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Aaron Toponce

Red Hat Systems Administrator Contractor at SAIC; Student at Weber State University
Ogden, UT

Today marks the day of 1/4" in length.
Given the matrix A: a) Find orthonormal vectors q1, q2 and q3 as combinations of the linearly independent columns of the given matrix A. b) Write the given matrix A=QR.
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Irssi on the left and vim, ipython and zsh behind gnu screen on the right.
"He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man." ~ William Shakespeare Looking to align myself with the Greats.
88_madcows- my irssi theme
"To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake, it is necessary to stand outside in the cold." ~ unknown
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userfriendly : 14 mrt 2010 (13714) - User Friendly the Comic Strip. by Illiad
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20100314
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Binary Black Hole in 3C 75 - Astronomy Picture of the Day RSS Feed
Binary Black Hole in 3C 75 What's happening in the middle of this massive galaxy? There, two bright sources at the center of this composite x-ray (blue)/radio (pink) image are thought to be co-orbiting supermassive black holes powering the giant radio source 3C 75. Surrounded by multimillion degree x-ray emitting gas, and blasting out jets of relativistic particles the supermassive black holes ...
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Browse Newspapers in Google News Archive - Aaron Toponce's Friends' Facebook Links
Browse Newspapers in Google News ArchiveSource: googlesystem.blogspo...You can now browse all the issues digitized by Google for newspapers like The Montreal Gazette, The Sydney Morning Herald, St. Petersburg Times, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and more. The digitized newspapers ... Cool.
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House Majority Leader Kevin Garn resigns amid hot tub scandal - Salt Lake Tribune Today
House Majority Leader Kevin Garn announced Saturday that he was resigning from the Utah Legislature, two days after revelations of a nude hot-tubbing incident with a minor 25 years ago and a payment to keep it quiet.
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How to distract a rally driver - Chicago Darch-Times
AS IF DRIVING A RALLY car ain't dangerous enough by itself... But these kids didn't think about that. They just needed a funny YouTube video, and that's what they got >





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Truncated RSS Is A Bad Business Decision - Techdirt
A few years back, I wrote about why we had found full text RSS feeds to be much more powerful and useful than truncated RSS feeds. The reason that many sites push truncated feeds is the belief that it...
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Digg Says Yes To NoSQL Cassandra DB, Bye To MySQL - Slashdot
donadony writes "After twitter, now it's Digg who's decided to replace MySQL and most of their infrastructure components and move away from LAMP to another architecture called NoSQL that is based in...
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B.C. - March 13, 2010 - March 13, 2010 Comics
http://comics.com/bc/2010-03-13/
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Irssi Handling JOINS/PARTS/QUITS
Irssi, as blogged extensively throughout this site, is one solid client. The flexibility never ceases to amaze me, and tonight was one of those times. Hanging out in the amount of channels I do, I...
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eightyeight: @joshix: hah. no worries. i'm good. it's only a matter of time before your state falls into the ocean, so we can't sell you off
@joshix: hah. no worries. i'm good. it's only a matter of time before your state falls into the ocean, so we can't sell you off
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eightyeight: @joshix: i'm afraid you won't get much for a rocky desert chock full of mormons
@joshix: i'm afraid you won't get much for a rocky desert chock full of mormons
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eightyeight: @joshix: that's a short term solution. it won't be long until we're back in massive debt, then what? sell off louisiana?
@joshix: that's a short term solution. it won't be long until we're back in massive debt, then what? sell off louisiana?
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eightyeight: well, let's see how this goes. just setup !irssi to have all JOINS, PARTS, QUITS go to a new hidden window, and ignored everywhere else !irc
well, let's see how this goes. just setup !irssi to have all JOINS, PARTS, QUITS go to a new hidden window, and ignored everywhere else !irc
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eightyeight: !irc poll for !irssi users behind !screen: who ignores joins/parts/quits? why? are you selective about it? ie: per channel? or global?
!irc poll for !irssi users behind !screen: who ignores joins/parts/quits? why? are you selective about it? ie: per channel? or global?
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#603; Man’s Best Friend - Wondermark
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wondermark/~3/FwQFlyyKOp8/
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eightyeight: Serendip, LLC- your aggressive stance towards copyright has assured I'll never do business with you, and I hope I can convince others same
Serendip, LLC- your aggressive stance towards copyright has assured I'll never do business with you, and I hope I can convince others same
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JWST: Mirrors and Masked Men - Astronomy Picture of the Day RSS Feed
JWST: Mirrors and Masked Men Who are these masked men? Technicians from Ball Aerospace and NASA at Marshall Space Flight Center's X-ray and Cryogenic Facility, of course, testing primary mirror segments of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Scheduled for launch in 2014, JWST will be optimized for the infrared exploration of the early Universe, utilizing a primary mirror 21.3 feet across, co...
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Anthony Yarusso Checked Blue Cross site to see what a reasonable family health insurance plan costs: $8k/yr+$5k deductible, so $13,000/yr - see the problem? - Aaron Toponce's Friends' Facebook Status Updates
Checked Blue Cross site to see what a reasonable family health insurance plan costs: $8k/yr+$5k deductible, so $13,000/yr - see the problem?
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comcast opened up their internet usage meter for my account. apparently, i only consume about 50GB of my allotted 250GB each month
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eightyeight: comcast opened up their internet usage meter for my account. apparently, i only consume about 50GB of my allotted 250GB each month
comcast opened up their internet usage meter for my account. apparently, i only consume about 50GB of my allotted 250GB each month
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Sneaky Sneaky SNAKY - Swistle
Do you remember last October when I wrote about how Walmart sells sneakily smaller packages for their "lower prices," so that they often actually cost MORE while bragging that they cost less? I used the example of Luvs diapers, which Walmart packages 70 to a box while Target puts 80 in a box: it SEEMS like the Walmart box costs less---if you don't happen to notice there are fewer diapers. WELL...
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I feel a lawsuit coming on - Engrish Funny: Engrish Pictures That Is Your Funny Engrish
Michaelsoft Bindows We wonder what it really is Submitted by: Sibilance via Engrish Funny Submissions
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back to ricing again. in the left half is irssi and mutt, with a windows xp virtual machine running mathematica
Hanging out with "Da Boys"
Tribute to JoE in 2007. Hoping to live up to the awesome.
Going ice skating as a family. For those who haven't taken their two year-old ice skating before, it's 30 pounds of dead weight, all around the rink. It is still a lot of fun though.
Reflection
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Happy Thanksgiving! See http://mediaenvironment.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/rockwell_thanksgiving1.jpg for the inspiration for this shot.
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Little was I aware that fifty cents would get me such a big drink!
"I'm starting with the man in the mirror. I'm asking him to change his ways. And no message could have been any clearer. If you wanna make the world a better place take a look at yourself, and then make a change." ~ Michael Jackson
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Start of week 4.