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Operation Currently Prohibited by Disc

When the door on my  Toshiba SD-3000 started failing, it was easier to shop for a new player after getting almost 10 years out of it. The replacement Sony DVD player was a mere $75 and is now able to connect over HDMI to our TV. It has  a fabulous picture when you are watching movies on disc and is generally more responsive then the older Toshiba player; unfortunately, it has the annoying inconvenience of displaying the dreaded Operation Currently Prohibited by Disc message.

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The Apple Appliance

The introduction of the Apple iPad has engendered a somewhat luke-warm reception. It is a tablet computer about the size of a standard pad of paper, and features a color display with a screen that responds to touch. There are a number of core applications bundled with the device, not the least of which is an e-book reader where you will be able to download many popular books directly from the Apple iTunes store.

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Connecting iPhone to Linux

For anyone with an iPod Touch or iPhone, support on Linux has been somewhat limited until a few months ago. While it was possible to jailbreak your phone, this remains a sensitive and time consuming process. Fortunately, with the work on usbmuxd it is now possible to mount either one of these popular Apple devices on your favorite Linux distribution. There is still some configuration work necessary to piece everything together, but once it is running the support is relatively seamless.

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Annual 2010 Predictions

So it looks like my track record for 2009 may not be all that bad, although for the most part my overzealous predictions anticipated greater adverse impact from the general state of the economy. Fortunately, things are looking better now so for 2010 these predictions should be a little more grounded.

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Living with Mac

My last full-time Mac was a Centris 650, at the time I spent a lot of effort getting the Houdini 486 PC board running so that I could boot MS-DOS and possibly Linux. While Houdini never lived up to my expectations, the modern Mac is transformative in many regards.
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