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Open Tab Round Up October 2016

Open tabs are pesky little things. These are the ones I haven’t gotten to, but may want in future.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160915/18183535533/traffic-is-fake-audience-numbers-are-garbage-nobody-knows-how-many-people-see-anything.shtml

http://lifehacker.com/make-the-perfect-pancakes-every-time-with-this-handy-gr-1787741876

http://kottke.org/16/10/optimizing-the-dining-experience-for-couples

Official site 1xbet

https://raymii.org/s/snippets/Firefox_History_Stats_with_Bash.html

https://play.google.com/music

http://focusmusic.fm/

https://www.slidebot.io/

https://www.sanddance.ms/

https://sheet.datadeck.com/

https://segment.com/academy/

https://undeveloped.com

http://cromwell-intl.com/linux/performance-tuning/disks.html

http://www.beegfs.com/wiki/StorageServerTuning

http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/how-to-wrap-an-extension-cord-like-a-boss-222822

http://lifehacker.com/how-to-build-your-own-amazon-echo-with-a-raspberry-pi-1787726931

http://www.nyoug.org/Presentations/2010/December/Chien_RMAN.pdf

https://pavandba.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/rman_buffer.pdf

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/B28359_01/backup.111/b28270/rcmtunin.htm

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/Tuning_and_Optimizing_Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux_for_Oracle_9i_and_10g_Databases/chap-Oracle_9i_and_10g_Tuning_Guide-Memory_Usage_and_Page_Cache.html

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April 2016 Browser Tab Cleanup

http://www.npr.org/2016/04/07/473237504/first-listen-sturgill-simpson-a-sailors-guide-to-earth

http://www.npr.org/event/music/473127210/watch-iggy-pop-perform-sunday-live-in-the-studio

https://www.mopidy.com/

https://github.com/dirkgroenen/mopidy-mopify

Hear 20 of Tom Waits’ Rarest Live Covers

https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/owncloud_9-installation-on-debian_8/

https://opentoonz.github.io/e/index.html

This site lets you check the BPM for all your records

http://owntracks.org/

https://www.producthunt.com/@producthuntbook/collections/12-most-influential-reads-for-software-engineers

https://www.edx.org/course/leadership-engineers-delftx-lfe101x

Exadata Simulator, 2way RAC + 1 storage cell

https://www.pythian.com/blog/moving-oracle-datafiles-to-a-zfs-filesystem-with-the-correct-recordsize/

http://www.tutset.com/backend/python/

https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/python/

https://pablo.buffer.com/?ref=producthunt

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/solaris/config-solaris-zfs-wp-167894.pdf

http://thegeekdiary.com/ldoms-ovm-for-sparc-command-line-reference-cheat-sheet/

https://blogs.oracle.com/partnertech/entry/zfs_compression_perf_disk_space

https://access.redhat.com/solutions/1958

https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/how-to-set-up-your-own-private-rtmp-server-using-nginx.50/

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Why Africa Counts

Traditionally nobody gives a damn about Africa. Looking at this image, one realizes that attitude is a big mistake.

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SAcamera.co.za Gets It Right

On Thursday I decided to eventually bite the bullet and beat the rand/dollar threat by just ordering the camera lens I’ve been looking at for a long time – the Nikkor AF 50mm f/1.8D. So there were a couple options – wantitall.co.za, have2have.co.za were the first two that came to mind. Unfortunately these guys don’t carry stock, so the price was tagged to the rand dollar of the day, unlike the *real* business, SAcamera, who carry stock and can fulfill orders fast, and change their prices based cost of their orders and a markup, not on the cost of a dollar that day.

What’s more, I ordered the lens on Thursday, paying via credit card. On *Friday afternoon* at 16:28, a few minutes before I was chasing my first beer of the weekend, I received an sms updating me that the order had just been shipped. I thought all Capetonians would be on the beach by that time! I was also able to track the shipment as it passed the various waypoints of delivery. Monday morning the lens was at the office before I was.

Even better, my order is probably for one of the cheapest lenses they carry, but I felt like I’d spent a million bucks with the way the transaction went down.

Nice work, SAcamera! You’ve won a new dedicated customer.

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Asides Humor

Buy Griff’s car

Golf TDI

It’s a sad sign of the times when poor ou Gibbons has to trade in his sexy car for a new underpowered, embarrasment of a little tjorrie. (a VW citigolf) Check the sales pitch here. Somebody please buy that car.