3.5 Million People Are Still Using AOL Dialup (!!!) [Factoid]

Too scary.

3.5 Million People Are Still Using AOL Dialup (!!!) [Factoid]:

EEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRNDguzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzdungahdungahdungahhhhhhh. That sound you hear isn't a 56k modem, it's the sound of my brain collapsing upon itself as I read AOL not only has 3.5 million dialup users, but added 200,000 since last year. How can this be? More »

PaperCut 11.5 is now available for download

PaperCut 11.5 is now available for download:

Cashier Updated!

Along with usual collection of enhancements and fixes comes PaperCut Web Cashier. This feature will be useful for educational institutions and other organisations who want to offer a simple mechanism for users to purchase good and services, such as binding, using PaperCut accounts. As well as purchasing items, users can also make over the counter deposits.

Behind the scenes at PaperCut we have new staff member in Australia. Alec is joining the team as a technical project manager and many customers will get to hear from him over time. Not only he is already planning the next release but also committing code to our Subversion repo (using git-svn). Even the project managers need to be geeks here! Alec’s details have already been added to the about page so head on over if you want to see his important qualifications in coffee appreciation.

The full list of changes in version 11.5 can be found on the release history pages:

• PaperCut NG Release History
• PaperCut MF Release History

Photo credit: Ivy Dawned. CC Licensed

Release: VMware View Client for iPad v1.2

Release: VMware View Client for iPad v1.2:
Fresh off the upgrade to the vSphere client for iPad comes an updated View client. You can head right to the download in iTunes here for the upgrade. As always, here’s the What’s new from iTunes:

What’s New in version 1.2

• Optimized for VMware View 5 with improved performance
• Support for iOS 5 including Airplay
• Presentation Mode for use with external display and Airplay
• Embedded RSA soft token simplifies login to desktop
• Background tasking to move between Windows and iOS apps
• Updated look and feel
• Integrated online help
• Buffered text input for multibyte text entry
• Now in French, German, Japanese, Korean, and Simplified Chinese
• Bug fixes

Geektool and Todotxt Desktop

I recently started using Geektool on my Mac for my background. I can't say enough about it. It really makes my desktop look nice. Apple should really look at incorporating this into the operating system if they haven't already.

One thing I have done that I haven't seen on many other examples is using the Todotxt todo list application for displaying my Todo list right on my desktop. I have it set to update every 30 seconds so it keeps things up to date and lets me know what to do next.

Just create a shell tool and have it run todo.sh. It is very simple and easy with no custom scripts or tools. Using custom shell scripts you could create many lists that display different projects, locations and priorities.

Here are a couple examples.

Tasks to do around the house:
todo ls @home

Stuff to do at work:
todo ls -@home

Buddhist task list:
todo ls @monastery + renunciation +harmlessness +goodwill

Firefox 6 patches 10 dangerous security holes

Firefox 6 patches 10 dangerous security holes: "The vulnerabilities are serious enough to allow an attacker to launch harmful code and install software, requiring no user interaction beyond normal browsing."