laccetti.com — CodeOgre™, Cyclist, Book Devourer

HTML5 – Expanded

January 3, 2010

My HTML 5 tweet needs a bit of expanding – one that 140 characters won’t allow for.One of the blogs I follow is Dive into HTML5 as it provides some great insight and explores some of the new features that HTML5 provides. The most recent entry (that I read) was called A Form of Madness, detailing [...]

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µTorrent UI Changes Bad Idea

December 29, 2009

The new µTorrent UI just doesn’t do it for me; replacing the ‘play’ start button with that weird up-down icon, the other icons, the menu bar style itself – they just don’t fit well together. Changing a UI to make it more functional is one thing, but breaking something that was pretty perfect makes no [...]

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Math Problem

December 2, 2009

If Ana leaves point A at 9AM and Michael leaves point A at 9:50AM, what speed is Ana’s fist moving at when she hits Michael for arriving at point B at the exact same moment?

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Dead Trees and eBooks

November 24, 2009

Last night, as I wrestled with Monday night insomnia, I was thinking about how I prefer reading a dead tree to trying to scan pixels on a screen. My thought process usually ends there – I accepted my preference and moved on. Last night I happened to have a lot of time to kill, so [...]

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Business Etiquette

November 23, 2009

You know what – yes, I was printing a big ole’ document. You wanted to do something using the same multifunction device at the same time? Guess what, you didn’t have to cancel what I was doing! It can scan AND print at the same time! I know that it is a pretty crazy scenario, [...]

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This is Interesting

October 27, 2009

Apparently there is another Michael Laccetti in the world – seems he lives in the US and went to UAlbany. I can still claim to be somewhat unique as Michael is my anglicized name, but still. The interesting part is that it would appear that he is donates money to UAlbany. How do I know [...]

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A Computer in Pictures

September 7, 2009

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Quote of the Day

September 1, 2009

“We’re working against opponents who make politics personal—who distort and deny the truth and put partisan gain ahead of the national interest.” — Michael Ignatieff

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Getting Solaris 10 to Authenticate Against OpenLDAP

August 28, 2009

Brief History:I’m busy setting up a new debug/staging environment at work so that we can consolidate the many tens of old FreeBSD 4.4 (ohgod) and Solaris 9/10 servers into a few distinct Solaris 10 servers. Personally, I would have gone with some sort of Linux distro, but for some reason somebody thinks that Solaris is [...]

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