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What is a blogroll? How does one maintain a blog roll? Is there any way to combine the onerous task of blogroll maintenance, the intrigue of JavaScript and the Mysteries of the Linux Command Line to make blog rolls fun? Of course there is!...
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Posted on July 21, 2008 11:30 AM • 3 Comments •
"Great" you say... "But what's a "Distro"????" Well, even if you don't know what a Distro is, I can tell you that somewhere out there is the perfect Distro for you. Linux 101: An operating system is something you will never see. A "shell" is...
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Posted on July 2, 2008 12:56 PM • 18 Comments •
Microsoft to stop selling Windows XP on Monday from PhysOrg.com (AP) -- Microsoft Corp. is scheduled to stop selling its Windows XP operating system to retailers and major computer makers Monday, despite protests from a slice of PC users who don't want to be...
Posted on June 30, 2008 11:09 AM • 0 Comments •
I find myself using a basic text editor more and more often. Even the relatively well behaved openoffice.or Writer had a tendency to do stuff I don't necessarily want to do with a simple text file, and certainly, something like Word is the work of...
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Posted on June 29, 2008 4:01 PM • 6 Comments •
For your iPod Touch: The Phoenix Mars Mission thingie. Gives you two RSS feeds (one for news one for blog) and the weather report on mars. A widget displays the elapsed mission time on mars. I'd like to see this application give us more. Like...
Posted on June 28, 2008 9:25 AM • 0 Comments •
An x-ray I took of Julia's hand. Sorry, it's a little blurry. The main two functions of an iPod touch are: being an iPod (music, podcasts, movies, etc.) and giving you a pocket size web browser. There are several other functions as well, like...
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Posted on June 27, 2008 1:48 PM • 3 Comments •
I don't think Optical Character Recognition (OCR) works that well, frankly. But it can be done and it can be better than retyping piles of text. It does seem to work nicely when the text is nice and clean on nice clean white paper with...
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Posted on June 25, 2008 2:15 PM • 2 Comments •
This file is clobbered... Linux and related operating systems are different from, say Windows, in many ways. One is this: When you "delete" a file in, say Windows, you are asked to confirm the operation, then the file is moved to the trash folder,...
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Posted on June 17, 2008 3:24 PM • 20 Comments •
Being more keyboardy is good. The mouse is good, too. But if you can do more things with the keyboard, those things will usually happen faster and with less mucking around. Also, it is very, very cool to sit there and go "tap tap tap"...
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Posted on June 9, 2008 2:17 PM • 49 Comments •
You've already seen Johnny's Wii Remote Hacks ... and if you have not go and look. This is not about Wii, or video game, or anything like that. This is about transforming the relationship between technology and society. So if you missed Johnny Lee: Wii...
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Posted on April 12, 2008 9:32 PM • 0 Comments •
