It is crazy where google leads us. I was looking for a way to make a
linux screensaver display a webpage. I thought this would be a good way
to distribute information in hospitals. At any rate, completely
unrelated to that quest (which has not yet been completed, lazyweb?),
but discovered along the journey was this:
telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
Go ahead try [...]
One of my favorite bloggers, Ethan Zuckerman wrote an in-depth review of the new one laptop per child. Frequent readers of my blog, know that I have an infinite appetite for information about ultra cheap world changing computing devices.
There is some interesting geeky stuff in here about flash disk file systems, power consumption, hinge design, [...]
The Web Development Toolbar, and the DOM Inspector are
two Firefox plugins that I always considered to be must haves for any
type of website development. Recently, however I discovered Firebug. It
also lets you browse the DOM of a page, and view the source as it is
currently rendered by the browser, but it also has a [...]
Installing Windows (XP, 2000 whatever) under Ubuntu:
Install vmplayer:
sudo apt-get install vmware-player
Make a directory for windows and change into it:
mkdir windows;cd windows
Create an empty vmplayer disk image:
qemu-img create -f vmdk windows.vmdk 2G Formatting ‘windows.vmdk’,
fmt=vmdk, size=2097152 kB
Put a vmplayer configuration file in the directory. Get mine by running
this command:
wget http://www.vdomck.org/~crazy/windows.vmx
Put your windows CD in the cdrom drive. [...]
Guest blog! My mother-in-law wrote the following poem after visiting her daughter in Nicaragua, and I thought it worth sharing:
Esperanza
Esperanza, standing in front of her hut in Nicaragua,
teacher of many,
mother of two,
two daughters, Lucia and Maria,
18 and 20 years old,
strong and proud like their mother.
Esperanza, how can you let them go?
“How can I not [...]
