Archive For September 7th, 2004

The Joy of Usability

The comic going along with this article really caught my attention – how many times have you taken apart an old joystick to add the auto-fire switch from another joystick, or to repair the plastic struts that broke while you were playing Combat School! Must read OK/Cancel: The Joy of Usability too of course!

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Auto Generated Passwords

I picked this up via delicious earlier but Simon Willison has a lengthy post about it. Good stuff!

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Gmail madness!

Yet another “Anyone-want-a-gmail-invite?” thread on ILUG prompted the following on #linux: <DoC> I’m not that annoyed over it. It’s just there’s enough cruft to wade though on ilug as it is. <DoC> And the sender gets added to my ~/.enemies <DoC> If you don’t have ~/.enemies, you don’t have character. <dredg> DoC: excellent. i’m quoting [...]

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b2 to WordPress rss feeds

One problem with changing blog software is the fact that URLs change. I’ve provided a redirection rule here so you don’t need to change the settings in your aggregator. Take a look at the feed now if you like! RewriteRule ^b2rss2.php(.*)? /wordpress/wp-inst/wp-feed.php?feed=rss2 [QSA]

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Shock! Look at those dogs!

I covered it before but here’s the page page where that picture appeared. I think Chuck and Loretta need to examine their site carefully..

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Going to try debian

A lengthy thread on the ILUG list over the last few days has sparked my interest in installing Debian again. I tried Stable several years ago and wasn’t impressed by how ancient all the packages were. I should have used testing as it’s fairly up to date!

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A Faster, Better Behaved Windows XP

Well, wouldn’t you know it? I don’t have a “Windows” category! Anyway, this guide and links should be very useful to anyone stuck in the dark-side of computing!

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Queen album finally released in Iran

Wow! It took this long to get Queen music into Iran, legally! (via songz)

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