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Prove it.
Question: What do scientists consider to be valid evidence for a theory? How should studies be conducted to prove efficacy of treatment options? How can we tell, scientifically, if something really works or not? Scientific method CARGO CULT SCIENCE by Richard Feynman Mistakes in Experimental Design and Interpretation Randomized controlled trial Placebo effect Link to…
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How I got networking working on my Powerbook using Single User Mode in OS X
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How I used the Unix command line to do a multi-file search and replace to fix over 4,700 individual files
Evil hackers attack! Some customers of mine recently reported some suspicious behavior on one of their sites. I discovered, with dismay, that a number of months ago there was a nasty cPanel exploit that some evil hackers had used to insert a malicious line of code into the bottom of every HTML page on this…
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DiddleBug Extractor 2.1 – Palm DiddleBug image extractor script for OS X, Windows, Linux (Replaces Didcon 2.0)
DiddleBug Extractor 2.1 Drawing pictures on your Palm I use an excellent free Open Source program called DiddleBug on my Palm Treo 700p for doing small black and white drawings. The latest version of DiddleBug creates 320×320 pixel size drawings. These are referred to on their site as “high-res” pictures instead of the 160×160 pixel…
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Searchball – Google Pagerank checker for Safari
Howto check Google Pagerank using Safari: Go here Searchball – Google Pagerank checker for Safari and add the bookmarklet to your browser bookmark toolbar. Click the bookmarklet whenever you want to know the Pagerank for the site your are viewing A small window will appear telling you the Pagerank. I just finished making some adjustments…
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The secret to getting your website featured on the frontpage of RSS2.com
If you’ve ever tried to get your website featured on the front page of a site like digg, reddit, or Slashdot you might have felt frustration when you didn’t get the right number of votes to make it. There is a site called RSS2.com that will automatically put your website’s content directly on its homepage.…
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bash script to copy all files in a directory and convert uppercase characters to lowercase
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Unix command line tip of the day: How to recursively add all newly added files to Subversion in an existing working copy
When using Subversion for version control, if you have a working copy checked out and then you want to add a variety of new files and directories to the existing ones, you might do something like this: [code]cp -R newfiles/* files/[/code] Unfortunately, svn add only will add files or directories in the immediate directory unless…
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Fix for PHP PEAR on OS X 100% CPU problem
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How-to: Run the Mac OS 9 (Classic) version of Concord on a new Mac OS X (Intel) Macbook