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Our pub crawl started in Port Melbourne, drank its way through South Melbourne and finished in Fitzroy. Photos of Santa the Dance God follow…

Following the recent discovery of Saddam Hussein, officials have today confirmed that Osama Bin Laden has been crowned World Hide and Seek Champion.

Interested in having your Fedora installation support more than ext2/3?
JFS - boot with ‘linux jfs’
Reiserfs - boot with ‘linux reiserfs’
NTFS - RPMs available at http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/rpm/index.html.

If you’re sick of advertising on the websites, then try Privoxy, available on OS X, Linux and Windows platforms. Privoxy is a free, open source software package which runs as a proxy server on your computer, automatically filtering out advertisements, unwanted cookies and more.
Privoxy is a proxy that is solely focused on privacy protection [...]

One of the most useful features of the Linux (and OS X) command line is autocomplete for file and path names. when using the command line As someone used to using terminals under Linux / OS X, I have a tendency to use cmd.exe for the same purposes when using Windows.
For those unfamiliar with [...]

Once again Telstra leads the way in the IT industry, this time by redefining a spammer as someone who sends “20 e-mails over 10 minutes”. Telstra customers who send more than their allocated twenty messages during this period will have their accounts investigated and possibly suspended.
Maybe Telstra’s mail servers just can’t keep up with [...]

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/12/11/1071086176162.html
The Australian Capital Territory has just passed a bill specifying that “as far as practicable”, public agencies should consider open source when procuring software, and software which does not comply with open or ISO standards should not be considered for use.
The bill also rules out the use of software for which support or maintenance is [...]

OS X.3 has a wide range of options for taking screenshots. I always manage to forget what they are, so I am listing them here for reference.
Screen to file : Shift-APPLE-3
Screen to clipboard : Ctrl-Shift-APPLE-3
Crosshair screen selection to file : Shift-APPLE-4
Crosshair screen selection to clipboard : Ctrl-Shift-APPLE-4
Window to file : Spacebar after Shift-APPLE-4 then [...]

Head over to Google, search for “miserable failure” (without quotes) and what do you get as your first result? The official government biography of George Bush.
Try for yourself with http://www.google.com.au/search?q=miserable.
If you’re wondering why, try visiting this blog for more information. Once you’ve done that you’ll understand why I’m adding - miserable failure.
Also worth [...]

Open Source.
It’s the difference
between trust
and antitrust.