Oct 17, 2005
Codes in Colour Printing + More
Via BoingBoing - the EFF cracks code embedded into Colour Laser Printer output.
Joel Spolsky discusses the crappiness of Microsoft SQL's full-text indexing capabilities.
A nice piece on the Open-ness of the Apple II. It has to be said the old Apple IIe was a hackers dream and it was so easy to understand even your mother could wire up an interface to make it control something useful. The last PC to do something similar was the long gone BeBox and its Geekport. Probably the closest thing nowadays for the average user is a Lego Mindstorm or X10 controllers.
Nice idea for a Survival kit in an Altoid Tin. American survivalists crack me up though - where else would you find tips on gunfighting.
Paul Thurrott reviews the latest Vista version (Build 5231 (Community Technical Preview 2)).
I saw 'The Worlds Fastest Indian' - pretty good movie. Definitely one to appeal to (wannabe) backyard-tinkerers everywhere.
Doh - almost forgot that Earth have a new album - Hex: Or Printing in the Infernal Method. Wonder what my chances of it making its way to NZ are ? I need to track down some Sunn 0))) too from the same label. Might be time to dust off the Amazon account for some mail-order audio goodness ...
On a related note - this album cover is a genius Nick Drake homage. An unsuspecting folky will have his ears burnt by Boris instead.
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