October 2007
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Mac trojan in the wild
Malware for OS X is rare, but here’s a new trojan that Mac users should know about:
A malicious Trojan Horse has been found on several pornography web sites, claiming to install a video codec necessary to view free pornographic videos on Macs. A great deal of spam has been posted to many Mac forums, in an attempt to lead users to these sites. When the users arrive on one of the web...
Multiple IM Support Coming to Google?
One of the things people like to do with Google’s products is search through their source code looking for any possible hints of features to come. As nerds users it is our duty to do that, and the new Gmail 2.0 is no exception.
Ionut over at Google OS started digging through the source code, and saw some hints of more features that are lurking around: color-coded labels, ability to remove emails...
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Oink.cd, the #1 site in the world for waffle...
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Comic: Call the steves
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Full Circle Magazine Issue #6
The independent Full Circle Magazine has just released issue 6 today, and as expected it includes some great tips on the recently released Ubuntu 7.10. More importantly they show you how you can upgrade Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) to Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon).
I’ve converted this issue of Full Circle Magazine into a JPEG image for those of you who don’t want to download the PDF, and here’s a...
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LEGO Cake by Betty Crocker
The Betty Crocker website has instructions for making “Building Block Cakes” which have a marked resemblance to our favorite injection-molded plastic blocks. I wouldn’t try stacking the cakes together.
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Southern CA wildfires: good Lord they are huge.
I’ve been following the wildfires here in Southern California on TV and online since early Sunday morning. Many friends and colleagues displaced, or about to be. Many fires in many different parts of the state, I can’t recall this many separate blazes all at once for a long time. Link to NASA images of the wildfires from space.
More resources: San Diego Union Tribune fire blog,...
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Tasered and shot with a beanbag gun for...
A man is suing police in Portland because they tasered him and shot him with a beanbag while he was videotaping their search of his neighbor’s house.
Frank Waterhouse of Oregon is suing Portland police after he was tasered and shot with a beanbag gun. His offense? Videotaping a warrantless police search on a friend’s property. The police report helpfully explains that the force...
Chocolatier resigns after "act of...
Barry Colenso, chocolatier to the Queen and Prince Charles, the man who created the first billboard made of chocolate, and who has been nicknamed “Willy Wonka” has resigned from his position at Thorntons’ after being caught by a surveillance camera as he squished a rival company’s candies.
“The master chocolatier was caught on CCTV ruining chocolates worth...
Apple raises Leopard Academic price
Filed under: Odds and ends, Leopard
One of the many benefits to working in Higher Ed (as I do), or being a student (other than all that book learnin’) is Academically Priced software. Many software vendors offer up their products that significantly lower prices for people in the academic circle. Apple has long done this, but it seems they have adjusted their pricing. Tiger cost a mere $79...
Ubuntu Repository for Deluge
Now that I’ve joined the Launchpad Beta Testers group, I’ve set up a repository for Deluge using my PPA. The repository is currently only available for Gutsy users, and as Gutsy will be final in a few days, I don’t know if I’m going to create one for Feisty as well.
To use the repository, add the following to your sources.list:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/zachtib/ubuntu gutsy main universe
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Leopard Officially Shipping on October 26
Today Apple officially announced that their next version of OSX, Leopard, will go on sale at 6 P.M. on October 26.
Leopard is also available for pre-order with a guaranteed delivery date of October 26.
Taking the usual jab at Microsoft, Steve Jobs made the following comment of Leopard pricing:
…everyone gets the ‘Ultimate’ version, packed with all the new innovative features, for just $129.
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Leopard Officially Shipping on October 26
Today Apple officially announced that their next version of OSX, Leopard, will go on sale at 6 P.M. on October 26.
Leopard is also available for pre-order with a guaranteed delivery date of October 26.
Taking the usual jab at Microsoft, Steve Jobs made the following comment of Leopard pricing:
…everyone gets the ‘Ultimate’ version, packed with all the new innovative features, for just $129.
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Chinese Rip-Offs
The Chinese are pretty brazen when it comes to ripping off well known products. This post has some great examples including Cala-Cala, Yontendo, Cerona and Sunbucks Coffee. [via] (via NOGG3R5’s shared items in Google Reader)
X-Wing fighter rocket -- build and launch videp
These rocketeers built a large scale model of an X-Wing fighter and launched it. It broke apart in the air, spectacularly. I hope they try again!
A long time ago, in a garage in Santee, California, a group of slightly insane rocketeers decided to make a flying scale model of the X-Wing fighter from what is arguably the best movie ever made, Star Wars.
We decided to make the project to...
Darth Vader Hot-Air Balloon
Amongst the 200+ hot-air balloons at the 36th Annual International Balloon Fiesta in Albuquerque, New Mexico was this Belgian-designed Darth Vader balloon. It’s creator, Benoit Lambert, was granted special permission from Lucas Films to create the balloon. Link (via NOGG3R5’s shared items in Google Reader)
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Poodle
This poodle probably feels a right tit (last year it was a dragon). Other creations at Super Groom 2007 were a Poodle Rider motorcycle, a horse sculpted into a poodle’s fur and a poodle made to look like ‘mutton dressed as lamb’ with fishnet stockings, high-heeled pixie boots and a powder pink top.
