Dennis Krul

This week VMware released updated versions of their Workstation and Player products. This fixes a long standing issue with USB support for the iPod touch and iPhone. I’m now finally able to sync my iPod touch from iTunes in a virtual machine! Just don’t try to update your firmware from a virtual machine.. It fails and renders the device unusable until you flash it from a native (non-virtualized) iTunes :S

Not being able to sync my iPod touch was one of the major regressions I had since I dumped Windows. It still is not the best possible solution, because I still need Windows in a virtual machine for this to work. Unfortunately there hasn’t been much progress with regard to native Linux support for these things without jailbreaking them..
If I’m going to buy a new portable music player some day it sure as hell isn’t going to be an Apple product, unless they open up and allow other people to interface with them. If you are a Linux user: Don’t buy one of these things. I know they’re sexy and all, but really .. don’t!

I installed a reCaptcha plugin for WordPress, which allows people to directly comment on my posts without having to register for an account first. Should be effective against spammers, who (despite the fact that they had to register for an account) were spamming my moderation queue.
If you also happen to run WordPress I highly recommend it! Simply sign up for an API key, drop the files in your plugin directory and enable the plugin from the admin interface. As an added bonus you help to digitize books (Did I mention it is free?)