http://www.csc.com/cscworld/publications/99621/99377-how_3d_printing_will_turn_manufacturing_on_its_head?utm_campaign=G-GBD-OT-OT- ( Read more... )

If you're like me and imported your LiveJournal into Dreamwidth in the window where LJ was failing to transmit comments with your posts, then went back after the bug was fixed and reimported, you may find that you now have duplicated your imported content. And if you're like me, that could mean a LOT of duplicate backposts. Like, a LOT-alot ( Read more... )

Originally posted by siderea at [lj] The beginning of the end?
(h/t livredorIf you're still using LJ as your primary blogging platform, this is pretty big, potentially nasty news, and it makes me very, very sad (even though I've *had* a Dreamwidth account pretty much since they went live, LJ has been my home and is the bucket containing *SO MUCH* of my own history ( Read more... )

via siderea (her post on the tech is here):

Firesheep add-on for Firefox now lets anyone hack non-encrypted wi-fi traffic to popular social network sites.

The Firefox workaround add-on for forcing HTTPS protocol on most of those common social network sites (note: ForceTLS does not yet support the protocol on LiveJournal or Dreamwidth servers, but I ( Read more... )

The custom CSS line to drop the repost links from the Reply comment form is producing somewhat inconsistent results ( Read more... )

in light of a friend losing his own laptop drive yesterday sans backups, and the number of people i know who work off laptops (remotely or otherwise) and who, like me, traditionally have deplorable backup habits if they have any backup habits at all, i offer you this invitation:

i use a web service called DropBox to push backups from my laptop to ( Read more... )

appealing to the Hive Mind for pointers:

a stateside friend coming north is asking about acquiring said prepaid Canadian SIM cards for US cell phones on plans that don't cover international roaming without huge hassles ( Read more... )