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The sound of dying hard drives

May 31st, 2004 Comments off

Makes my skin crawl.

But good things to know.

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Mac software to try

May 31st, 2004 Comments off

from Brad’s big list of sofware

Ad block : PithHelmet, running this now, “Its Great!” ™
ServerStats : GeekTool geektool
Disk Management: Disk Inventory X
Virtual Desktops, althought this has become less important with 10.3 and Expose
css editor
IRC client

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Moveable Type 3.0 fallout

May 24th, 2004 Comments off

big functionality matrix of blogging software

RFC for The ultimate Weblogging system

Making “clean” URLs with Apache and PHP

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Bash scripting guide

May 24th, 2004 Comments off

Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide

In particular, an example of how to redirect stdout and stderr from inside a script. Eg, “exec 1> /tmp/mylogfile.txt”.

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“Shows” for programmers

May 24th, 2004 Comments off

The .NET show

The Server Side Tech Talks

While you probably won’t many specifics, but they are a great way to learn “what’s going on” by osmosis.

Milo S.

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Things that give me hope …

May 21st, 2004 Comments off

… in that we might actually be able to innovate/engineer our way our of fossil fuel dependance.

Oil from farm byproducts

More efficient solar cells

Home rooftop installable wind power

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Links

May 20th, 2004 Comments off

UC Prof that says US agg subsidies are bad is accused of “treason” by the farmers

what makes a painting valuable .. landscapes, horses, and naked women

PocketPc directional wifi finder

Downloading music is “greener” than buying the cd

Lose of US govt respectability hurting US brand image

nice C++ faq, from the blog of the main openh323 developer

where to get sony laptop bios update, grrr

cpu optimized FireFox windows builds

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Virtual PC is the bomb

May 20th, 2004 Comments off

Virtural PC lets you run an instance of Windows on your Mac. Granted the speed isn’t all that great, but that’s not the point. The point is that I now have a disposable windows installation.

Eg, if my windows2000 install on VirtualPC gets fouled up, I just delete it and copy over another one. Fantastic!

This means I can check out how IE will mangle my webpages and deal with stupid windows only utilities.

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