Author: Marc

Freebie Linux machine

A while back Yahoo! had an event where they gave away spare, old computing equipment to employees for free. I picked up a Stackable Systems rackmount server with a Pentium 3 850 MHz and a 36 GB Seagate Cheetah drive. My hope was...

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CSI

Got this in the mail today and found it to be amusing: I wonder what's next..."Desperate Rabbis"... ? :-)

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Developer Todo

Interesting little program for maintaining todo lists: freshmeat.net: Project details for Developer Todo I gave it a quick spin and it's nice, but I've been pretty happy with using TWiki for managing tasks, plus it doubles as my...

Thunderbird

Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.1 Release Candidate – MozillaZine Talkback

Release candidate builds of Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.1 are now available. Like last month's Mozilla Firefox 1.0.1, this new version will just fix a few security and stability bugs; it's not a major update. Mozilla Thunderbird...

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Search Panel

Here's an interesting little search sidebar that uses the Yahoo Web APIs. I found about it from this press release. Search Panel, the popular browser companion which lets users search as they surf, now supports Yahoo! search....

TiVo

Galleon

Damn, I wish I had a TiVo that could run HME (I have a TiVo Series 1 and a DirecTiVo - neither of which can run the TiVo 7.x OS needed for HME :-() so that I could try this: http://galleon.sourceforge.net...

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Fixed my blog layout for IE

I noticed while posting to my blog that the layout was totally and completely broken on IE (but fine on Firefox). After some trial and error, I tracked it down to my x2vnc post, which had some wide content inside <pre>...