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Welcome to my stuff. Collection of useful and amusing links collected from a variety of sites that I read daily - metafilter, memepool, kuro5hin, boinboing, linkfilter among others 18/02/04 Moving regular link updates to my bloxsom blog. 09/01/04 Nice but dangerous http://www.gaussboys.com/ This 1inch cylinder will hold 22kg http://www.gaussboys.com/product_info.php/products_id/33 NetDisk (cheapo pocket NAS) http://www.ximeta.com/products/netdiskmini.html Looks very interesting - tool to set up a chroot 'jail' http://www.jmcresearch.com/projects/jail/ USB Coffee Warmer (presumably it does Tea without the need for additional drivers . . .) http://www.akibalive.com/archives/000502.html Nice AI Java Apps http://www.generation5.org/content/2003/alifejava.asp Cost based email as an anti-spam tool http://research.microsoft.com/research/sv/PennyBlack/ Which is very similar to an earlier GNU idea http://www.hashcash.org/ Rather good argument for developers to meet the people that use their software on a regular basis http://weblogs.java.net/pub/wlg/848 Actors in Japanese Ads We'll never see http://www.japander.com/japander/index.htm Rants on terrible software designs http://we.hates-software.com/ Memories of a wasted youth (now where is the stupid casio calculator space invaders game . . .) http://www.backtothefuture.nl/flash/donkey.swf Paper Spacecraft Model plans from Nasa http://spacelink.nasa.gov/Instructional.Materials/Curriculum.Support/Technology/Models/ Proof the Japanese get the most bizarre gadgets - watch and water your plant over the internet http://www.akibalive.com/archives/000492.html DIY Paper Pinhole Camera http://www.pinhole.cz/en/pinholecameras/dirkon_01.html 24/12/03 This might be a nice and simple Nagios compliment / replacement
- I might try it on nm1-cam Direct HD recording for your DV Camera Hours of entertainment (perhaps we should start an Accelrys
mugshot board?) When domesticity starts to grate why not get some pointless
gadgets ? ISO9001 Style Procedural Diagrams in a London Tube map style 10 Ads America Won't See How long before they do the obvious thing and ship a nintendo
cell phone ? 19/12/03 Linux for your USB Drive video to vga convertor - replace your TV with a monitor Jim Morrison simulator (click the letters when the flash animation
loads) Handy put-downs in a Weakest Link style Joe Mollica Aphorism Generator (not really but it could be
. . .) PSX (ps2 + dvdrw + hdd revording) is already shipping in Japan One of the niftyist pixel obsessions I've seen on the web For only $19000 you to can have a portable hyperbaric chamber I didn't realise cygwin now had sshd - useful for scp-ing stuff
around Nice css tricks (gecko engine only) 12/12/03 Internet for the blind (requires sound) Drinkometer (I am Homer Simpson and I could have bought a 13%
share in a Ferrari) We should send our Application scientists out in these Cool building blocks This crossstitch thing is getting out of hand Project Gutenburg now has 10000 books available as a DVD Iso
Online java based NES Emulator Simple 3D Modeller More complex 3D Modellers 05/12/03 DOSBox Lets you run classic DOS 286/386 games in all their
glory on many platforms (incl 2000/XP/Linux) Perl Advent Calander WorkSpot gives you an accessible anywhere VNC-able Linux desktop
(although they look to be going under...) Bush Signage if you're a sad indie-music-fanboy then this archive of Peel
Session mp3's is essential Shame theres no Debian Boxset, then again perhaps we can convince
Steve to create some Accelrys promo boxes :-) 28/11/03 MP3 Player for you car you can control with a Palm Pilot http://www.mptronix.com/ Tablet Sized DVD Player http://www.the-gadgeteer.com/nextbase-tablet-dvd-review.html Now build to order - we could get these onto reception booting from compact flash . . . http://www.mini-itx.com/store/default.asp?c=19#p245 Keep people amused when they visit an incorrect url http://homokaasu.org/errors/404.html Keep track of your time to live http://www.deathclock.com/ A rather jaded view on Microsoft security http://homokaasu.org/easyvirus/ A rather cool piece of choreography http://www.donpixel.com/video/?v=030822061503 Useful Album cover finder http://www.slothradio.com/covers/ Slightly mad - vi bindings for Mozilla Firebird http://legonet.org/~griffin/firebird_vi-bindings.html Paper model procrastination http://www.gotorion.com/orion/singles.php?t1=Nintendo%20Paper%20Models&t2=YBM&f1=miscfunny/papercraft.txt Free Online Flash Battlechess http://www.tacticsarena.com/ Amusing sign language - tap keyboard to see him sign http://www.hoogerbrugge.com/NAILS/movies/011.swf
