Miro, formerly known as the democracy player, is an attempt to liberate internet TV from its verticals (e.g. Joost). Essentially it is a video feed browser built on Mozilla technology; an open source media player (VLC) and bittorrent. What that means is that when you subscribe to feeds, Miro tries to download new items for [...]
Tagged reviewsDigiboksi is Finglish for DVB-C set top box. I bought one on saturday and had it replaced today by a different one.
Basically the story is that Finland is replacing good old analogue TV with digital tv. Terrestial analogue signal went dark a few months ago. A few weeks ago the ‘interesting’ channels (i.e. the ones [...]
Flickr Architecture | High Scalability
Wow …
(tags: scalability webservice architecture flickr)
Wise lesson about NOT relying on client side xml namespace expansion
Wise lesson about NOT relying on client side xml namespace expansion to work properly. Basically, namespaces are mostly not supported correctly and doing funny things like breaking conventions for prefixes or default name spaces causes all sorts of proble
(tags: xml atom)
Apple iPod Classic | Reg Hardware
i want this
(tags: ipod)
Jericho Forum
interesting approach, personally always considered firewalls to be an annoying hack needed only due to ineherently insecure stuff running by default (cough ms windows cough) rather than a need to protect me from myself starting networked software
(tags: security firewall)
If you’ve been following my ubuntu rants (one, two, three + latest comment), you’ll know that so far the experience has been not as FUCKING advertised (excuse the explicitive). Well, here’s another rant:
After tracking down the kernel driver issue (mind you all my notes on installer usability still apply) that prevented my network from working, [...]
ONJava.com — Schemaless Java-XML Data Binding with VTD-XML
Looks quite nice. Of course you can do the same with xpath and a w3c DOM. Beats xml binding libraries I’ve seen. It’s still tedious that you have to write code of course but less tedious than having to maintain a schema just so you can generate code.
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Yahoo! Security Center: What is a sign-in seal?
nice anti phishing technology
(tags: security phishing)
WordPress OpenID 2.0 (coming soon?) at willnorris.com
Good news!
(tags: openid wordpress)
