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FreeDB insane tags, another sample: Anastacia / Anastacia classified as "folk".

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TrustSphere "started an initiative" to solve or at least evangelize about false positives from spam filters ... but apparently they only had the stamina to operate their site for six months. It's dead now.

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The Rustock take-down of March 2011 still has repercussions, twelve months later.

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Good overview of what the files in Thunderbird's directory tree contain and how to migrate them to a new profile.

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What Hungarian notation was supposed to accomplish, and how Microsoft blew it. ''Somebody, somewhere, read Simonyi’s paper, where he used the word “type,” and thought he meant type, like class, like in a type system, like the type checking that the compiler does. He did not. He explained very carefully exactly what he meant by the word “type,” but it didn’t help. The damage was done.'

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"We no longer need XEmacs to spur healthy competition. The competition is coming in hard from entirely new sources. What we need now is unity." Okay, it's from 2008, but still pertinent IMHO.

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Good comprehensive and reasonably recent debranding / re-flashing guide, includes a list of what the different "Euro 1", "Euro 2", "Euro 3" language packs include.

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