If it's not open it's broken.
Here’s how I got my new Linux Mint computer to read and write to a 1-Terabyte external hard drive formatted for Mac OS X:
Step 1: I read this helpful message on Identi.ca;
Step 2: I searched Synaptic for “HFS” and installed three packages.
Then, just for fun, I tried the reverse…
Wherein your humble author dives head-first into the long and convoluted process of getting Nokia’s N900 to sync with Memotoo, my hosted SyncML service of choice…
If you believe Steve Jobs and an army of Apple apologists, Flash is the very scourge of the web — with sloppy, buggy code that no turtleneck-wearing cappuccino-sipping Mac fan in their right mind would want any part of.
On the other hand, Flash-based games on the web are pretty fun…
There’s one thing about the N900′s Debian-based Maemo OS that I find bewildering and infuriating at the same time. It’s the lack of full support for SyncML — and in its place, Microsoft Exchange (?!)
When I first heard about Jonathan Zittrain’s The Future of The Internet And How To Stop It I wasn’t too impressed — I figured it was another one of those “technology will destroy us all” diatribes and summarily dismissed it.
Boy was I ever wrong.
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