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{ Monthly Archives } August 2007

links for 2007-08-28

Best Old Games | Old Games : Free download [eng]
Ah good memories. Just install dosbox and play Operation Wolf used to be quite cool!
(tags: dos games retro)

2007 08 28 Jilles Uncategorized Comments (0)

websites and stupid assumptions

I just went to a blog and wanted to leave a comment. So the site redirects to blogger.com where I can leave a comment. The site correctly detects I am located in Finland. Very good! That’s so clever! Amazing what you can do these days!
The only problem is that like most of this world [...]

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2007 08 27 Jilles Uncategorized Comments (0)

Another Porsche

1/2 TB ought to be enough for anyone. So I bought another one For backup, you know.
At 100€, it’s not really something to consider for very long. Data must be safe, so more is better.

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2007 08 24 Jilles Blog Posts Comments (0)

Head tracking

I stumbled on two interesting programs that effectively turn my webcam into a head tracking device. The first one is a reasonably priced commercial package called Cachya. They have a trial version available that I installed to play with. The second one is a french open source product freetrack.
Why is this interesting?

(cachya, sightseeing)

(cachya, dogfight)

(freetrack)

(freetrack with [...]

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2007 08 18 Jilles Uncategorized Comments (2)

links for 2007-08-18

Personal Identity Provider (PIP)
Nice extension from firefox to manage openid logon and protect against openid related phishing attempts. Stuff like this should be integrated into the browser ASAP
(tags: openid firefox extension security)

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2007 08 18 Jilles Uncategorized Comments (0)

xampp, skype and port 80

For some time I’ve been considering setting up some php development environment. Not that I like php but I want to play with some php stuff nevertheless (e.g. Drupal seems interesting). So I downloaded one of the popular all in one packages that combine apache, mysql and php: xampp. I have actually set up apache, [...]

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2007 08 15 Jilles Blog Posts Comments (2)

links for 2007-08-11

Disruptive Conversations: Identitude - using your Facebook account for an OpenID identity!
Very interesting development. We don’t need facebook to open up to openid, we can hook it up from the outside like identitude does. As argued in the movie I posted earlier, same has been done with google and yahoo.
(tags: facebook openid identity)

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2007 08 11 Jilles Uncategorized Comments (1)

links for 2007-08-09

The Implications of OpenID
Very interesting talk about openid, it’s implications and good answers to most conerns raised by people who are sceptical of openid.
(tags: openid)

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2007 08 09 Jilles Uncategorized Comments (0)

links for 2007-08-07

Quercus Security
A few nice reasons to use the java implementation of PHP. And oh yeah, it out performs the C implementation as well.
(tags: php java security)

Slap in the Facebook: It’s Time for Social Networks to Open Up
Unbelievable. Wired writes an article on social networking and the need for openness; goes on to describe their effort [...]

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2007 08 07 Jilles Uncategorized Comments (0)

links for 2007-08-01

Photoshop Tutorials - Velvia
nice subtle way to boost saturation. Also great way to boost only saturation in one of the channels. Boosting blue channel mostly affects sky and leaves e.g. skin tones alone. Use large values and regulate effect with layer opacity slider.
(tags: photography photoshop)

blog.pmarca.com: The Pmarca Guide to Startups, part 7: Why a startup’s [...]

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2007 08 01 Jilles Uncategorized Comments (0)