The fact that none of them have attracted a huge amount of interest might suggest that they are, indeed, too long. Or it may simply indicate that the audience for these in-depth shows is smaller, which isn't surprising. Might that smaller audience, though, want to see more rather than less? To test that theory I'm running this episode long.
But although the movie takes place in the Bay Area -- and San Francisco landmarks figure significantly in the plot -- no actor set foot in the city and almost no live action film was shot here.
Since then, I've been thinking a lot about how ascendant uses of the Internet -- including blogging, podcasting, screencasting, and social software -- could transform education in the way that television was supposed to but of course never did.
Academics finding hope in blocking technology had better think again, it's a battle that can't win, and it's not the battle they should be fighting.
(Via Ars Technica.)
Got any ideas for how to mashup Second Life and World of Warcraft? Post them over at the Second Life of Warcraft wiki page, where Jerry Paffendorf of 3pointD sponsor the Electric Sheep Company is putting together an event we blogged back in April, now planned for this summer, that will stream WoW into SL and recreate bits of the popular MMO in the virtual world. Because WoW doesn’t feature user-created content, it’s a bit of a one-way affair, but it should be interesting nonetheless, and at the very least will raise some fascinating issue of what the virtual world will be like when some 3D online spaces allow us to travel freely from one to the next.
(Via 3pointD.com.)
Somehow, some way, Mac OS drivers have appeared as a download option for a Dell Latitude X1. How many times do we have to tell you Michael Dell: You can't sell Mac OS X, no matter how often or how badly you wish to sell an operating system that's made for this century. Besides, trying to sneak it onto your site is just bad form.
If you want to see this interesting quirk for yourself, check it out at Dell's Driver and Downloads site. As of this writing, you can snag your own 'Mac OS' drivers for a Latitude X1.
(Via The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW).)
Hawk Wings has tracked down some details on a tantalizing v2.0 update to Thunderbird, Mozilla's email client. New features at the top of my list are message tagging, a tabbed message viewer and a built-in notification system. It's great to see more developers bringing the tagging paradigm to email, as Scott Morrison has done with his MailTags plug-in for Apple's Mail.
(Via The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW).)
Fortune’s David Kirkpatrick took an interesting tack recently to introducing his audience to a few metaversal concepts. In a slightly odd post on the CNNMoney.com site, he relates a conversation with three hip, young (and anonymous) metaversal friends about what’s going on now in virtual worlds and online social spaces. Most of the random quotes cover salient phenomena that many CNNMoney.com readers are probably not familiar with. Pretty good food for thought, especially in its presentation.
(Via 3pointD.com.)
Now that "X-Men: The Last Stand" is out, Fox Head Tom Rothman has confirmed that there will indeed be an X-Men 4, and probably more after that as well.
(Via digg.)
A project to bring one of the most advanced features of Sun Microsystems' Solaris operating system to the FreeBSD platform has started bearing fruit.
A 1983 DeLorean modeled to look exactly like the one from 'Back to the Future'. It includes a "working" flux capacitor and film-accurate interior and exterior details!
(Via digg.)
This guide will show you how to setup a Linux router with the Fedora Core 4 Linux operating system and an old computer in about 3 hours worth of time. Since many retail routers have been having trouble keeping up with the modern user with their loads of P2P apps, I%u2019ve decided to write up this multi-part guide to help YOU setup a basic Linux-based router. If your router is slow, resetting, or stopping internet access when you're doing torrents or downloading from other P2P sources, the router you will make from this guide will take care of all your problems.
Johnny Depp .... Raoul Duke/Hunter S. Thompson
Benicio Del Toro .... Dr. Gonzo/Oscar Z. Acosta
Tobey Maguire .... Hitchhiker
Forget academic or pre-season football rankings, here are the Top 25 Schools ranked according to how many of their students play World of Warcraft.
(Via digg.)
Goggle is further embracing the open-source community by developing one of their most popular applications, the Picasa picture organizer, for the Linux platform. Way to go Google!
