October 2008

GNOME has a good page describing some of the concerns with linking GPL’ed software against the OpenSSL libraries. Debian believes that as long as OpenSSL… Read More »The OpenSSL / GPL Debate

To get the presidential debates as mp3’s: go to the [CSPAN YouTube channel](www.youtube.com/cspan) Play the debate (before you go home, e.g.) Pull the debate .flv… Read More »Presidential Debate to mp3 HOWTO

Saw this train car at Clark’s Trading Post: and it made me think of SSL certificates. I think that qualifies me as certifiably hopeless.

From today’s new Macbook announcement: 11:01AM Q: Concern about the glossy screens. Are you going to offer another option? A: Steve: We’re going all glass… Read More »My Last Mac

I got a spam today advertising a ‘virtual conference’ called CISSE 2008. Apparently they compiled at least part of their spam list by harvesting the… Read More »Anybody Heard of CISSE 2008?

I noticed today that quality CD-R media has crossed the price line with quality DVD-R media, and is now more expensive than DVD-R*. This means… Read More »The End of CD-R

I’ve been writing a short note here after each minor release of Mac OS X 10.5, noting the major problems with it, and 10.5.5 is… Read More »Leopard is Still a Turkey

This will sync any attached iPods if iTunes is running: #!/bin/sh osascript <<_END_OF_UPDATE tell application "Finder" set processList to get name of every process if… Read More »iPod Command-Line Sync on Mac OS X

From Fedora Weekly News: Daniel P. Berrange laid it out there. “There is pretty much zero chance that Fedora 10 will include a Xen Dom0… Read More »Fedora Strands Xen Users

I just ordered a new hard drive from PC Connection and when I went to check out I got quite a surprise. I realize that… Read More »Cost of Home vs. Business Shipping