I’ve noticed in the past the slyness with which Yahoo tries to have you install its applications on your browser.

I remember the first time that I was caught out, asked whether I wanted not to install Ask Jeeves. “Why not?”, I thought. “It could be useful.” So I didn’t uncheck the box.

When I started up Firefox, I realised that there had been a problem. Where there once was a Google search box, there was now Ask Jeeves. Indeed, I’m not the only one to get caught out. I used to work in an office where we would sometimes swap workstations, and somebody had inadvenently seen to it that a few of the machines were bedecked with pointless Yahoo paraphernalia. Unfortunately, we didn’t have the rights to remove programs at work. (more…)

Sufiĉis jam.

Mi nur malofte uzis na Facebook, tamen lastatempe pasigis pli kaj pli da tempo ĉe ĝi, pro tio, ke mi instalis iun programon Vida Librobreto, kiu necesis pli ol mia kutimo duonsekundo da atento.

Tamen pli kaj eĉ pli ofte amikoj ĝenas min per la babilada funkciilo, kiun lastatempe instalis la kreintoj de FB. Aparte du amikoj ĉiam saltas sur min tuj kiam mi malfermas la paĝon, unu el kiu neniam meritas konversacion, ĉar ŝi ne havas interesindajn diraĵojn.

Sufiĉis, do mi eltrovis kiel ŝajnigi min esti for. Pro tio, ke mi uzas la Esperantan version de Facebook, mi decidis fari tiun afiŝon en la lingvo internacia.

Do, por kaŝi vian retstaton, por ke teduloj ne interrompu vian retumadon nur pro tio, ke vi pekis per okulumado de via Facebook-paĝo, faru tiel:

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Radio needed a hand with something the other day. She’d been battling with it long hand for months. I solved the issue in about ten seconds, so I promised her I’d blog about it so she could see how the solution came so easily.

Her problem was that she had about 11,000 data entries. The problem for her was that she knew that a lot (in fact all) of these were duplicates. What she needed to find out was how many unique entries there were in that list of data.

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