"That means that a Capricorn 1-terabyte system (which consists of 1,000 gigabytes) would sell for about $2,000, while a 1-petabyte system (1,000 terabytes) would cost about $2 million."
Sunday, July 31, 2005
BBC NEWS | South Asia | Pakistan 'to receive F-16s soon':
I've heard about Pakistan's F-16's since as far as I can remember. I heard things like they have been sitting in the U.S. gathering rust. Lots of good it will do us to finally receive these planes!
"The US said in March it would resume sales - suspended by an embargo imposed in 1990 over Islamabad's nuclear weapons programme."
I've heard about Pakistan's F-16's since as far as I can remember. I heard things like they have been sitting in the U.S. gathering rust. Lots of good it will do us to finally receive these planes!
Free Markets and Free Culture:
"The short answer to that is, The Commons doesn't need a business plan, because it's not a business. It's a place. More importantly, it's the free marketplace where business and culture both happen."
CNN.com - Study: Hurricanes getting stronger - Jul 31, 2005:
"Scientists call the findings both surprising and 'alarming' because they suggest global warming is influencing storms now -- rather than in the distant future."
Dori's Dashboard:
I like to keep my dashboard as sparse as I can make it. I don't like having apps that I barely use or care for taking up memory. Its just the way I am. At one point I had as many apps in my dashboard as in the screenshot, but then I noticed how much memory they were eating up, and of they went.
On the other hand, I'm getting very used to using OS X, and soon might become one of those die hard fans, who can't live without their Apple!
"Here at ADHOC, people have comments on the number of widgets I have open on my desktop. I thought I'd share what it looks like and what they all are.
If you click on the image, you should be able to see a larger annotated version. If that doesn't work, let me know.
Enjoy!"
(Via Backup Brain.)
I like to keep my dashboard as sparse as I can make it. I don't like having apps that I barely use or care for taking up memory. Its just the way I am. At one point I had as many apps in my dashboard as in the screenshot, but then I noticed how much memory they were eating up, and of they went.
On the other hand, I'm getting very used to using OS X, and soon might become one of those die hard fans, who can't live without their Apple!
Make printing work better with the Web:
"Orphan Control:
If IE discovers that you are printing a document that gets laid-out on two pages and the second page only covers minimal white-space, we automatically shrink-to-fit the page to fit on only 1 page of paper. Of course, you can manually adjust the scaling rate back if you rather have it printed on 2 pages but we believe that we will save a lot of trees with this feature. :-)"
(Via IEBlog.)
Sunday Reading for Shadowlines:
"Mind you, there is no walled or fenced border. Just interminable fields with limestone markers where Pakistan ends and further down India begins. Anyways, we went back the next day and threw some Akhbar-e Jahan's over. He wasn't there. I think we just littered India."
(Via Chapati Mystery.)
Standards and CSS in IE:
"I’m very happy that we’ve shipped IE 7 beta 1. I wanted to make it clear that we know Beta 1 makes little progress for web developers in improving our standards support, particularly in our CSS implementation. I feel badly about this, but we have been focused on how to get the most done overall for IE7, so due to our lead time for locking down beta releases and ramping up our team, we could not get a whole lot done in the platform in beta 1. However, I know this will be better in Beta 2 – and I want to share how we are placing our priorities in IE."
(Via IEBlog.)
IE7 and CSS - Impressive, very Impressive | Threadwatch.org:
"As someone that at one point, not so long ago, lived and breathed CSS, you've no idea what pleasure it gives me to say that IE7 will finally bring IE up to speed with CSS2 - It's not complete by any means, but it really is very good news for web devs - well done the IE team!"
Bink.nu | Microsoft gets outside help for IE 7:
"The company has recruited WholeSecurity, a maker of computer security programs in Austin, Texas, to help Internet Explorer 7, the next version of its browser, identify websites designed to trick people into disclosing personal data to identity thieves, the companies said. These 'phishing' sites mimic legitimate sites, such as eBay and Citibank, and have contributed to a national identity theft epidemic."