21/11/03 Freeware flight sim http://www.flightgear.org/ Now this is handy - freeware regex tester/builder http://royo.is-a-geek.com/regulator/ If you've ever wondered about the ins & outs of DTP look at this comprehensive Quark 6 vs InDesign 3 review http://www.arstechnica.com/reviews/003/software/indesign/indesign-1.html Stupid Festive USB Gadgets http://www.tomatochip.com/servlet/com.gcm.servlet.commodity.CommodityView?command=createProcurement&supplierID=473&commodityID=3366&searchIndex=3 The long tradition of turning old Macs into aquariums http://home.comcast.net/~jleblanc77/cube/ A googlehouse - dynamic generation of images in the form of Sims style cube-rooms http://www.incident.net/works/googlehouse/ Search Engine Interrelationships http://www.search-this.com/search_engine_decoder.asp Slightly odd - Play Twister Remotely http://www.tele-actor.net/tele-twister/background.htm Stupidest game on the web I've come across in a long long time http://www.holdthebutton.com/ Convert vnc sessions to flash demo's http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/vnc2swf/
14/11/03 Walking Simulator Cool Solar Power stuff DIY Tapestry Construction Kit Rather cool flash guide to how Lego is made (be sure to click
the numbers as they appear for infactory shots) Java Based iTunes client to access shared libraries Note the Windows iTunes has music sharing built in too via the DAAP protocol Linux iTunes DAAP server 10 Things About Google (most of us would have seen these before
but its handy in one place) 1Gb on a 1cm plastic cube Hear famous people sing your words A very brief guide to creating GNU configure / make installable
packages Interesting guide to creating Grid aware applications based
on application type If you put this through Babelfish its a contactless battery
charger (soon you'll just need to be in the vacinity of a charger
to resupply your gadgets) 08/11/03 From the "aren't americans whacky, excessive and paranoid"
front - the ultimate in secure accomodation These people do a great free ISO opening tool - useful for
pulling files from ISO's I hope they don't use our software for this research What is the Meatrix ? Fisheye Menu - how to handle large menus on web pages Laszlo lets you develop very slick web based java/xml apps Fancy trying a different religion ? Now you can with Plug 'n
Pray Nice monospaced font for coding Generate your own Church Sign 31/10/03 Video on a Gameboy Finally a half decent x-platform dictionary engine Nifty Modular PC (for those that missed the slashdot post) Selection of website manglers Freeware LEGO Modeller & 3D visualiser Rock Paper Stone Championship Coverage Giant Wooden Keyboards Looks like a good option for MSDN Flash based planetarium 03/10/03 C64 for Nokia Worlds smallest pacman game Use your trousers for signalling (be sure to watch the demo) Catch flies with chopsticks Get a portable copy of the web (some of it anyway...) Everymanandhisdoghasablog 26/09/03 Cubit have new shiny P4 based mini-itx boxes (literally) Original origami A PacMan for the Cubicle Generation Watch people get "stealth disco'd" in a surreal Triggerhappy
TV kind of way Slightly surreal Spam, not just an education but a career HP Support Offer this Gem for the clueless 12/09/03 Visual Trickery (not good for anyone with a migraine) Useful CSS for Lists & Tabs Freeware java email tool called ZOE - lets you assimilate all email
into a web interface and indexes all content so it can be sorted
by any header or subject Do we really need a web version of this ? Might have already done the rounds but here is the worlds most
