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I confess - I have a fetish (well actually, a couple of them, but I’m only going to talk about one that is for public consumption). I am into keyboards. Computer keyboards. I don’t know when it started, but I was always fascinated with keyboards. I learnt touch typing at the tender age of 12 (going to a course and possibly being the youngest in that school to learn to type). ...

Good guide on installing and configuring Debian to be used as an ISP server. Has some good information on configuring various interesting stuff… The Perfect Setup

from the “it-just-works” dept: three people, three computers, three operating systems - one new WLAN access point in my office. Installing the access point (D-Link AP2000) and finding the DHCP setting for it’s IP adress: 5 minutes (D-Link could use some help designing the web interface for their access point… Good: You have to change the default admin password to use it) Mac OS/X: online without intervention Windows XP: online with one manual intervention (select to connect to insecure WLAN) Linux: online with severe manual intervention (and writing obscure stuff in some configuration files) All in all - a really enjoyable experience… ...

Simon always has interesting reading, and the Python Filesystems article is no exception.

What a joy… coding a simple website with some text on the lower right, independent of browser window size. No, no JavaScript please. And no - no tables, they are so 90s. So - because it’s “àla mode” it’s XHTML and CSS. And because it’s commercial, it should look good on a number of different systems. Also on a Mac. With IE on a Mac. A couple of hours later - I give up. IE/Mac is so broken, that there are websites that deal with a lot of annoyances. ...