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Hess Memorial Macworld Expo SF 2007 Events List
Parties and other Macworld Expo related events.
(tags: MacWorld)

The Pogues with Kirsty McColl / Fairytale of New York
The best Christmas song ever (YouTube Video)
(tags: christmas music)

MultiDomain module for Drupal 5 | Bryght
MultiDomain allows the user to span the content of one site, across several domains or sub domains. It [...]

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50 free essential software to consider using » MSBLOG
Here is compiled a full list of software which must be downloaded. Yep, every one of them. All of these are brilliant in every way, shape and form and are just plain brilliance.
(tags: free software downloads)

Cooliris Previews - Discover More…
Cooliris Previews is software that lets you view [...]

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Simple, obvious bugs with a quick fix are always fun. In some old code, I found this:

fread(&type,4,1,pkginfo);
if (type == ‘APPL’) ….

Guess what happens on an Intel Mac?

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After Matthew LaClair, a student at Kearny (N.J.) High School, reported his teacher for preaching religion in his history class, the student received death threats and the community overwhelmingly took the teacher’s side.
Via Newsvine:
KEARNY, N.J. — Before David Paszkiewicz got to teach his accelerated 11th-grade history class about the United States Constitution this fall, he [...]

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BadVista Blog — BadVista
The BadVista campaign is an advocate for the freedom of computer users, opposing adoption of Microsoft Windows Vista and promoting free (as in freedom) software alternatives.
(tags: windows vista)

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Learn 10 good UNIX usage habits
This article takes you step-by-step through several good, but too often neglected, techniques for command-line operations.
(tags: unix Linux shell tips)

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Home-Barista.com
How to make good Espresso at home
(tags: howto reference coffee)

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Google Web Toolkit - Build AJAX apps in the Java language
Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is an open source Java software development framework that makes writing AJAX applications like Google Maps and Gmail easy for developers who don’t speak browser quirks as a second language. Writing dynamic web applications today
(tags: ajax google programming java)

Wired News: Startup [...]

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Techmeme River
(tags: rss blog)

Wii Have A Problem…
Damage caused by flying Wii remotes
(tags: games wii blog humor)

HowToBuildDebianPackagesFromScratch - Ubuntu Wiki
(tags: debian ubuntu howto)

macosxhints.com - Take iSight snapshots during invalid login attempts
(tags: useful hacks)

Virtual machine added to mainline Linux kernel
The 2.6.20 Linux kernel will include a driver aimed at allowing user-space processes to exploit virtualization capabilities in [...]

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I’m really looking forward to Linux kernel 2.6.20, which may be in the next Ubuntu release. A few days ago they announced PS3 support. Now they’ve added kernel-based virtual machine (KVM) support, which makes it a lot easier to implement virtualization software such as Xen.

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Roomba obeys MacBook tilt sensor commands - Engadget
the guys over at Hacking Roomba managed to get a Bluetooth-enabled Roomba to listen to the Mac’s tilting orders.
(tags: mac hardware hacks)

Open Culture: iTunes - Foreign Language Lesson Podcast Collection
(tags: podcast learning)

Create DVDs with All of Ubuntu’s Packages « Ubuntu Blog
For those looking to install Ubuntu without a [...]

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This is a new record for me. Usually I’m scrambling to finish my last minute shopping the week before Christmas. I got started early this year when I found a few gifts at woot.com. I also did some of my shopping online, including a few photo gifts.

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Dalai Lama - Celebrity Atheist List
“Basically, religions may be divided into two groups. One group, including Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and some ancient Indian traditions, I call God religions. Their fundamental faith is in a Creator. The other group of religious tradition, including J
(tags: religion)

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Download details: “WPF/E� (codename) CTP (Dec 2006)
Microsoft’s Flash replacement
(tags: microsoft flash web)

Sysgo offers online demos of embedded Linux distro, tools
Sysgo is offering a live online demo of its embedded Linux distributions and tools. The European embedded software vendor’s “Live Experience Server” lets registrants use VNC (virtual network computer) to connect to a development host running [...]

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As my next step in moving off the desktop, I’m now trying the Performancing blog editor in Firefox instead of a stand-alone application.

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Matt Galvin got the upcoming release of Ubuntu running natively on his MacBook Pro. This isn’t a Boot Camp hack - GRUB now has EFI support.

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XPressLinux has pretty much taken over all of my free time. Today I finally released a feature complete beta with all known issues fixed.

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PepperPad pleases pair of publishers
Pepper Computing’s Linux-powered, x86-compatible PepperPad 3 continues to rack up rave reviews. CarryPad.com publisher Steve Paine calls the device a “hackable gem of a mobile PC,” while Pocketables.net publisher Jenn K. Lee devotes nearly 3,000 words to
(tags: linux)

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PlayStation 3 support now standard in Linux 2.4
Sony-contributed patches aimed at adding machine-specific features for the PlayStation 3 (PS3) have been merged into the stable 2.4.20 kernel tree. The patches should greatly simplify maintaining Linux kernels for the PS3, which is already supported under
(tags: linux)

What code DOESN’T do in real life (that it does in [...]

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The full list of grammy nominations was posted at Yahoo Music. I threw up a little bit when I saw that the Black Eyed Peas were nominated for one of the worst songs ever as Best Pop Performance. On the plus side, “Youth” by Matisyahu is nominated for best Reggae album, and Salif Keita, Ladysmith [...]

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