• Fixing Backspace in Emacs

    by  • 2005/07/21

    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 dumb you feel when you finally get so fed up with the problem that you actually go spend 15 mintutes figuring out how to fix it? <p>Well, that’s about...

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    Cellulon Laserkey – Geek Lust

    by  • 2005/07/19

    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 decent amount of time on battery. <p>Oh, yeah, and it projects a virtual keyboard on any flat surface and lets you type away as if you had a full...

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    Comments Fixed

    by  • 2005/07/19

    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 for WordPress had its own comments page. The field names in the page had different cases than what’s in my database. WordPress was designed on MySQL which on Intel...

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    Portable Video (iPod?)

    by  • 2005/07/17

    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, <a href="http://www.microvision.com">Microvision</a>. Disclosure: I still own one share of stock, valued at a bit under $6. I was going to make lots of money buying early with these guys...

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    Linux on the OQO

    by  • 2005/07/17

    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 still have to pay the Microsoft Tax to buy one but it’s a good start. Maybe OQO will soon realize they could help with their price problem by not...

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    Thump. Thump. Is This Thing On?

    by  • 2005/07/17

    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 much time trying to get it to work. Even with all error reporting turned on, including assertations, there wasn’t a single error message but it didn’t work OOTB. The...

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    Discovering Copies of Zlib

    by  • 2005/07/16

    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 update . If you have a statically linked zlib in one or more of your applications, you have to know about it, and how do you do that? Well,...

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    New iPod Battery

    by  • 2005/07/16

    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 the iPod is like new. The case took a bit of tweaking with the provided tools to crack open, but it was non-destructive and uncomplicated. Since it’s a Gen...

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