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Digg is actually better. Slashdot is old and ugly. Its content is decided by editors, the layout looks like it was made in windows95's heyday and its a dinosaur. Digg on the other hand is new and "growing", they use a flashier, better looking layout, yet the site is still simpler then Slashdot. The content is decided by the submitters and you can get that content via audio and video podcasts.

I never could stand slashdot. The layout and just overall feel of that site was/is bad.

I don't like slashdot's layout. It's ugly and cluttered. The colors make me wanna puke.

Slashdot users agree that Digg.com's entries are a lot more current that the ones posted at Slashdot.

99% of slashdot users have self-diagnosed themselves as suffering from Asperger's Syndrome. Most slashdot users consider themselves "smart" when in fact they are simply of average intelligence, but have more free time and a higher sense of ego. This can be seen in the forums where spelling and usage errors are prevalent in condescending, arrogant rants, identified by containing the phrase "people are stupid" at some point in the post.

I prefer Digg for my tech news and I've found some really nice sites that way.

I prefer Digg. I used to check /. but I didn't like it as much

I like Digg better anyway, much more and more interesting news.

I cant stand Slashdot, I will only Read it when its linked from somewhere else

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>> Your fanaticism is showing. putty is open source, cross platform, and damn good. If you're going to claim that it's "half crippled" then you'd best back that up with actual facts rather than just looking like a knee jerk anti-Windows fanboy. I don't suggest that you use putty for all tasks, but it's certainly a good alternative for many of them. Right tool, right job.

Sure,

The colours are broken, often vim syntax highlighting is unreadable and many irssi themes show text in black on black when that doesnt happen with ssh under any terminal emulator I tried.

Refreshing after resize is unreliable and sometimes makes the application permanently unviewable.

Line crop often breaks and line does a \r instead of a \n\r so you end up typing over what you just typed.

Connection drops from time to time, seems not as reliable but may be due to Windows' limited network capabilities (*shiver*tcpstack errors*shiver*)

Plink the command line clients managed to somehow crash some Windows machines I tried it on, never found out why.

Cant do X forwarding or many other nifty things

I think I even saw putty plain not run certain terminal applications. Its not bad considering its emulation, but about as good as wine emulates windows software :)

For the record, I do hate windows, but mostly for technical reasons: http://hackeron.dyndns.org/hackeron/index.php/Linu x_or_Windows_-_A_Practical_Comparison

But in hindsight I should have used OpenBSD, just forgot to get the bloody CD's out.

I started using blosxom for Octopodial Chrome several years ago and have been very happy with it. Besides the original perl blosxom, there's PyBlosxom (a port to Python) and my own pre-alpha Lisp Blosxom. This last is a port to Common Lisp; it doesn't work yet, but someday I hope that it'll be pretty nice.

I couldnt agree more. I've been working on a comparison that covers everything they dont want you to know - would be nice to get some criticism, comments: http://hackeron.dyndns.org/hackeron/index.php/Linu x_or_Windows_-_A_Practical_Comparison

I've got some spare 'regular' DECT phones.. can I use them instead of the linksys one?

At least here in europe, there is DECT and there is GAP. Phones only supporting DECT are supposed to work together, although this is apparently often not the case...
GAP specifies interoperability, I never had a problem with different GAP phones on a GAP-compliant base station.

But many phones not declared as GAP compliant seem to work together anyway. For the cheapest handheld/base combinations, there are often hidden buttons etc. which can enable 'search mode' etc.

BTW, I think this is a good location to blatantly advertise a hardware modification to DECT phones for asterisk-soundcard/VoIP (that was featured on hackaday.com on saturday).

Onno

http://jsil.dyndns.org:8080/webcam.html

I'm sure they can't stand a /.'ing but last time I looked, two friends were on the couch messing with Powerbooks together.

