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Entries for Monday, March 6, 2006

March 6, 2006

My main thought from day one of ETech…

My main thought from day one of ETech…

"Branded Lanyard" would be a great name for a rock band.

Mama’s Got A

At some point, I may well get around to writing a review of my Squeezebox (summary: Love the mutherfunker to pieces), but as I sit here in my hotel room in San Diego (vaguely contemplating sleep prior to the start of ETech), I must say how impressed I am with the Softsqueeze Java player.

SlimSqueeze screenshot

Thanks to its built-in SSH tunneling, I’m able to listen to my entire music collection on my server at home as if I were there. An excellent idea, and proof of the value of building an open infrastructure to support proprietary hardware.

Gentoo Linux 2006.0 Screenshots

Blimey. Gentoo’s gotten themselves one of them fancy high-falutin’ “installer” thingummies. There goes the neighbourhood!

Google Video: From the Googleplex

Google share some videos of various talks given at the Googleplex. Some really interesting-looking stuff here.

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