Hacked! - Google's Blogger.com Defaced & Vulnerable:
"Google's Blogger site, has been hacked. The hackers have demonstrated their skills by defacing and granting admin priveleges to all members of blogger on Google's own 'Blogger Dev Network Blog' according to Dirson today."
(Via Threadwatch.org - Marketing and Technology Discussed.)
Zend Technologies - Design - Mature Design Theory in Web Development:
"Web programmers are often perceived as 'junior developers', or as amateurs. A major reason for this is that, until recently, web applications were written on a smaller scale. As a result, many web projects are still thrown together without proper planning. This used to be considered acceptable, but the growing size and scope of web applications today demands a more mature and robust approach. The time is fast approaching when web applications will match the scale of client-side applications, and inexperienced web developers (and companies) are simply going to be left behind."
Saturday, July 30, 2005
Ensight - Jeremy Wright : Skype: The New Email?
"It's an odd thought, I know, but I find myself sending and receiving Skype messages as if they're email. What I mean is that I've started sending and receiving messages, using Skype's Instant Message features, where I don't expect a response right away (if at all)."
Friday, July 29, 2005
The Arrival of NX, Part 1 | Linux Journal:
"NX is a new technology that allows one to run remote
X11 sessions across slow or low-bandwidth network connections. User experience with NX is one of excellent responsiveness. Users with previous remote X11 session experience are stunned by NX's speed and its snappy application interaction. Moreover, NX also can connect to remote RDP and VNC sessions and offer big performance wins over TightVNC and rdesktop remote access. NX can do all of
this from Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris and Windows workstations as well as from some types of PDA gadgets."
10.4: How to disable (and enable) Dashboard:
"Some people have claimed memory or performance problems with Dashboard. In my case, I just don't use it, and dislike having applications running that I don't use or need.
After some searching, I found this hint, but didn't f..."
(Via macosxhints.)
Microsoft "Genuine Advantage" Cracked:
"BoingBoing reports that a simple one line hack gets pirated M$ Windows past their verification system.
This link has the code , TW software does not allow me to post 'suspici..."
(Via Threadwatch.org - Marketing and Technology Discussed.)
amusing typo (i think):
"Reading Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols eWeek article titled IE 7 Beta: Improved Security, Resembles Firefox I noticed this nice little typo down near the end"
(Via Asa Dotzler on firefox, cats, mars, and more.)
WinFX Runtime Beta 1:
"The WinFX Runtime Beta 1 contains the Indigo communications system, as well as the Avalon UI system. This version is fully compatible with Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 and the .NET Framework 2.0 Beta 2. This version is also the version that will be found installed by default in Windows Vista Beta 1."
(Via LonghornBlogs.com.)
AJAX enabled instant messaging for Drupal:
"We have released an alpha version of an AJAX enabled module which allows online users on a Drupal powered website to send instant messages to each other. AJAX and other rich internet technologies are making possible stuff that was considered impossible within the browser till recently!"
(Via New Delhi Times.)
What do they sell at the Apple Store?:
"So it turns out while I’m thinking ‘sweet, I get to play with some geek toys’ and she’s thinking ‘they must have really good pies….’"
(Via Zarro Boogs found..)
Scripting News: 7/29/2005:
"Anyway, I just got a pointer to a Wiki where you can get a great list of RSS hacks"
Did you even notice?:
"Yes, Windows Vista Beta 1 is available for beta testers now. But did you realize that the Longhorn Server Beta 1 is out there, too?"
(Via VolkerW's WebLog.)
Yahoo Update - with sandbox too?
This new yahoo update is frustrating for me.
First because it appears that yahoo is trying to apply sandbox like google, penalising new sites although the sites offer relevant and high quality pages.
Second because instead of being replaced by good pages, the ones that are replacing my good SERPS are pages that are sometimes funny and irrelevant.
