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I just found the BlueOnyx (Blue Onyx) project today. It looks like it’s meant to be a more up-to-date version of the BlueQuartz project, which is the ongoing development of the old Cobalt RaQ software. The project seems to be hardly-known right now. There’s also Aventurin{e}, a Linux OS with a web GUI for virtualization, [...]

There’s an oft-neglected ham band up on 900 MHz. A few Boston area groups have been making a big push to try to revive ham radio activity in our allocation up there, especially GEMOTO. They’re a club of GE and Motorola commercial radio aficionados, so it’s no surprise that the new machine is looking really [...]

I feel like I’ve done this before, but here’s my review of the RadioShack Pro-96 digital scanner: it would be alright if it were $150. At $400, it’s not worth the price. And it was once $500, if it’s not still. Much of New Hampshire has gone to an APCO Project 25 digital voice (P25 [...]

Whoever did this clearly missed the point of the very Commandment they were so concerned with enforcing. (Though I’d argue they have a little reading of John to do, too.)

There seems to be a lot of hype around chipotle, but I think a lot of it is just using it as a catchphrase. But chipotle is a very specific thing: a smoked jalapeño. They typically wait until the peppers are dark red, at which point they’re already somewhat dry inside. They’re then smoked until [...]

All the time, I want to know my IP, but find myself Googling “what is my IP” and trying to choose from a bunch of ad-infested sites. I’ve had ttwagner.com/p0f.php for a while. It shows your IP, hostname (reverse DNS), your browser’s user agent, the headers your browser sent, and, if one was recorded, the [...]

Eidac.de, the home of smcFanControl (essential for keeping hot-running MacBook Pros at a reasonable tempoerature), has an interesting post. It’s actually two months old, but some of us are slow. He questions, “Is Big Brother listening in on my iPhone Apps?” after discovering a third-party tool for iPhone developers that will send information like the [...]

Now that Google Analytics has been running, I thought I’d post some updated statistics. Firefox on Windows is the most popular browser/OS combination, with almost 43% of visits. IE on Windows comes in second at just shy of 22%. Firefox on Mac and Linux comes in third and fourth, respectively, with 14.6% and 9% each. [...]

Here’s a really neat trick that saves me a lot of time. It’s nothing new, but I don’t think it’s widely-known. Let’s say that you have a tool you often use that just changes the URL. For example, using Trac for storing bugs. I might want to look up Trac #1234, and the URL is [...]

I found myself sitting in the back seat of a car today, toying with Chess on the Mac. (And being defeated in ways I didn’t even understand. Quite discouraging.) Tired of the endless losses, I started up KisMAC to show the wireless APs that I passed. Between Margarita’s in Nashua and my home, I found [...]