Archive for the ‘technology’ Category
Wednesday, January 17th, 2007 |
It looks like someone have been doing something about this. Amit Singh from Google, have been working on FUSE (File-system in USErspace).
It is supposed to make is possible to read/write NTFS (and other non-supported filesystems) on OSX.
But as usual with these things it comes with a warning: “Before opening new issues, please look at the Wiki, especially the FAQ and the HOWTO articles, to see if your problem is already discussed there. It would also be helpful to look at the current and past problems reported in the ‘Issues’ section.“
Posted in apple, software | 4 Comments »
Monday, January 15th, 2007 |
Someone came up with the idea of using a printer cartridge (handheld) to create a handheld printer…. Maybe the result isn’t that great but one have to give this guy 9 out of 10, just for coming up with the idea.
Posted in computers, hardware | No Comments »
Wednesday, December 20th, 2006 |
Today it was announced that BBC have signed a deal with Azureus ‘Zuedo to allow them to distribute BBC programs.
According to the announcemet no information about prices, etc have been release, but it is mentioned that programs like ‘Red Dwarf’, ‘Doctor Who’, ‘League of Gentleman’, and other classic shows will be part of the deal.
One word: GREAT!!
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Wednesday, December 13th, 2006 |
If you as I, have been trying to get CarbonCopy (CCC) to work on your IntelMac, and successfully failed, then what?
Well as it turnes out it looks like the problem is not CCC, but psync which is used to do the actual copy, so if you did click the ‘install psync’ in CCC, then it will install a psync which is compiled for Perl 5.8.1 – guess what 10.4.8 comes with Perl 5.8.6.
So what you need to do is
1) remove the ‘wrong’ version of psync;
# sudo rm /usr/bin/psync
# sudo rm -rf /Library/Perl/5.8.1
2) install the development tools
3) download MacOSX::File from CPAN (http://search.cpan.org/dist/MacOSX-File/)
4) compile and install it
# tar zxfv MacOSX-File-0.71.tar.gz
# cd MacOSX-File-0.71
# perl Makefile.pl
# make
# make test
# sudo make install
And then CCC should work…. That is not so difficult, but slightly anoying.
Posted in apple, howto, software | No Comments »
Monday, December 11th, 2006 |
Earlier this year I wrote that Garmin would support OSX by the end of this year (according to a press release on their website). Well now according to a new press release, it will not be this year, but sometime in the first half of 2007.
How can I express my disapointment, this is one of the must have applications if one is having both a Garmin GPS, and a Mac.
Also I have to admit, that I never really did considder a TomTom, and even with this, I’m not going to. But it still sucks.
Posted in apple, gps, software | 8 Comments »
Sunday, December 3rd, 2006 |
Is there something more anoying, than going to a website, and then suddenly you remember that you did not turn down the volumes?
The most (for me) right now is a Danish newspaper – Jyllands Posten – also in commonly called Jyllands Pesten
For some odd reason they think that people actually like get spoken adverts – I don’t and I really really get anoyed
Yes I know that there are extensions for Firefox, which can block these things, but then they break other websites (which I need to have access to through my work, or for other reasons).
Why the <insert apropiate word here> can one not mute the Macromedia plugin?
I would like to suggest that everyone, who run into these websites, write to the webmaster and tell how much they like this… maybe with some luck they will stop using them.
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Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006 |
Doing some other reading I stumbled over this thread (letter to OLPC) over at bsd-misc. First OLPC is short for One Laptop Per Child, and it is an initiate to produce US $100 Laptops which can be distributed to children in the 3rd world – read more here.
Now the interesting part is that Redhat signed a NDA with Mavell to be able to write the wireless driver for these laptops, which means that this driver will probably be a binary only driver. And as far as I know this is against GPL, and the spirit of OpenSource – read more here for how RedHat thinks about other companies who have done something which is not even as bad
Now the intersting part, when one follows the thread on bsd-misc are comments like:
Red Hat (and a number of other linux distros) are morally bankrupt. By that I mean the sit under the linux banner touting the GPL, and yet this is not how they act. They act in a way that helps to ensure that
GPL'ed software can not continue to be written.
And it goes on.
For some odd reason no one picked up one this, normally one would expect ./ to be filled with outraged people, who would demand that the driver code would be released, or that RedHat should stop working with them, or RedHat should close…. but no, silence…..
Me personally could probably not care much, I think it’s a shame that the OLPC choose a chipset which would require an NDA (and therefor a close source driver), but on the other hand it is a better thing if it will be possible to distribute 10 million of these laptops in the 3rd world
On the other hand, one can wonder why people is not yelling/complaing/ranting about this, as there are people out there who believe that close source (also know as proprietary software) is something which should be banned, or said in another way that it is something the guy below invented.
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