In one of my previous posts I was trying to score a Mac Chinese keyboard. Sadly, no one knew where I could get one (aside from going to 中国). However, I did get a great tip about an application called OpenVanilla.org.

OpenVanilla.org lets you type pinyin (Chinese in English style characters) like shù (it even works [...]

(Another way to say that, I think, is tunneling X11 though SSH)

I don’t think many people know about this, but you can start GUI programs on Linux (or FreeBSD; anything running X11) and have the GUI display on your Mac over the network. One way to think of it is like a terminal services session, [...]

If you are, have raised, or live with a hacker / engineer, you’ll probably dig this:

Dilbert’s The Knack

As my mom can attest, I actually did something like that when I was a kid. Classic.

(Via slashdot.org) One problem people seem to have with installing Linux is the fact you have to download an .iso, and then burn it to a CD. While burning an .iso to a CD is not hard, unless you are into it, or have done it before, it can be confusing. That is, assuming you [...]

I’ve updated my regular expression testing widget to version 1.5. The only real change in this version is a UI update.

I’ve been doing some regular expression work the past couple of days, and the look of the widget started to bother me. It was very “programmer art”ish – it works fine, but it just looked [...]