The Markbass Little Mark III series of amps sound great but all have the same issue: the effects loop is set in parallel and there is no way to adjust the blend on the signals. Let’s change the loop to series!
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Since I “crossed over” to an Android phone for the first time after using iPhones for several years, I have had the pleasure of rediscovering how to configure my phone to do everything I always took for granted. One thing that surprised me is that my Exchange contacts showed up in my phone app, although I had disabled their synchronization.
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Let’s take a look at a PHP script used to send spam. These types of scripts run on servers all over the world and might give you some insight into a spammer’s dedication to annoy the hell out of you.
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SWT is a widget toolkit developed as part of Eclipse that enables you to develop Java desktop applications that use the OS’s native widgets. It is an immensely useful library and really shines in the area of resource management, which boils down to “only dispose resources you’ve created yourself”. Well, sort of.
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Everybody who has ever used SSH in the vicinity of a computer running Windows knows of the existence of PuTTY, the tiny yet brilliant Swiss army knife of remote communication. These are the chronicles of my default settings.
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One of my projects entails running (and developing) network monitoring software on a private uplink. I could use my laptop as a server, but it has a constant energy consumption of about 60 watts which I find a bit much. Enter the SheevaPlug.
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