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I hope *at least* half as many of the tech blogs that jumped on this story follow suit and run the true strory with all corrections.
–jreis
Showed up at our hotel one night…
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via Apple’s HTML5 Showcase Less About Web Standards, More About Apple.
Elm Street:
The Grassy Knoll:
These panoramic composites were made using Gimp and the Pandora plugin with no manual editing (not great but when you’re not an expert, ok).
2010 became the year of Texas in my house when my wife began her co-op in Texas. A recent trip to visit her and see the sites resulted in some of the following pictures during the trip.
Dealey Plaza
On November 22, 1963 this area of Dallas Texas because famous during the assassination of John F. Kennedy. In particular the words “grassy knoll’, “school book depository” and “triple underpass” became linked to that one point in time.
Fair Park
When doing some research into my Dallas trip I stumbled across the Texas State Fair and Big Tex. Immediately Big Tex was added to my itinerary, alas I was unable to find this elusive Tex and now must assume that he’s probably only brought out to see the public during the fair in Sept-Oct. The park itself is nice, as captured below, but I’m still sad there was no Big Tex.
Fort Worth
Locked in a western time capsule this city goes out of it’s way to present what most will think of as traditionally Texas. The Stockyards cattle drive gives a visitor a 2 minute glimpse into what a cattle drive probably never looked like but is still a memorable tourist attraction.
Notable restaurants during the trip: Chow, Mi Cocina, Kennys burger joint
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So, I’m a KDE user and have always liked Amarok, since it’s the default in KDE the integration is excellent. Then Amarok 2 came out and while I’ve been using it for months I’ve been unable (or unwilling) to just make it work the way I’d like so I’ve been looking for something new. Amarok is still a great music player and I highly recommend it to any Linux user. I also use MPD throughout my house for playing music through our home theater. I’m just ready to move on with a new desktop music player. I’ve also been looking for ways to sync music with my Android G1 N1 and ways to manage playlists.
I’ve heard of SongBird before but never tried it unfortunately this blog post caught my eye, sad thing is… it’s describing the drop in Linux support for SongBird. As bad as that sounds I thought I’d try it. SongBird is AWESOME! Being part of the Mozilla project there is great support for Add-ons for ALL of the features I want and it’s been supper stable since I’ve started using it.
As I mentioned what really makes SongBird shine is the Add-ons, I’ve become immediately dependent on directory browser, Last.fm and FolderSync. Directory browser: as with many music players they want to build a library of your music, for some reason I hate this primarily because my music is on a network share and building a library (with the amount of music I have) is slow. Last.fm: scrobbles my music. FolderSync: just as it sounds, upon the press of a button will sync a folder with the music in a playlist along with the playlist in m3u or pls format. So as long as you can mount a device as mass storage you can sync music to it.
Being open source with cross platform support including Linux (for now), Windows and Mac I can recommend SongBird to everyone. (Maybe I can even get my wife off of iTunes on her Mac.) Even though they may be dropping new development in Linux it sounds like they will be keeping a Linux build available and making sure it compiles. In general I’m happy and if I can convince any other Linux users out there to give SongBird a try maybe Linux will gain enough market share to spur on new development.
Minor update to v1.1, for some code cleanup and update test.
Released my first app in the Android Market, just a fun simple widget. Initial release, version 1.0
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via Rubber Wallets Made From Inner Tubes are Nearly Indestructible.
Made from bicycle inner tubes and being a cyclist myself (plus in need of a new wallet) I made the purchase. And I’m glad I did. My order just arrived today, as described the wallet is well constructed and could be considered indestructible.
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–Jeff
via Chuck Norris botnet infects Linux-based routers and DSL modems.
While Linux is now the standard for external security devices with proven history of secure by default; we can still be defeated by default passwords. Why can’t this be automated during the initial setup for a Linux router/modem? Force the user to set a password once the default has been entered. More and more devices (Apple) that continue to make things easier and easier for the consumer are causing said consumer to miss the details. A unique/complex password is so important all device manufacturer’s should be making this a top priority.
–Jeff
From the article…
“Because the Chuck Norris botnet lives in the router’s RAM, it can be removed with a restart.
Users who don’t want to be infected can mitigate the risk — the simplest way of doing this is by using a strong password on the router or modem. Users can also address the problem by keeping their firmware up-to-date and by disabling remote-access services.”
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