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Build Your Own DVR. prostoalex writes “If you have an old computer that had been laying around for a while and are ready to spend a bit on hardware to make into a Digital Video Recorder, this article from Make magazine contains a step-by-step guide on building one. The author spent $150 on TV card… Continue reading Build Your Own DVR

Blair loads Lords with new peers. LABOUR will become the dominant political force in the House of Lords in the next parliament when Tony Blair creates 16 new Labour peers. [The Scotsman]

Tiger day. Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger is out today. Amazon says my preordered copy is “shipping soon”, the bastids.I think this is a very important OS release, but not necessarily for any of the user-visible features available right now. Spotlight is an obvious good thing, sure. (And the Finder finally won't have to poll… Continue reading Tiger day

Rails Day 2005. Could we be any more explicit about our appreciation for and expectations of Ruby on Rails? Aside from writing about it left, right, and center; including it in our publishing plans; and packing more Rails goodness into our Open Source Convention than you can shake a stick at, that is. (Not to… Continue reading Rails Day 2005

Strategies- Your business cards.. A great article from Rhonda Abrams on USA Today. Rhonda talks about the great and forgotten marketing tool called the business card. It's time to take a fresh look at your business card. Does it help people remember you? To be motivated to do business with you? Does it convey what… Continue reading Strategies- Your business cards.

Thank You for Beta Testing Our Products. That's what Apple should say to its paying customers about its software releases, which are known to have bugs severe enough to warrant a fast and critical update. I suspect this will be true with the new operating system, OS X Tiger (10.4). As always, the usual folks… Continue reading Thank You for Beta Testing Our Products

OpenLaszlo 3.0 released.  I am pleased to announce the official release of OpenLaszlo 3.0, previously known as Laszlo Presentation Server. The new name is in honor of Laszlo's commitment to its open source platform. Since the initial release, which allowed folks to download the source in a zip file, you can now find… – source… Continue reading OpenLaszlo 3.0 released

Visa/Mastercard security requirements for small vendors. Phil Windley says that Visa and Mastercard are starting to crack down on small merchants, requiring them to meet some sort of minimum information security standards or lose the ability to accept Visa or Mastercard purchases online. This is clearly a good thing. He lists 12 basic requirements: Install… Continue reading Visa/Mastercard security requirements for small vendors

Ars Technica Tiger Guide. Ars Technica’s John Siracusa has posted his writeup on Tiger. I haven’t had time to read all of it yet, but the first half is an amazing piece of work. There’s a ton of content in there that is entirely new to me, like the writeup on launchd, Apple’s new open-source… Continue reading Ars Technica Tiger Guide

Cisco buys Sipura. This isn’t exactly new news, but Cisco bought Sipura yesterday. Sipura makes a number of VoIP products, including the SPA-841 phone that I’ve been using for the past few weeks. They’re generally considered to have the best SIP implementation of any of the cheap vendors, and they make good, solid products for… Continue reading Cisco buys Sipura