Technology Blog

• Is the pace of change really such a shock? (plasticbag.org)
  ‘That’s the only way that snails catch you up. If you weren’t paying bloody attention.’
  (tags: bbc tv technology broadband internet data fat-pipes pace-of-change fear fud)
• Windows Genuine Advantage US failure map
  Los Vegas - home of Windows XP piracy!
  (tags: los-vegas piracy windows-xp wga maps microsoft)
• bloglines and memeorandum on flat files instead of SQL
  via O’Reilly Radar. good to hear I’m not the only person hacking awfulness with Data::Dumper and eval()
  (tags: flat-files sql bloglines memorandum mark-fletcher gabe-rivera databases eval data-dumper)
• This copy of Windows is not genuine.jpg (JPEG Image, 1024×768 pixels)
  hello new Linux desktop wallpaper!
  (tags: via:stx desktop-wallpaper images funny windows microsoft wga)
• Troublemaking
  Google Maps mash-up from John Handelaar, mapping the locations of all of Eircom’s DSL-enabled POPs in Ireland. excellent! some major holes in the map: not so excellent
  (tags: google-maps eircom pops dsl ireland geowanking john-handelaar irelandoffline)
• Streaming to an Airport Express in Linux using AmaroK
  using an ALSA output plugin called raop-play, which streams to the remote server. If only Apple had just used esd’s remote streaming protocol, instead of inventing their own crappy DRM-laden proprietary one, this would be a lot simpler
  (tags: esd raop raop-play linux amarok kde alsa apple airport-express lan-streaming)
• Revolution has a new name!
  everybody seems to be taking the piss out of this, for some reason
  (tags: wii nintendo tragic funny ohdear puns)

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