122 years ago the grandfather of real motorcycles was born (patented, that is). Daimler, the automotive pioneer usually associated with building the world’s first successful internal combustion engine (and, subsequently, the first automobile), staked his claim of priority in the two-wheeler world a year before developing his famous auto. What gives credibility to Daimler’s claim of developing the first “true” motorcycle is the fact that it was gasoline-driven. Roper’s post-Civil War hog, with a tiny two-cylinder engine, was powered by steam.
We don’t drive them today, they look very different today …

That “Bong” is nice to hear if you first boot up a Mac. After several times it might happen you wish it wasn’t there, for some people after the first time. Get rid of it! Use StartupSoundPrefPane, a nice piece of software that comes under the FREEWARE licence and is currently at version 1.0.4. System requirements are Mac with PowerPC processors and Mac OS X 10.2 or later. There is though a beta version tested successfully on an Intel based Mac.

You can download the package here.
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If you got at least Mac OS X 10.3.9 (Panther) or Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) – even better, there is a way to reclaim a lot of disk space from the OS. There is though one tiny condition for this huge effect: you have to decide not to use all the languages Mac offers you on the targeted machine. But that’s what most of us do, don’t we? One tends to set for one language and probably never uses another. If that’s your case try Monolingual.

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Despite the losses Novell are keen to show that Linux sales are up 95% from the same quarter last year. Invoiced earnings for Q3 were $38m.
“We are encouraged by our Linux performance and the market’s continued enthusiasm for our desktop to data center strategy. In addition, we are pleased with our operating margin expansion and progress on our strategic initiatives,” said Ron Hovsepian, CEO of Novell.
You can read more here: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/30/novell_q3_07_earnings/
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Tired of my bulky Eclipse installation, out-of-memory messages, on-screen scrambled text due to bugs or memory resources (although I have 4 GB of RAM), I have decided to give “e” a try. E has just recently come out of beta, and although some vi (or other editor) enthusiasts out there might say it’s a waste of hard drive space, I think e is a very good alternative for your day-to-day coding.

Build for Windows, with a Linux / Unix version planned, e sports features such as:

makes use of TextMate bundles (using …

There was a problem with the Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) servers over the weekend which left users who tried to perform online updates with some features (including Windows Aero, ReadyBoost, Windows Defender and Windows Update) temporarily unavailable.
WGA is Microsoft’s anti-piracy program which tries  to determines the validity of Windows software running on customer PCs. Between Friday and Saturday, Windows users who tried to update their system were greeted by WGA declaring them (according to theregister.co.uk)  liars and cheats.
Microsoft are keen to remind users that the WGA is in fact for …

For those who have access to a server and maybe an FTP account or even an IM client transferring large files is usually not a big problem. If you do not have any of these tools you could give www.transferbigfiles.com a try. All you have to do is select the file you want to upload and put in an email address. After the file is uploaded an email is sent to the email address you specified with a link to the file you just uploaded. There’s also an upload client if you prefer to …

I hate spam.
So far, so uncontroversial. Most people hate spam, apart from the people that make money from sending it.
While spam can cause a fair amount of inconvenience for individuals that receive it (ie. anyone with an email address), it’s a major headache for sysadmins and ISPs.
Yet, for all this, since my move to Gmail a couple of years ago spam has been a lot less of an issue for me. 99% gets filtered to my Spam folder and the tiny number of spams that get through aren’t enough to …

It has been revealed that the new inflight entertainment systems used on Singapore Airlines upcoming A380 is based on Red Hat Inc.’s distribution of Linux.
The KrisWorld system, based on Panasonic Avionics Corp.’s eX2 in-flight entertainment, consists of a central Linux server that connects to a network of PCs installed in every seat on the aircraft. The main server, which has terabytes of storage capacity to hold the content that’s made available to passengers, streams the movies or music to the seat’s computer, which has 40G bytes of local …

This is a classic… Scott McCausland who was jailed in 2006 for two copyright-related charges over the uploading of Star Wars: Episode III to the Internet has been told by his probation officer that he will need to install Windows on his PC if he wants to use it during his probation period.
Scot, a Linux user, was jailed for uploading a film on the EliteTorrents BitTorrent server, has reported on his blog that the terms of his sentence meant he would have to install Windows if he wanted to use …