October 2008
38 posts
Secure Remote Desktop on Linux and Windows →
Is Google becoming evil? →
Browser choice follow-up
It’s been almost three weeks now since I “switched” from Firefox to Safari on the Mac, and I’ve really enjoyed it. Safari is still running as snappily as the first day; I’ve had no frustrations due to missing functionality and it’s been completely stable.
I’ll admit that I have installed the Minefield beta of Firefox 3.1 to see how it compares and see the...
Heading to Camden for the first time in 3 years. Can’t believe it’s been so long!
Here I am: http://tinyurl.com/5wf3mw
Election dance-off →
Awesome!
Basel feels so sleepy it’s starting to relax me even though Im stressed. Hmmmn. More coffee
This day will go down in the books as one of them that either change the future or change me as a person. Fuckit, I don’t get paid enough.
It seems that 07:30 is really early in Weil-am-Rhein. The place feels deserted. Heading off to the office in Basel for a cracker of a day.
In a quaint little hotel in Weil Am Rhein. Been a long day and Im starving. Tomorrow back to Basel to whip more network ass.
Gah. Movie download rendered unplayable because of shitty Windows Media Player. No VLC installed. Miss my Mac:(
Just had an amazing 3 course dinner! Man, I love German cooking. Time for bed; hectic day ahead.
On the 08:30 to Basel for a network audit.
Dampkring Coffee shop - Amsterdam →
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iTunes libraries and SSD's
My now obsolete Macbook Pro (Thanks Steve) currently has a 50GB iTunes library on it - most of this seems to be taken up by the HD podcasts I subscribe to. This model came with a measly 120GB drive and I’m starting to feel rather cramped by the lack of disk space.
I use my Macbook as the central hub of all entertainment in our house, so it’s vital that I have the music and movies on...
How to disable the RFID tag in your passport →
ePassport RFID Vulnerability Demonstration →
Elvis lives!!!
I suddenly have a cruel and very real understanding of the phenomenon known as ‘Apple Tax’.
error 404 →
Why there is no 64bit Flash player yet
Following on from my frustrations with Flash on 64 bit platforms here, I found a blog post from a dev at Adobe that tracks the linux version of the Flash player.
(I linked from a Slashdot thread about the new Flash 10 player that was, incidentally, released today. Ofcourse this new version is only available in 32 bit flavour, but atleast we now know why.)
(a note for framling: the way I’m...
Assault Cube →
Here’s a cool retro game I heard about on this weeks Windows Weekly podcast.
Opensource, multiplatform and best of all - free!
iPhone copy and paste demo →
iSlayer (the same guys that brought us iStat menus and 1Passwd) has put together something that looks like a possible solution to the lacking iPhone copy and paste.
Finally! New MacBooks on the horizon: http://twitter.com/leolaporte/statuses/953006338
Fancy some H.R Giger on your laptop? →
Awesome! I have Gelaskins on both my Mac and PC laptops and they look great. This H.R Giger image looks so demon!
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Timeline of Internet memes →
Like it or not, Internet memes are something that have become part of current culture - even transcending the boundaries of the Internet into the real world. Here is a time line of these awesome little pieces of modern history.
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Poor VMWare performance on XFS →
I run a number of VM’s on my über-linux box at home and I decided to make use of XFS because itsa fast, reliable and modern file system. I also want to get some hands-on experience with it before OS X 10.6 ‘Snow Leopard’ comes out with it as its default filesystem. Even though I’m running really fast Samsung Spinpoint F1 drives with 32MB cache I had experienced really slow...
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Can't wait for Chrome on OS X? →
Here’s a tech demo of a webkit based browser for OS X that makes use of multi-process architecture.