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May 26, 2006
MacBook motion sensor malarkey
MacBook motion sensor malarkey gets useful | Reg Hardware
MacBook motion sensor malarkey
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SmackBook Pro
Medallia Blog: SmackBook Pro Archives
SmackBook Pro
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TV-B-Gone
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May 22, 2006
A Real Way to Prevent Spam?
See the cute Matrix-like Flash animation about how using a combination of upper and lower case letters in your email address can be used to encode a key that will prevent spam. It doesn't explain how this will help. At the end of the animation, you're invited to download trial software that makes this work, but it's for Windoze only. Too bad it's not available for Mac OS X or Linux. I would also want to know more about it before I use such a product.
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Magazine for Big Thinkers
MakeZine.com: MAKE: Technology on Your Time
For me, this is just a fun magazine to look at and wish I had the time and money to do some of this myself. For other people, those who do more than think big, but can actually do big, this magazine is probably even more useful.
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Innovative Electric Vehicles
This web site (which I found through an ad on makezine.com has a lot of interesting electric-powered cars, scooters, motorcycles, and bikes. I wish the web site were easier to get around and showed more pictures. Their PDF brochures didn't display well in the PDF plugin I use or Apple's Preview application.
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May 18, 2006
Guts of the Newest MacBook
Disassembled MacBook by KODAWARISAN_Page1
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May 12, 2006
Online Comic: Healing Hands
"Healing Hands, Part 1" is a nicely drawn comic. The artist adds a new frame each day. I had a little trouble viewing it at first, because my keyboard has "page up" and "page down" keys, but no "page left" or "page right" keys.
Posted by lsloan at 09:18 AM | Comments (0)
May 05, 2006
Luma LDAP Admin and Browser
I've been revisiting a page from my past by looking at OpenLDAP recently. My first job with the Univ. of Michigan in 1994 was working for Tim Howes, the guy who developed LDAP.
A colleague of mine needed help determining if he could configure Apache to use an LDAP server for user authentication and authorization. I've run into trouble using the OpenLDAP that's included with Mac OS X 10.4, so I joined the ldap@umich.edu mail group to possibly get some help.
Today I saw a suggestion in the digests I get from the group for Luma - LDAP utility, browser and more.... The screenshots look great. It was designed for various Linux distros, but they say some have gotten it to run under Mac OS X. Looking at the requirements, I see that it's written using Python, my favorite programming language. I'm even more impressed.
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