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- Harris Cyclery Articles
- F1 News – The end for Super Aguri F1
- BBC SPORT – Struggling Super Aguri out of F1
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- DealExtreme: $2.40 Compact CA-100 Compatible USB Charger for Nokia Phones
- Mobile Opportunity: Adobe frees mobile flash: It’s about time
- Regime takes Fiji Times boss – Fiji Times Online
- Tags fiji censorship oppression
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I needed to do a simple http get in the other day, the only catch was that I had to send a cookie. My first thoughts were that this might be tricky, but in practise it's a doddle. Below is a simplistic example passing a cookie (called "Fish", with a value of "Cod") using Python's httplib.
import httplib
conn = httplib.HTTPConnection( "www.example.com" )
Headers = {"Cookie" : "Fish=Cod"}
conn.request("GET", "/fishfinder.html", None, Headers )
response = conn.getresponse()
data = response.read()
How hard can it be?
- lothianbuses_no_fuel on Flickr – Photo Sharing!
- BBC NEWS – Scotland – Strike to close key oil pipeline
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- Lose the propaganda. Share the truth
- Twitter / Jim Hughes: Twitter-meme time, write a…
- Twitter / Jim Hughes: here’s some Free Tibet phrases…
- Openwave – Content Adaptation and the Adoption of Industry Standards
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- Hehkuva – Lehtikuva – Picture Agency – Lehtikuva Creative – hehkuva.com
- Registration for State of the Map 2008 is now open
- OpenGeoData – OSM Super-Strength Export
- Fire Eagle Developer Evening at Wallacespace (Wednesday, April 30, 2008) – Upcoming
- BBC NEWS – EBay sues Craigslist ad website
- Event Information: How to Eliminate Concurrency Defects in Multi-threaded Applications
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- Nokia Giving Away FIFA 2008 for N-Gage Gamers : Ewan Spence’s All New Musings
- Nokia launch the 5320 XpressMusic
- Londonist: Olympic Torch Relay Security Was Jolly Expensive
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- Campdowne 2008
- MobHappy – Zimbabwe Gets Political
- Dr. Dobb’s – Adrian Holovarty on the Django Project – March 27, 2008
- Dr. Dobb’s – An Interview with Bjarne Stroustrup – March 27, 2008
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- BBC NEWS – BBC website ‘unblocked in China’
- In ever-widening security cordon, a palpable fear – The Guardian
- Taptology – Creating for the Mobile Web: 20 Great Resources for Designers and Developers
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- Taptology – Sprint & OpenWave breaking the mobile web: Why transcoders suck
- “MobHappy – Just So We?re All On the Same Page About What “Open Means
- Ericsson CMO says Wi-Fi hotspots are numbered
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There seems to be two camps on how IE8 should behave:
MS & Joel: IE8 should be broken in different ways to previous IE releases, but it should nearly work on IE specific sites.
Everyone else: It should be standards compliant, if sites built to work around previously broken IE behaviour no longer work, tough. Fix them and reap the benefits.
Various linkage:
- Feargal Sharkey on three strikes? and after – The Register
- Data pimping: surveillance expert raises illegal wiretap worries – The Register
- The Phorm files – The Register
- BadPhorm – When ISPs go bad!
- MySpace.com – Black Mountain
- RuralZed
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- GarageBand.com : the r.A.d. project
- Jade Leary ? Music at Last.fm
- MySpace.com – LAB 64 – AU – Acoustic / Gothic / Rock
- Symbian Developer Network Forums : NOTICE FOR EXPRESS SIGNED USERS
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File this story under "you couldn't make it up"; midget, cross-dressing, comedy-act Prince is bandwagon jumping (which makes a change from the usual shark), and suing The Pirate Bay for piracy.
As the first commenter on El Reg mentions, Prince's most recent album was given away free with a low-brow UK newspaper at launch, so it's hardly high-value content. In fact for added perspective, I bought said paper just out of curiousity, recycled the paper (well the pet rabbit did) instead of reading it, and lost the cd before it was ever played. I'd even forgotten the entire event until today; so, what's the value of Prince's work? Not a lot, I'd say...