Thursday, July 28, 2005
Shadow Walker Root Kit Eats Anti-Virus for Breakfast | Threadwatch.org:
"The proof-of-concept, dubbed Shadow Walker, is a modification of Butler's FU rootkit, a kernel-level program capable of hiding processes and elevating process privileges. The rootkit uses DKOM (Direct Kernel Object Manipulation) to fake out the Windows Event Viewer to make forensics virtually impossible and can also hide device drivers
anti-virus scanners must 'completely revamp' existing rootkit detection technologies"
At the Forge - Getting Started with Ruby | Linux Journal:
"#!/usr/bin/env ruby
print 'Hello, world\n'
The first line ensures that we run the Ruby interpreter, regardless of where it might be in our path."
I'm posting this from inside IE 7 beta1. I guess the IE7 team has a lot of work ahead of them. I hate the interface, but I suspect this will change in later releases. I assume the real test is of technologies like the phishing dialog box that came up for the first web site I visited. So far though, there's nothing impressive, but I've only just begun. And since I'm running this inside VPC, its slow going.
Installing Vista Beta 1 on a VPC:
"Hi All,
I am back! Now that we have beta 1 of Vista, I will do my best to post my endeavors and findings, especially with Indigo Windows Communication Foundation.First things first: VPC.
(Via LonghornBlogs.com.)
Wednesday, July 27, 2005
IE -> Mozilla Code Migration - Ilia Alshanetsky:
"Came across a rather interesting article by IBM on how to convert IE specific web apps to work with Mozilla.
(Via Planet PHP.)
BBC NEWS | Business | Tiny PCs goes into administration
Looks like hardware companies are not doing well this year.
"The group has fallen victim to the continued price deflation in the personal computer market," said the administrators joint administrators, Andrew Hosking, Martin Ellis and Les Ross of Grant Thornton.
Looks like hardware companies are not doing well this year.
Bink.nu | Hotmail to Get Storage Bump
When! We keep hearing storage bump "Real Soon Now". Sure there was a bump to 250 MB but Microsoft has got to be able to respond fast to its competitors. It would'nt hurt to innovate once in a while too!
Micro Persuasion: Report: Yahoo Working on "a Technorati Killer"
Why didn't Yahoo just buy Technorati?
Tuesday, July 26, 2005
OWC Announces 1 Terabyte FireWire Drive:
I started out with 200 MB, then 2 GB, 4 GB, 20 GB, and now 60 GB in two laptops, for a total of 120 GB of personal hard drive space. And yes, I need more, lots more.
"
This isn't the first and this definitely won't be the last terabyte drive out there but OWC has introduced a dual-drive RAID system for $979.99. I just want us all to sit back and think on things for a moment. My first PC had a 10MB disk drive. Then I got a 40MB. Then I got a few GB, then maybe 20GB. Now, however, we have a terabyte. There it is, folks.
Product Page [MacSales]"
(Via Gizmodo.)
I started out with 200 MB, then 2 GB, 4 GB, 20 GB, and now 60 GB in two laptops, for a total of 120 GB of personal hard drive space. And yes, I need more, lots more.
Qmailrocks.org - FAQ database:
You can block an individual address or entire domain from sending mail to your server by creating the following file:
/var/qmail/control/badmailfrom
Inside the " badmailfrom " file, the syntax might look something like this:
john@somedomain.com
@otherdomain.com
Online Conversion - Computer memory/hard drive/data conversions
Handy... especially at 4 in the morning.
Monday, July 25, 2005
Some good new software to try out. First their is Dave Winer's OPML Editor.
And then there is the free release of Konfabulator from Yahoo. I just finished setting up the widgets on my windows laptop. Now for the OPML editor! :)
Here is my OPML Blog! :D
And then there is the free release of Konfabulator from Yahoo. I just finished setting up the widgets on my windows laptop. Now for the OPML editor! :)
Here is my OPML Blog! :D
OPML Editor support: :
Good thing I installed Virtual PC, or else I'd be pissed.
