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Two-Finger-Scrolling with pre-2005 PowerBooks and iBooks

Two-Finger-Scrolling with pre-2005 PowerBooks and iBooks: http://www-users.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de/~razzfazz/ Wow – works a treat on my 12″ PB. No more uctrl so I get my Fn key back, and can…

BBC NEWS | Technology | Reboot ordered for EU patent law

BBC NEWS | Technology | Reboot ordered for EU patent law: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4232971.stm Round 1 for common sense, but the battle will drag on as long as there’s money…

brains-N-brawn.com – aiCaptcha

brains-N-brawn.com: http://www.brains-n-brawn.com/default.aspx?vDir=aicaptcha Using AI to beat CAPTCHA and post comment spam L337 subtitle = How 2 0wnz blogz 🙂 Interesting stuff, with an odd methodology (trying things live rather…

NoSoftwarePatents.com :: View topic – (EN) 24 JAN 05: JURI is still out on EU software patents

NoSoftwarePatents.com :: View topic – (EN) 24 JAN 05: JURI is still out on EU software patents: http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=314 Yet again, sense prevails thanks to Poland !

creative muvo firmware update and itunes

If you have updated the firmware in the Creative MuVo flash player to support FAT16 (and so allow easy reformatting under OS X) then you may have noticed…

the real cost of virii… …exposed !

BBC NEWS | Technology | Windows worm travels with Tetris: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4170903.stm “The virus does no damage to machines but heavily infected networks could slow down as scanning traffic…

idvd 4.0.1 crashes on burn

Are you experiencing unexplained iDVD crashes when clicking on Burn ? Are you using iDVD 4.0.1 and OS X 10.3.7 ? Have you tried removing DivX QT components…

Thank Poland letter

Thank Poland letter: http://thankpoland.info/ What a very good idea ! If you have any political motivation at all regarding EU Software Patents, then it would be a very…

no software patents in europe

In an odd move (for me) I have placed a large banner image at the top of my site. If you can, please try to help convince EU…

the power of q

I tend to use vi/{vim} quite a lot and have grown from hating it, to enjoying it like a cracked filling: I can’t help but poke at it…

if you need it explained, it won’t be funny

Danny O’Brien’s Oblomovka: http://www.oblomovka.com/entries/2004/07/28#1091064480 “David Turner. Works for RMS. Starts by quoting the “spider in the hands of an angry Lord” preach. “Licensing is not theology – it’s…

JavaStation issue

Ok, the kernel will boot. The NFS root doesn’t want to mount, though 🙁 I eventually found (after trying three different programs) a tftp daemon that likes running…

JavaStation/Linux from the Qube 2

It’s not as easy as I thought, mainly due to the total lack of a working rarp/tftpd setup – NFS can be bodged. A list of what I…

Messing with Groupware/distributed development

Whilst I’m in a posting mood, has anyone else played with distributed programming/development from the ‘sharp’ end ? I’ve been looking at packages such as Horde and PHPGroupWare,…

PostgreSQL 7.2.1 working on NetBSD/cobalt

Ok, I’ve got a patch for the build process, and it compiles and installs. Not tried any sort of performance or stability testing yet. It’s a fairly simple…