That card is a royal pain to get working, but I was (partially) successful with Mandrake 10.0. I purchased it because one of the earlier revisions was listed as working with linux, and I neglected to check exactly which one I was getting. The card requires at least part of its firmware to be uploaded to it at boot / initialization time to be detected and set up properly. I don't remember the full procedure, as it was over a year ago that I did it, but here are a few hints to get you started. I used the hostap drivers, with the hostap_fw_load script. Check this howto for some helpful info. It looks similar to what I did to get it working. It was still a bit buggy, though, and worked only two out of every three boots. Good luck.

I use Password Safe on a USB pen drive. It has a master password that it uses to encrypt all my other passwords in a tidy MFC application. In x86 Linux I access it using Wine, which works fine. For my OS X machine, I use pwsafe, a console app that lets you access Password Safe databases, and dumps the password directly into the X clipboard buffer. (Use the CVS version, the latest regular build can't access the latest Password Safe database format.) I found other unix password safe compatible workalikes to be extremely poor.

This solution works well for me. Just make sure you back up your pen drive.

Simple answer: don't read the review, submit reviews of the lesser-known games you speak of, or post a comment that says, "[linked unsubmitted game review] is WAY better than [submitted game review]." Even if it's not.

For example: Blender is WAY better than The Sims 2 Nightlife!

I've always wanted to try MythTV, but I have Dish Network satellite. The only way for MythTV to interact with it is to either build a special cable and software setup or do something like this. Most Dish Network boxes don't have the harware necessary for building the cable, or it is internally disabled. So the only other way is to emulate the remote control. I'm fairly nerdy, but that procedure is lengthy and complicated even for me. I'm not saying it's MythTV's fault, but given the alternatives I'd much rather get a Tivo. It too needs to emulate the remote control, but all the hardware and software is already built and ready to go out of the box.

Eat this:

* http://flgr.dyndns.org/slashdot-less-gay.png
* http://flgr.dyndns.org/slash.css

You can test slash.css with Firefox' excellent EditCss extension: http://editcss.mozdev.org/

Eat this:

* http://flgr.dyndns.org/slashdot-less-gay.png
* http://flgr.dyndns.org/slash.css

You can test slash.css with Firefox' excellent EditCss extension: http://editcss.mozdev.org/

wildcard DNS's are very common in subdomains, CentralNIc are just re-selling subdomains (for 37 quid !) of course some people have been giving away subdomains for years

this company are nothing more than scam artists, charging 10 times what a real domain would cost but with none of the responsibility of a genuine NIC

Well, as one who manages the family computer, which runs WinXP, AutoUpdate is actually pretty useful. I haven't had to install an update manually for quite some time.

Seriously though, I can't wait until we get an OSX port that doesn't suck (Camino is okay, but what good is it if you can't use all the cool firefox extensions?).

Well, as a Mac OS X user, I feel your pain. But, I'm wondering which parts suck for you? I have issues with page rendering. Look at these rendering jobs from the LiveJournal home page (be kind! this is hosted on my personal server box):

• FireFox 1.0 (Sorry, but the "About" Dialogue blocks the effected text, so you'll have to trust me)
• FireFox 1.5 Deer Park Beta 1 the distributed Mac OS X binary, not compiled from soruce
• Camino 0.92 just for comparson
• Opera 8.02 for Mac OS X
• Safari 2 (And if you don't trust me, think about how many web browsers have a brushed metal GUI like that)

Any one else have this problem? I know it's not too isolated since I've had this happen on both installations of OS X 10.4 and even 10.3. Or are there other problems that I don't know about?

Well, as one who manages the family computer, which runs WinXP, AutoUpdate is actually pretty useful. I haven't had to install an update manually for quite some time.

Seriously though, I can't wait until we get an OSX port that doesn't suck (Camino is okay, but what good is it if you can't use all the cool firefox extensions?).