"The Mac version is Real Soon Now."
Good thing I installed Virtual PC, or else I'd be pissed.
OPML editor coming:
"Dave Winer is releasing his OPML editor today. Can't wait!"
(Via Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger.)
Its funny to see the difference between the major software and hardware companies these days. For software we have Yahoo, Microsoft and Google, who are doing well, competing and coming up with new products to compete with each other. The consumer wins. On the hardware side, Dell, HP and IBM/Lenova are not doing as well. From what my friends tell me Dell has cut its profit margins very thin on their computers. HP just said it will lay of a lot of people. IBM sold its computer hardware division to Lenova. Consumers are still doing well with the low prices, but for how long?
Just something I've noticed after speaking with friends, and from what I've seen in the news.
Just something I've noticed after speaking with friends, and from what I've seen in the news.
Micro Persuasion: Yahoo Buys Konfabulator
To help popularize the widgets, Yahoo plans will give away the Konfabulator software that empowers the applications. Konfabulator had been charging $20 for the software. Anyone who bought version 2.0 of the software since mid-May will be given refunds, said Konfabulator CEO Arlo Rose.
At first I thought that this might not be a smart move, since Apple already bundles Dashboard with OS X Tiger which does similar things. But then I read the article which reminded me that they have a Windows version as well. And that is a good deal. And if they are going to give it away for free, then its a really good deal for the consumers, Konfabulator and Yahoo. I know I'll be downloading the free version to run on my windows machine for sure.
Sunday, July 24, 2005
Egypt Bombings:
"(I wrote this on Saturday and held off on posting this. Finally someone blogged about Egypt ! Why are we so damned used to killings in the Middle East?)
London 7/7: 4 bombs, 50+ killed, 700+ injured The western world goes crazy
Egypt 7/22: 3 bombs, 80+ killed, 200+ injured: all quiet on the western front (so far). It's already fallen off of the CNN headline news in favor of more info about the London bombers - well actually about the completely unconnected person that the police killed."
(Via Julie Lerman Blog.)
Shhhh, don't tell anyone:
"I was asked to hold off until 9:01 p.m. PT tonight on the Virtual Earth stuff. A few people discovered our URL's while we turned on the servers to perform performance tests and now we're off to the races. Tons of blogs are talking."
(Via Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger.)
Slashdotted:
"It appears that I was Slashdotted for my ‘Why I Hate Apache’ talk. Fortunately, I put it on an apache.org server, not on my own, which appears to have suffered quite a bit of heartburn over the weekend. Unfortunately, that means that everyone blogging about it doesn’t trackback or pingback to here, so I don’t know about them."
(Via DrBacchus' Journal.)
Saturday, July 23, 2005
Slashdot | Another Internet Stock Price Bubble Building?
"Google's traded shares implies that it is the world's most valuable media company, with a market cap comfortably in excess of Time Warner's $76 billion, even though the latter had $42 billion in sales last year to Google's $3.2 billion"
Microsoft RSS Search coming on Monday?:
"MSN has been busy this week crawling all the syndication feeds it can find. It looks like Microsoft is getting ready to announce feed search for MSN Search on Monday morning."
(Via Niall Kennedy's Weblog.)
Did Silicon Valley Build Its Own 747?:
"The Jumbo Jet was so successful, that the Boeing zoomed past the initial demand estimated of 400 planes. By 1993 more than a 1000 were sold. And they continued to sell way into the new century, more recently as cargo carriers. Like the 747, the personal computer was met with scorn, and dismissed as a hobbyist curiosity. It also reshaped the planet, and brought about the further flattening of the planet.
Just like the PC, many thought the IP networks were not going to amount to much. For nearly 25 years, the PC and the Ethernet have helped unleash a wave of innovation. The similarities between the 747, the PC and the IP networking are remarkably similar."
(Via Om Malik's Broadband Blog.)
