Unclassified

Keep It Simple

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Keep It Simple Disney's decision to no longer pass go and collect, seemed like the perfect time to update our K.I.S.S applet. I had a little bit more time th…

Since Eazle is now bound to all forthcoming versions of Red Hat, I've decided to give it a try. I have to admit that their browser-based interface is quite intuitive and extremly easy to use. I've never been a big fan of Gnome's Midnight Commander (file manager) which is one of…
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Game Over

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MP3 Connector I just ordered one. We currently have to un/plug our computers from the stereo in our home-office. Sounds like this little device will do the t…

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Dumb mofo

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Dumb mofo "If you really want to know what's going on in the world, you tap your query into a search engine. And what better engine than Google. Our simple q…

"The community wants one Java…
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Java

Sun Day

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Sun Day Yesterday was a good day at Sun's TechDays developer conference. Some of the sessions were a little too R-rated for my taste, but still quite informa…

The keynote was non-other than the father of Java himself. He answered questions jolted down by the audience. I wrote some of the good ones…
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Mac

Macworld Keynote

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Macworld Keynote Live Report from Webcast. My delayed commentary is below. Mac OS X Steve showed the new Apple menu, customizable windows toolbars, popup men…

iTunes, MP3 recorder, CD ripping made easy, songs library manager with power search capabilities, drag & drop playlists, one-click…
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News

Daily Newz

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Mac OS 9.1 details available, due Tuesday. A new nanokernel, new process manager, FireWire 2.7, a new version of OpenGL, a Mac OS-X compatible startup disk c…

Nearly one in…
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Unclassified

DVDs

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Since there was nothing interesting at the movies, we decided to rent a few DVDs and videos yesterday. So far we've watched 28 Days, which was better than we…

Official preliminary report of Air France Concorde Crash. "During the take-off run the front right tyre of the left main landing gear was destroyed between V1 and VR, very probably because it ran over a piece of metal. The destruction of the tyre caused damage, either directly or indirectly, to the aircraft structure and systems, leading to the crash less than one minute…
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