Monthly Archives: March 2006

SBC traceroute weirdness

Posted on March 27, 2006 by ward

I’m in Berkeley for 2 days. I’m using my host’s SBC internet connection. Out of curiosity I did a quick traceroute to www.gnu.org (in Boston): $ traceroute www.gnu.org traceroute to gnu.org (199.232.41.10), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 10.xx.xx.xx … Continue reading →

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more OpenSPARC

Posted on March 21, 2006 by ward

Yep, Sun kept their promise and released the full chip design for their latest Sparc CPU under the GPLv2. You need a SPARC system with (expensive) commercial software to do anything with the design, but I still think this is … Continue reading →

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WDS

Posted on March 18, 2006 by ward

So I finally got here on Wednesday. We’ve been doing lots of cool stuff meanwhile. I’ve installed a VDSL link between the two main buildings, giving us network access in the Villa. The Zyxel Prestige 841C/841 I bought are reliable, … Continue reading →

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fuel pump

Posted on March 14, 2006 by ward

So I should be in Switzerland now. And I was underway, in fact the plane had just passed Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada when the pilot announced a fuel pump had died, and we had to return to Boston. Too bad … Continue reading →

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OLPC

Posted on March 13, 2006 by ward

MIT’s One Laptop Per Child project (OLPC), i.e. the famous $100 laptop, is now planning to use LinuxBIOS! Check out the proposed hardware specs. This is major : there are currently no laptops that can run LinuxBIOS. If this happens, … Continue reading →

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Google Mars

Posted on March 13, 2006 by ward

OK, this is way cool: Google Mars. If you’ve ever read Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson, some of the names of geological formations should be familiar. Check out Olympus Mons – 21 km (!) above… above what actually? How … Continue reading →

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docking boxes

Posted on March 13, 2006 by ward

WordPress 2 uses Docking boxes which are pretty nice. I’ve integrated them into one of my projects, and other than the fact that there seems to be a limit of 10 boxes on the number of boxes whose state is … Continue reading →

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lawst

Posted on March 11, 2006 by ward

We went to see the ‘parody 2006′ at Harvard Law yesterday. It was hilarious – even though I only got maybe 25% of the jokes, not actually being in law school. Recommended – the last performance is tonight, and I … Continue reading →

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dropping stuff

Posted on March 9, 2006 by ward

I don’t know what it is, but I really often see people drop stuff when I’m walking the streets of Boston. Last sunday coming out of the supermarket, I had to run after someone who had lost a bottle of … Continue reading →

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useless AIM SDK

Posted on March 6, 2006 by ward

So AOL has released an AIM SDK allowing third parties to interface directly with the AIM network. Great news, right? Well, not really. The FAQ states: Developers are not permitted to build Custom Clients that are multi-headed or interoperable with … Continue reading →

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