Author Archives: ward
fuel pump
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
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
Google Mars
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
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
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
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
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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greed
So now the authors of The Holy Blood and The Holy Grail, a non-fiction book from 1982, are suing Dan Brown in the UK for copyright infringement. They claim he “lifted the central theme” from their work and used it … Continue reading
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confiscating Firefox CDs
This article is simply unbelievable. A UK ‘Trading Standards Officer’ confiscated Firefox CDs that were being sold by a company in the UK. Key quote: ‘If Mozilla permit the sale of copied versions of its software, it makes it virtually … Continue reading
opensparc!
I missed this earlier in the week, but it seems Sun has promised to release the full chip design for their new UltraSparc T1 “Niagara” processors under the GPL. They’ve already released some more general information at the OpenSparc website. … Continue reading
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