Here are 20 smart things Bezos has said over the years. 1. “All businesses need to be young forever. If your customer base ages with you, you’re Woolworth’s.” 2. “There are two kinds of companies: Those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.” 3. “Your margin is my opportunity.” 4. “If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.” ...

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I just installed Titanium Studio and after a while it started asking me to update Titanium. Then it got stuck at this error message: Failed to get value of npm config key prefix. The problem it can’t proceed with the install/update is that, it needs root access. So all you need to do is to open your Titanium with root privilege, let it finish the update, then run it normally later on. To run it with root access, open a terminal. ...

This answered so many of my questions about car engines from jacoboneal.com Large car engine - popup (file size: 5Mb)

I was playing with wordpress 3.6 the latest version, but it didn’t recognized any of the themes I installed in the themes folder. I did so much searches and finally gave up. Then installed 3.3 one of the older versions, works perfectly fine… If you are in the same boat, download an older version, it may just save your day. http://wordpress.org/download/release-archive/

Below are the things you may want to consider to bring along, speaking from my experience. My overall packing philosophy is to pack as little as possible. Food If you don’t plan to cook, then dry or packaged food is your friend. It’s hot there and you will gradually lose your appetite. I recommend bringing crackers that are plain and slightly salty, these will fill you up to a certain degree. I also recommend getting some packaged fruits (with juice). These are small plastic cups with fruits and juice inside. They will taste amazingly well trust me. Avoid anything that will melt, or have high sugar level. They will become very yucky. ...

Sometimes you need to set o+x to all sub directories recursively, but don’t want to set that for any files. ( chmod -R o+x * is overkill…) Here is how. find dir -type d -exec chmod o+x {} ';' Similarly you can set permissions for all files under the sub-directories. find dir -type f -exec chmod o+r {} ';' ref link: http://superuser.com/questions/208606/how-to-change-file-permissions-for-a-directory-in-one-command

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[youtube &w=640&h=360] This could probably change our future in very big ways! http://www.washington.edu/news/2013/08/13/wireless-devices-go-battery-free-with-new-communication-technique/