I'm not entirely sure whether I should post this in the widgets category, but given that there is a widget involved, I guess it's as good a place as any. As an aside, I suppose that's why folksonomies are so popular, as there's little angst about choosing the perfect single category, you can just shotgun all the selections that are close enough.
Today's widget is for the Techdirt Insight Community, of which I happen to be a member. The Techdirt Insight Community (TIC) is an invited community of experts, who currently provide analysis and feedback on a competitive basis on a number of submitted cases. I find the competitive aspect interesting, and approaching the cases in a serious and analytical manner certainly appears to be the most successful approach.
Today's news of an alliance with Thomson Financial, allowing Techdirt to distribute research material from the Techdirt Insight Community (including TIC's new Smart Dossiers) through Thomson's leading research and analysis platform is a big step forward for TIC. Providing another route to market for TIC's data, and potentially more interest in the entire TIC programme.
Just before Christmas the nice folks at talkToshiba lent me a Tecra A8 laptop to play with thoroughly review.
After the usual DHL fun and games (fortunately not as much DHL fun and games as Carlo's Moto Z8), I got the lappie just in time for the run of Christmas parties, childrens' Nativity plays etc. so I didn't get very long to play with it, and I had an email halfway through from talkToshiba effectively saying, "don't worry too much as it's now been replaced by the Tecra A9 in Europe". So as others have already gone into depth reviewing the beast I'll cut to the chase, it's a nice bit of kit, well made, very well specced and more than fast enough for 99.9% of the stuff you'll want to do on any laptop. On the minus side, it's no midget and it's got a trackpad rather than a "nipple mouse" - both personal preferences rather than damning indictments. One final minor niggle is that some of the keys had marked the screen slightly, but given this was a hard worked, used, and abused review machine I'm not sure if this would be entirely representative.
Nutshell specs:
Intel Centrino Duo Mobile Technology featuring Intel Core.2 Duo Processor T7200 - Genuine Windows XP Professional - 100 GB Hard Disk Drive - 1,024 MB DDR2 RAM (533 MHz) - 15.4 WXGA TFT display - DVD Super Multi (Double Layer) drive
So, picking the good bits out of that, pretty much everything, the processor's plenty quick enough, XP Pro is a saner choice than Vista for anyone who has to run Windows, I'd personally add a bit more ram, and I'm still not entirely convinced about widescreen displays; they're great for watching films, but as a developer I'd be happy to sacrifice width in favour of height, the human eye/brain can't read long lines of text anyway, why do you think newspapers use multiple narrow columns?
Along with XP, Toshiba bundled some interesting utils, one being a utility which detects any movement or vibration and moves the hard disk head to a safe position to prevent any damage. Perhaps this is overly sensitive, because it appeared to be in constant usage when I used the laptop on the train. Also bundled was Toshiba's Bluetooth stack, I gave this a once over and easily got it to use my phone's 3G connection for internet connectivity (which promptly cost me a couple of quid courtesy of Windows Update...), one thing I didn't check was whether the Toshiba stack had a headset Bluetooth profile, this would be a useful improvement over the standard Microsoft stack for things like VOIP.
After a few hours play I was quite impressed, and also rather bemused by just how sparse a bare-bones Windows install is for a developer, where's C++/Python/Perl, webserver, editor, ssh client? etc. etc. It's not Toshiba's fault, but highlights how badly the out-of-the-box Windows experience fits the needs of one particular market segment. To attempt to remedy the situation, I spent 30 minutes installing Ubuntu 7.10 with the only obvious problem being a lack of audio, this fix should resolve that, but I didn't get around to trying it. The 30 minutes installing Ubuntu was also significantly quicker than the hours spent downloading Windows security fixes...
So, to wrap up, would I buy one? No, but I would recommend one for someone who didn't mind the size. Personally, I'm looking more for Eee PC sized (or perhaps a little bigger and better), something small would be a much better fit for my usage patterns; I wonder if I can get talkToshiba to lend me an R500 at some point?
