Danica Patrick Voicemail (GoDaddy)

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Danica Patrick Voicemail (GoDaddy)Hi there, it’s Danica Patrick calling to thank you for your recent renewal. We appreciate your business and are always here to help. Give us a call if you need advice on using your products or expanding your online presence. Think of GoDaddy like your pit crew: call us anytime at (480) 505-8859. Thanks again.

Godaddy.com appreciate your business. If you’ve missed any of the previous message it will repeat.

If you’d like to opt out of receiving future calls from GoDaddy please call us toll free at (866) 532-8530, and enter the number you want to be removed from our calling list.

Download a [mp3](/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/danica-patrick-voicemail-godaddy-.mp3) of the voicemail.

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You Can Call Me Al / Blue Eyes by Mika

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You Can Call Me Al / Blue Eyes by Mika

You Can Call Me Al / Blue Eyes by Mika

Listen to [“You Can Call Me Al” by Simon & Garfunkel](http://www.amazon.com/You-Can-Call-Me-Al/dp/B003UPINCO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1367534326&s=dmusic&sr=1-1&tag=amazsr-prodct-20) and then to [“Blue Eyes” by Mika](http://www.amazon.com/Blue-Eyes/dp/B002OUZB2G/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1367534263&sr=8-1&keywords=%22Blue+Eyes%22+by+%22Mika%22&tag=amazsr-prodct-20)

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Posterous will turn off on April 30, 2013

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Posterous will turn off on April 30, 2013

Hi Friend,

Posterous launched in 2008. Our mission was to make it easier to share photos and connect with your social networks. Since joining Twitter about one year ago, we’ve been able to continue that journey, building features to help you discover and share what’s happening in the world – on an even larger scale.

On April 30th, we will turn off posterous.com and our mobile apps in order to focus 100% of our efforts on Twitter. This means that as of April 30, Posterous Spaces will no longer be available either to view or to edit.

Right now, you can download all of your Posterous Spaces including your photos, videos, and documents.

Here are the steps:

  • Go to [http://posterous.com/#backup](http://posterous.com/#backup).
  • Click to request a backup of your Space by clicking “Request Backup” next to your Space name.
  • Return to [http://posterous.com/#backup](http://posterous.com/#backup) to download a .zip file.

If you want to move your site to another service, WordPress and Squarespace offer importers that can move all of your content over to either service. Just remember: you need to back up your Spaces by April 30.

We’d like to thank the millions of Posterous users who have supported us on our incredible journey. We hope to provide you with as easy a transition as possible, and look forward to seeing you on Twitter. Thank you.

Sachin Agarwal, Founder and CEO

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What version of OS X do I have?

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To check which version of Mac OS X you have, you can click on the Apple icon in the top left of your screen:

What version of OS X do I have?

Choose `About this Mac`

OS X System Information

For more detailed information, hold down the `option` key when clicking the Apple icon to make `About this Mac` change to `System Information`

OS X System Information

This will give you a panel that will show you many more details about your system hardware and software.

You can also do this is many programs like Adobe Illustrator:

Check Adobe Illustrator Version

Sometimes the names of the application or it’s folder will also include the version number, such as `Adobe Illustrator CS6`

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Ebay: Tell Congress “No!” to new sales taxes and burdens for small online businesses.

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eBay
Dear Seller,

Congress is considering online sales tax legislation that is wrongheaded and unfair, and I am writing to ask for your help in telling Congress “No!” to new sales taxes and burdens for small businesses.

Whether you’re a consumer who loves the incredible selection and value that small businesses provide online, or a small-business seller who relies on the Internet for your livelihood, this legislation potentially affects you. For consumers, it means more money out of your pocket when you shop online from your favorite seller or small business shop owner. For small business sellers, it means you would be required to collect sales taxes nationwide from the more than 9,600 tax jurisdictions across the U.S. You also would face the prospect of being audited by out-of-state tax collectors. That’s just wrong, and an unnecessary burden on you.

Big national retailers are aggressively lobbying Congress to pass online sales tax legislation to “level the playing field” with Amazon. And, as they compete with big retail, Amazon is advocating for this legislation too, while at the same time they are seeking local tax exemptions across the country to build warehouses. This is a “big retail battle” in which small businesses and consumers have a lot to lose. But eBay is fighting, as we have for more than 15 years, to protect small online businesses and sellers and ensure healthy competition, value, and selection that benefit consumers online.

