A list & short description of various programs available for file format conversion.

Tutorial on using the free math solver

One of our service providers, CrystalTech, just implemented greylisting to reduce spam. WOW does it ever work. Our spam has been dramatically reduced. Highly effective. Very few false-positives.
Backscattering effects are minimal for real mail (only bounces once per graylist entry). Yes, it increases network traffic proportional to the increase in spam, but only until spam comes under control. As it is now, with spam doubling each year, and now including images? It moots all traffic-based arguments against this technique IMO.

Wonderful use of public resources. Got a library card? Borrow tools!

Mighty fine online gizmo from a favorite vendor.

Quoted: Maemo (a platform for Nokia Internet Tablets) cross-architecture application development appliance, with ARMEL and X86 targets.

Woo-hoo! Redotted from X (thanks!)

I had just finished reading some blog wags complaining about the OLPC's "non-standard" GUI when this article reminded me how much GUI sturm-und-drang we accept as a given on modern PCs.