Saturday 06 August 2005 at 09:31 am
Physics -
What to Do If You Have a Proposal for the Unified Field Theory?. I'm sure this poor Physicist has to deal with his fair share of amateur whackos...
Tiny
Palm Size UNIVERGE WNX Server from NEC.
Useful resource for open source PABX -
Asterisk Documentation Project.
A new music video a day from
ClipTip.
Convert 3D models in foldable paper 3D models via
Pepakura.
A historical guide to
Paint by Numbers.
An article on an interesting open source documentation tool
ThoutReader. Looks similar to RoboHelp and its cross-platform.
This looks fascinating -
Facade. With a 'game' review over
here.
Wednesday 03 August 2005 at 06:34 am
Drunkenblog wonders
who is steering OS X as releases seem to lack focus and quality. I remember the bad old days of MacOS 7.5.3 for new PCI PowerPC's - this was a nightmare after a rock solid OS 7.5.
Cambridge - wonderful images from my favourite English town -
Cambridge In Colour.
Oh no the world is coming to an end -
Apple Releases Two Button Mouse. It only took them 20 years....
As seen on slashdot -
29 Vector Drawing Packages Compared.
Windows -
Authentication auditing.
Good ideas -
Five Tips for being successful at Microsoft. Three and Four are pretty good but I don't think many people have the luxury of Tip One.
Security -
Assess system security using a Linux LiveCD.
TV -
OpenVision. Looks like a potentially cool way to watch your favourite shows via the the internet.
Sunday 31 July 2005 at 1:23 pm
Explanation of
Firewire and how best to use it. Also explains why its superior to USB.
Reading -
Michael Palins travel books are online and available to read for free.
The first in a series -
Arrival of NX.
Programming -
Getting started with Ruby.
Nice music review site covers one of my favourite albums -
Techno Animal - Brotherhood of the Bomb.
Wikipedia article on
Plan9.
Flash -
XYNTService open source admin tool for Window.
Thursday 28 July 2005 at 06:16 am
Yahoo buys
Konfabulator and releases it for free. Originally OSX only there has been a Windows release for a few months now too (seeing as how Apple took the 'widget' space with their Dashboard in Tiger).
Arlo Rose (one of the Konfabulator prime movers) also has a long history with Mac Classic GUI enhancements - primarily with
Kaliedoscope. Which was developed in conjunction with another Mac Classic GUI genius -
Greg Landweber. Greg bought cool 3D buttons, font smoothing and nifty window-dressing to Mac Classic OS 7/8/9 throughout the 90's.
Digital Identity is going to be huge in the very near future -
Passel seems to be a new open-source offering in this area. I guess until it gains some measure of support it might end up going nowhere - afterall how popular is PGP or digital signing - both of these have been available as add-ons or built in to popular mail clients for several years now.
Someone finally adds
basic voting buttons into the Notes mail template. Not really a big item IMHO but it will at least stop the whiners coming from Outlook that say 'Outlook used to do this; how do I send out my super vital Karaoke venue survey to the social committee without them ?'. Now if someone could fix the unread mail count bug and do a better out of office assistant...
Another great article by
Joel Spoelsky on how quality beats quantity when it comes to programmer/software quality (or many other things). It'd be interesting to see the quality of the code produced as a result of jobs that have gone 'offshore'.
On a musical tack
Popmatters has an interview with Bob Mould of Husker Du fame. Interesting to see his move into DJ-ing / Techno.
Rather brilliant
Rollflat Camping Cup/Bowl/Dish.
PGP creator looks to
encrypt voice-over-ip.
An American perspective -
Too Much Work-Life Balance? New Zealand Thinks So.
Monday 25 July 2005 at 06:48 am
Strange use for a mail filter -
Can a Bayesian spam filter play chess?.
Alan Moores
V for Vendetta is to be released shortly as a
film.
Cool but pointless -
Phonograph which records onto a styrofoam cup.
DrunkenBlog
interviews ex-Omni founder and current Delicious Monster founder Wil Shipley. Wils company wrote the awesome
Delicious Library media catalog application.
Movies re-enacted in 30 seconds by rabbits -
Angry Alien Productions.
Dave Winer (of More, ThinkTank, Frontier, Manila and RSS fame)
has released his new OPML Editor into the wild.
