[Original Link] The EU is going the way of the US, and the whole patent world is in danger of becoming a farce. It’s good that, in the midst of this, people can write such well-thought-out articles as Kieren McCarthy.
[Original Link] Iraqis weren’t the only ones looting and vandalising, according to this Time report.
[Thanks to Denny for the link]
[Original Link] Well, I don’t generally promote products here (other than Apple’s!), but on my brother’s recommendation I’ve just tried Somersets Shaving Oil, and it’s remarkably good. Replaces foam/gel/soap and you just use three drops per shave, which means it comes in a very small bottle. Ideal for travelling, and amazingly good results. I have no connection with the company except for being a satisfied and surprised customer!
…as the Monkees would say.
Today I had a high-quality video conversation with a friend in California. Here’s how I did it:
I plugged a camera into my Mac. (A camcorder, in my case, but almost any Firewire camera will work and quite a few USB ones.) A camera icon appeared in my instant message window. I noticed that my friend also had one, so I double-clicked on it. And there we were, smiling at each other.
Now get this – I had done NO previous configuration. I hadn’t told my Mac I was about to connect a camera. I hadn’t installed any drivers. I had only just bought the camera and hadn’t plugged it in before. I hadn’t configured any bandwidth options or considered the fact that I was behind a firewall. It just worked. This is why I love Apple.
A Mac with an iSight camera costs less than an ISDN video conferencing solution did a few years ago, and it’s a darnSight easier to use.
[Original Link] John’s ponderings on a recent trip to Berlin.
Update, 2012: link changed – article now here.
[Original Link] I love the BBC.
[Original Link] Bruce Eckel on why Python programs, even fairly substantial systems, can work so well despite it being such a weakly-typed language. Python has been my favourite language for about six or seven years now, though when I want a GUI I usually use the web, and hence usually write PHP code because it’s so tightly integrated with Apache. PHP, though, is just PERL with some of the more horrific parts taken out. Neither can ever achieve the elegance and readability of Python.
A friend sent me this image entitled “Frodo failed” – I think it’s brilliant.
All men are mortal. Socrates was mortal. Therefore, all men are Socrates.
(Woody Allen)
It’s only as I start setting up a new machine with a hosting company that I realise how much I liked my old Cobalt RaQ. This new machine comes with Ensim’s WEBppliance software, which is pretty good, but not as good as Cobalt’s. I’m writing some notes which might help anyone else just starting with Ensim after being used to more regular Linux machines.
[Original Link] Neil McIntosh writes:
I thought Who Remembers Me (in Web watch) had an amusing URL — http://www.whoremembersme.com/ — in accidentally incorporating whore members, but this pales before the URL used by Powergen’s Italian company, http://www.powergenitalia.com/
Thanks to the current NTK #294 for the link. [onlineblog.com]
This will be of little interest to most people, but somebody may find it on Google and be grateful! I have seen a few queries about this out there, and I’ve hit the problem twice recently, so I thought it worth posting.
If you a have a WET11 wirless ethernet bridge or similar product, and you’re having problems getting DHCP to work across it, it may be that your DHCP client is not setting the ‘broadcast bit’ in its DHCP query. I fixed this on my Linux DHCP server by adding:
always-broadcast on;
at the appropriate point in /etc/dhcpd.conf. See the dhcpd.conf man page for more info.
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