Author: dailylinks

iPod-sized ambient hardware loop player from China; the tee-shirts are fantastic

DHS ineptitude strikes again

some really authoritative thumbs-down comments from Valdis Krebs and John Robb

interesting further notes; apparently the Trintech Smart 5000 PINPad terminals run Linux, and can be managed remotely

‘Communities are human business debuggers. Why not know the problems, address them and prove that they’re fixed all in public?’ excellent article, with the solid testimonial of Threadless backing it up

‘former Iowa congressman Edward Mezvinsky was caught up in a 419 scam, and stole from his law clients, friends, and even his mother-in-law .. He is serving more than six years in prison after pleading guilty to thirty-one counts of fraud.’ bloody hell

Suw Charman and a load of others (see comments) lay into the BBC’s “citizen journalism” conference: “a complete waste of time”. ouch

‘Please visit and take a minute to post positive comments about BlueSecurity. BlueSecurity is encouraging us to do such things so let’s help them spread the good word.’ explains a lot; several other astroturf coordination forums at castlecops.com, too

they’re no longer shipping games, electronics, or home/garden items to Ireland. what with this and the crappy shipping, looks like they’ve written off the Irish market for some reason

good points from Joe Drumgoole; what works for Irish VCs isn’t necessarily aligned with what’s good for Ireland’s high-tech industry

First doodled on a placemat by Ken Thompson and Rob Pike for Plan 9 in 1992 (via era)

Blue Security accidentally took down large chunks of the blogosphere in an attempt to evade the DDoS targeting them; impressively inept. also, they really need to tone down their sock-puppet commenter squad (via torrez)

open geodata creation from OSM in a 3-day mapping-fest this weekend. great explanation of why open geodata is important in the UK and Ireland, too

behavioural analysis on web-search engine bots, with some pretty pics (via waxy)

YUM. wonder if I can find condensed milk around here

Some users of the Blue Frog software are considering this leak to be some kind of Churchillian challenge to their resolve, instead of a failure on Blue Frog’s part! amazing

‘What Wikipedia has taught us .. is that in a vacuum of politics, politics will be created. There is no vacuum of politics.’ interesting article

‘This spammer is using mailing lists he already owns and is now sending millions of such messages’ — hasn’t hit any of our thousands of spamtraps, which is quite impressive in that case

YouTube’s bandwidth bill ‘may be approaching $1 million a month’. holy crap (via waxy)

a really nice Flickr-like take on mapping; every street has user-contributed location geodata included; open REST API; social aspects; Google-friendly. Best mapping site I’ve seen

‘Everything needed to make this episode is available in the eler-source directory in a bzipped tarball. … Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license’

tomorrow afternoon, Federico Heinz and a talk on GPLv3 from Ciaran O’Riordan

could be interesting if true

‘That’s the only way that snails catch you up. If you weren’t paying bloody attention.’

Los Vegas – home of Windows XP piracy!

via O’Reilly Radar. good to hear I’m not the only person hacking awfulness with Data::Dumper and eval()

hello new Linux desktop wallpaper!

Google Maps mash-up from John Handelaar, mapping the locations of all of Eircom’s DSL-enabled POPs in Ireland. excellent! some major holes in the map: not so excellent

using an ALSA output plugin called raop-play, which streams to the remote server. If only Apple had just used esd’s remote streaming protocol, instead of inventing their own crappy DRM-laden proprietary one, this would be a lot simpler

everybody seems to be taking the piss out of this, for some reason

Apple’s postmaster on the DearAOL.com blocking fiasco, and the economics of Goodmail. ‘Goodmail will likely fail on its own merits’

‘the scammers had used open-source software called Asterisk to convert a computer into a PBX … running an automated telephone information system. The voice system sound[ed] exactly like the bank’s phone tree’

turns out a user named “sekrit” has actually been representing the output of the BBC 6Music radio station. awesome!