Well, as a Mac OS X user, I feel your pain. But, I'm wondering which parts suck for you? I have issues with page rendering. Look at these rendering jobs from the LiveJournal home page (be kind! this is hosted on my personal server box):

• FireFox 1.0 (Sorry, but the "About" Dialogue blocks the effected text, so you'll have to trust me)
• FireFox 1.5 Deer Park Beta 1 the distributed Mac OS X binary, not compiled from soruce
• Camino 0.92 just for comparson
• Opera 8.02 for Mac OS X
• Safari 2 (And if you don't trust me, think about how many web browsers have a brushed metal GUI like that)

Any one else have this problem? I know it's not too isolated since I've had this happen on both installations of OS X 10.4 and even 10.3. Or are there other problems that I don't know about?

Well, as one who manages the family computer, which runs WinXP, AutoUpdate is actually pretty useful. I haven't had to install an update manually for quite some time.

Seriously though, I can't wait until we get an OSX port that doesn't suck (Camino is okay, but what good is it if you can't use all the cool firefox extensions?).

Well, as a Mac OS X user, I feel your pain. But, I'm wondering which parts suck for you? I have issues with page rendering. Look at these rendering jobs from the LiveJournal home page (be kind! this is hosted on my personal server box):

• FireFox 1.0 (Sorry, but the "About" Dialogue blocks the effected text, so you'll have to trust me)
• FireFox 1.5 Deer Park Beta 1 the distributed Mac OS X binary, not compiled from soruce
• Camino 0.92 just for comparson
• Opera 8.02 for Mac OS X
• Safari 2 (And if you don't trust me, think about how many web browsers have a brushed metal GUI like that)

Any one else have this problem? I know it's not too isolated since I've had this happen on both installations of OS X 10.4 and even 10.3. Or are there other problems that I don't know about?

Well, as one who manages the family computer, which runs WinXP, AutoUpdate is actually pretty useful. I haven't had to install an update manually for quite some time.

Seriously though, I can't wait until we get an OSX port that doesn't suck (Camino is okay, but what good is it if you can't use all the cool firefox extensions?).

Well, as a Mac OS X user, I feel your pain. But, I'm wondering which parts suck for you? I have issues with page rendering. Look at these rendering jobs from the LiveJournal home page (be kind! this is hosted on my personal server box):

• FireFox 1.0 (Sorry, but the "About" Dialogue blocks the effected text, so you'll have to trust me)
• FireFox 1.5 Deer Park Beta 1 the distributed Mac OS X binary, not compiled from soruce
• Camino 0.92 just for comparson
• Opera 8.02 for Mac OS X
• Safari 2 (And if you don't trust me, think about how many web browsers have a brushed metal GUI like that)

Any one else have this problem? I know it's not too isolated since I've had this happen on both installations of OS X 10.4 and even 10.3. Or are there other problems that I don't know about?

Well, as one who manages the family computer, which runs WinXP, AutoUpdate is actually pretty useful. I haven't had to install an update manually for quite some time.

Seriously though, I can't wait until we get an OSX port that doesn't suck (Camino is okay, but what good is it if you can't use all the cool firefox extensions?).

Well, as a Mac OS X user, I feel your pain. But, I'm wondering which parts suck for you? I have issues with page rendering. Look at these rendering jobs from the LiveJournal home page (be kind! this is hosted on my personal server box):

• FireFox 1.0 (Sorry, but the "About" Dialogue blocks the effected text, so you'll have to trust me)
• FireFox 1.5 Deer Park Beta 1 the distributed Mac OS X binary, not compiled from soruce
• Camino 0.92 just for comparson
• Opera 8.02 for Mac OS X
• Safari 2 (And if you don't trust me, think about how many web browsers have a brushed metal GUI like that)

Any one else have this problem? I know it's not too isolated since I've had this happen on both installations of OS X 10.4 and even 10.3. Or are there other problems that I don't know about?

Maybe it's just me, but from the looks of it, OOo is already LGPLed.

http://hackeron.dyndns.org/hackeron/index.php/Linu x_or_Windows_-_A_Practical_Comparison

Any criticism will be highly appreciated.

It's not trollish. You just prefer linux-style font rendering. Most people don't. I am one of them. I always found both linux and windows font rendering to be too blocky, not smooth enough, with linux being the worse of the two.

