriguen los mismos ideales. Al final, la razón prevalecerá y veremos cómo la Naturaleza equilibra todo, porque el CAMBIO es lo único constante y coloca a cada quien en su justo lugar.
Persevere, ármese de valor, no discuta inútilmente con quien sólo esgrime dogmas y no razones. Tanto ellos como nosotros tenemos el mismo derecho a existir, solo prevalecerá el que más persevere. Así que NO gaste sus energías discutiendo sandeces.
Simplemente: ¡Ponga manos a la obra y construya su propio destino masónico con la misma tenacidad con la que el ave reconstruye su nido cuando -por cualquier razón- se lo hubieran destruido! “Todos libres – Todos iguales – Todos hermanos”
RC Airplane Kit Finally ordered
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- Category: Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles
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I've been patiently waiting for HobbyKing website to re-stock some model RC air plane items that I wanted to buy, finally today that has become a reality! :)
I bought the Turnigy 9XR transmitter, 2 batteries, FrSky TX/RX modules a Glider/Jet with servos, motor. This will be the base model for my integration experiments with an autopilot.
Unmanned Systems Acquisitions Tight in 2015 Defense Budget
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AUVSI published an article regarding the U.S. Defense budget adjustments for 2015 regarding unmanned systems acquisitions.
The header reads "Unmanned systems and the platforms that use them are under constraint like everything else in the fiscal tear 2015 defense budget, which was capped by Congress last year at $496 billion. ". I wonder if this will be a trend that we'll see in all coming years as part of the budget adjustments or is this just a single occurance in the last year of the current government?
Either case, the challenge is still to develop UAVs in a reduced size for more specialized tasks and long endurance.
You can read the article at http://www.auvsi.org/332014/432014Budget
Configuring Redmine in RHEL 6
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I've gone through the process of migrating my previous Ubuntu server to a RedHat 6.x release. Contained in this article are the steps I had to go through in order to successfully install and configure the basics.
Agile Methodology in a Nutshell
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I had a refresh reading of the Agile documentation and want to share with everyone some quick notes to remember and keep in mind for the everyday in our projects.
Brother MFC-9970CDW: How to check your toner usage
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It is very helpful to plan to buy more toner if yours is close to the end of life, in the Brother MFC-9970CDW printer you can get access to the toner stats information as follows:
Brother MFC-9970CDW: How to clear error "Replace Toner"
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The MFC-9970CDW printer will display the message "Replace Toner XXX" where XXX might be the C, M, Y or K toners, when the toner is low, not necessarily that is close to empty (but that's another post).
Assuming that you've already replaced your toner or that you're really sure the error message is not accurate, here's how to clear it:
Virtual Administrator Client: Revamping the Perl/GTK code
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Many years ago I developed an application called VAdmind (Virtual Administrator Daemon) and a client based on console and GTK interfaces.
Last week I went through some of the backups I had from previous projects and decided to give a quick update to the code. Back then I used Perl::GTK (1.0), I have now updated the code in order to make it compatible with Per::Gtk2.
Changing Mac OS X screen resolution on VirtualBox
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- Category: Mac OS / iOS / iPhone / iPad
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Today I had to make some changes on the virtual machine I'm using with Mac OS X for iOS development, the scroll bars showing on the right/bottom of the screen are totally a pain in the soul if you need to navigate through the screen.
I tried to change it using the system settings but there was no screen resolutions other than the default 1280x1024.
