July 2005

Bruce Schnier blogs about the latest Cisco problem. I’ve been steering people away from Cisco firewalls/IDS/VPN because you have to buy the expensive service contract… Read More »More Trouble in Cisco Land

You know those annoying problems that you just live with, even though they’ve been annoying you for the past decade or so? You know how… Read More »Fixing Backspace in Emacs

The Cellulon LaserKey CL800BT is an input device designed for small portable computers. Like my Treo 650. It supports Bluetooth for input and lasts a… Read More »Cellulon Laserkey – Geek Lust

The comments should be fixed now. Sorry to those who tried and got a PHP error screen. <p>For the interested: the Quentin theme I installed… Read More »Comments Fixed

A fellow at MIT is keeping a list of all the New England Ham Radio and Electronics Flea Markets. Great deals on stuff you never… Read More »New England Computer Junk

OQO is providing preliminary support for running linux on its sexy overpriced handheld. Screen, power management, and Wi-Fi are covered along with decent instructions. You… Read More »Linux on the OQO

Bob Cringely talks about a Video iPod and iTunes Movie Store in this week’s I, Cringely. <p>He also mentions one of my own favorite companies,… Read More »Portable Video (iPod?)

Well I finally managed to get WordPress running. It’s a blogging app focused on usability, but unfortunately it’s written in PHP. I spent way too… Read More »Thump. Thump. Is This Thing On?

Everybody running a linux machine needs to update their copy of the zlib libarary. If your application is dynamically linked, you’re golden – yum -y… Read More »Discovering Copies of Zlib

If you have an iPod battery that’s showing its age, replace it! I recently ordered a 2100mAH battery from TechRestore for under $30 and now… Read More »New iPod Battery