Oct 19, 2005
Squid + More
Useful - Advanced Squid.
I've linked to this before but its still a great resource - Newspaper Frontpages from 48 different countries.
Fantastic clock - Clock of the long now. Designed to last 10000 years and its slowest part will cycle once every 260 years. A prototype has been built.
An emusing look into the life of ESL (English as a Second Language) teacher.
At last a Lotus Notes Community Site (that isn't notes.net) - LotusUserGroup.Org - of particular interest are the Systems Admin Tips. Notes administration tends to be one of those things that people pick up on the job as there aren't that many useful "How-To's" on the web.
Interesting link to a new Transparent Armor being developed by the US Air Force as a replacement for Armored Glass.
Jakob Nielsons - Top Ten Weblog Usability Mistakes. I'm guilty of almost all of them :-)
Looks like NZ ranks equal # 2 in the annual 2005 Corruption Perception Index.
New Apple stuff - Aperture, new PowerBooks and new multi-core G5's. Apart from the multi-core G5's (about time) its all pretty dull (unless you're a pro-photographer in which case Aperture may be handy). John Gruber comments on the new releases at Daring Fireball.
Neat - RSS feeds for Microsoft KBase Articles by product.
Came across this these yesterday - a replacement for the venerable Windows Noteapad called Notepad 2.
I should pick a different colour for updates...
Excellent - VMWare release free VM 'player'. Great boon to software companies - you can now shrink wrap VMWare demo machines as distributables for anyone to use - excellent for companies with tricky software installs on x86 based platforms.
Someone at Apple must have finally woken up and realised that managing a fleet of Mac's is a PITA - as of OS X ver 10.4 ASR (Apple Software Restore) can do multi-cast installs over the network. This is something Ghost has been able to do since for x86 hardware since 1998.
Amusing - Living with the Beast. A writer discusses the joys of working with Microsoft Word. On a vaguely related note MacDevCenter have a good article on the RTF format.
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This week I have mostly been listening too . . .
(bands on my big iPod Shuffle for the week ending 23 October 2005) -
Le Tigre, Mudhoney, Godflesh, Primal Scream, Ella Fitzgerald, Flying Saucer Attack, Cardigans, Tom Waits, Spirtu alized, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, John Coltrane, The Supremes, Big Black, Husker Du, Minor Threat, Queens of the Stone Age, Girls vs BoysPost inspired by Jesse.