annoying web page (be sure to have your Enter key warmed up and
ready to click) Most Enjoyable (esp the "throwing down stairs simulator") Very high surreality rating on this Flash More 3D Display Technology - check the videos . . . Smart Dust from Berkley 10/09/03 Oh great now I just need to find my tapes Record Video to MemoryStick for Clie playback Looks like a fantastic idea but apparently wifi bandwidth congestion
looms 05/09/03 Fairly spartan week . . . Super Loo (be sure to watch the video clip) PalmOS App to give PocketPC style Today view If you don't like Today at least try BigClock so your Palm displays
something useful while docked. One for the kids (click the finger) Useful articles on storage technology Karen got a crate of NZ Beer delivered to our door 24hrs after
ordering from these guys 29/08/03 A new take on Pong (slow flash site) Great insight into digital photography and the touch up process How many monkeys... Its in Italian but you get the idea - Homer Simpson-esque Lemmings in DHTML/javascript Make the google search box in Firebird do simple Math Disturbingly Entertaining (requires shockwave/flash) Nice Ad 118 118 New Clie Details Play Spectrum Games on a GBA 08/08/03 This is pretty amazing - user mode linux - run multiple virtual
linux machines like many of the web hosting companies do Low-cost (well in relative terms) 3D printing - very slow site
but its worth the wait to see some of the demo's - could be handy
for those 3D Molecules Hand-crank Generator for GBA Fantastic Wooden Kenetic Sculptures Centibots - 100 autonomous robots (running debian on mini-itx computers
- note the little connectix quickcams...) work together to map,
track and gaurd an area Block-clock (whole seconds of entertainment...) Dueling Banjos This is almost like something from Myst - wooden mirror (be sure
to check the video of it working) Top 100 incorrectly or overused News cliches The Life and Times of Copper Black Useful Bash Tips eg instead of cp filename filename-old use cp filename{,-old} 25/07/03 Real Life - The Review http://www.gamespot.com/gamespot/features/all/gamespotting/071103minusworld/1.html Cliche Finder http://www.westegg.com/cliche/ Corporate Fallout Detector http://web.media.mit.edu/~jpatten/cfd/ Steam (get Half Life for free) http://www.steampowered.com/ Helvitica Fans Unite http://www.mimeartist.com/helvetica/ A sense of perspective is required http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/mobile-wireless/22837-1.html A nice article on cleaning up captured video using free tools http://arstechnica.com/guide/audio-visual/video-cleanup/cleaning-1.html Benchmarking Oracle9i under Linux vs Windows http://www.interealm.com/technotes/roby/pentmark.html Unreal Mod thats cuts ominously close to reality http://www.kinematic.org/911about.html For that 80's feel use the appropriate font http://www.zone38.net/font/ 18/07/03 Humourous take on Europe vs Italy in flash Shame someone in the UK/US didn't do this to reach a wider audience
. . . Useful CLI Image Manipulation Tool Examples (ImageMagick) Weapons of mass destruction . . . Why bother with North Korea or
Former Soviet Bloc when you can buy supplies online . . . Internal Memos are not safe Classic Games for Palm (Lemmings, Donky Kong, Lode Runner) - commercial
only but downloadable demos Humourous Propaganda Automatically generate apology cards Play Classic Infocom Games online 11/07/03 Rich Text 101 for Notes Doclinks Dialaweb Ad Parodies (some better than others) A Phrase for Every Occassion It lives (you can't keep an old mainframe OS down) . . . Hear different accents say the same phrase in English (over 250
different nationalities) New GBA Cartridge with a light senser that interacts with the game
(more sun = more weapon power + nice touches like ponds drying quicker) Do these customers know about killnotes.exe ? Create your own Cartoon Strip 27/06/03 Age old question answered Accelrys Man ? Useful Soundboard for the next Notes upgrade Time to retire the lable printer ? Optimised for the dashboard Dell D series style dock for any make of laptop Modular self-configuring robots (the movies and simulations are