Well, if these fonts are too blocky and not smooth enough, then I don't want unblocky or smooth.

How long can you keep your X session running using nvidia's drivers? A honest question. I never made it past the five day mark when I was still on linux (on various hardware combo's, but admittedly, this was two years ago). My mac's gui has not crashed once in the 6 months that I've owned it.

Well my desktop machine has a Geforce 3 and uses the NVidia drivers, I don't think I've ever had an X session die without me telling it to die first. Right now it's at 10 days since I accidentally bumped the reset button (it was more sensitive than I remember!).

It better do... I personally started to review Wintels for future unless stupid mactel only decision does not change...

http://ladd.dyndns.org/xbench/merge.xhtml?doc1=129 897&doc2=128838

(btw I forgot folding@home on while doing benchmarks)

"AJAX" will work with Internet Explorer, Gecko-based browsers, and Apple's Safari, and nothing else, because these are the only browsers to have included implementations of the XMLHTTPRequest object yet.

Quite untrue. Konqueror supports AJAX, I'm posting from it right now, and my Online RPG uses it in a few places. Opera also supports AJAX. That leaves us with what... text based or PDA browsers? Most of those don't even support Javascript, good luck getting Flash or something else similar working on it. You never did mention what you would prefer over AJAX, what would you prefer over AJAX anyways? I presume that whatever you would prefer would magically work on cell phones, PDAs and text based browsers too, as you seem to think that that's a major issue for AJAX.

Why does OWE degrade in Firefox? Doesn't "AJAX" work "off the shelf" in all major browsers? Well, the problem is that each of these browsers has their own incompatible implementation of XMLHTTPRequest.

If they have, I haven't encountered it. Besides IE doing it's own thing like usual, every other browser has the same implementation. Unusually enough, in this case, working around IE is pretty simple.

Now you have to program a second, stripped down, clunky version just for that contingency.

That can be said about the majority of web technologies, if you want to support IE, you get to jump through lots of hoops. If you don't care about IE, you can write standards compliant code and expect it to work and look the same in Konqueror, Firefox, Opera, Safari, etc. As always with web development, IE is the problem, working around it is where you will spend/waste the most time.

Having said all of that, like any other technology, you should use AJAX to enhance the experience, not have everything depend on it. Your web site/application/whatever should still be accessable without all of the handy dandy technology, regardless of what it is. That's much harder if you've used Flash or anything else that depends on a plugin for everything, because it means you need to totally rewrite code.

"AJAX" will work with Internet Explorer, Gecko-based browsers, and Apple's Safari, and nothing else, because these are the only browsers to have included implementations of the XMLHTTPRequest object yet.

Quite untrue. Konqueror supports AJAX, I'm posting from it right now, and my Online RPG uses it in a few places. Opera also supports AJAX. That leaves us with what... text based or PDA browsers? Most of those don't even support Javascript, good luck getting Flash or something else similar working on it. You never did mention what you would prefer over AJAX, what would you prefer over AJAX anyways? I presume that whatever you would prefer would magically work on cell phones, PDAs and text based browsers too, as you seem to think that that's a major issue for AJAX.

Why does OWE degrade in Firefox? Doesn't "AJAX" work "off the shelf" in all major browsers? Well, the problem is that each of these browsers has their own incompatible implementation of XMLHTTPRequest.

If they have, I haven't encountered it. Besides IE doing it's own thing like usual, every other browser has the same implementation. Unusually enough, in this case, working around IE is pretty simple.

Now you have to program a second, stripped down, clunky version just for that contingency.

That can be said about the majority of web technologies, if you want to support IE, you get to jump through lots of hoops. If you don't care about IE, you can write standards compliant code and expect it to work and look the same in Konqueror, Firefox, Opera, Safari, etc. As always with web development, IE is the problem, working around it is where you will spend/waste the most time.

