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Unlocking my Cingular / AT&T phone

Thursday, October 4, 2007

AT&T allows some customers to "unlock" their phones. This allows the use of a SIM card from a different provider (for example, VodaFone) while traveling. (It also allows you to use the phone with another GSM provider in the US after your AT&T contract is finished, which is one reason AT&T and other carriers lock [...]

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Join now to get 3 credits at Paper Back Swap!

Thursday, September 20, 2007

PaperBackSwap.com is a service that I have used for the last several months and find extremely useful. They give you credits for sending a paperback to other members, and allow you to use your credits to request paperbacks. They also provide an easy to print mailing label and you can pay them to add [...]

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Map of Online Communities

Thursday, May 3, 2007

Map of Online Communities which is similar to the subway map of the US highway system I posted here. 

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Tinfoiling an entire office

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

My adviser received a promotion to full professor, so my group tinfoiled his office. It took 12 of us six hours, and almost 3000 square feet of aluminum foil. We individually wrapped books, computer cables, ceiling tiles, etc. The effect is best seen via this Quicktime VR panorama. I really recommend you take a [...]

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List of WiFi Adapters supported by Linux

Wednesday, March 21, 2007

http://linux-wless.passys.nl/ has a very nice list of many different wifi adapters (PCI PCMCIA & USB) and their driver support status on Linux.

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Evaluating a CS Ph.D. Program: The hard questions you should be asking.

Friday, March 16, 2007

I am finishing up a Ph.D. in Computer Science, and have been involved in student panels at PhD student recruiting many times. In a lot of cases, the incoming recruits are straight out of undergrad and don't even know the "right" questions to ask about a PhD program/school when evaluating where they want to go. [...]

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Review: PaperbackSwap.com

Tuesday, February 27, 2007

PaperBackSwap.com is a website for people who want to trade paperback (and other) books. It allows you to post the list of books you have available to send. When somebody sees a book they want, they send you a "credit" to mail it to them. You can then use the credit to order a different [...]

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What if the highways were a subway system?

Monday, February 12, 2007

www.chrisyates.net has a very nice image of the interstate highway system map simplified like a subway system.

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Google error message

Thursday, February 1, 2007

This is the first time I've ever seen an error message from any google service. I was browsing Google News and opened a news story in a seperate tab. Aparently, the google click-tracking (that forwards you to the news story) was having problems. As you'd expect from their homepage, the error message is very simple [...]

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Ever get carded buying candy?

Monday, January 29, 2007

Have you ever been asked for ID when buying candy? I did… (Note that this also means that my lab has Hershey's mini Reeses cups in white and milk chocolate.)

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