January 31, 2004

Interaction issues

Anyone out there had the opportunity to interact with a Seldon Wells, Hugh J. Sloan or the SandHillEC mailing list?...

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January 30, 2004

Double-scrolling?

I've a Toshiba Satellite laptop that's giving me fits. The button on the touchpad is either sending two clicks or...
Geek
#  | Comments (3) | 06:47 AM  | xml

January 29, 2004

Microsoft media extending

Microsoft designs Blackfin into set-top products...
Ideaspace
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January 27, 2004

Free as in 'until you get a mortgage'

Slashdot digs up this gem, IBM Patents Method For Paying Open Source Workers. Now that's funny. We'll pay you to...
Nitwits
#  | TrackBack (0) | 09:52 PM  | xml

January 25, 2004

Gaming the system

JungleScan.com more proof that as soon as you have a system the idiots will spend vast energies gaming it....
Nitwits
#  | TrackBack (0) | 01:18 PM  | xml

January 22, 2004

Got your invite?

Now, anyone that goes by the monicker of "Stavros the Wonderchicken" is bound to be entertaining on some level. As...

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Pity those poor little bees!

From: Me and the bees:A vegan girl told me I shouldn't put honey in my tea, because it meant that...
Humor
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January 21, 2004

i18n thanks

My thanks go out to Tony Laszlo for his assistance in helping find solutions to some long-standing internationalization (i18n) issues...
RSS
#  | 04:57 PM  | xml

FUD run rampant

RSS-winterfest in RealAudio...
RSS
#  | Comments (2) | 12:26 PM  | xml

January 19, 2004

Google sucks lately

Searching for product info on Google has become an absolutely pointless endeavor. Once upon a time the search results for a product name or model number would bring up either the vendor's own pages or a few user comment pages.
Nitwits
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January 17, 2004

Semantic smarts

In the article FoafContradictions - FOAF Wiki Dan discusses how Foaf and RDF can handle detecting whether data is correct....

January 16, 2004

Extracting files from an RPM archive

Should anyone else need it, the command to extract files out of an RPM file is: rpm2cpio RPM_file | cpio...
Geek
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January 15, 2004

Sacrificing goats to the kernel gods

Good lord but is it a huge pain in the ass to get the 2.6 kernel up and running. I've naively wandered down this dark and threatening road before and have made the mistake again.
Geek
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January 14, 2004

Get on with it already!

I can still remember being a little kid watching us land on the Moon. I was sitting there staring at...

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January 13, 2004

Beware the system

Are you sure you want databases to know things about you? Imagine this story about The System happening to you....
Humor
#  | 04:44 PM  | xml

January 11, 2004

Error 8009 on your Palm?

Got a Palm and it won't Hotsync? Is the log showing an error 8009? Chris' was. HelpHand's FAQ has the...
FYI
#  | 09:28 AM  | xml

Percussive Therapy

All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember that the parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you....
Humor
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Nah, that'd make too much sense

"Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone...
Quotes
#  | 08:44 AM  | xml

January 08, 2004

Oh the joys of kernel upgrades

What fun! Upgrading the linux kernel to support a USB network connection (the slots are all full) triggered it's own...
Geek
#  | 04:30 PM  | xml

January 07, 2004

Not the 'craw', the 'craw!'

Random: How Many Quarters to Get the Kid?. A seven-year-old boy managed to crawl his way into one of those...
Humor
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Yeah, but will it be televised?

TV Presenter to Be Caned for Molesting Colleague...
Humor
#  | 09:43 AM  | xml

When Boar bites man?

Well, the old saying about 'dog bites man' just isn't strange enough to make news these days. Wild Boar Breaks...
Humor
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