Month: August 2007
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Daily Show fodder
This came from a heretical Lutheran friend of mine: Vatican airline takes to the skies I love the Ryanair quote: “Ryanair already performs miracles that even the Pope’s boss can’t rival, by delivering pilgrims to Santiago de Compostela for the heavenly price of 10 euros,” Ryanair said in a statement. So many questions: Will the…
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Bencode, Bdecode in shell script
I have been playing around with OpenWRT recently, to see what IT tools you could deploy to the bush using cheap, low power computers as a base. One of the really interesting things about writing systems to live in the embedded Linux world is that you want to try to do as much as possible…
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A Look at Field Life for Tool Makers
I have recently been talking with some folks about IT tools for humanitarian aid workers. I gave a real-world reality check to them, not to discourage them, but to make sure they knew their audience as well as possible. After all, what good is a tool that looks good in demos, but fails with the…