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Archive for September, 2006

NSLU2 and Openslug on Mac OS X

Posted: Monday, September 25th, 2006 @ 8:26 pm in Mac Fun, Tech | No Comments »

Ok, I’m NOT an embedded hacker (unless I have to be) but I do like fiddling with the linksys hardware both the wireless routers and the relatively new NSLU2 attached storage device. But the firmware is old and kind of crotchety, and of course those passionate folks of all things GPL and other goodness have [...]

Add for technorati

Posted: Tuesday, September 19th, 2006 @ 8:11 pm in Personal, Tech | No Comments »

Technorati Profile This is a claim post, so I’ll rub it out when Technorati gets its act together. Currently it only finds the other blog at http://codekensai.com/wordpress Sigh.

What exactly DOES "Left-wing" stand FOR?

Posted: Sunday, September 10th, 2006 @ 6:22 pm in Commentary, Society | No Comments »

How tiresome. Followers of this blog know that I’m somewhat conservative in many social viewpoints, but also a believer in Canada’s social pact, health care system and much of our public policy. It’s also no secret that I support the Green Party openly, and am an energy efficiency enthusiast, but by no means an activist [...]

Canada Still Doesn't Get IP

Posted: Tuesday, September 5th, 2006 @ 9:12 pm in Commentary, Society | No Comments »

I’ve disputed a number of our intellectual property laws and copyright initiatives in the past. It would appear that our “Education Ministers” are heading down a very, very foolish path. Rather than this nonsense, perhaps working to enable a funding model to get our kids more accessible levels of costs for post-secondary education would be [...]