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Ignoring white space when performing diff with Subversion

Subversion doesn’t seem to have support for ignoring white space changes when performing a diff against revisions. But it has an option to invoke an external diff utility. So I generally invoke GNU diff with it’s ignore white-space option as in below: svn diff –diff-cmd diff -x -uw /path/to/file

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Hosted SMTP / SMTP Relay Service

A few hosted SMTP (or SMTP Relay Service) providers (their servers are whitelisted, they manage bounces and can send out large volumes of email without attracting the attention of spam blacklisters or ISPs): SendGridPostmarkCritSendSocketLabsAmazon SNS : It seems like SNS can be used for this and would be a cheaper option than the rest, but [...]

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Who is suing who in the mobile world…

Based on the diagram from here…

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My Firefox browser inexplicably sends me to iwsearch.net (InfoWeb)…

For a while now, I have noticed that some times, inexplicably, I would type in one URL in the URL entry field in Firefox, but I would end up at some sort of a search page at http://www.iwsearch.net/l/<some-part-of-whatever-url-I-typed>. For the longest time, I thought I had some malware, but no amount of search showed up [...]

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