Friday, July 22, 2005
macosxhints - 10.4: Get status of foreground jobs with ^T:
"When running processes from Terminal/the shell, the old Unix status control character finally works in 10.4. This is useful for seeing what your process is up to. While waiting for a command to complete, press control-T to see load, command running, pid, status, and user and system CPU time used:"
[adv] What's a Link Worth, Anyway? | Threadwatch.org:
"The quality of the traffic is just as important as the quantity. For instance, let's assume that the target page is part of an e-commerce site. If the linking page receives visits from affluent online shoppers that are likely to convert into sales or leads, this traffic will be quite valuable to the target page. Conversely, if the traffic to the linking page is mostly made up of visitors looking for freebies or warez, then this traffic may be virtually worthless to the target site."
Microsoft names new operating system 'Vista' - Jul. 22, 2005
Its interesting, the Microsoft Windows Vista site seems down. They should have prepared for a lot of traffic. Its really bad if you launch a product and its web site goes down. Its even worse if you are the most popular software company in the world.
Cyberspace Samurai's Art of Hacking: "I'm often asked, 'What should I worry about in my code that hackers could exploit?' This is easy enough to answer for risks we know about today, but it doesn't address the real problem"
Making More Sense of the Web | Linux Journal: "I think one reason the Net and the Web are so successful is they came without much of an organizing framework. The only directory was the domain name system (DNS), and it specified nothing that comes after the first single /. The rest was free to become as big a haystack as anybody wanted to make it."
Thursday, July 21, 2005
Google My Arse? | Threadwatch.org
"Commenting on our post about Google's Galactic Domain Names, horceracing1, who can only be british surely, notices that in amongst them is GoogeleUranus - Well, it is almost Friday dammit! And im british too...
Brits love a good nob gag, or arse gag, and uranus jokes never really grow old..
heh.."
Om Malik's Broadband Blog
I was trying to link to one of Om Maliks posts on his broadband blog, but I can't find the damn permalinks! This is kinda weird. A blog without permalinks. Maybe its late and I just cant see them.
Rogue "Tell a Friend" Scripts Inserts Hidden Adsense | Threadwatch.org: "If you're using a third party Javascript on your site, particularly 'tell a friend' from tellafriends.com, then you might want to check out jen's warning that recounts the story of one webmaster discovering that by browsing his site with cookies turned off, this script was inserting it's own Adsense onto his pages.."
Kveton Blog » On the Drupal Donations: "We had ruled out white boxes from the get go (even before the outpouring of support from the community) so that leaves the ‘enterprise’ vendors. Looking over the quotes we got back from these vendors (and doing some math on their websites) we could get the equivalent gear from HP for $3500, from IBM for $4500 and the equipment from Sun that was closely matched in specifications for $5000 but without dual power supplies or turn-key remote management. Bearing that in mind, we could buy 3 Dell’s and 2 of anything else. For the sake of redundancy and bang-for-buck we said let’s do more Dell’s and hopefully help avoid another outage"
Moving from Atom 0.3 to 1.0: "
Niels
Leenheer: Many people will automatically move to Atom 1.0
when they upgrade their weblog software, or when large weblog
providers such as Blogger update their software. The rest of us,
who are going to change our feeds manually are going to run into a
number of differences between Atom 0.3 and Atom 1.0. Below I
will highlight some of the main changes.Thanks!
"(Via Sam Ruby.)
I just bought netnewswire and marsedit. I've got a native weblog editor this way, and a way to keep my bloglines subscriptions synced with netnewswire. This helps because I have a PC at home, and a powerbook for my laptop. It was getting a real problem moving between netnewswire lite, and bloglines. This should help.
Wednesday, July 20, 2005
Tuesday, July 19, 2005
The Kolab Groupware Project :: Home
"Kolab is a Free Software Groupware Solution. From version 2.0 on it allows full seamless support of mixed clients environments (Outlook/KDE/Web). This is because the Kolab-XML storage format is fully open and avoids MAPI/TNEF."
