Mars on Earth or vice versa

September 24th, 2009

The other day there was a dust storm in Australia that was the biggest in 73 years. It made Sydney look like it was on mars and made other places go pitch black. Read the rest of this entry »

Ubuntu 9.04 is a PAIN

April 27th, 2009

I upgraded my laptop to Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) yesterday and soar I have found four things I commonly use are broken/”fixed”.

  • nmap is broken in a way that makes it hard to read the output
  • Nautilus will not allow me to replace a folder with a child folder
  • Pidgin’s buddy window window plate shows on all workspaces even though the buddy window does not
  • Comix will not open archives inside of archives any more
  • I will probably find more in a day or so, but so far I just have complaints (I see no speed increase)

    Offline reading

    December 14th, 2008

    I just added the ability to read this blog offline if you have Google gears. I am planing to use the ability of Google gears to attempt to guess your current location ad display the weather in your location. Of course if you do not have gears installed you could still enter your location manually.

    nothing here

    November 1st, 2008

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    NPD: Wii, DS beat PS3, Xbox 360 in July U.S. sales

    August 17th, 2008

    NPD Group Inc. this week reported that Nintendo Co.’s Wii and Nintendo DS products handily outsold rival video game hardware in the latest July U.S. sales tally.

    According to NPD Group Inc., the Nintendo DS sold 608,000 and the Wii sold 555,000 to rank as the No. 1 and No. 2 best-selling video game hardware for the month, respectively. Read the rest of this entry »

    Why did Javascript/AJAX mop the floor with Java, Flash and Silverlight? Or, why open standards eventually win

    August 6th, 2008

    It’s not always true that the neatest, most advanced technology ends up winning most of the market share. There are other reasons which get in the way. Sometimes, the less advanced solutions end up winning — and evolve in order to become more solid and established. An example of this is Javascript/AJAX, which has conquered most of the web-based client programming — despite the fact that there were competing technologies which could (and maybe should) have easily won, purely based on technical merits. How did that happen? Read the rest of this entry »

    5 reasons to avoid iPhone 3G

    August 6th, 2008

    The 5 real reasons to avoid iPhone 3G:

    • iPhone completely blocks free software. Developers must pay a tax to Apple, who becomes the sole authority over what can and can’t be on everyone’s phones.
    • iPhone endorses and supports Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) technology.
    • iPhone exposes your whereabouts and provides ways for others to track you without your knowledge.
    • iPhone won’t play patent- and DRM-free formats like Ogg Vorbis and Theora.
    • iPhone is not the only option. There are better alternatives on the horizon that respect your freedom, don’t spy on you, play free media formats, and let you use free software — like the FreeRunner. Read the rest of this entry »

    The Ultimate Tech watch

    August 4th, 2008

    Super expensive tech toy, for geeks that like fashon Urwerk’s UR-202 is the watch for the job at about $143,000/€ 92,600 this watch seems a little out of most people range, whats the price for? the UR-202 is powered by a pair of micro turbines that operate by compressed air. Read the rest of this entry »

    Wisdom from the admin #1

    August 3rd, 2008

    From time to time I like to spread my wisdom so that readers can see what exactly it is that lies beneath my skull, that unfortunantly is impossible to know. There is however a few chances a month for you to get a glimse of who I am really like, and what it is I am all about. Since this is my first entry I will keep this one quite short. Read the rest of this entry »

    Feds now arrest your laptops at border

    August 2nd, 2008

    Not content with taking your shoes and confiscating your water, now
    the Department of Homeland Security is gunning for your laptops.

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