Battle of the Laptops
Posted by wolfger on January 21, 2008
Today, we’ll be comparing the hot new Mac Air versus the old trustworthy Commodore SX-64. May the system with the best features win…
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- Alan Pope: UDS Karmic Videos and HTML5 Goodness July 2, 2009I noticed that the videos from the most recent Ubuntu Developer Summit are now online, and thought I’d have a play with the new embedded HTML5 video stuff in Firefox 3.5. Rather than view all the videos by downloading them individually I thought I’d make a page where I can view them all sequentially. Here is the html I threw together. Guess it will look ru […]admin
- Information Leakage from Keypads July 2, 2009Shared by wolfger security FAIL, for sure Can anyone guess the entry codes for these door locks? There are 10,000 possible four-digit codes, but you only have to try 24 on these keypads. The second is almost certainly guessable in one.(author unknown)
- New Linux patch could circumvent Microsoft's FAT patents July 2, 2009Microsoft's recent lawsuit against TomTom, alleging infringement of filesystem patents, has left many questions unanswered about the legal implications of distributing open source implementations of Microsoft's FAT filesystem. A new Linux kernel patch that was published last week offers a workaround that might make it possible to c […]segphault@arstechnica.com (Ryan Paul)
- Richard Johnson: Community July 2, 2009Recently I have really gotten into cycling, not just for recreational use, but also for competitive reasons. I am definitely new to their community unlike I have been in the free software community now for more than 15 years. The one thing I noticed is that their community is exactly like ours. Everyone is very welcoming and friendly and it is easy to find […]nixternal
- Elderly retired boxing champ beats six kinds of crap out of drunken burglar July 2, 2009Shared by wolfger Woot! A British hard-partying 24-year-old bartender got upset that his elderly neighbour called the cops over all the noise he was making, so he got drunk and broke into the 72-year-old's house, wielding some kind of Mall Ninja knife that incorporated brass knuckles. What he didn't know was that the neighbour was a retired box […](author unknown)
- XDM Pre-orders Are Now Open! July 1, 2009You may now pre-order your autograph edition of XDM: X-Treme Dungeon Mastery, by Tracy and Curtis Hickman, illustrated by Howard Tayler. Tracy Hickman is the co-creator of Castle Ravenloft and the popular Dragonlance series. His son Curtis is a practicing magician. And me? Me you probably already know. If you play table-top role-playing games like D&D*, […]Howard Tayler
- Jonathan Riddell: Tutorials Day Logs June 30, 2009Tutorials Day rocked and logs are now available for those who missed it. Talks covered Ruby, Amarok Scripting, Artwork, Packaging and Kubuntu Karmic.jriddell
- Colorado passes law to allow rainwater harvesting June 29, 2009Shared by wolfger WTF? How was this ever not legal? Stealing the rain? You're joking, right? In March I pointed to an LA Times story about people in Colorado who were breaking the law by collecting and saving rainwater from their roofs to water their gardens during dry spells. Holstrom's violation is the fancifully painted 55-gallon buckets und […](author unknown)
- New picture window for the space station June 29, 2009The International Space Station will get a new picture window early next year. Called the "Cupola," the new observation platform will be a control point for the space station's robotic arm. It will also serve as the ultimate chill-out room. From NASA: "Crews tell us that Earth gazing is important to them," says Julie Robinson, the […]David Pescovitz
- New Pirate Parties spring up all over Europe June 29, 2009Shared by wolfger USA needs a Pirate Party. If only this could have happened around the time of "Pirates of the Caribbean"... A politician looking like Jack Sparrow could have won an election. After the Swedish Pirate Party (devoted to copyright liberalization and Internet freedom) took a seat* in the last EU election, new local Pirate Parties h […](author unknown)
- Alan Pope: UDS Karmic Videos and HTML5 Goodness July 2, 2009
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