So Fermilab has it for a year and the Slashdot geeks crack it in less than a day. 
Some of the comments are interesting/weird/typical…
Twas the “insert” key and it does it’s deed only in Puppy linux when ScribeFire is running. So back to PCLOS for now. Puppy is fast and overall an excellent distro for older and even newer equipment. Tis somewhat limited in applications but everything I needed I was able to find or find a workaround for. And I suspect that the insert key bit killing firefox when using scribefire is fixable, but I just don’t have the mental energy right now to work through it.
Mycroft Project: Scroogle Search Engine Plugins - Firefox & IE7
Go to the page and follow the instructions. Good stuff!
Downloaded this last night and burned it this morning. Tried it out tonight and it looks pretty good. But it didn’t find the network connection for some reason and I was unable to find anything help wise without going online which without a network connection didn’t quite work for some reason. I figure it’s something simple but haven’t taken the time since I rebooted into PCLOS to figure out what was wrong. Another problem (for me) was that it is Gnome centric. Not that that is a bad thing but I seem to butt heads with Gnome every time I try it and this time was no exception. Will try again but for now the disk goes into the maybe someday stack…
Google School: Filter Google Results by Date with a URL Trick
Google can reorder search and news results from the last day, week, a few months, or entire year by adding a small string to the end of the search URL. Just add this string - &as_qdr=d - to the address bar and hit enter. You’ll get a custom drop-down box that lets you re-order results based on date.
Cool trick! And most useful too.
Found through Global Nerdy.
Computer languages and facial hair - take two - Just code - Tamir Khason
Very cool article. And love the comments about Lisp. Emacs forever…
Global Nerdy | Learning Curves for Text Editors
Oh so true! 
If you ever have the need to rip the text out of a Flash .swf file, swfstrings from this set of command line tools it the one to use. Or the only one I have been able to locate for Linux. The text will still need a LOT of cleaning up but tis better than having to type it all back in. It doesn’t say in the docs but a | (pipe) does route the output to the text file name out put in. Good stuff!
Handbook of hardware pinouts, cables schemes and connectors layouts @ pinouts.ru
For hardware geeks. This site has more info on cables and connectors than any one place I have ever seen! Great stuff!
Tectonic » South Africa adopts ODF as a national standard
After all the BS about OOXML here in the states and in Europe, I’m glad to see that South Africa has made a sane choice and is making ODF the national standard. Good going guys!
Chumby hackers go to town - Boing Boing
Gotta love open hardware! Some neat projects.
Make your own Steampunk mouse | Features | Custom PC
A most unusual steampunk mouse. Nicely done!
Suspension of disbelief applies to networking (Scripting News)
Another post by Dave Winer about Comcast’s ridiculous views (and limits) on (what they consider) excessive internet usage.
After reading his piece (He has an interesting take on having big brother looking over your shoulder while browsing btw) I went and read their FAQ on excessive usage and it looks like if I were one of their customers, I too, would be targeted for disconnection. They (somehow) figure that 2GB a month or more constitutes excessive usage on a hi-speed connection. 
Now I don’t send a lot of email or watch a bunch of movie trailers but I DO download a fair number of Linux distor’s and other software and I DO look at a fair number of pictures and read a lot of blogs and feeds, as well as listen to a bit of music and a few podcasts, and there have been DAYS that I’ve used that kind of bandwidth. 
Guess I’m not one of their “normal” internet users either, Dave. And I’m REALLY glad I don’t depend on Comcast for my service and I pity those that have to.
One other thing that really gets me is that from what I am getting from his posts is they are charging him around $180.00 a month for this absurdly small amount of bandwidth. I had assumed from the previous post and the amount it cost him that he had a business connection or T1 but the FAQ he points to is for residential customers. I know prices are high in San Fransisco but if that’s a normal residential high speed internet bill there I’m sure glad I live in Alabama!
A new reason to hate Comcast (Scripting News)
Intimidation, the better business model, NOT. In the last few years it seems that this type of corporate behavior is becoming the standard. Could it have something to do with the way the government has gone from being “by the people, of the people, for the people”, (or however that goes) to “we is teh government and we will do whatever we wants to”. Don’t know, just a thought that flitted across the minds eye. What I do know is that I vote with my money and a business that gave me the attitude that Comcast has given Dave on this wouldn’t get another cent out of me. Here he is paying $180.00 a month to have them as a backup, tries them out as his main connection as he hears good things about them and they talk to him really bad for using their bandwidth. Not a good way of doing business in my book. Give them hell, Dave!
Steampunk Unboxing: Difference Engine Arrives in Silicon Valley
I can’t help but wonder just how different the world today would be if this had been built back then. Amazing bit of work!
Take Your Music Open-Source With Ogg Vorbis - Wired How-To Wiki
Now with iTunes support, kinda. Going to have to look at Ogg again. Looks like it has grown up a bit since the last time I tried it out.
Computerworld > Open source 3D printer copies itself
Once again life imitates science fiction. Don’t remember when it was that I first ran across the concept of the universal replicator or in what story/book but I do remember that at the time I was in awe of the concept. And here are a gropu of folks that are working to make an open source device that can be used to make the parts to reproduce it’s self. The overused “cool” is just to mild for this, fantastic and wonderful both apply but there again just not right. What/which ever, this is great! And I want one!
Viewfinder: tool for “Flickrizing” Google Earth - Boing Boing
Media artist Michael Naimark and his colleagues developed a system to “Flickrize” Google Earth. The Viewfinder tool not only enables photos to be placed in the right geolocation on a 3D model like Google Earth, but “poses” them at the correct angle.
This sounds like a seriously cool and useful tool! 
Writing this on the Linux machine running on the Kubuntu LiveCD with KDE 4 beta and so far I am impressed. It found all the bits and bobs and booted right up. Doesn’t have Firefox so went into Konqueror and then to Gmail and it loaded right in which I have had trouble with in the past (though haven’t tried recently). Opened a new tab and went to Technoprimitive.org (here) and everything looks just fine.
Plugged the Belkin Wifi adapter into the USB and it came right up. Didn’t connect but still found it with no trouble which PCLOS refuses to do for some reason. Unplugged the ethernet and clicked on the network icon in the toolbar at the bottom right of the screen (after not being able to find any network stuff in the start menu) and it brought up a window with tabs that allowed me to select the wirless and it connected right off with a good 54 mbps connection. reconnected the ethernet and disconnected the wireless and it switched right back over. Good enough!
Lots of my usual apps missing but that looks like only a install away. Gonna get another machine from the Yard Sale Trailer and install it to the hard drive and give it a try. Looks like they have gotten the things that used to bug me worked out with this upcoming release.
