Cloudy Thinking

Sensible Open Source blog published this note that shows how to use the Bash shell to customize the command line interface on the Macintosh OS-X system.

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Steve Lohr writes in The New York Times about VMWare vs. Microsoft, and the importanance of virtualization technology.

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Nathan Harrington, a programmer at IBM, shows how to use Perl and Grep to search LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) without making the search field-specific. Very cool.

Check out this short but comprehensive list of Ubuntu Linux resources.

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Dan Bricklin has released WikiCalc which blends wiki and spreadsheet.

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Andy Monfried writes about his First Game Changing Deal. It’s a fun, inspiring read. [via Fred Wilson]

Reverend A. K. M. Adam [AKMA in the blog world], my favorite guide through the thicket of post-modern criticism (which I barely understand), published this amusement:

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Potrace is a clever program by Peter Selinger of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Dalhousie University. It converts bitmap formats (such as scanned images) into scalable vectr formats. Nice stuff. [via AKMA]

Palm has updated their software to accomodate the changes to Daylight Savings Time.

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Mark Hurst writes in his Good Experince blog “Customer service is not customer experience.” Like he said

I am in the market for a new personal laptop computer. I’ve checked the usual suspects — HP, Dell, Lenovo, and also looked at what CostCo has for sale.

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Remember the Y2K (year 2000) problem, where gazillions of dollars were spent to convert dates represented in two digits (to save memory…) to four digit dates? That was nothing compared to this year’s Daylight Savings Time Fiasco.

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