Archive For July 6th, 2005

Cheap computer components suppliers.

Here’s a list of suppliers who can do you for computer parts. Some UK based, some Irish, but useful comments to go along with them.

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The Digital Shopping Dilemma

You bought a new camera? Oh goody! Oh look, there’s a newer version with shiny new features! Doh! Get over it and take great photos! Read more in this essay by Mike Johnston.

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Clinger

Well, ladies, you’ve always wondered how to control your man. Now lead him around with the clinger!

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National Geographic Pictures of the Year 2004

Several amazing photos here! Wow!

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Canon EOS 20D – compact flash corruption

I’m still not sure what corrupted my CF cards. I did a simple test this morning. I set the quality to RAW+L which produced about 10MB of data for every photo. I quickly filled the CF card without incident. Afterwards I removed and replaced the lens in case that caused the corruption but it still [...]

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Pigeon Lives!

Early this morning we discovered a pigeon lying on the ground outside our front door. He had his head tucked into his plumage but was obviously alive. We tried to resuscitate him with Rescue Remedy but apart from feeble attempts to turn himself around he quickly became comotose again. We couldn’t leave him outside, cats [...]

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ESR: "We Don't Need the GPL Anymore"

I don’t agree with ESR in this interview but it’s always good to take on different view-points. They cover a lot more GPL related topics too, so enjoy!

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It's a great time to be an entrepreneur

Here’s a great article on starting out in business. You still need a good business plan and an idea, but the easier it is to get going, the more will survive! Here’s some advice for high tech startups. (all via delicious)

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OpenID: an actually distributed identity system

OpenID looks very promising and maybe WordPerss can play a part in it if the work is put into it. It’s certainly something that would benefit WPMU. A community of users could post comments on each other’s blogs and bias any moderation rules in favour of the posted data getting through. It doesn’t address trust [...]

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The EU Software Patents Debate

Niall Walsh is transcribing yesterday’s debate in the EU parliament. Unfortunately his post to the ILUG hasn’t appeared in the archive yet, but Justin Mason’s reply includes Niall’s email. Niall transcribed Brian Crowley’s speech in favour of patents. It’s a good read, and unfortunately ill-advised as he seems to think the patent system provides protection [...]

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