Monthly Archives: February 2004

Hardware fun

Sometime this week, I'll be upgrading my Toshiba laptop from a 20GB hard drive to a 60GB hard drive. Laptop drives are ridiculously expensive, but I couldn't stand the 20-gigger anymore. I also bought a conversion kit for the 20GB drive... probably plop it into an older computer or something. Funny how 20GB doesn't seem [...]
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Awesome program

Just discovered ELOG, which is something like a weblog, but useful in a much different way. ELOG is a standalone C app that runs its own little webserver and allows you to keep an electronic logbook. Not something really suited for weblogging (at least not as I see it) but it's great for keeping notes and [...]
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February Tool of the Month

February's Tool of the Month column has been posted over at UnixReview.com. This month, I covered Kuake, XBindKeys and put in a quick plug for WordPress.
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How not to get a product covered

Just got (another) email from a PR person asking me to write about a product, without actually giving any link to the company's website, any real clue as to what the product does or how it works — even any clue as to whether the product even runs on Linux — which is kind of [...]
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Orkutted, part 2

So, I signed up for Orkut the other day and I've spent a bit of time tooling around the system. First, it's an interesting concept — though not unique. Basically, you sign up through an invitation and then you can join various "communities" and link up with people you know, and attempt to link up [...]
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Orkutted

So this is a bit interesting. I got an invite to join the Orkut social network or whatever... tooling around the service I see a lot of people that I've met at various Linux trade shows or that I've spoken to for interviews and whatnot, but not a lot of people that I could actually [...]
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Comparison of devfs and udev

Some Comparison Of devfs And udev, summarized on Kernel Traffic. Interesting reading...
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