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General

using sudo behind a proxy

Using sudo behind a proxy

http://thelittleican.blogspot.in/2013/09/unable-to-add-ppa-behind-proxy.html

 

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Go

JSON in Go

All you need to know about encoding / decoding JSON in go

http://attilaolah.eu/2013/11/29/json-decoding-in-go/

 

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Javascript

What is new in ECMAScript 6

What is new in ECMAScript 6?

http://espadrine.github.io/New-In-A-Spec/es6/

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Hardware

MagPI the Magazine for the Raspberry Pi

http://www.themagpi.com/

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General

Extreme Macro Photography on a budget :: Photocritic photography blog

Extreme Macro Photography on a budget :: Photocritic photography blog.

I’m not heavily into photography, and most pictures I take are with a point and shoot, however making a macro lens out of a Pringles tube for peanuts is an idea worth following if I can borrow the wife’s digital slr.

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General

Some of the most beautiful fonts on the web for Free

I recently came across http://www.fontspace.com which IMHO is the best free font resource on the web, the planet, and possibly the whole universe… For years I have used GRSites.com as the place to get fonts, which does indeed have thousands. However GRsites only has navigation by font name and it has become slow and in comparison to fontspace in clumbersome.  Fontspace, not only tags each font, but you can choose the preview text and size tthat you want to the view fonts in.  Have a good look round and you’ll never want for a font again.

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Linux Ubuntu

Tranquil PC Limited BAREBONE SERVER

Tranquil PC Limited BAREBONE SERVER.

Forget the Wind Nettop, this is the baby for me.  £360 including vat and delivery, the Tranquil PC barebones server provides you with 2G ram, 64 bit ready Intel Atom 330 (2×1.6GHz) Dual Core, 4 slots for Raid and 1 slot plain hot swap caddy, 1Gb lan, SiliconImage SiI3124 hardware raid, ~23dBA and only 29Watts power usage with a single drive.

Add Ubuntu server and it’s the perfect home NAS / web server / what ever you like.

I’m seriously considering this, along with a purchase of 2x 1Tb drives, to get me started. I’m happy to go with raid1 on those for now and add a couple more as I need more storage.

See the link above for more info….