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Plumage 0.2 released

I’ve just made the specific design of the blog you’re currently reading into a generic theme for Pelican . This theme now has a name: Plumage  . It also has its own dedicated repository on GitHub. You’re actively encouraged to fork it and contribute back code through pull requests …
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Compile BFGMiner for scrypt-based CPU mining

I wanted to try mining on my Kubuntu 13.04. Not to get rich, but simply to verify that the production of crypto-currencies really was decentralized, and also to learn how-to mine. I first tried mining Bitcoin with BFGMiner. I choose the later over cgminer because that’s the only …
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How-to keep natural glitches from videos

In my ultimate attempt to recover the archives I lost some years ago in a RAID-5 crash, I managed to save some images and videos. But most files, if not all, were heavily corrupted. Some of the natural glitches introduced were interesting. I decided to test some approach to …
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Fix big HTML table rendering in IE

It is well-known since the burst of the dot-com bubble that tables are bad for layout . But tables still makes perfect sense to present huge quantities of tabular data. The thing is, Internet Explorer can’t cope with big HTML tables. So when it encounters a huge number of cells …
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