Linkies.- Face Detection API: Face Detection Made SimpleWell now I have to use this.If you are building an image sharing service or a social network mashup, it’s likely that you will want to incorporate face-tagging in your images. Maybe you’d like to go a step further and automatically detect faces in an image, similar to Apple’s iPhoto. A Romanian developer has developed an API to help detect faces in images an […]
- Go Ahead, Make My LessonSo cool!I'm proud to announce that we now have a simple interface for editing and translating lessons on wikiotics.org! This is some great work by Jim that lets us get on with the fun part, making and playing with lessons. If you have a minute, take a look at our example lesson (in English) and play around. The "edit" button at the top will le […]
- gothfox pushed to master at gothfox/Tiny-Tiny-RSSthat is a very strongly worded commit message Andrew Dolgov committed c90a028 daemon2: properly abort stuck children […]
- Distaste for Corona saves geologist from assassinationSEE the leaks are valuable. Now we know not to drink crappy beer oh wait. Buried in Wikileaks' Afghanistan documents is a largely ignored 2007 warning that Pakistani spies were planning to poison booze intended for American soldiers using sulfuric acid. It sounds a little far-fetched. Until you hear the story of James Yeager, an American geologist who c […]
- Face Detection API: Face Detection Made Simple
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How to use CGI:IRC as your default IRC protocol handler
CGI:IRC is a great piece of software.
You can put it on your server and use IRC even in IRC unfriendly environments. Perhaps you have a really draconian work environment or political situation – once you’ve thrown CGI:IRC or CGIProxy up on an innocuous domain name, you’ve got free rein.
If you click on an irc link in Firefox though, they send you to something called “mebbit”. Might be great, but it is well-known and blocked wherever irc is. Let’s set up your custom installation of CGI:IRC to handle those links.
I’ve written up a little page that will translate those links to your CGI:IRC and also register it in Firefox.
So download my CGI:IRC protocol handler page, edit it like it says, and upload it to your server. Click on it once, it will prompt you to install it in Firefox. Click yes.
You are done.
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