Have GNU, Will Travel.

2007-09-19

Synthetic GPS for your iPhone

There's a Navizon application available with installer.app on the iPhone now. It triangulates your location based on known cell tower positions and updates the map on the iPhone.

Pretty sweet. (Courtesy iPodHacks)

2007-09-13

In other news, cold fronts moving in in hell...

Sun to Become Windows Server OEM.

Seriously, don't they remember what happened when SGI released windows boxes?

Well, their motto doesn't mention anything about not being evil, so I guess it's ok...

Nice blog entry on zdnet about how, even if you have a system explicitly set to not update automatically, Microsoft will silently update your machines with no notification or asking permission.

Nice.

2007-09-11

Extra Apps for iPhone

To sum up:

Installer.app is a UIKit based package manager for the iPhone. It works by downloading packages over WiFi (wireless networking) or EDGE. It supports installing, updating and uninstalling applications from multiple sources.

Very painless, very cool.

2007-08-20

Handbrake 0.9.0 released

All sorts of changes, read about them here.

2007-08-10

Th-th-that's all Folks!

Groklaw has a good article explaining what the latest court ruling in SCO vs Novell means in detail. To sum up, SCO lost, Novell does indeed own the UnixWare and UNIX copyrights.

And SCO owes Novell big bucks for the licenses it sold Microsoft and Sun.

Sweet!

2007-07-24

sshd on iPhone

There is a nice little summary of pointers to how to get more unixy stuff installed on your iPhone at The Unofficial Apple Weblog.

2007-06-13

Cat Cam

J. Perthold has a very cool website explaining about his project to create a collar-mounted camera for his cat. He goes into detail about which camera he used, schematics of the custom board he made to control the camera and periodically take a picture. You even get to see a few days worth of the life of his indoor-outdoor cat, Mr. Lee.

2007-06-09

JRuby 1.0 Released

Read more details at http://www.jruby.org/.

Or just download it at http://dist.codehaus.org/jruby and try it for yourself.

2007-05-25

RubyCocoa 0.11.0 released

RubyCocoa 0.11.0 is out. Build Cocoa applications with Ruby. Download it from Sourceforge.