Category: GeekStuff

Slashdot | Fermilab Calls For Code Crackers

By , May 17, 2008 9:29 am
Slashdot | Fermilab Calls For Code Crackers

So Fermilab has it for a year and the Slashdot geeks crack it in less than a day. πŸ˜‰ Some of the comments are interesting/weird/typical…

Firefox Killer only in PuppyLinux

By , May 12, 2008 9:15 pm

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.

Add Scroogle to your Firefox Search Bar

By , May 12, 2008 7:28 am

Mycroft Project: Scroogle Search Engine Plugins – Firefox & IE7

Go to the page and follow the instructions. Good stuff!

OpenSolaris.com

By , May 7, 2008 11:06 pm

OpenSolaris

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…

OpenSolaris.com

By , May 7, 2008 11:06 pm

OpenSolaris

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…

Filter Google Results by Date with a URL Trick

By , April 29, 2008 9:58 pm

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

By , April 29, 2008 9:19 pm

Computer languages and facial hair – take two – Just code – Tamir Khason

Very cool article. And love the comments about Lisp. Emacs forever… πŸ˜‰

Computer languages and facial hair – take two

By , April 29, 2008 9:17 pm

Computer languages and facial hair – take two – Just code – Tamir Khason

Very cool article. And love the comments about Lisp. Emacs forever… πŸ˜‰

Global Nerdy | Learning Curves for Text Editors

By , April 26, 2008 5:23 pm

Global Nerdy | Learning Curves for Text Editors

Oh so true! πŸ˜† πŸ˜† πŸ˜†

SWFTOOLS

By , April 25, 2008 2:27 pm

SWFTOOLS

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

By , April 24, 2008 9:00 am

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

By , April 23, 2008 10:33 pm

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

By , April 21, 2008 10:12 pm

Chumby hackers go to town – Boing Boing

Gotta love open hardware! Some neat projects.

Make your own Steampunk mouse | Features | Custom PC

By , April 20, 2008 9:20 pm

Make your own Steampunk mouse | Features | Custom PC

A most unusual steampunk mouse. Nicely done!

myIPneighbors.com Reverse IP Domain Check DNS Tool

By , April 20, 2008 9:09 pm

myIPneighbors.com Reverse IP Domain Check DNS Tool

Cool tool!

Suspension of disbelief applies to networking (Scripting News)

By , April 20, 2008 8:10 am

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. πŸ™„

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)

By , April 17, 2008 8:18 am

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

By , April 12, 2008 1:55 pm

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

By , April 12, 2008 1:17 pm

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

By , April 10, 2008 6:22 pm

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!

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