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How to get a ‘One Laptop Per Child’ Image Running on your System
Download an OLPC OS image for VMware
(tags: OLPC laptop linux software)

Bitmunk - Everything Digital
Bitmunk Personal Edition is our free, peer-to-peer purchase and sales client. Use our integrated search or our detailed media browser to find and buy your favorite media, then instantly resell [...]

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Originally uploaded by mike3k.

I found that my Prius can easily carry 8 bags of mulch.

SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Lots of cargo space”, url: “http://mcdevzone.com/2006/11/30/lots-of-cargo-space/” });

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PythonCard Home Page
PythonCard is a GUI construction kit for building cross-platform desktop applications on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux, using the Python language.
(tags: programming development free gui python)

SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “links for 2006-11-29″, url: “http://mcdevzone.com/2006/11/29/links-for-2006-11-29/” });

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I took this quiz after seeing it at MiniPundit:

What American accent do you have?
Your Result: The Northeast

Judging by how you talk you are probably from north Jersey, New York City, Connecticut or Rhode Island. Chances are, if you are from New York City (and not those other places) people would probably be [...]

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Linutop
This looks very cool - a small Linux-based diskless computer.
(tags: Linux gadgets hardware)

MAKE: Blog: The Open source gift guide
Open source hardware, software and more for the holidays
(tags: opensource fun hacks)

How to customize your initrd
The initrd contains all the programs and utilities the kernel needs in order to find the root partition. The initrd is “given” [...]

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Zune branded ‘a complete humiliating failure’
A damning review of Microsoft’s new Zune media player has predicted that the player will be dead in the water within six months.
(tags: ipod zune)

30 Things That Take 30 Seconds Each: Which Will You Do To Change The World?
Attitude is foundational to success. A generous person with a positive attitude [...]

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Via Wired: Dave Hermance, the lead engineer of Toyota’s hybrid vehicle development in the U.S., died on Saturday when his small plane crashed into the Pacific Ocean near Los Angeles. He was instrumental in bringing the Prius to the U.S., and his passing is a blow to Toyota’s hybrid vehicle program.
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For a few days now I’ve been using Gmail as my primary email, rather than my Dreamhost IMAP mailbox. I have email addresses for each of my domains, plus individual throw-away addresses for shopping at different sites. Until now they were all forwarded to my Dreamhost mailbox, but I changed them to forward to Gmail [...]

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A few days ago I got an LG CU500, which Cingular is offering as an upgrade for $49. It’s a very nice phone, much slimmer than my old Motorola V551. More importantly, the sound quality & reception is a lot better and it hasn’t dropped a call. It’s a 3G phone with a built-in music [...]

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Automatic Debian Package Repository HOWTO
Setting up a Debian package repository
(tags: debian ubuntu linux howto)

SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “links for 2006-11-24″, url: “http://mcdevzone.com/2006/11/24/links-for-2006-11-24/” });

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Slashdot | Wii Internet Connection Reverse Engineered
Basically, by using firefox and after setting the user agent correctly, anybody can easily browse many wiishop pages including the WiiShop main page and startup manual. More advanced connections including binary and virtual console downloads are currently
(tags: Wii hacks)

SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “links for 2006-11-23″, url: “http://mcdevzone.com/2006/11/23/links-for-2006-11-23/” });

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The guy finished installing my new water heater today. It works as nicely as I’ve heard. As soon as I turn on a faucet, it switches on, and as soon as I shut the faucet, it switches off. The water comes out hot almost immediately and it never runs out of hot water.
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Several bloggers point out that the top Google entry for Martin Luther King is a racist hate site run by a white supremacist group. To remedy the situation, how about a nice google bomb.

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Basic Debian Packaging - FreekiWiki
(tags: debian ubuntu linux)

Teamprise | Team System for Everyone
Teamprise is a suite of client applications for accessing Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server from outside of the Visual Studio Integrated Development Environment (IDE). Teamprise enables software development teams to use the source contro
(tags: VSTS software VisualStudio)

Technical Note TN2124: Mac OS [...]

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I’m having a tankless water heater installed in my condo now. The guy did the wiring today, which involved replacing a circuit breaker, and he’ll be back tomorrow to install the actual heater. He left the old heater in place so I’ll still have hot water tonight. Right now my kitchen is a mess, with [...]

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ubuntu_users: Ubuntu/Debian package commands for n00bs.
Here’s some command-line package management stuff every Ubuntu and/or Debian user should know
(tags: ubuntu linux)

s y b e r p u n k . c o m - Main
A funny collection of “Engrish” signs & stuff.
(tags: engrish funny japan)

SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “links for 2006-11-19″, url: “http://mcdevzone.com/2006/11/19/links-for-2006-11-19/” });

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I haven’t made any cat posts for a while, so here’s a video for a change. I took some video from my Canon A75 of Cody obsessing over a bird.

SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Cody watching a bird”, url: “http://mcdevzone.com/2006/11/18/cody-watching-a-bird/” });

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Mylo ships with Freescale SoC
Sony’s Linux-based, WiFi-equipped Mylo (”my life online”) multifunction handheld, now shipping, is based on an ARM9-based i.MX31 SoC (system-on-chip), confirms Freescale.
(tags: linux psp)

‘Pump-and-Dump’ Spam Surge Linked to Russian Bot Herders
Internet security researchers and law enforcement authorities have traced the operation to a well-organized hacking gang controlling a 70,000-strong peer-to-peer botnet seeded [...]

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Here’s an interesting Windows bug.
1. In a new window type “bush hid the facts” (all lower case, no quotes)
2. Save the document.
3. Reopen it.

Where did the text go? Windows mistakenly identifies the file as Unicode rather than ASCII if you create a document with certain text. Almost any 4 letter word followed by two 3-letter [...]

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Via SlashDot: Steve Ballmer claims Linux infringes on Microsoft’s intellectual property:

“In a question-and-answer session after his keynote speech at the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) conference in Seattle, Ballmer said Microsoft was motivated to sign a deal with SUSE Linux distributor Novell earlier this month because Linux ‘uses our intellectual property’ and Microsoft wanted [...]

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