WHAT'S BEST FOR SLIDES? BLACK TEXT ON WHITE BACKGROUND ORBLACK BACKGROUND WHITE FONTCHANGE SCREEN TO WHITE BACKGROUNDWHITE LETTERS ON BLACK BACKGROUNDWHITE TEXT DARK BACKGROUNDWHITE WORDS ON BLACK BACKGROUNDWINDOWS BLACK BACKGROUND WHITE TEXT White (text) on a (light) blue background is usually always best. The contrast is good enough but not as harsh on the eyes as with black on white (too much white area adds brightness which heightens contrast). Avoid white on black except maybe for a HOW TO DUMP PACKETS WITH TCPDUMP How to dump packets with tcpdump. By Ask Bjørn Hansen on July 12, 2007 12:01 PM | No Comments. I always forget the parameters for this and have to look them up in the man page, so enough of that: tcpdump -nnXSs 0 'port 80'. "-nn" makes it not lookup hostnames in DNS and service names (in /etc/services) for respectively faster and cleaner APPLE SERVICE SOURCE Apple Service Source. By Ask Bjørn Hansen on February 11, 2003 12:36 AM | 13 Comments. A while ago the display on my powerbook started to come loose. No, it is not falling off, but it's tilting backwards all

the time. Bang!

MARCH 2002 ARCHIVES

Not that we need it, but there's more evidence that Microsoft are bullying their customers because they can. Microsoft Killed Dell Linux "I'm thinking of hitting the OEMs harder than in the past with anti-Linux. they should do a delicate dance," Kempin wrote to Ballmer, in what is sure to be a memorable addition to the phrases ("knife the baby", "cut off the air supply") with which ASK BJØRN HANSEN: SEPTEMBER 2002 ARCHIVES At home on my "primary" computer I use a Happy Hacking Keyboard.It's great. No caps lock. Meta key. No numerical keyboard to put your mouse further away. With some help from RemapCapsLock on Wiki I made my other Linux box (with a regular keyboard) have the left Control key on CapsLock; the right Control key on the left Control key and nothing on the right Control key. ASK BJØRN HANSEN: NOVEMBER 2002 ARCHIVES Tickets for Lord of the Rings:The Two Towers went on sale today.We got tickets for for the 7pm screening the first Saturday it's out (the 21st). Nine great seats at the dome.The screen is huge. 32x86 feet of movie bliss. More than 800 seats well within the THX specifications. ASK BJØRN HANSEN: JUNE 2006 ARCHIVES Vani has been getting me early birthday presents through the week (my birthday is today!), including very not-safe-for-work (but not like you think) curiously strong magnets! In raw weight the biggest early birthday present came yesterday, when these four guys brought us our new refrigerator.They tried to deliver it a few weeks ago but needed to come back with more people to get ASK BJØRN HANSEN: JANUARY 2004 ARCHIVES David Pogue reviews GarageBand, "Recording Studio in a Box": . It won't be long before the GarageBand creations of no-name singers and players start popping up on Web sites - indeed, it won't be long before Web sites start popping up just to accommodate them - bypassing the talent scouts and gatekeepers of the American recording industry. ASK BJØRN HANSEN: DECEMBER 2002 ARCHIVES Wired can say whatever they want about the mac community. (Update: I note John Gruber has a great response to the nonsense).How I Caught a Counterfeiter with a Little Help from my Friends tells the story of a scammer buying macs with counterfeit checks and how he got caught.. He emailed me a new address and phone number, the phone number again traced back to the same address for Mr.

EMINEM'S MOSH VIDEO

Salon.com says:. With his history of homophobia and his long-running beef with MoveOn supporter Moby, Eminem is an even less likely lefty hero than Howard Stern. WHAT'S BEST FOR SLIDES? BLACK TEXT ON WHITE BACKGROUND ORBLACK BACKGROUND WHITE FONTCHANGE SCREEN TO WHITE BACKGROUNDWHITE LETTERS ON BLACK BACKGROUNDWHITE TEXT DARK BACKGROUNDWHITE WORDS ON BLACK BACKGROUNDWINDOWS BLACK BACKGROUND WHITE TEXT White (text) on a (light) blue background is usually always best. The contrast is good enough but not as harsh on the eyes as with black on white (too much white area adds brightness which heightens contrast). Avoid white on black except maybe for a HOW TO DUMP PACKETS WITH TCPDUMP How to dump packets with tcpdump. By Ask Bjørn Hansen on July 12, 2007 12:01 PM | No Comments. I always forget the parameters for this and have to look them up in the man page, so enough of that: tcpdump -nnXSs 0 'port 80'. "-nn" makes it not lookup hostnames in DNS and service names (in /etc/services) for respectively faster and cleaner APPLE SERVICE SOURCE Apple Service Source. By Ask Bjørn Hansen on February 11, 2003 12:36 AM | 13 Comments. A while ago the display on my powerbook started to come loose. No, it is not falling off, but it's tilting backwards all

the time. Bang!