pretty nifty) http://www.fluent.com/about/news/pr/pr5.htm Accelrys Man ? Useful Soundboard for the next Notes upgrade Time to retire the lable printer ? Optimised for the dashboard Dell D series style dock for any make of laptop Modular self-configuring robots (the movies and simulations are
pretty nifty) 20/06/03 Nifty Knoppix style bootable cd 'multimedia' linux distribution Random Strategy Generator Bullfighter Album Cover Art - the Originals and their Imitators
13/06/03 Wage comparison and real time calculator - this is truly depressing Generate Names for those Secret Projects Create Patriotic Posters to go with those Marketing Slogans State of the Art Technology circa 1983 The Idler - Crappiest Town Competition The answer to the eternal question from a variety of sources What to do when all the good domain names are taken and you're
insane (nice rollover affect though) Funny Names Stupid Company Names IP Hijacking - apparently a class /16 can be sold for $100k which
is what spammers are doing . . . Panasonics Exoskeleton Prototype to aid the disabled This sounds fantastic - shame it doesn't work Couple of very detailed reviews for the T610 and T800 - for those
looking for a T68 replacement 01/08/03 Very Quiet on the Interesting Links front this week . . . Hmmm these are being sold for $500US Lets hope the sales force doesn't learn about these... An inspired reuse of old Macs (somehow I don't think Mandie &
Linda would take to the idea . . .) Handy fake email domain for throwaway site registrations 06/06/03 Random website css generator WiFi Speed Spray Useful Unix Tools A unique explanation of the SCO/Linux legal wrangle Fairly purile but amusing nonetheless - how wild does your credit
card signature have to be before someone notices ? Useful Notes References (I think I've sent these before but they're
really handy to know about) Everyone needs NaDa (forget due diligence we should by this now
- new and improved Accelrys NaDa) One of the funniest Matrix piss-takes I've seen Basic MySQL Guide & Basic Database Design Guide (both part
of a series - useful for us SQL novices) Gesture based camera - make a frame with your hand to capture a
digital image (in japanese but you get the idea . . .) And some silliness to round things off 30/05/03 Someone had a very bad day Check the last entry in this PHP Bug Thread This is one for Lex, Joan (and bored Children ... and IT staff) Headache inducing optical illusions A truly comendable open source project Installed locally as a command line tool for your amusement (actually
useful for feeding surreal text into the sign generator) Sony really are destroying Palm on the hardware front Maybe a good portable venue for future AccelrysWorld ? Seems cheap
to me and we can always use it for hostile takeovers :-) Interesting article about self repairing computers (the author
helped develop the basic theory and practise behind RISC & RAID) Pretty cool web page that lets you design custom CD slip covers
that output as PDF And the 96 line perl script behind it Bungie have open sourced Marathon . . . in its day it was a bit
like Doom w/ better story line 23/05/03 OMG - esp the rubik cube solver . . . Notes Synch to an iPod (Mac only) Generate those annoying stereograms that give you a headache going
crosseyed Tarantinos new flick (very Crouching Tiger-ish judging by the trailer) One of the most unfortunately named - yet topically interesting
- mailing lists I've ever heard of And I thought we had financial problems Nice cases Information and features of the /proc filesystem Is nothing sacred ? Don't annoy the IT people they have long memories and the tools
for revenge 16/05/03 Guerillia Parenting (these stencils might be useful here in the
office . . .) Matrix-esque "life-log" proposal (takes a bit to read
through before you get the gist of this *.mil proposal) Slightly bizarre but informative guide to autopsy procedure Nice article on SED for us regular-expression impaired people (or
maybe its just me) Appearing at a urinal near you (I wonder if Joan can retrofit these