I tried to find more photos but didn’t have any luck. [via] (via...
Wal-Mart's total area larger than Manhattan's
The total area of the worlds’ Wal-Marts is larger than the total area of Manhattan; Good Magazine’s infographic tells the story.
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Beautiful Elektra Mini Verticale and Micro Casa a...
These Elektra espresso makers are actually miniature versions of grander machines used in Europe. They’re far from the most practical units for the home, with no direct water line, a low capacity storage container, and hard-to-clean drip plates, but they are awful big and shiny. Why, one could almost call them steampunk.
They’re upwards of two large, though; be aware!
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Download of the day: Linux kernel 2.6.23
Linux kernel version 2.6.23 has been released and available for download. Linus Torvalds writes:
Yeah, it got delayed, not because of any huge issues, but because of various bugfixes trickling in and causing me to reset my “release clock” all the time. But it’s out there now, and hopefully better for the wait.Not a whole lot of changes since -rc9, although there’s a few updates to mips,...
Paintball Tank
This has to be paintballing for the lazy as the driver of that tank doesn’t stand a chance. See for yourself…
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illy's Shipping Container Cafe
With a single button press this shipping container folds out into a fully-furnished cafe. Designed by Adam Kalkin and sponsored by coffee gadgets company illy, the entire unit will be on display between November 28th and December 29th at the Time Warner Center in New York. Stop by and you may even be able to score a free cup of espresso. (I would warn you that the toilet is just for looks.)
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Giant Optimus Prime Birthday Cake
Even if Optimus Prime isn’t your favourite Transformer, that’s one big cake. (via NOGG3R5’s shared items in Google Reader)
Microsoft System Center Ad
Brandon Kelly writes in:
Saw this ad in the latest issue of Information Week. Only Microsoft could possibly see a big panel of buttons and think “this must be what our customers want”. I just had to send it in to you guys.
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You Know You Are a Geek When: WiFi Shirt
This latest shirt by ThinkGeek is actually a Wi-Fi detector with a battery-pack that displays to indicate WiFi activity. Priced at $30 the shirt comes in sizes S to XXL. Runs on a few AAA batteries.
Available in late October.
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Spy Shots of the New “Mac Nano”
There have been two rumors that have been plaguing the Mac news scene for YEARS. Once being a “ultra portable” laptop and a super slim Mac. The above spy shot is rumored to be that Mac. Sporting a similar structure to the AppleTV the rumored device will shed the optical drive. Think this is real or a prototype AppleTV? Chime in.
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Show the List of Installed Packages on Ubuntu or...
While working on the instructions for compiling MonoDevelop from source, I relied heavily on the dpkg and apt-cache commands to tell me what was already installed vs what packages were available in the repository. After completing that article it occurred to me that I should explain how to show what packages are currently installed… so here we are.
The command we need to use is dpkg...
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Optimus Maximus Current Status Report
Our OLEDs were approved for mass poduction early September. First lot should arrive late October/early November. There may be a slight shift in the schedule due to possible shortages of OLED controllers supplies, that are shipping to Taiwan from Japan. At the moment the main priority for us is firmware development. We use LPC2888 Philips CPU, and Philips doesn’t have any ready software...
Nick Park and Aardman Animations are doing a new...
Nick Park and Aardman Animations are doing a new Wallace & Gromit film called Trouble At’ Mill (pronounced Trouble At The Mill). Unlike Chicken Run or Were-Rabbit, it’ll be a 30-minute film made for TV, like A Close Shave or The Wrong Trousers.
Wallace and Gromit have a brand new business. The conversion of 62 West Wallaby Street is complete and impressive, the whole house is now...
Open Source Alternative to Commercial Software -...
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Nike Amp+ iPod Remote Watch
I really like the look of the new “Amp+ Sport Remote Control” watch from Nike, which integrates with the Nike+ iPod Nano wireless receiver and training module. The LED grid is showing playback control feedback in the picture, but also displays the time.
The only place I run is to the bodega to get more cigarettes—I exercise, actually, but just loathe running; Plus: Bad knees!—but...
Get Your War On on Blackwater
Get Your War On’s trenchant commentary on Blackwater makes a good point — if you’re gonna call your savage private army of war criminals “Blackwater,” why not go whole hog and call it “Deathfang’s Midnight Posse of Merciless Skull Warriors?”
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Shuttleworth on Open Gadgets, Apple and...
Before the iPhone came out, I wrote a piece saying that the only way to send a message to Apple that you wanted an open phone with third-party application support was not to buy one. Then, a day after the iPhone was released, I bought one. (And then donated some cash to the EFF out of guilt.)
I still really like the iPhone. I still genuinely think we have a right, perhaps not just as customers,...
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Optimus Maximus to be Shipped in White
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See Which Animal You Weigh
Step on the scales and see which animal you weigh.
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Sclipo: Juggling is a Snap! -...
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T-Shirt Costumes For Halloween
Some inspiration for the Etsy costume contest maybe Darth Vader
R2D2
Storm Trooper
Spider Man
Optimus Prime
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