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Blogging styles: Articles or Links?

I haven’t blogged on this site for a while. I have made some posts to my RUJason site using Blogger. Since blogger’s redesign and the launch of MT 3.0 I’ve been comparing the 2 services and have come to the conclusion that both are now mature, capable platforms specialized for different styles, comments & links, ...

Pop Goes the GMail

Pop Goes the GMail is a small Gmail -> POP3 converter that someone wrote for Windows. It seems interesting, but most of the neat GMail features are actually more to do with the web interface, so it seems like you’d be giving up most of the benefits of the service. ——–

Plagiarism Detectors

A survey of around 350 undergraduates found nearly 25% had copied text from another source at least once. A new service that can scan 4.5 billion web pages is now online so that lecturers can check the originality of the work submitted by students. I wonder how much of this plagiarism would be avoided if ...

More Open, Scriptable NSPlugins

RELEASE: Mozilla Foundation Announces More Open, Scriptable Plugins Adobe, Apple, Macromedia, Opera and Sun Microsystems join in push to modernize plugins and create a richer web experience This sounds like it would be a great step forward in terms of building rich clients in the browser. Looking at the raft of companies involved, I wonder ...

Reduce compile time with distcc

distcc is a little application that hooks onto the gcc compiler and allows the compilation to occur on other machines where distcc is installed. The first step is to get distcc onto your workstation, so download the latest version from the Web site (see Resources for a link). Fantastic ——–