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anilg, new comments are deleted automaticall y because of some abuse recently
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this is plain wierd. I submitted comments twice to article 950, and they dont seem to be there. Something wrong with the comment code?
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shout-boxes in general are old + the staff thing happened to everyone after an issue 2 months ago
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/me is no longer staff :(
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Also, osix's shoutbox predated twitter. Heh.

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General Internet Knowledge: Blackcode.com, the toolbox
by: NeorageX - 2007-09-17 15:12:02
I've actually known about Blackcode.com for a while, but unfortunately never took the time to tell anyone about it. Which is a shame, since it carries so many useful tools in one place.
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General Internet Knowledge: Codase: a syntax-aware source code search engine
by: huisinro - 2005-09-14 21:55:59
Codase is a new search engine for developers to easily find code snippets from over 100 million lines of open source code.
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General Internet Knowledge: Koders.com - Shareware Search
by: w0lf - 2005-09-01 06:08:56
I read an article today that pointed out the usefulness of koders.com. I was sceptical at first but after a little play I thought that it's probably going to turn out to be pretty helpful to me.

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General Internet Knowledge: Blocking banner adverts
by: aidan - 2005-03-01 15:24:23
This is a quick tutorial that describes how to block banner adverts that appear on 83%* of pages these days.

*I made that up
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General Internet Knowledge: Using Telnet to Read E-mail and News
by: NeorageX - 2004-12-14 05:44:02
Here is an intro to two common internet protocols using the ubiquitous telnet. This shows how to read your e-mail and news with telnet using the POP3 and NNTP protocols respectively.
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General Internet Knowledge: Writing your own Firefox Searchbar Entry
by: cyben - 2004-08-23 23:46:09
So, you want to add a new search engine, or dictionary, or whatever to your Firefox Searchbar, but to your absolute horror, you find it's not listed on mozdev.org! Erk! Then sit down, read this article, and write it yourself.
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General Internet Knowledge: Absolute FireFox; Absolute Beginner
by: cyben - 2004-04-21 17:48:38
So you're an IE junkie, and you always hear people say "Aaw IE is sooooo lame!" but you always say "Well it gets me where I want to go"? Finally you've caved. Well, if everyone likes it, Firefox can't be that bad, can it?
This article covers the basics about Firefox, where you can get it, and the differences between it and IE.
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