Ok, since the latest scare regarding the iphone being hijacked by a series of invisible text messages, the update to version 3.0.1 was mandatory. Apparently, malicious code could be sent to the iphone via text messages, and all the rightful owner sees is a short message with a white square. More details in this...
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As the year 2008 is about to depart (it has already departed in several parts of the globe), I leave you with a few free apps for the iphone, probably the coolest new gadget of the year. All of them are free apps and can be downloaded via itunes and the app store. 1....
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Happy birthday to the daily blah blah. Four years ago today in the friendly pages of blogger.com, this blog saw the light (of the day? of the internet? is there light in the internet?) Later on, the blog moved to the even friendlier pages of wordpress.com. It started as a place for daily rants and...
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One of the oldest (if not the oldest) flame wars in newsgroups back in the glory day of rn and command lines was: Emacs v. vi. Who was the best editor, what editor real programmers used and so on. Apparently, this war has been settled once and for all through the amazingly...
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I came across this link using stumble, a nice little thingy which redirects you to various places across the net, places and pages you either like or dislike and you let the system know about it. Anyway, enjoy the little piece of proof that human idiocy and ignorance know no limits. http://view.break.com/335023 – Watch more free...
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… er, to blogging I meant to say. The results just came in and the verdict is: 74%How Addicted to Blogging Are You? Why don’t you try it yourself? I. Powered by ScribeFire.
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You must read “When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth” (link to full story text), a fantastic, and scary, and grab-you-by-the-throat, and not-want-to-let-it-until-it’s-over story authored by Cory Doctorow.  As Cory writes in his site, he started writing the story just as London was being bombed by terrorists in July 2005.  The story chronicles a doomsday scenario...
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An absolutely hilarious story about a little war going on “… in the small town of Fuddenheim”, this is a story (in allegoric language) of the opensource movement and a well known Corporation located somewhere in the northwest of the US. Read more of the story of Rinus Poortvliet, Omnifast GmbH, Linexx eV and more,...
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Or, since numbers are more elegant in detailing the unique points of our view(s), today’s date is 06/06/06. Tuesday, June 6th or the 6th of June or simply 06/06/06. Unlike, an earlier posting in this blog which could have been interpreted differently based on one’s location on the globe and one’s reading of the calendar,...
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I stumbled across this absolutely amazing clock displaying year/month/day/hour/min/sec. It requires Flash, but you just have to marvel at the care the designer took to make it happen… Catch this screenshot of the clock in action Enjoy, IKD
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