XML Rich-Client Technology Brings Zero-Install Rich Client Capabilities to J2EE @ PBDJ
"Which platform to use Java or .NET? Developers ask this question all the time. Java has been widely adopted because of its overwhelming benefits on the server side, but Java has less to offer on the client side. .NET has made inroads into the enterprise by leveraging its stronger rich-client capabilities. An alternative solution for enterprise-scale Internet application development is the emerging XML-based rich-client technology."
Got GreaseMonkey? Lose it! - The Office Weblog - office.weblogsinc.com _
Apparently their is a critical flaw in GreaseMonkey.
Monday, July 18, 2005
If it isn't broken...
"It is somewhat rare to find projects that make a stable release and then discontinue development indefinitely. Even Blackbox (my window manager of choice) was recently re-released after almost two years of development limbo. After all, it's hard to look at any application and be unable to come up with a list of improvements or additional features that would make the software work better for you."
People's Daily Online -- Up to 25,000 layoffs expected at H-P
"In a research report Thursday, Moors & Cabot analyst Cindy Shaw said a management reorganization could be announced as early as Monday
and could include as many as 25,000 job cuts. She also said the
company might announce the expected retirement of Chief Financial
Officer Bob Wayman."
Saturday, July 16, 2005
Scripting News: 7/16/2005
They held their cigarettes awkwardly, toked the butts tentatively, guarding against a cough, not quite liking the strange taste of the drug. As I passed, I wanted to say "You know it's going to be very hard to quit that later, and it's likely to cause you a lot of pain and unhappiness." But I didn't. I remember that didn't mean anything to me when I started smoking, at roughly their age, in roughly the same way. Either you're going to smoke or not, and either you're going to stop or not, and someone telling you something can make a difference, but not under those circumstances. So I didn't say anything.
Its damn hard. I'm three weeks without smoking, and yesterday night I gave in to the urge and had a smoke!!! Damn... but that does not mean that I am giving up. So even though it feels like I'm starting from scratch after yesterday night I am going to keep on going.
Burning a disk image file on a CD or DVD in Mac OS X
This is an easy method to burn .dmg files on the mac to a CD/DVD.
Friday, July 15, 2005
Thursday, July 14, 2005
I've decided I'm going to sell my powerbook. It was fun having it, but I find I rarely use it, and its a lot of money to let it go to waste. The last straw was when I was trying to do a voice chat with my Uncle on Yahoo. Wouldn't you know it, the Yahoo software does not support voice chat on the mac. Great! Another example thats fresh in my mind is that none of the tools that Google throughs out to the world have support for the Mac. And I again unsubscribed from world of warcraft, so I dont need a machine for that either.
So its Powerbook G4, 1.33 Ghz, 768 MB of ram, DVD Writer, 60 gig hard drive, and its up for sale. Email me if interested.
Update: There havent been any takers yet. I also started to enjoy working with the machine again, so I might just keep it. Further I realized that the machine is powerful enough to run Windows in Virtual PC. I'll be giving that a shot too.
So its Powerbook G4, 1.33 Ghz, 768 MB of ram, DVD Writer, 60 gig hard drive, and its up for sale. Email me if interested.
Update: There havent been any takers yet. I also started to enjoy working with the machine again, so I might just keep it. Further I realized that the machine is powerful enough to run Windows in Virtual PC. I'll be giving that a shot too.
only this, and nothing more: Trusting your Neighbor
"In both cases, innocent people are hurt. We live in a multi-cultural society, and I personally revel in it! I love that I work with such a diverse group of people, and have so many opportunities to learn from other cultures. I fear my society turning inward, fearful of the unknown. I worry that men such as Bin Laden are pushing our culture back to a more medieval mindset. I do not welcome walled communities, and isolationism. I desperately want to be able to trust my neighbor."
Tuesday, July 12, 2005
Programming Tools: Java Scripting Languages | Linux Journal
"Given my strong background in C++, I am used to a more amorphous attitude toward languages. Therefore, I was surprised to see that there still is a vibrancy to Java that I do not see with C++."