. . .) - requires QT DENIM is a web site design whiteboard for prototyping site design
and layout Useful Bootdisks for all your low level hardware needs If theres a niche someone will fill it . . . certainly seems to
be the case for bacterial plush toys For those long-term thinkers Fishermen have gadgets too - like pocket wireless sonar for finding
fish Copy paste the following code into Notepad and save it as an html file then try and open it in IE <html> 27/04/03 Unexpected uses for old SGI gear (the Indigo one is truly inspired) Octane http://reality.exsgi.org/eile/rOctane/ Who's on pager duty this week ? http://reality.exsgi.org/extasia/ RAM Disk - Phoenix is only 15Mb so you could run it from a RAM
disk for extra speed (actually doesn't feel much faster but you
don't get disk thrash on cache access) http://www.arsoft-online.de/products/product.php?id=1 Freaky furniture http://www.scarefactory.com/catalog/furniture1.htm Scientist Porn - Molecule of the Month http://www.chem.ox.ac.uk/mom/ Neat (could use a bunch of these for United Devices demo's...) http://www.mini-box.com/m100.htm Useful IBM Article on unix CD burning tools (I might put this in
the IT Doc Lib) http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-cdburn.html?ca=dgr-lnxw06BurnCDs And finally apparently NZ hit the 4,000,000 mark on Thursday (the
ticker seems to be on to an extra 259 people . . .) http://www.stats.govt.nz/ As a comparison Land Area is 268,670.00 square km for NZ, 241,590.00 for the UK (with 60,000,000 people) and 7,617,930.00 squar km for Australia (with 12,000,000 people) 18/04/03 Useful replacements for FDD/HDD on http://store.yahoo.com/ituner/emstcfl.html You could run Business Card Linux off one http://www.lnx-bbc.org/ Or more appropriately . . . now you can get these in spindles of 100 now http://www.cardiscs.com/rytcdrbuscar.html Bruce Perens busybox (Linux 'swiss army knife') might be useful on a Linux bootable CDR or USB key http://www.busybox.net/ Which is a single 700kb binary that does all of this http://www.busybox.net/screenshot.html Remakes of popular games from the 80's (theres a flash version of Cauldren II, there are windows versions of Paradroid & Uridium among many others . . .) http://www.remakes.org/ And strangely enough for anyone that remembers the psychedelic joy of Attack of the Mutant Camels; they're still going strong . . . http://www.llamasoft.co.uk/ A slightly freaky example of how IE can control your hardware (IE only obviously) http://www.ifthenelseonline.com/cd.htm Possibly another interface enhancement change on Mac OS X - Piles (of files . . .) http://homepage.mac.com/rdas7/piles.html (click the flash enhanced graphic file stack to) 11/04/03 GPS Art http://www.gpsdrawing.com/gallery.htm Is it to easy to make fun of the US ? Yes. Yes it is. http://www.totalobscurity.com/mind/flagstore/ Reports on Transparency / Corruption in Government http://www.transparency.org/ They have nice things like a Percieved Corruption Propensity Index http://www.transparency.org/pressreleases_archive/2002/dnld/cpi2002.pressrelease.en.pdf An internet news site printer built into what !? http://www.idealhomeshow.co.uk/content/attractions/content.asp?location=32 These things are getting better 'n better in terms of agility (QT
Required) http://www.tokyodv.com/news/Robodex2003Asimo.html Nifty freeware 3d card modellers (possibly useful as pacifiers
for children - or procrastinating adults....) http://www.page.sannet.ne.jp/jun_m/card3d/index-eng.html Basilisk Macintosh Emulator - this thing actually works! http://www.uni-mainz.de/~bauec002/B2Main.html
04/04/03 Solaris Certification Requirements with Links to Supporting Information (eg how-to's for installing s/w, managing disk etc etc) http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=7822/ur0304a/ Classic 80's Cartoons (there are entire downloadable Dangermouse / Duckula episodes in there somewhere) http://www.aowz68.dsl.pipex.com/cartoons/index.shtml Creating an RSS Feed from Domino (very cool) http://www.notestips.com/80256B3A007F2692/1/NAMO599UGG Domino Based Web Blogger (also very cool - maybe we could idiot