Having said all of that, like any other technology, you should use AJAX to enhance the experience, not have everything depend on it. Your web site/application/whatever should still be accessable without all of the handy dandy technology, regardless of what it is. That's much harder if you've used Flash or anything else that depends on a plugin for everything, because it means you need to totally rewrite code.

It worked for a while. Here's a screen capture.

Anyone remember that one? Guy scanned in Family Circus cartoons every couple days or so, people would submit new captions for them, guy and his friends would review them and put up the best (and the funniest of the worst) ones. Very perverse, very, very funny. He had to shut it down when Bill Keene complained. Well, at first he wasn't going to, but then he talked to Bill, who said, "Basically, this comic is me and my family. You and your contributers aren't just breaking copyright law, you are making me out to be a homosexual child molester, and I'm kind of uncomfortable with that." You can still find archives of it, although they have been getting harder and harder to find. Here's one. Bonus points to anyone who can find one of my captions (they're in the later ones.)

I have 1/2 of that:

"This site server is running on a headless laptop (seen below) sitting in my desk drawer. The computer has 32 MB of ram and runs at 200 MHz."

http://spacebit.dyndns.org/

WOD (Worms of Doom) already exists, it's a game I'm doing. So Blizzard don't even think about it or I'll sue you :P

PS: Work on the game restarting soon for real, at last...

http://garm.dyndns.org/meba/lol/php-chix.jpg

I'd go with 4) more use of flash memory
just about any USB flash drive can be made to be bootable: http://fuzzymunchkin.dyndns.org:8080/tdot/usbkeyfo b/index.php
It worked with getting DamnSmallLimux on a year old 128mb PNY attache. The only problem is not every m-board wants to support boot from USB yet. I'm refering to the older/cheaper machines you're trying recover data from, not your own personal machine. And unlike a CD/DVD you can write to the free space.

What we need are the part flash and magnetic drives I think Hitachi or Toshiba or whoever is working on. The small partition we'd normally put Windows(yes, windows, I like new games) on is flash and the data area is a standard hdd, hopefully 10000+rpm with 16+mb buffer. It'd be nice if the flash part was removable/swapable that way it can be backed up once in a while and replaced when it nears 1mill writes or whatever the current estimated fail point is for flash memory. It seems to work with PDAs or at least the Zaurus(only one I've worked with) instant hibernation and resume. Startup time is about the same as a PC, but only needs to be done out of the box and when installing some apps.

Isaac Asimov's "Nightfall"

http://doctord.dyndns.org:8000/Stories/Nightfall.h tm ... Aton, somewhere, was crying, whimpering horribly like a terribly frightened child. 'Stars -- all the Stars -- we didn't know at all. We didn't know anything. We thought six stars in a universe is something the Stars didn't notice is Darkness forever and ever and ever and the walls are breaking in and we didn't know we couldn't know and anything -- '
Someone clawed at the torch, and it fell and snuffed out. In the instant, the awful splendor of the indifferent Stars leaped nearer to them.
On the horizon outside the window, in the direction of Saro City, a crimson glow began growing, strengthening in brightness, that was not the glow of a sun.
The long night had come again.
(1941)

Look here

I've been doing this for years using DynDNS's free dynamic DNS service. I run a client on all my machines that updates their IPs with dyndns's database. If my laptop disappears, I just look to see what mylaptop.dyndns.org resolves to.

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How much you got?

Besides keeping track of the MAC address (probably the best idea along with "personalizing" the laptop to reduce the chance it'll be a target), if you also want to know the current/last IP address a machine had, you can silently run a dynamic DNS client and let it check and update its IP address with a dynamic DNS service such as zoneedit.com or dyndns.org (there are others).

Basically, you go to one of those sites first. Let's say we want to use dyndns.org. You pick a name for the machine such as mydaughter.dyndns.org and sign up.

Then on the machine, you set up a dynamic dns client to keep running in the background. Look here for some possible client programs: http://www.dyndns.org/support/clients/

Have the software check its IP address at startup and at regular intervals. (Just don't pound the dynamic DNS service with updates that are too frequent; they don't like that. Read their policy for how frequent is considered too frequent. Most seem to be okay with checking your IP every 5 minutes.)