MARCH 2002 ARCHIVES

Not that we need it, but there's more evidence that Microsoft are bullying their customers because they can. Microsoft Killed Dell Linux "I'm thinking of hitting the OEMs harder than in the past with anti-Linux. they should do a delicate dance," Kempin wrote to Ballmer, in what is sure to be a memorable addition to the phrases ("knife the baby", "cut off the air supply") with which ASK BJØRN HANSEN: SEPTEMBER 2002 ARCHIVES At home on my "primary" computer I use a Happy Hacking Keyboard.It's great. No caps lock. Meta key. No numerical keyboard to put your mouse further away. With some help from RemapCapsLock on Wiki I made my other Linux box (with a regular keyboard) have the left Control key on CapsLock; the right Control key on the left Control key and nothing on the right Control key. ASK BJØRN HANSEN: NOVEMBER 2002 ARCHIVES Tickets for Lord of the Rings:The Two Towers went on sale today.We got tickets for for the 7pm screening the first Saturday it's out (the 21st). Nine great seats at the dome.The screen is huge. 32x86 feet of movie bliss. More than 800 seats well within the THX specifications. ASK BJØRN HANSEN: JUNE 2006 ARCHIVES Vani has been getting me early birthday presents through the week (my birthday is today!), including very not-safe-for-work (but not like you think) curiously strong magnets! In raw weight the biggest early birthday present came yesterday, when these four guys brought us our new refrigerator.They tried to deliver it a few weeks ago but needed to come back with more people to get ASK BJØRN HANSEN: JANUARY 2004 ARCHIVES David Pogue reviews GarageBand, "Recording Studio in a Box": . It won't be long before the GarageBand creations of no-name singers and players start popping up on Web sites - indeed, it won't be long before Web sites start popping up just to accommodate them - bypassing the talent scouts and gatekeepers of the American recording industry. ASK BJØRN HANSEN: DECEMBER 2002 ARCHIVES Wired can say whatever they want about the mac community. (Update: I note John Gruber has a great response to the nonsense).How I Caught a Counterfeiter with a Little Help from my Friends tells the story of a scammer buying macs with counterfeit checks and how he got caught.. He emailed me a new address and phone number, the phone number again traced back to the same address for Mr.

EMINEM'S MOSH VIDEO

Salon.com says:. With his history of homophobia and his long-running beef with MoveOn supporter Moby, Eminem is an even less likely lefty hero than Howard Stern. ASK BJØRN HANSEN: JUNE 2006 ARCHIVES Vani has been getting me early birthday presents through the week (my birthday is today!), including very not-safe-for-work (but not like you think) curiously strong magnets! In raw weight the biggest early birthday present came yesterday, when these four guys brought us our new refrigerator.They tried to deliver it a few weeks ago but needed to come back with more people to get

MARCH 2002 ARCHIVES

Not that we need it, but there's more evidence that Microsoft are bullying their customers because they can. Microsoft Killed Dell Linux "I'm thinking of hitting the OEMs harder than in the past with anti-Linux. they should do a delicate dance," Kempin wrote to Ballmer, in what is sure to be a memorable addition to the phrases ("knife the baby", "cut off the air supply") with which KEVIN'S STORY KEVIN SPEAKS Chapter 1 Kevin's Story by Kevin Mitnick I was reluctant to write this section because I was sure it would sound self-serving. Well, okay, it

is self-serving.

ASK BJØRN HANSEN: NOVEMBER 2002 ARCHIVES Tickets for Lord of the Rings:The Two Towers went on sale today.We got tickets for for the 7pm screening the first Saturday it's out (the 21st). Nine great seats at the dome.The screen is huge. 32x86 feet of movie bliss. More than 800 seats well within the THX specifications. WINDOWS 2000 BOX THAT HANGS DURING BOOT From the "my weblog as my personal mailinglist" department: I have a laptop where we just installed Windows 2000. Shortly after installing it, it started hanging during boot. AUGUST 2003 ARCHIVES By Ask Bjørn Hansen on August 29, 2003 9:41 AM | 2 Comments. A young woman in Baghdad is writing a weblog Baghdad Burning. Very interesting; go and read already. This internet thing is amazing. The other way to wake up, is to be jolted into reality with the sound of a gun-shot, explosion or yelling. You sit up, horrified and panicked,

any

ASK BJØRN HANSEN: OCTOBER 2002 ARCHIVES Traffic is very dangerous and today Michael Moore points out that every day at least 8 children gets killed by a gun in the US. Every day. Tick tock. 30 to 40 people are murdered every day. 40 to 50 people use a gun to kill themselves. Every day. Tick tock.

MAY 2003 ARCHIVES

Noone liked Apple's round hockey mouse shipped with the original iMac. It was just awful. Too little. Too round. Bad designer, no cookie. Some people don't like the newer (from 2000) "pill mouse" either.. I am not sure what's not to like about it.

EMINEM'S MOSH VIDEO

u know wut, i went to michigan news and saw critics talking about how eminem's critical condition in the hospital for pain pills and they said dat they are embarassed for having a citizen like that, and dat he shouldnt be in da front page. ASK BJØRN HANSEN: MAY 2004 ARCHIVES This is excellent news, SPF and Microsoft Caller-ID is converging. I haven't looked too much into the details, but from a quick glance it's looking great. Instead of SRS (the funny rewriting of the envelope sender) we'll get a new header to add when a mail is being forwarded. Toggle navigation Home

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