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Google Knows All

At least Google knows quite a hell of a lot of stuff about YOU. Log in at the following URL and you'll be able to see just how much Google has learned about you in your travels around the interwebs....
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LOLCODE

This code snippet below is a Hello World program written in LOLCODE. HAI CAN HAS STDIO? VISIBLE "HAI WORLD!" KTHXBYE For something slightly more advanced, here's a loop that prints out the numbers from 1 to 10 HAI CAN HAS...
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Flash on the iPhone

I don't think so. While this is all over the internets, I wanted to preserve a copy of my own... Visiting http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer on the iPhone gives you the following wonderful message: [caption id="attachment_243" align="alignnone" width="320" caption="Flash on the iPhone?"][/caption]
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Make an ATI Radeon for PC work in a Mac

With a relatively simple firmware reflash. Hardmac.com : Le "Macbidouille" in English - It Has Never Been so Easy to Flash an ATI PC Card with Mac OS X. It seems that the difficult bit will be finding a cheap...
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Collective Nouns

Ever wondered what some of the more esoteric collective nouns might be? Need to refer to a group of spectres, demons, elves, humans, robots or just about any other creature or creation from sci-fi or fantasy? Wonder no more -...
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OpenSSH Server on BeagleBoard with Ubuntu

Once USB Networking has been configured on the BeagleBoard, everything becomes a lot easier. As ARM is now a first-class citizen for Ubuntu builds, there's now a world of Ubuntu and Debian software that can easily be installed, either with...
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USB Host-to-host networking on the Beagle Board

I was able to pretty easily get USB networking on the beagleboard, going between my Mac and the beagleboard without a USB to Ethernet adapter (of which I have ordered one, but two weeks on, DealExtreme hasn't done much with...
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Kernel Panic on the Beagle – FIXED.

I had an issue where the beagleboard would kernel panic after a cold boot, yet if I hit the reset button it would boot up OK. Thanks to the helpful people over on the Beagle Board Google Groups page, a...
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Ubuntu on ARM – running on the BeagleBoard

I'll post up a HOWTO later, but for now here's where I'm at with it: ubuntu@beagleboard:~$ uname -a Linux beagleboard 2.6.29-oer44.1 #1 PREEMPT Thu Sep 3 15:45:34 UTC 2009 armv7l GNU/Linux ubuntu@beagleboard:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo Processor : ARMv7 Processor rev 3...
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The BeagleBoard

I'm working on a project that's pretty scant on details at the moment, but it's going to be based around a small computer with an attached LCD. I haven't selected the display it will use yet, but the brains of...
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