When an IP address change is detected, your program client "phones home" to dyndns.org to report its new IP address.

If the unthinkable happens, then: Simply log into your account at dyndns.org to find out when the last IP address change was, and what the last IP was. Then go to samspade.org or a comparable site where you can run a WhoIS query on that IP address to find out what network the machine is/was connected to, and the contact information for that ISP/network.

If the machine's on the campus network, call up the campus's IT people and give them the MAC address. If the machine's on another ISP, at least you probably now have that ISP's contact information and you can pass along the MAC address and IP address (with the time of the last IP update) to that ISP (and hope they'll cooperate with you and the police.)

Make sure your daughter understands what the program is and understands not to remove the program. And make sure she's okay with this whole thing and doesn't see it as micromanaging.

This "phoning home" idea really only goes so far, so consider the rest of the good advice as well.

Well, I just found another overview of several Linux distros that may add some information to TFA.

If you handn't noticed that all of those things that break are binary only drivers. vmware, ati and nvidia all depend on a binary kernel module.

Please install the complete ov511 camera drivers (from source) into Linux 2.6.12, then say that again.

It's actually pretty good at what it is - a means to package a diverse system that can be tailored to the user. Things like Smart (a Conectiva/Mandriva project even) and Autopackage help a lot.

It's actually pretty good at what it is - a means to package a diverse system that can be tailored to the user. Things like Smart (a Conectiva/Mandriva project even) and Autopackage help a lot.

Agreed, I'm from Sweden, say I want to use dvorak, I would also need ÅÄÖ.
So where is dvorak for me? Well, it's here, here and here. And that's only the first google hits, there might be more ones.
The first ones uses regular dvorak keys + grouped åäö + regular swedish "special keys"(letters,!"#%..) setup. I prefer the middle ones (sv_dvorak) thought since it uses english type special keys setup, which makes it far easier to type ()[]{} among others.

here

If it goes offline (I'm probably taking it down later) someone else please put it up ;-) they can't kill us all...

Facetiousness aside, I've created a torrent of the rather large movies and still images available for download. Get the torrent file here.

The originals site for these very beautiful, almost awe-inspiring images is here.

primetest.cpp
primetest.java
primetest.pl (for fun, because I like perl)

Using Java Blackdown-1.4.2-01, gcc 3.3.5-20050130 and perl 5.8.5 on a 1.3 Ghz Pentium-M, I get these results:

neil@t40-n Documents $ javac primetest.java
neil@t40-n Documents $ time java primetest

real 0m7.809s
user 0m7.700s
sys 0m0.033s
neil@t40-n Documents $ g++ primetest.cpp -o primetest
neil@t40-n Documents $ time ./primetest

real 0m2.699s
user 0m2.676s
sys 0m0.007s
neil@t40-n Documents $ time ./primetest.pl

real 0m47.928s
user 0m46.207s
sys 0m0.138s
neil@t40-n Documents $

How about you? Sure it's a trivial benchmark, but it definitely shows Java way behind (by a factor of three!) C++ for number crunching. Of course we see Perl well behind both, but it's definitely not meant for number crunching, so no surprise really.

primetest.cpp
primetest.java
primetest.pl (for fun, because I like perl)

Using Java Blackdown-1.4.2-01, gcc 3.3.5-20050130 and perl 5.8.5 on a 1.3 Ghz Pentium-M, I get these results:

neil@t40-n Documents $ javac primetest.java
neil@t40-n Documents $ time java primetest

real 0m7.809s
user 0m7.700s
sys 0m0.033s
neil@t40-n Documents $ g++ primetest.cpp -o primetest
neil@t40-n Documents $ time ./primetest

real 0m2.699s
user 0m2.676s
sys 0m0.007s
neil@t40-n Documents $ time ./primetest.pl

real 0m47.928s
user 0m46.207s
sys 0m0.138s
neil@t40-n Documents $

How about you? Sure it's a trivial benchmark, but it definitely shows Java way behind (by a factor of three!) C++ for number crunching. Of course we see Perl well behind both, but it's definitely not meant for number crunching, so no surprise really.

