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on November 12, 2008
Jay Freeman, a.k.a. saurik, has managed (and it ain't easy...) to install Debian on a T-Mobile G1 smartphone.
"If you persevere through the required steps, you'll be rewarded with a devic...
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on September 30, 2008
The little open-platform gaming device, Pandora, is now available for pre-orders. At USD329.99, it seems like a good steal. I wish I have extra funds to get one but I am waiting for the next-gen Macbo...
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on July 31, 2008
I mentioned SplashTop before and whilst it looked like it was safely locked to the motherboard, the folks at Phoronix just demonstrated that it can be hacked.
This is both a good and a bad thing. G...
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on July 13, 2008
Apple's MobileMe recently launched rendering the .Mac services obsolete. Whilst the new MobileMe web apps work perfectly on Safari and Firefox on Mac and Windows, it does not work on Firefox on ...
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on July 12, 2008
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We all want our systems to be quick and responsive and with every new distribution comes new applications and new tools. So, with the new Ubuntu version,...
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on June 14, 2008
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Apple's Macbook Air started the multi-touch revolution in touch-pads on portable computers. Whilst you may think that it is no big deal, I'd say try...
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on June 14, 2008
Ubuntu recently demoed their new Ubuntu Netbook Remix for small (ultra mobile/ultra portable) sub-Notebook Computers like the Asus Eee PC. Whilst it is not impossible to install Ubuntu's latest ...
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on March 13, 2008
I have featured FUSE, the open source file system in user space project, several times already. However, this is the first time I have found a way to automount FUSE file systems. For this to work, y...
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on February 29, 2008
Who doesn't like a speedy computer? Whilst there are quite a number of hacks to speed up your computer, here is *another* one that has a different approach. The tool is called preload, a daemon t...
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on January 26, 2008
Yesterday, a friend of mine mentioned his friend installing Mac OS X on non-Apple hardware and after a week of using it, ending up getting a Mac. Whilst this clearly violates the Mac OS X EULA but if ...
