December 2007
59 posts
“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake....”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
“OS X steals focus like a Pop-Tart in a Fat Camp.”
– Merlin Mann
New technology in ATM scam →
“All the card data is transmitted to their laptops while they’re having a cup of coffee up to 100m away…they design the keypad overlays for specific types of ATMs so it makes them very difficult to detect.”
How do you protect a user from a compromised public terminal?
The Jargon File →
Dashboard →
“Why can’t my computer automatically show me things that will help me with what I’m doing, instead of making me search around for them?”
What the hell happened to this project?
I know a lot of it was merged in to Beagle, but beagle doesn’t do this.
Tagsistant →
A libfuse based tagging file system.
~/tagfs/wicked/AND/awesome/tagsistant.tar.bz2
This is more proof that I don’t have to implement any of my ideas because another one of the billion will implement it for me. It’s a pity that it still seems to be a bit buggy.
Wikipedia Andrew Tridgell →
The broad extent of Tridgell’s analysis started by telneting to a BitKeeper server and typing HELP, something that, seemingly, no-one else had previously thought to try.
Will Smith 'Defends' Adolph Hitler →
Will Smith states logic, Jewish Defense League states insanity
Australia to enforce a "ratings system" on web →
Question: Does the URI Length Recommendation of... →
I like my URIs to be much less than 255 bytes
I can’t imagine why you’d need them that large anyway.
< Lord_Chao> survival is sufficient for unconscious animals (Lord Chao)
survival is impressive for unconscious animals
“Yup. So we stopped selling those schematics and started selling...”
– Why I hate Frameworks - Joel on software
Document Formats →
Recently there has been much debate about document formats ie. OOXML vs. ODF vs. PDF, which is a better format? which is easier to implement? which is more open or going to be more widely supported? etc. The problem with all of this is that all document formats are currently deprecated. Word processors are only useful for backwards compatibility with users that started out on type writers and...
ONLamp.com -- An Introduction to Erlang →
wow, a non-insane, non-pointless introduction to erlang
BodyTwo Modblog →
“This site is offline Thank you for the support.”
Damn it, bodytwo is gone. How am I to get my modblog fix?
Leah Culver’s Stupid Blog » Blog Archive » Star... →
Sometimes brains don’t function like they should and end up brute forcing contorted solutions to simple problems.
I myself solved this same problem in the same way 5 years ago.
openmoko.com: Neo Base →
why is openmoko so ugly?
Why we use i, j, and k in for loops →
I always thought it was because ‘i’ stood for index and j,k, etc were just the logical follow on from ‘i’ for deeper loops.
Now this is a story all about how my life got flipped turned upside down and I’d like to take a minute so just sit right there and I’ll tell you all about how I came to this town call Bellaire. In west Philadelphia born and raised on the playground is where I spent most of my days chilling out, maxing, relaxing out acting all cool shooting some b-ball out side of the school when a...
“Secondly, because Portage has next to nothing in the way of test suites, and...”
– Paludis, Gentoo and Ciaran McCreesh uncensored | obsethryl’s lab
Good point about dynamic typing.
the-discworld-reading-order-guide-1-5.jpg (JPEG... →
Nice. I love these books
“A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad...”
– Daniel Webster
RE:Tumblr v.4 Request
For that matter it’d be nice for theoretical security’s sake to be able to disallow someone to follow you should you, for some reason, not want them in your business. — dawnowar
Security? You do know that your tumble log is a public website accessible by anyone?
Codename Nemo →
Nice, had a similar idea many years ago.
The Contiki Operating System →
Author Pratchett has Alzheimer's →
Newby: How do I strip HTML tags? →
“First you take them out for a nice dinner, then back to your place… ;-)”- David LeBlanc
ThinkGeek :: SnūzNLūz - Wifi Donation Alarm Clock →
Coding Horror: Are You a Doer or a Talker? →
Charity Forced to Pay Copyright Fee So Kids Can... →
EPIC TROLL!
Trolling is now done on a corporate level.
Python's problem...
…is too much Meta.
Link →
Subtext is a research project in creating a visual programming language. The video shows a screencast the latest version. The author shows the following code and then how much easier it is to understand when shown in his visual programming language. On first look this seems to make it much eaiser to read until I realised that the example appears to be specifically choosen to make subtext look good...
Storing sun and wind power | CNET News.com →
Interesting ideas could actually make wind power useful.
iTWire - Asus EeePC sold out across Australia →
“The word from our ear on the ground is that the Asus EeePC sub-notebook, which made its Australian debut in the Myer department store chain on 2 December, was sold out completely across stores in the major capitals by Sunday.”
Damn I wanted one of those.
apocalypse - Definitions from Dictionary.com →
“a cataclysm in which the forces of good permanently triumph over the forces of evil.”
Complete opposite of what I thought it meant.
“Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life and I will raise him...”
– - John 6:54
Jesus sounds a bit like a vampire preparing a great army for a single attack on a specific day.
Hug Fundraising - "Embrace a Healthy Attitude" →
Water Saving Family Pack helps save water, educates participants in water conservation and makes a handy profit at the same time. A great way to raise money whilst helping the environment economy. Every little bit helps.
Func: Fedora Unified Network Controller →
Looks interesting
Compelling technical reasons to hold off upgrading... →
Why is it that users of other operating system are excited about new releases while Microsoft Windows users seem to fear them?
Dr. Dobb's | Python Decorators →
I stayed up late looking at python decorators, my snake is going to look damn pretty.
Astronauts test sex in space →
“Twenty positions were tested by computer simulation to obtain the best 10…Only four positions were found possible without “mechanical assistance”. The other six needed a special elastic belt and inflatable tunnel, like an open-ended sleeping bag.”