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Islands in the Stream
Some will say that Apple's iPad is the be-all and the end-all of portable computing. I say nay. Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of Apple. But look at the history. Datapads are not a new idea - Alan Kay's DynaBook and Mark Weiser's ideas of Ubiquito... |
28-Jan-2010 |
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JavaFX: Late to the gate, but sweet
JavaFX is Sun's new Rich Client strategy for Java. If you haven't seen it yet, check out the demos on the JavaFX home page. Unlike Adobe Flash and unlike M$ Silverlight, this technology actually works on "minority" OSes - my OpenBSD laptop wi... |
27-Dec-2008 |
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Protecting Your Castle
SANS.org has a nice white paper showing how to protect your home network using OpenBSD and other free software. According to the abstract: "It is possible to clean up the back yard with Free Open Source Software and a little design. Using off the... |
21-Dec-2008 |
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Rage Against the Bailout
"The Bailout" came and went, the market dipped sharply the same day, and went back up the next day as "the market" did what it always does: balances out the interests of the many, impartially. Something governments will never be abl... |
30-Sep-2008 |
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Seam Leaves Home (on good terms)
In addition to cranking out a new stable release (2.0.1.GA) and a new early access release (2.1.0.A1), The JBoss Seam framework has been renamed to "The Seam Framework" and has a new website, http://www.seamframe... |
24-Mar-2008 |
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Now Digg This
Digg is, of course, a social networking site for rating blogs and other web resources. I just found a site that not only shows how to add a Digg button to one's blog, but applies to the particular blogging software I use, Pebble. Thanks to Patrick Melo... |
6-Feb-2008 |
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OpenStreetMap - Toronto Mapping Weekend, Dec 1-2, 2007
OpenStreetMap is a project to build a free (unencumbered) map of the world, similar in scope to the various commercial web-based maps that you might have used. They're making good progress in some areas and, in fact, the outlines of Toronto are now pre... |
27-Nov-2007 |
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A Bigger, Better Tomcat Guide
My colleague in communications, Jason Brittain, has finished revising Tomcat: The Definitive Guide. The Second Edition was just released (October/November, 2007) and covers Tomcat 6.0. Coverage has been expanded in almost all areas; the first edition's... |
4-Nov-2007 |
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IPv6 or Bust, and, Farewell IPv6 Samurai
In case you've been off-net for the last ten years, you should know that the Internet is running out of IP addresses - the telephone numbers of the Internet - at an alarming rate, and will reach the failure point within three or four years. IP is the I... |
31-Oct-2007 |
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iBrick
What can one add to this? I like a lot of Apple's technology, but their decision to make a customers' iPhone into an iBrick at the drop of a hat is leaving a lot of people puzzled. And it sends an ominous picture of the future of cell-phone tech; I'm g... |
12-Oct-2007 |
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Microsoft anti-piracy backfires
This Ars Tecnica article talks about the story, which is fairly well-known by now; Microsoft security people loaded incompetent code into their anti-piracy server (gratuitously named "(MS)Windows Genuine Advantage", when it clearly gives the ... |
3-Sep-2007 |
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What's wrong with the Web, part 42
In a story on BoingBoing, a "web developer" who got a major bit of Sticker Shock on his eye(candy)Phone from AT&T wrote: "On the way to the airport, I activated the per-use international roaming data plan - the only one offered to m... |
31-Jul-2007 |
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Nagios for monitoring everything (including virtual hosts)
For some time I've been using Nagios to monitor my own server and that of some clients. One of these machines has a batch of virtual web servers. Nagios' documentation doesn't say much about monitoring virtual hosts, and a web search only turned up peo... |
5-Apr-2007 |
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The Telephones They Are A-Changing
Asterisk is an open-source software-based telephone system. Those overpriced little boxes called "telephone systems" that give you little control over how your phone system works, are giving way to PCs and routers running Asterisk and similar... |
24-Mar-2007 |
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New Blog, Same As the Old Blog
After using my own cobbled-together blogware for a few years, I realized I'd probably never find the time to "finish" writing it. So, I decided to get something better. Around this time somebody called my attention to a web-based blogging pac... |
23-Mar-2007 |
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High-speed comes to the country
Zing showed up on schedule to install our high-speed connection. Due to, err, a certain geographical inaccuracy on my part, plus the fact that Zing no longer publish maps showing the exact location of their towers, the TV-mast antenna tower that we put... |
12-Jan-2007 |
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Tower is up, waiting for WISP
Finally! After considerable huffing and puffing, and a lot of ropes serving as a "skyhook", we got the top element in place. Guy wires for the top 10-foot segment are loosely in place (though they are not strictly necessary, they provide re... |
27-Dec-2006 |
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Guyed Triangle TV-Mast Towers: Are They Really Safe?
Somebody asked if a guyed TV tower is really safe. Well, two data points. One, I have a verbal opinion from Harold MacFarlane, of MacFarlane Electronics, who have been doing antennas since 1958, that it will, as long as it is guyed well, every 20 feet ... |
20-Nov-2006 |
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Sun WebCast regarding Open Source Java
Further to my post below about OSS Java, Sun is having an online webcast today, November 13, at 0930 PST (1230 EST); please watch it if you can and if you are interested, at http://sun.com/javan... |
13-Nov-2006 |
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Rural 'net Connectivity an Oxymoron, Or Is It?
As many of you know, I've lived in the country north of Toronto for many years, and suffered from lack of connectivity - we're still on 56KB dial-up. This has always given us an interesting perspective on bloatware web sites; sites that send several te... |
12-Nov-2006 |