proof the intranet) Mozilla Amazon XUL Application (search Amazon direct from Mozilla - looks to be US only unfortunately) http://www.infodraft.com/~faser/mab/ An intel xscale processor in a SO-DIMM formfactor http://www.strategic-test.com/embedded_systems/pxa255-cpu_ethernet_dimm_module.html Seriously kitsch 70's style t-shirts with an 80's flavour http://www.shopodd.com/tshirts/ts031.shtml Apparently this was last years Google 1st April joke http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html And what is the worst search engine ever ? http://www.google.com/search?q=the+worst+search+engine&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 How to put those wild animals to use http://www.carleefernandez.com/friends/lola_01.html Floppy disk Enterprise http://www.asciipr0n.com/archive/0013/bonnie/craft/ Floppy Disk Raid (its disturbing that someone would contemplate this...) http://ohlssonvox.8k.com/fdd_raid.htm A very old joke redone for the digital age http://www.rafaelrozendaal.com/pmf/
28/03/03 Bit of a slow week for interesting stuff . . . . Nifty flexi phone http://www.eleksen.com/press/image_archive/product_three.html 200+ Newspaper Front Pages Scanned and Collated Daily http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/default.asp?page=1 Top 500 Super Computers http://www.top500.org/ Check Someones Location by Tracking Cellphone (one for Joan maybe...) http://www.verilocation.com/ Useful tips on Digital Photography http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/10/22/digi_photo_tips.html Oh those crazy Americans (be sure to check the other flavours) http://www.starspangledicecream.com/ Some nice java based "life" simulators http://cell-auto.com/ This actually looks really useful (a little pricey perhaps) http://arstechnica.com/reviews/003/erd/erd-1.html If only I could read Japanese . . . http://www.takaratoys.co.jp/bowlingual/ Slimline MP3 Player Hands-on Review (Barry mentioned this a few months back) http://www.the-gadgeteer.com/slimp3-review.html A Quine is a program whose sole output is itself (Douglas Hofstadters book "Godel, Escher, Bach" is great background for this kind of thing) http://www.nyx.net/~gthompso/quine.htm (pages like this are also useful for testing compilers if you don't know how to code) Wierd Science Surplus Stuff (note all items are handsketched rather than photographed) http://www.sciplus.com/ And lastly... OpenOffice 1.1 Beta is out and available here \\fs2-cam\software\o\OpenOffice\ http://www.openoffice.org/
21/03/03 Only in America http://wkyc.com/news/news_fullstory.asp?id=3828 Nifty http://www.bargainpda.com/default.asp?newsID=1258&showComments=true Slightly surreal (subtitle your own bollywood movies - oddly it appears to be a Danish Fanta promo site) http://www.fanta.dk/ Odd daily creatures http://www.creaturesinmyhead.com/ Neat name for a Fibre Channel Vendor http://www.gadzoox.com Customise your ATM machine http://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/atm/ New mini-itx goodies announced at the CEbit show TV / PC http://www.mini-itx.com/news/cebit2003-2/images/cebit2003-2-0007s.jpg PC's in Car Audio form factor http://www.mini-itx.com/news/cebit2003-2/images/cebit2003-2-0008s.jpg New ways to carry your PDA http://www.fossil.com/tech/TechPDAPalmInfo.asp?Tier1=Tech
14/03/03 Freshmeat (popular GNU software update tracker) Parody http://unpythonic.net/~jepler/cgi-bin/rottenflesh.cgi HUSH mini-itx epa cases http://www.hushtechnologies.net/engsolut.htm Tied to one of these.... Might be quite a nice sound system http://www.pliniusaudio.com/pro/pro11.htm (these guys are based
in an old meat pie factory in my home town so I'm biased) Then again this looks rackmountable (maybe we can hook it up to