The solution is simple: if Congress passes online sales tax legislation, we believe small businesses with less than 50 employees or less than $10 million in annual out-of-state sales should be exempt from the burden of collecting sales taxes nationwide. To put that in perspective, Amazon does more than $10 million in sales every 90 minutes. So we believe this is a reasonable exemption to protect small online businesses. That’s what we’re fighting for, and what big companies such as Amazon are fighting against.

I hope you agree that imposing unnecessary tax burdens on small online businesses is a bad idea. Join us in letting your Members of Congress know they should protect small online businesses, not potentially put them out of business. Click here to make your voice heard. Together, I believe our voices can make a difference.

Sincerely,


John Donahoe
President and CEO
eBay Inc.
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Installing php apc with homebrew

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I’ve been enjoying using the keg [homebrew-php](https://github.com/josegonzalez/homebrew-php/) by `josegonzalez` in order to run the latest versions of PHP, like `PHP 5.4` on Mac running OS X 10.8 Snow Leopard.

I also like to use Ubuntu on some cloud web servers and have been noticing a huge improvement in performance when the `php` module `apc` is installed / enabled.

Recently I learned that I can get this same performance boost on in my development environment on my mac by using `apc` here too.

Just install it with homebrew:

brew install php54-apc

The module will be installed and enabled, and on my system it created a new config file called `ext-apc.ini` in the directory `/usr/local/etc/php/5.4/conf.d` and it has some great defaults:

[apc]
extension=”/usr/local/Cellar/php54-apc/3.1.10/apc.so”
apc.enabled=1
apc.shm_segments=1
apc.shm_size=64M
apc.ttl=7200
apc.user_ttl=7200
apc.num_files_hint=1024
apc.mmap_file_mask=/tmp/apc.XXXXXX
apc.enable_cli=0

One key here is that `apc.shm_size` needs to be set, and that it also needs to have the suffix `M` or I guess you could use `K` if you wanted a really small `shm_size` but honestly `64M` works pretty great.

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Force application windows to a certain position when the application is launched in OS X

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Force application windows to a certain position when the application is launched in OS X Many applications seem to launch in appropriate positions but I wish that some (like Chrome and Firefox) would always launch on the left half of the screen, while I would like others like SublimeText to launch on the right side of the screen.

I have checked the application settings and can’t find a way to do this. I’ve explored several window managers and am able to move the windows into position after they launch with a keyboard shortcut – but I would like them to launch in pre-determined positions.

How can I force application windows to a certain position when the application is launched in OS X?

After much searching I didn’t find a specific answer. However I did start using `Slate` for Mac OS X which is a very advanced, free, and open-source window manager.

It has a `.slate` config file that is in the home directory.

There is a issue requesting command line support and I really hope that gets implemented soon – that would solve my issue of easily positioning windows programmatically.

If that doesn’t help, I also found a great question on the Apple Stack Exchange listing the best window managers for OS X.

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Look, a dragonfly!

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From the craigslist ASCII art when flagging a post:

Look, a dragonfly!

____________________
( look, a dragonfly! )
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o
o
o @..@
(—-)
( )–( )
o0..0o

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Google Adwords Tutorial and FAQ

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Frequently Asked Questions

Google Adwords Tutorial and FAQ

Watch Google AdSense Demos

Google Publisher Tools

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ActivePerl Flags

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ActivePerl Flags
Recently I had to setup Active Perl with Sublime Text 2 in Windows 8. After adding a new build system and setting up the path to `perl.exe` with the `-w` flag I wanted to figure out what other flags were available.

You can pass perl several flags:

bin/perl -w
bin/perl -p
bin/perl -d
bin/perl -i
bin/perl -t
bin/perl -pe
bin/perl -pi

Here are what the perl flags do:

-i: Modifies your input file in-place
-w: Activates some warnings
-d: Runs under the Perl debugger
-t: Treats certain “tainted” code as warnings
-p: Places a printing loop around your command so that it acts on each
line of standard input.
-e: Allows you to provide the program as an argument rather
than in a file.

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