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Gmail Hacks/Utils
Been poking around looking for useful/interesting add-ons for Gmail. Here’s a few I’ve come up with: Gmail notifier - Windows tray app that checks for new mail, sets Gmail as the default mailto handler, official Google add-on GNOME GTray - notifier for Linux GML (GMail loader) - import mail from your old mail client (supports a wide variety) gExodus graphical import util FreePOPs - POP3 interface for a variety of webmails, including Gmail GmailFS turns a Gmail account into a mountable Linux filesystem
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Gmail!!!
Just got my hands on a Gmail account thanks to a very nice person from Oswego, NY. Many thanks to her. People who know me, I’ll hook you up as soon as I have any invites (let me know if you’re interested).
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MS on Linux
So apparently, MS is actually testing out Linux now before making their claims that Windows is better. The part I found most entertaining was a quote from a former IBM Linux supporter who’s been hired on at MS. “There’s no set architecture in Linux. All roads lead to madness.”
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The Screensavers
So I’ve been pretty religiously watching The Screensavers on G4/TechTV since I noticed the cable company added it to the lineup. Pretty entertaining show, and they sometimes have some cool bits on there. This past week they had a Best of: Free and Cheap episode detailing a number of free/cheap downloads and tips. I found a couple of segments of particular interest: Linksys WRT54G - a lot of the Linksys network hardware runs Linux, and so they’ve had to release the source under GPL.
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Leather?
Ok. So I was poking around Gamestop, and ran across this. Can you believe it? For those of you who just couldn’t get enough leather, a leather computer mouse? Anyway, I can’t wait till Doom 3 hits shelves, hopefully tomorrow. Now I just have to wait for Half-Life 2, which looks awesome.
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Ebay Auctions: Tools and ...?
So, can anyone tell me what’s not quite right about this ebay store?
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GPS?
So earlier this week I noticed they had added an LED array display inside every bus. Reason I noticed this is because one of them was randomly displaying some info. Most of it was debugging stuff. What’s the version number of this unit, how much memory does it have, what time/day is it (which was totally wrong), etc. You get the idea. Occasionally, it would scroll street intersection info across the screen (like “PROSPECT AND KIRBY”).
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Rant: Phriggin' Philips
So I have officially sworn off Philips. Not the screwdriver, the electronic manufacturer. I was a little confused when I pulled the dead/flaky CDRW/DVD drive out of Amanda’s folk’s computer last week when it turned out to be a Philips instead of some no name manufacturer. Seemed a little odd that something they made would give out in a year and a half of normal use. Turns out it may be par for the course.
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OS X
Looks like you actually can emulate a PPC on an x86 well enough to install OS X. It’s still a little on the slow side (basic emulation results in 500:1 slowdown over the host processor, while their JIT compiler for x86 brings that up to more like 40:1 slowdown since they cache the translated code), but the project seems pretty active, and there’s lots of room for improvement. Still pretty need to see Mac OS X running on a PC (either Windows or Linux, but I’ve just tried Linux at this point).
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Emulate PPC on x86?
I must be in one heck of a blogging mood today. I saw this Slashdot post and thought it sounded pretty sweet. Turns out, they’ve released a GPL’d PPC emulator for x86 that is actually capable of booting OS X. Here’s the OS-News article that includes all the pretty pictures. Sounds like it’s still got a few problems (reviewer ran into a few infinite loop explosions once OS X had started, and it guzzles the whole CPU), but it actually kinda worked.
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