the mp3 jukebox ?) Fantastic laptop controlled graffiti spray can.... check the mpg & pictures - quite an ingenius design http://www.hektor.ch/ But does it play quake ? http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3405888342 To geeky for words http://www.amibiosornot.com/ Dead Grandmother Syndrome - avoid stressful situations or it may affect your relatives health and well being http://biology.ecsu.ctstateu.edu/People/ConnRev The search for the Yeti continues - can you spare some cpu cycles for this new and exciting project ? http://www.phobe.com/yeti/ From the same site comes the future in computer games http://www.phobe.com/sfi/steelhead.html On a more serious note these look to be really useful for old gear - wirelessly enable anything with an ethernet interface http://www.dlink.com/products/wireless/dwl810+/
07/03/03 Microsoft keeping tabs on users via "secure" windows update http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/29519.html Possibly not a popular book http://www.simson.net/ref/ugh.pdf T68 Remote Control for your PC (even features proximity sensor that launches scripts) http://homepage.mac.com/jonassalling/Shareware/Clicker/index.html And we ask why the CIA has this http://www.cia.gov/spy_fi/item12.html Or this http://www.cia.gov/spy_fi/index.html Good to see their search for agents of terror doesn't distract them from the important things in life How many people have the same name as you (I am apparently "rarer than a wombats wingnut") http://www.yournotme.com/
28/02/03 Computer Mind Reader (well 20 questions anyway)... http://y.20q.net:8095/btest It got 'beer' in 23 which isn't bad :-) If you're tired of all the junk in web pages and bloat in web browsers join the campaign... http://www.dgate.org/~brg/bvtelnet80/ One day troubleshooting a PC will involve topping up the nutrient soup... http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/02/0224_030224_DNAcomputer.html Another Pointless use of Flash http://www.designegg.com/insertmonkey/clock.html
26/02/03 Very cool way to read the news I guess we'll see these gadgets one day Quite plainly has to much time on his hands Maybe Joan and John should get these for reception
21/02/03 Now thats a lot of PC's Slightly cleaner & simpler python RSS Aggregator (recommended
over the beta Mozilla one) RSS Mozilla Aggregator (also requires extra java webstart for aggregation
but it is x-platform) Vital Safety gear in these troubled times Open Source Content Management Site Now we're getting silly... lonely socks seeking partners One for Ali G Never underestimate this tools usefulness
20/02/03 http://www.bolthole.com/solaris/pkg-get.html I've installed it on anubis and it seems to work quite nicely Requires wget, zcat, gzip, gunzip - I'll add these to ~usys/software/solaris You can pkg-get most popular gnu utils (not bash annoyingly but
it Certainly goes someway to simplifying package maintenance for
14/02/03 When will Changing Rooms cover these improvements to household
safety ? Maybe we need an alert status on our home page: Someone definitely has too much time: Revenge is smelly: Cool Open Source Flash Creations:
10/02/03 Chroot security in laymans language (change filesystem root to somewhere else to contain people - like a jail) http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/01/23/chroot.html Mosix/IBM/Linux How-to (again the cool thing is that a simple kernel patch creates a single virtual machine out of participating nodes) http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/esdd/articles/openmosix.html?ca=dgr-lnxw06openMosix1 Rather Good Roundup of 64-bit Processors (amazingly for a dead Arch the Alpha is still doing well) http://www.realworldtech.com/page.cfm?AID=RWT012603224711
10/01/03 http://www.totalrobots.com/ Particularly the processor-less (and cheap) BEAM robot kits
06/01/03 http://www.thesurrealist.co.uk/slogan.cgi?word=Accelrys Click button for new improved slogans
28/10/02 Anyone remember these classics: Mercenary: http://www.geocities.com/paris/7150/merce.htm (Note the recent windows port): http://www.geocities.com/paris/7150/mddclone.htm And of course Sentinel (the irix port!): http://www.cs.sfu.ca/people/GradStudents/heinrica/personal/sentinel.html Ahh they don't make them like they used to: http://www.the-burrow.freeserve.co.uk/commodore64/c64.html
10/10/02 Click on a picture and view the source code http://a.jaundicedeye.com/weblog/ Just as well he didn't code these by hand :-)
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