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I remember ages ago when I discovered peek and poke on my VIC-20. The first time I found the poke command was in a sample source code. It was followed by strange, seemingly random numbers.
It intimidated me.

Finally!
I've had my Drupal site up for at least a year on my development machine but finally transfered it to my server. Yay! Hope you enjoy the new look and the new features!
J-F

I published my first Google Android application today: BSOD(roid). The application is an adaptation of the BSOD XScreenSaver hack that simulates crashes from various operating systems. I've squeezed in 20 crashes for about a dozen operating system. If you have an Android phone, please give it a try! It's free and licensed under the GNU GPL.

Microsoft unleashed it's new Google killer called Bing. At first glance, Bing is remarkably like Google, and seems to work fine with Firefox on Kubuntu 9.04.

Of course, I had to put the engine to the test, and try a couple of searches. Similar to Google, Bing offers suggestions as you type. However, the suggestions seem remarkably biased. Take a look at the followings suggestions after entering Linux as a search criteria.

Google:


Microsoft:

I spend three hours trying to make sure that PPPoE started at boot time on my mothers computer. PPPoE works normally after running pppoeconf or pon dsl-provider, but for some reason would not reactivate on the next boot.

Turns out, I had to change:
iface eth0 inet manual
to
iface eth0 inet dhcp

in /etc/network/interfaces

After the change, PPPoE now starts automatically on boot.

If you need a hand: