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  • Yahoo demands sites bearing their ads be US only

    “I joined the Yahoo Publisher Network, a beta program through which Yahoo provides text ads in much the same way that Google does. I started running the Yahoo text ads on many of my web sites.

    A couple of days ago Yahoo sent me a notice stating they’d revised their Publisher Policy. Item ’11.l’ stated that I will not “display all or part of the Ad Unit to any user located outside the US”. In other words, I can’t allow users outside of the United States to view my pages if there is a Yahoo ad on the page!”

    Boing Boing

    Further proof for my “Yahoo is evil” case.

  • A Su Doku Solver in C

    “This is a console-based Linux program, written in C language, that solves Su Doku puzzles (aka Sudoku, Number Place, etc., see figure 1) using deductive logic. It will only resort to trial-and-error and backtracking approaches upon exhausting its deductive moves.”

    Tech Finesse via Juha

  • The Bob-clock

    “The Bob-clock is a wall-clock I have built, which uses 60 multi-color LEDs arranged in a circle to represent the small and big arm of an analog clock. If desired, it can also display the seconds with a third color.”

    symlink.dk via Juha

  • Rockbox – Open Source Jukebox Firmware

    “Rockbox is an open source replacement firmware for mp3 players. It runs on a number of different models:

    • Archos: Jukebox 5000, 6000, Studio, Recorder, FM Recorder, Recorder V2 and Ondio
    • iRiver: H100 and H300 series
    • Apple: iPod 4G (grayscale and color), 5G (Video) and Nano
    • Additional models are in development”

    Rockbox via Boing Boing

  • Puolustusministeriö vaihtaa Linuxiin

    “Puolustusministeriö on ottanut käyttöön Linux-käyttöjärjestelmän kriittisten tietokoneohjelmistojensa alustana. Ministeriön mukaan sen toiminta ja päätöksenteko riippuu tietojärjestelmän häiriöttömyydestä ja turvallisuudesta. […]

    Puolustusministeriön järjestelmän päivityksistä, ylläpidosta ja muista vastaavista tehtävistä vastaa Novell, jolta puolustusministeriö hankki SuSE Linuxinsa.”

    HS.fi via Juha
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  • Municator: a basic, affordable all-purpose Linux computer

    [Municator] is a 146$ Linux computer (Thinix OS) from China that does all the basic things most people need, like [browsing, emailing, instant messaging, skype, word processing, audio/video playback] all through a very user-friendly very basic interface and is software upgradable.

    cebitvideo.com via Juha

  • Starforce enforces DRM by instant reboot (without warning)

    “This copy protection system installs a driver that runs at the highest level of access on the system, which gives it low level access to the PCs hardware and any drivers and processes. This driver runs regardless of whether the game runs; keeping an eye out for any suspicious activity such as attempting to copy a protected disc. If something suspicious is detected, it forces the PC to make an immediate reboot, regardless of any other applications running and whether or not the user has any unsaved work.”

    cdfreaks.com via Juha

  • Google GMail Loader: Import your existing email into GMail

    “Originally, the GMail Loader only worked with mBox format files (because it is all I needed) and was command line based. As others asked for similar functions, I began to expand it. Today, the GMail Loader is a graphical, cross-platform, Python based utility that supports two mBox formats (Netscape, Mozilla, Thunderbird, Most Other Clients), MailDir (Qmail, others), MMDF (Mutt), MH (NMH), and Babyl (Emacs RMAIL). Eventually, I plan to add support for direct sending of IMAP accounts, and am working on a library that can read and export Microsoft Outlook PST files.”

    M. Lyon via Janne

  • A Flickr Set of Firefox 2.0a1 Screenshots

    Looks like I’ll no longer need TabX when Firefox reaches 2.0.

  • TLAs and FCBs (four colored blocks)

    Two logos with the colored blocks theme As if the already all too generic “four different colored blocks” logo wasn’t enough, here’s a Winamp plugin called AVS to get confused with the anti-virus software called AVG.