Yesterday I went to buy a PCMCIA Network card for my laptop. Its an old Sony Vaio ultrathin which dual boots Mandrake 9.1/Windows 98. I settled on DLINKS 690TXD because it was the cheapest, and had no dongle.

The box simply listed the hardware specs needed for both PPC and x86 architectures, no OS requirements. It does say it comes with drivers for Windows, Mac OS, and Linux 2.2+.

However they don't have precompiled Linux Driver. Instead they have dfe690.c as well as 2K Text file on using GCC to compile the driver, and use in a range of distros, including making loadable Kernal Modules.

DLINK, my hat goes off to you.

(On an interesting side note, Windows 98 still refuses to work with this card, but Linux detected it automatically.)

Dlink 690TXD and Linux : Wow!

I wish I had a compatible cellphone...

This is word for word what Decius, Timball and I were talking about this winter. Damn. Well, looks like we can prt his copde to other platforms, adopt it to do what we wanted with it.

Semacode: BarCode to URL translation for the people

] Jon, aka "Toothy Toothing" and the guide's author, explained
] toothing was born after he was "bluejacked" by an unknown girl while
] commuting to work in London. After a few days of flirting, she
] suggested a brief encounter in a station lavatory.

Let me get this straight, a guy named "Toothy" got "bluejacked" by some chick in a public bathroom.

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say:
In. His. Wet. Dreams.

While I don't doubt "Toothing" (sorry can't keep a straight face... this is BRITIAN for god sakes!) exists, I don't think it started the way this guys wishes it did.

RE: Yahoo! News - 'Toothing' for Hi-Tech Sex with Strangers

Interesting....This is what the casinos are using. I wonder if it could ever be competition for paypal.

I wonder if they have had the problems of phishing that Paypal has had?

I wonder how secure they are.

Cryptologic

Stripe Snoop, a Track 2 magstripe decoder has been released into the GPL, and is available in source or binary from at my homepage, Most Sigificant Bit.

Included is a detailed article about interfacing Magstripes to PCs, diagrams and pictures, as well as the software itself.

I will be presenting a talk about Magstripe interfacing at Intersz0ne III this weekend

.. and, I built a coke machine that works

Stripe Snoop Released, MSB updated *PLUS COKE MACHINE!*

] Speaking at the company's annual online advertising
] conference, Yusuf Medhi, MSN's corporate vice president
] of information and merchant services, spoke about the
] company's "big investment" in search. He highlighted
] MSN's recent release of a search toolbar for the browser

... But its Internet Fucking Explorer. It defaults to searching with MSN anyway!

Microsoft's aggressive search plans revealed - News - ZDNet

inignoct wrote:
] ] When ATMs go bad by Carla Geisser
]
] CMU students managed to crash an ATM on campus to the XP
] desktop. Fantastic.
]
] [ Yes, ATM's should run on the world's least secure platform.
] Good call. -k]

Or they can run OS/2.

http://www.yak.net/acidus/ncratm/index.html

RE: photo sharing system

] I'm not gonna be satisfied until the computer knows what i
] want to look at based on correlating its semantic map with
] whatever i'm working on. If I happen to be reading a document
] about global warming affecting coastal sea bird populations, i
] want the computer to know that and be looking for related
] information before i ask it, so when i do ask for more, it's
] right there, sorted by subtopics at multiple levels, coded for
] relevance and preferably with a prefetched version of the
] resources already stored locally. -k]

Timball talk about something like this with me once. Some Linux/Gnome project or something.

Basically each X app had its own kind of RSS feed, about what was currently being "done" on that app. A central program simply compiled this info, and would look for relevant info, be it on your computer (meta info is your friend!), or do a google query. Tim said this thing got demoed at some Linux conference (don't know which one) and that they ran into some fundamental barrier with the number of searches 1 IP can send to google in a certain time span.

Who knows how vaporware this thing is, but its sounded cool.

Jesse Ruderman: Experience Google's new look

] It is now 10:30 pm, and I have been up since 5 a.m. this
] morning. Today, I served as an election judge in the
] primary election, and I am writing down my experience
] now, despite being extremely tired, as everything is
] fresh in my mind, and this was one of the most incredible
] days in my life.

My day as an election judge - Avi Rubin

] The dispute over who controls key portions of the
] Internet's address system erupted into open conflict
] today when VeriSign Inc., the world's largest addressing
] company, sued the Internet's most visible regulatory
] body, charging that it has been unfairly prevented from
] developing new services for Internet users.

Yeah, services that corrupt the DNS trees worldwide by making www.verisignblowslikeatwodollarwhore.com resolve.

Verisign Sues ICANN to reinstate Sitefinder!