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Miscellaneous Software Stuff
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Log Analysis
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http://logstash.net/

Regular Expressions
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http://code.google.com/p/semicomplete/wiki/GrokDiscovery

http://txt2re.com/

Compression for Executables
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UPX: Ultimate Packer for Executables http://upx.sourceforge.net/

Webmail
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the null webmail client http://www.nulllogic.ca/webmail/


Standard ML
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`The SML Standard Basis (of types)
<http://www.soc.napier.ac.uk/~andrew/SMLBasis/sml-std-basis.html>`_

Mutually recursive function using 'and' syntax:

    fun foo 0 = "beer car"
    |   foo n = bar(n-1)
    and bar 0 = "bacon"
    |   bar n = foo(n-1);

Network programming in SML/NJ: https://github.com/tonyg/smlnj-networking/


plan9 and Inferno
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"Styx-on-a-Brick": networked LEGO device
http://doc.cat-v.org/inferno/4th_edition/styx-on-a-brick/

plan9 on a GuruPlug
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/guruplug/index.html

NoSQL
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NoSQL Data Modeling Techniques
http://highlyscalable.wordpress.com/2012/03/01/nosql-data-modeling-techniques/

PHP Problems
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[PHP: A fractal of bad design](http://me.veekun.com/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/)

LISP Visualization
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Nested boxes instead of nested parens: http://pretty-lisp.org/

Webmail
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Squirrel mail is ok, CiderWebmail looks better. Have had problems deploying
Alpine Webmail.

Structured Wikis
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Circa May 2012 there are a few options for structured data in wikis:

*[Semantic MediaWiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki)* is
probably the best option, though it is unfortunately in PHP. This is a series
of plugins/extensions to vanilla MediaWiki, which add editing (with or without
forms), querying, visualization, import/export, etc.

*MediaWiki with the [WikiDB](http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WikiDB)*
(PHP)

*DokuWiki with [data plugin](http://www.dokuwiki.org/plugin:data)* (PHP)

*eLog* could be used to collaboratively edit simple data.

*TWiki* has structured data features and an input form (Perl). 

DBPedia uses [custom extraction
tools](http://wiki.dbpedia.org/Documentation?v=6hz) for MediaWiki written in
Scala. dbpedialite uses just calls the Wikipedia API (Ruby).

You can [search](http://www.wikimatrix.org/search.php?sid=54395) wikimatrix for
wiki engines which have a "structured data" feature.

Semantic Data Publishing
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[OntoWiki](http://ontowiki.net/Projects/OntoWiki/Features)

[Google Refine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Refine) (formerly known as
Freebase Gridworks) seems pretty useful for "cleaning up" datasets. It's a Java
"workstation" app with a web/http interface. 

USB Performance Issues
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Parallelized mass storage transfers are much slower than serialized:
http://blog.dinkevich.com/why-usb-transfers-are-slow/

Inkscape Black Rectangle Box Issue
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For some reason Inkscape sometimes inserts a black box into .svg files which
are invisible within Inkscape but visible when exported.

To remove this box, edit the raw XML using the XML Editor in Inkscape
(Shift-Ctrl-X), look for an svg:flowRoot element within the first layer, and
delete it.