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From Wired : Rubber duckies with USB flash drives are cute, but dialog05’s idea to embed the tiny storage devices in everyday objects is downright inspired. ... There’s the bra with a USB clasp, the trash can dock, and the must-have fixture (called essentials) that delivers the necessities of life – water, power, and data.

Not what you think. It must be one of those days: just finished another exam -- part of a winding-down (I hope) battery of fitness tests here in the workplace -- and I barely passed (yay!); caught in the middle of a Debian netinst (heh, they only have the Sarge netinst ISO around here); doing a yum update (Fedora Core 3! How ancient.) on one of my boxes; and, oh, just watched X-Men III: The Last Stand (you know, I have a feeling this isn't the last of the X-Men franchise {prolly because of that snippet of a scene at the ending? [oops! spoiler alert!]}) with my teammates -- it was funny: we didn't get to reserve seats beforehand so we took the queue and we got seats all right, a freaking column of seats (8C, 9C, 10C, you get the drift...)! -- and I must say, take that, Puso ng Samar something ! Whew. Before I leave for home, here's an interesting piece: Just a sneaky of Fernando Escora's work over at Hiraya Gallery .

Taken at 11:43 AM on May 23, 2006; cameraphone upload by ShoZu. 1st working model (OLPC). Originally uploaded by Pete Barr-Watson . Sweet. The first working models of MIT's $100 laptop (the One Laptop Per Child project) are out and were presented at the Seven Countries Task Force Meeting last 23 May 2006. The colors are nice -- how very, uhm, Ubuntu. (The prototype runs on Fedora Core 5, though. ;)) View the rest of the Flickr set . Via Boing Boing .

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Got this from CJ Pangilinan , through the PLUG mailing lists: Ctrl+S. Scroll lock. Ctrl+Q. Release scroll lock. Home or Ctrl+A. Move the cursor to the beginning of the current line. End or Ctrl+E. Move the cursor to the end of the current line. Alt+B. Move the cursor to the beginning of the current or previous word. Alt+F. Move the cursor to the end of the next word. Ctrl+U. Erase the current line. Ctrl+K. Delete the line from the position of the cursor to the end of the line. Ctrl+W. Delete the word before the cursor. Shift+PageUp. Scroll terminal output up. Shift+PageDown. Scroll terminal output down. Ctrl+L. Does exactly the same as typing the clear command. ArrowUp or Ctrl+P. Scroll up in the history and edit the previously executed commands. To execute them, press Enter like you normally do. ArrowDown or Ctrl+N. Scroll down in the history and edit the next commands. Ctrl+R. Find the last command that contained the letters you're typing. Ctrl+C. ...

IBM Press room - 2006-05-15 IBM, Public Health Groups Form Global Pandemic Initiative - United States IBM and over twenty major worldwide public health institutions, including the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, today announced the Global Pandemic Initiative, a collaborative effort to help stem the spread of i / opensource tech agriculture ict4d flameocon-sticker.png (PNG Image, 362x362 pixels) Print! Print! Print! / tech cool Guardian Unlimited | Weekend | Jon Ronson meets hacker Gary McKinnon Old story. "Gary McKinnon has been accused of committing the 'biggest military computer hack of all time', and if extradited to the US faces up to 70 years in jail. So how did this techno geek from north London end up cracking open the Pentagon and Nasa's / security tech news Aston Martin is new 007 car Shaken, not stirred. via Wired / movies fun Linux Distribution Chooser [© 2005-06 - zegenie Studios] / linux

From Monkey Bites : Microsoft's CodePlex is an online open source development home base for C#, Visual Studio and .NET programmers. It's a place where developers can track their projects, post builds, and interact with other community members. Think of it as a SourceForge for the .NET set. Okay, I'm not a developer (except for the occasional dabbling in PHP and Perl -- but that's not exactly "development"), but I've been hearing good things about .NET. I remember someone saying it's the only good thing that came out of Redmond. And for Microsoft to host open source projects for .NET is something worth watching. I wonder how open source developers will take this.

I'm here in a new workplace. The work is okay, so far (going on one and a half months now). Got several machines to tinker with. Oh, I do get to fuddle with Linux (Red Hat and Suse Enterprise, with Centos, Fedora Core, and Debian thrown in the mix), but not as full-time as before. So, in one of my Windows boxes, I got me: Bash for Windows ; Wget for Windows ; and of course, Vim for Windows I.T. policies are not that strict when it comes to what we can install in our machines, but there are obligatory software, on top of the only supported OS (Windows 2000 Professional and XP Professional) -- Outlook, for one. I have yet to find a way to get Thunderbird to authenticate via the company's Active Directory. I've installed several open source software. Scintilla text editor works great (they prefer UltraEdit), but I miss the command line so Vim was it. I'll be doing lots of IM so I got me Gaim for Windows -- what better way to integrate all those protocols (I have acc...

Google just released Google Notebook . Now, why would I need an online notebook when I can do the same things in, say, a wiki?

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Can We Make Operating Systems Reliable and Secure? Tanenbaum is at it again: 'Microkernels—long discarded as unacceptable because of their lower performance compared with monolithic kernels—might be making a comeback in operating systems due to their potentially higher reliability, which many research / security linux kernel HFSLIP - Slipstream XP and 2003 Hotfixes This process details how to create a CDROM of Windows XP or 2003 that slipstreams a Service Pack and the post-SP patches, and does it without hacking DLLs. In addition, it optionally installs other programs that have been packaged with silent installers. / hacking microsoft

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Just finished the Day 19 puzzle on The Da Vinci Code Quest on Google . Ack! I'm totally glued.

The Da Vinci Code, that is. (Yup, that crummy and cheesy title should serve as a dead giveaway -- and a warning -- that this is one of those TWOT posts. Heh.) To get away once in a while from the dreary work of sifting through packets and making sense of server logs (Did I mention I have moved in to a new workplace? No? Oh well, I have. More later, that is, if I get to decipher the boilerplate NDA that came with the job.), I've come across The Da Vinci Code Quest on Google . It's a series of puzzles to drum up interest on the film, which, by the way, will be showing in Metro Manila theaters next week (gawd, hope I can get away from the office by then). Take this: 12,358 (Fibonacci, anyone?) puzzles, served fresh everyday, or at least once every browser refresh. There are lots of spoilers out there, but as I've said, if you're looking for a worthy TWOT -- or if you're one of those puzzle nuts -- this is for you. I think.