(Via digg.)
Migration was done with Wine.
My mom's stroke and death reminded me that life is temporary
(Via Scobleizer - Microsoft Geek Blogger.)
Mothers and fathers are our teachers, a few years ago when it looked like my dad was going to die, I was still learning from him, and he survived, to be an inspiration, again and again. You never know what's coming next in life, that's the great thing about it. Scoble's mom, even after her life is over, continues to teach. Not just Scoble, not just Maryam, but me, and if you're reading this, you.
(Via Scripting News.)
This morning (shortly after 9am UTC, 5am EDT), Cogent experienced an outage resulting in many sites being not reachable. Things are slowly coming back together. Some sites may still not yet be reachable.
Microsoft Corp. and Chinese-based computer maker Lenovo said Monday they will launch market trials for pay-as-you-go purchases of computers in China and India. Consumers will be able to purchase a Lenovo PC for about half its retail price and pay off the balance over time by purchasing pre-paid cards from Lenovo.
(Via digg.)
OSNews is reporting that Ernest Prabhakar, Apple's Open Source and Open Standards product manager, has stated in the Fed-Talk mailing that Apple has not actually closed Mac OS X's Darwin kernel for the Intel version of the OS; they simply haven't released it yet. Speculation about Apple closing the kernel arose from the fact that other non-kernel Darwin sources actually have been released, and the previous PowerPC-based kernel is still available as open source as well.
(Via The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW).)
Falko also writes howtos on howtoforge.com about technology like MyDNS, a server that uses a MySQL database as a backend instead of Bind or djbdns flat files. MyDNS simply reads DNS records from a database and does not require a restart when DNS records change or when you create, edit or delete zones. MyDNS provides a major advantage to organizations that deal with massive numbers of domains. It runs on Linux.
Hmm. Seems the MacBook and Mac mini fail to meet the video RAM requirements. Not to mention that you're going to need at least a 60GB hard drive. Also note, as Julio points out, that the mini and MacBook share system and video memory, so Vista may be a drag on those machines. So, if you plan on running a dual-boot machine once Vista is released, you may want to look towards a MacBook Pro or iMac.
(Via The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW).)
After years of only offering AMD to select customers behind closed doors, the company has now said that it plans to use AMD processors in part of its server line to meet customer demand.
The problem: you've taken the trouble to hand-build your finely tuned 64-bit computer, and you've installed your favorite 64-bit flavor of Linux -- but the cretins who run the World Wide Web are still putting up content viewable only on 32-bit Intel-compatible Web browsers, either designed for their in-house plugins that they supply only as 32-bit binaries, or in compressed media formats for which players are available only as 32-bit binaries. What are your options?
(Sorry for the horrible pun - I couldn't resist.) Analysts expect Apple Computer's new MacBook to be a significant demand driver for the company, leading to market share gains and possible earnings upside in the near future.
(Via digg.)
I noticed last night that apple.com/powerbook simply redirects to apple.com/macbook, with a page title of "Meet the family. Now complete."
(Via The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW).)
After resisting for years, Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz at JavaOne this morning said that he will release the source code for Java.
(Via Slashdot.)
After tinkering with the new features in iWeb 1.1 like blog comments and drop-dead simple photo album page creation, I thought I'd post a quick review of what's new, as I think iWeb is finally starting to fit into its role of a strong, WYSIWYG 1.0 application from Apple.
(Via The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW).)
Get interested in programming, and do some because it is fun. Make sure that it keeps being enough fun so that you will be willing to put in ten years.
Program. The best kind of learning is learning by doing. To put it more technically, "the maximal level of performance for individuals in a given domain is not attained automatically as a function of extended experience, but the level of performance can be increased even by highly experienced individuals as a result of deliberate efforts to improve." (p. 366) and "the most effective learning requires a well-defined task with an appropriate difficulty level for the particular individual, informative feedback, and opportunities for repetition and corrections of errors." (p. 20-21) The book Cognition in Practice: Mind, Mathematics, and Culture in Everyday Life is an interesting reference for this viewpoint.
