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How to apply for a programming job

Note that the opinions here are my own: they draw upon real world experience at my current employer, but they are not their views, I do not speak…

revised ssh/ipf blocking on netbsd

Update 08jan06 @ 08:05: After sending this link to Hubert he came back with a change to get the sed lines inside the shell, so I’ve updated the…

fun with pop-before-smtp and ipf on netbsd

I’ve not bothered with POP before SMTP authentication before but since v1.38 the script can take an optional config file that allows it to watch different log files…

making an unabridged audio album from a dvd in mac os x

I’m pretty sure this is covered by most ‘fair use’ clauses (do check your own laws: IANAL) but is intended for people with a DVD and a DVD-ROM…

typo in the WinCVS/ssh guide

Thanks go to Skip Coombe for finding two very long standing errors in the WinCVS/ssh guide – I can’t prove one of them as my setup works fine…

messin’ with google.com

Cool – giving Google the search phrase ‘wincvs ssh‘ means that the guide on this site is the 7th hit !

applescript, itunes and speech

I like iTunes on my iBook, but I often forget the name of a track (I just listen to the album[s] whilst programming) so thanks to the hotkey…

neoprene case

I’ve also started planning a neoprene case for an iBook. No, I don’t have one (yet), but that doesn’t stand in the way of a good idea… Unfortunately,…

neoprene ibook bag

the idea The Apple iBook laptop computer is one of the nicest ones I’ve seen. So nice, in fact, that for the very first time I have been…

wincvs/ssh

Intro Most of the guides I found whilst trying to do this task were aimed at older SSH v1 clients, and a lot of the setup involved custom…

video capture part three: what to do next

win2k/sonic mydvd There will be some details here, just as soon as I can stop screaming at the memory of it all…

video capture part two: getting it working

win2k/tmpgenc The answer to the AVI capture limit was simple: move to {Windows 2000} and NTFS, and capture until my hard drive ran out of space. This was…

video capture: the first steps

beos/hauppauge wintv Hmm, well that was nice. It’s a wonderful OS, bringing elegance and slickness to the desktop of even ‘slow’ machines, if you can find a selection…

video capture: the quest for quality

background I’ve been messing around with digital video since my first video camera (JVC GR-DVJ70), and have played with capture on BeOS, {Windows 98}, {Windows 2000} and {MacOS…

javastation

What’s a JavaStation ? The best starting point is the Linux on JavaStation HOWTO, which very clearly covers all of the machine variants with nice explanations of the…