primetest.cpp
primetest.java
primetest.pl (for fun, because I like perl)

Using Java Blackdown-1.4.2-01, gcc 3.3.5-20050130 and perl 5.8.5 on a 1.3 Ghz Pentium-M, I get these results:

neil@t40-n Documents $ javac primetest.java
neil@t40-n Documents $ time java primetest

real 0m7.809s
user 0m7.700s
sys 0m0.033s
neil@t40-n Documents $ g++ primetest.cpp -o primetest
neil@t40-n Documents $ time ./primetest

real 0m2.699s
user 0m2.676s
sys 0m0.007s
neil@t40-n Documents $ time ./primetest.pl

real 0m47.928s
user 0m46.207s
sys 0m0.138s
neil@t40-n Documents $

How about you? Sure it's a trivial benchmark, but it definitely shows Java way behind (by a factor of three!) C++ for number crunching. Of course we see Perl well behind both, but it's definitely not meant for number crunching, so no surprise really.

http://ikarios.com/bt/ documents http://nat.dyndns.org/, which seeds many torrents. this is not JAET (Just Another Empty Tracker): all downloadable files are present. moreover there are many rare files HTTP access via port 80 and the tracker on a high port (51181) enjoy and if you have some resources please let your client seed after the download

PasswordSafe is basically a GUI wrapped around an encrypted file such as you describe. Unfortunately, it's Win32 only, but there are a few portable solutions available.

Amazon.com - E-commerce pioneer seeking to offer the world's largest selection of products online. for details.

AvantGo - Mobile applications for handheld devices.

DynDNS.org - One of the world's largest providers of free and premium Dynamic DNS services.

Findory - Personalized news and blogs aggregator. Findory learns what kind of content you like by the pages you read.

Live365.com - The world's largest Internet radio website.

Salon.com - Online magazine covering news, politics, technology, art, sex and health; winner of numerous web awards.

Weta Digital - Weta Digital are well known as the special effects people behind the Lord of the Rings films. At his OSCON 2004 keynote, Milton Ngan of Weta Digital thanked some technologies, including Mason, which is used as part of their intranet.

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AcuTrans.net - Home page for AcuTrans, a company providing an online content management system integrated with transcription services (built with Mason) for business, legal, medical, and self-insured companies.

Adventist.org - The official web site of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

Alhazred - Progressive music project being produced with open source/free software

Alzabo.org - Home page for Alzabo data modelling tool.

American Lung Association of Washington - Assuring lung health for the people of Washington state through research, education, community service and advocacy.

Apartments - Apartments for rent by RentersInc.com. Free apartment search engine and apartment guide.

arabellan - Web presence of Ryan "Exide Arabellan" Zander, a graphical artist.

astrojax.com - amazing fun and action game - community website with lots of features.

Autismeinfocentrum.nl - Information- and documentationcentre about autism and related subjects in the Netherlands.

AutoSupplyUK.com - Used Japanese import auto store.

B BDO - Austrian tax consultancy

Beotechnic - Company specializing in knowhow transfer

Bikeworld.com - Online retailer, sporting a new 100% Mason-powered site that was developed entirely in-house.

bizjournals.com - Publisher of 41 weekly business newspapers across the US.

BlackSpider - Managed services provider focused exclusively on the provision of e-mail security solutions.

Burma-Shave.org - All of the original Burma-Shave jingles, plus the Burma-Shave Daily mailing list.

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cibera.de - cibera is an online library site which offers a central access point to interdisciplinary material concerning the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking area as well as the Caribbean.

Cars - iCarsInc.com Cars for sale. Buy and sell new and used cars online. Your next auto purchase starts right here. Find new, used, classics, sports cars, luxury cars, trucks, SUVï½s and even motorcycles for sale.

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