Michael Mahemoff spent the past few days at the Ajax Experience conference and came to a slightly surprising revelation as he prepared for his talk on Ajax design patterns and principles.
I still stand by my original premise. The purpose of an operating system is to shield the application from the hardware.
(Via Larry Osterman's WebLog.)
IMHO, the ONLY reason for an operating system to exist is to hide the details of the hardware from the application. Everything else is sugar.
(Via Larry Osterman's WebLog.)
Linux was started in 1991, after the fact, but it's not a complete OS - Linux is the kernel, but the other parts of the OS date from other projects started long before Linux was started. The kernel is new, but the entire OS isn't - all the user mode components come from previous operating systems, as does the networking stack.
Web feeds (RSS/Atom) handling has also been improved. A new setting in the General page in the Options window allows to specify how web feed subscriptions should be handled.
GamePro sat down with Sony Computer Entertainment executive Phil Harrison at E3 earlier this week, where he re-iterated a sentiment made by Microsoft's Corporate Vice President of Interactive Entertainment Peter Moore, where he said that buyers of of a next-generation console should also buy Nintendo's Wii system.
The article explains that most companies have been mislead to underestimate the technical capabilities of the Wii. The source for the article also makes a bold statement by saying: "the Wii will be visually on par with the Xbox 360 and may even exceed it slightly."
(Via digg.)
Linux has an excellent hotplug system and the graphics system really needs to start using it. Screens can be hotplugged from multiple sources. There is the traditional source of hotplug; someone sticks a new video card into a hotplug chassis. But there are other non-traditional ways to get a hotplug. Another user could be using a screen you want to attach to your screen group and when they log out you get a screen hotplug. You could attach an external monitor to a laptop and generate a hotplug. You could wirelessly connect to a display wall with something like DMX or Chromium. USB is also the source of a lot of hotplug. A user can hotplug mice, tablets, keyboards, audio devices and even graphics adapters. The current X server handles none of this since it does not communicate with the kernel’s hotplug system.
Go bananas while you still can. The world's most popular fruit and the fourth most important food crop of any sort is in deep trouble. Its genetic base, the wild bananas and traditional varieties cultivated in India, has collapsed.
Now that we've shared our OPML, will SYO share it back so we can create and contribute our own data mashups?
The Empire strikes back? It's been 9 years since the death of the Macintosh clones, but apparently they can't be killed. After seeing OSx86 for sale in Bangkok, it was only a matter of time before commercial pirates moved to the "hard" stuff. If Apple makes the big money on hardware, why shouldn't illegal cloners do too? Apparently they've caught on, selling such items as the "PowerPC G6 Macintosh", an "Apple G6 Macintosh-Clone Computer" with a 3.8GHz Pentium 4. Along with the fancy OSx86 compatible hardware, it comes pre-loaded with something the seller likes to call "Mac OSX-86 Apple MacOS X Tiger 10.4.3". A low, low price of $500 ensures plenty of sales.
A Pennsylvania lawyer has apparently filed suit against Linden Lab, makers of Second Life, over a land deal gone bad, according to this press release.
(Via 3pointD.com.)
We're getting a demo of Croquet from Julian Lombardi and David Smith of Open Croquet, which is a 3D world. Something like Second Life, but runs P2P.
(Via Scobleizer - Microsoft Geek Blogger.)
Apparently, when your service is brought down by a massive distributed denial of service attack, you know you have joined a weird kind of hall of fame.
(Via Om Malik's Broadband Blog.)
Next thing you know, they're in there every weeknight wondering whereabouts exactly they'll get hit with a frying pan when they bring the new computer home.
For starters, Japanese is the most dominant language used by bloggers. Second, 47% of all blog posts have categories or tags associated with them.
(Via Micro Persuasion.)