Friday 22 July 2005 at 06:27 am
Nothing like a company with a sense of humour -
Zoom right in with the highest magnification to see what the moon is really made of over on Google Moon.
IBM continue to host excellent training material -
PHP Tutorial - Part 1 of 3.
Another useful tool from Microsoft -
Port Reporter.
On Wired -
Chess 960 is a Bobby Fischer devised chess variant. Looks interesting.
As seen on Slashdot -
Foldable GUI Windows.
As seen on Tinyapps -
RunFast a nice CLI Launcher and
IPSniffer a network troubleshooting tool.
These guys make some excellent freeware Windows utilities (Treesize is incredibly useful) -
Jam Software Freeware.
Gotta read this -
Restoring Exchange on different hardware. Not as simple as Lotus Notes I suspect.
Wednesday 20 July 2005 at 6:35 pm
Procrastination -
Calendar on a pentagon dodecahedron.
Picked up from this fantastic list of
Online Generators.
English -
Common errors. Hundreds of alphabetised use-case examples.
Wiring -
Handbook of hardware pinouts, cables schemes and connectors layouts.
iSCSI -
iSCSI on the Cheap. Looks like a great way to learn about this technology.
Saturday 16 July 2005 at 06:43 am
Useful for testing -
Hello World in 196 different computer languages.
Luddite -
Why I bought a typewriter on eBay. Everytime word crashes I'm always tempted . . .
Stop -
An IT spending manefesto. Instead of Office and Mail spend on collaboration and mobile tools.
Single Sign On -
Sun have open sourced their SSO solution.
Open BSD - building a
OpenBSD LiveCD.
Over on RedFerret -
IYHY - converts a website into a mobile site by stripping out extraneous formatting and graphics.
Aeronix have built the ZipIt handheld IM client (featured previously in a hack that provides a way to look through an Aibo cam) -
details here.
An excellent feature on the
Post Rock - Lost Generation. I have several of these records - highly recommend early Tortoise, any Stereolab (although I have a thing for their early drone), Seefeel, Slint etc etc.
Wednesday 13 July 2005 at 9:14 pm
A couple of interesting perspective on recent terrorist activity in London -
A letter to the terrorists from London,
The emanation of the Giant Albion,
Tim Bray - Just ignore them.
And of course this is
Stupid,
Stupid,
Stupid.
Forensic tools -
Forensic Acquisition Utilities for Windows. Includes netcat, wipe, md5, dd etc.
A Firefox extension which lets you save and load form entries as files -
Scribe.
A basic guide to writing
Firewall rules with IPTables including using a GUI frontend to simplify rule creation.
A look at
Xen Virtualisation.
Another Unix course for beginners -
How to look like a UNIX Guru.
Storage -
Risks and Threats to Storage Area Networks.
Privacy -
Virtual Privacy Machine is another Linux on USB key system running in
Qemu giving you secure/private email/web/network access via
Tor. Similar to the
Metropipe VPM which at least has a free download available.
Windows -
Log Parser looks like a handy tool for getting something useful from Windows Event Logs.
I've wondered this too -
Why are movies so bad ?.
As seen on Metafilter -
Frank Herbert (Dune) Interview from 1969.
I've been poking around looking at Document Management Systems and came across the Open Source
KnowledgeTree. Looks like it covers the basics.
Thursday 07 July 2005 at 06:37 am
Visual code profiler for Linux -
Rapido. Useful tool for developers.
YALOS (Yet Another List of Software) -
'Must Have' Windows Software.
The
Zapper has that 'As Seen on TV look to it (especially after clicking through the
Redferret link) but if it actually works it would seem to be pretty handy.
Another disk eraser -
DBAN - Dariks Boot and Nuke. Handy for disposing of hardware.
Yet more on the
craptastic nature of Microsoft Exchange clustering as compared to Lotus Notes/Domino.
I am printing
these off now. Darwin Rules!
This looks hilarious -
Kingdom of Loathing is a lo-fi multi-player role playing game.
Finished
Charles Stross 'Singularity Sky' - highly recommended sci-fi. My
Pelican finally arrived and I've decided its a lot like
Mogwai if Mogwai were American Metal fans - its not quite the uber-heavy drone the Amazon reviews make out - its still worth checking out as its kind of instrumental metal without vocals and twiddly solos. If you are after super slo-mo heavy drone you really can't go past
Earths 'Earth 2' album.