Monday, July 11, 2005
Sunday, July 10, 2005
Saturday, July 09, 2005
Chronicle Careers: 07/08/2005
"Job seekers who are also bloggers may have a tough road ahead, if our committee's experience is any indication."
Friday, July 08, 2005
Webhosts have had enough! - iBlog - Ilia Alshanetsky
It seems web hosting companies are finally coming to grips with something most security experts have known for quite some time, phpBB is inherently insecure. According to Netcraft
some are taking the steps to prevent further exploitation via this application by banning its usage on their servers.
IE not opening new window
I had a problem with internet explorer recently, where trying to open a new window, either through Ctrl+N or through a link that opens a new window would cause the same window to refresh and open as a blank window. In effect you could only have one window of internet explorer open at a time.
The most recent piece of software installed was Yahoo Messenger, so I went into Tools -> Internet Options -> Programs -> Manage Addons, and disabled all the Yahoo Addons.
This fixed the problem. At first I had thought that I had a spyware/adware problem, but not so according to Microsofts antispyware program and spybot. Anyway, the problem is all fixed now and things seem back to normal.
The most recent piece of software installed was Yahoo Messenger, so I went into Tools -> Internet Options -> Programs -> Manage Addons, and disabled all the Yahoo Addons.
This fixed the problem. At first I had thought that I had a spyware/adware problem, but not so according to Microsofts antispyware program and spybot. Anyway, the problem is all fixed now and things seem back to normal.
Thursday, July 07, 2005
Micro Persuasion: Citizens Share Their Stories from London Terrorist Attacks
"Jeff Jarvis is linking to London bloggers who are blogging about today's terror attacks. The BBC is reporting that Technorati is filling up with posts, but I can't access the site. Lots of sites are slow. The BBC is also blogging the bombings. Flickr is starting to fill up with photos from citizens. Here's one from Adam Tinworth..."
Wednesday, July 06, 2005
Jacqueline Mackie Paisley Passey: And they were never heard from again
"I've been making the rounds of my friends' blogs lately, copying their URLs into Bloglines so that I can easily monitor when they've updated. While doing this I noticed that two of my friends have not posted for months, and both of their last posts mention buying the same computer game:
Cary of PsychoCeramiQ on March 19, 2005: World of Warcraft (computer game)
David of Tril's Weblog on December 6, 2004: World of Warcraft Sucks (You In)
That creeps me out a little. Anyone else reminded of the ST:TNG episode 'The Game'?"
Writing Copy for the Web
"When you write copy for the web, less really is more. People don�t read web sites, they scan."
error: public.gpg.key: import read failed
"For example, if you use Fedora Core 3
run as root this
rpm --import /usr/share/doc/fedora-release-3/RPM-GPG-KEY*
to import GPG public keys.
If you use another distribution find correspont keys."
New Longhorn Beta Dates
"Marc says beta 2?ll be more interesting:
Beta 1 will not contain any of the UI goodies I and so many others are excited about seeing. This first beta is aimed squarely at the developer community to begin familiarizing themselves with the new OS platform."
Metroblogging.com - Think Global. Blog Local.
Its a weird mix of people blogging from all over. Two of my favorite cities are there. Austin, Texas where I live, and Karachi Pakistan where my family lives. They now also cover Lahore, Pakistan, where a lot of my friends live. Nice.
dirtSimple.org: Reinvent no more forever
"Why is Python 'blessed' with so much reinvention? Because it's often cheaper to rewrite than to reuse. Python code is easy to write, but hard to depend on. You pretty much have to:
1. limit yourself to platforms with a suitable packaging system,
2. bundle all your dependencies into your distribution, or
3. make your users do all the work themselves"
Tuesday, July 05, 2005
Friday, July 01, 2005
CNN.com - Beijing clinic ministers to online addicts - Jul 1, 2005
"'It's been good to sleep' says another, a 17-year-old with spiky hair, now that he's no longer on the computer all day."
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