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Red Hat Not Out of the Consumer Market After All
Red Hat sews up Linux for hobbyists: We had talked before about Red Hat abandoning the consumer version of its product, but perhaps we jumped the gun. Red Hat will release the first version of its hobbyist edition of Linux on Thursday, a company executive said, as the software seller ...
Published: November 13, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 1000
Pick Red
Researchers: Choose the red team in online games: A question for the ages is answered. It s better to be on the red team than on the blue team in an online multiplayer shooting game, according to researchers. [ ]55% of the time, the red team won, according to the study published ...
Published: June 12, 2008  Geek Popularity Factor: 985
New Red Hat Magazine
Red Hat Decides To Do Its Own Press: Red Hat goes into the magazine business with "Wide Open." The magazine, available for $35 for a charter subscription, will be focused on professionals and non-professionals interested in open source and how to use it, Red Hat said. Each magazine will include ...
Published: January 21, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 984
Red Hat Drops Consumer Linux
Red Hat Cans Linux Distribution: They're ditching the consumer oriented version to focus on their enterprise customers. We should have seen this coming after they announced they were going to stop selling in retail outlets. "Leading Linux distributor Red Hat Inc. on Monday made clear its intention to focus on ...
Published: November 3, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 977
Red
Red: Do not play this game. Seriously, man, just don't do it. Nothing good will come of it. If you value your productivity, just leave that link unclicked.
Published: October 3, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 965
One Red Paperclip = A House
From paper-clip to house, in 14 trades: Remember the red paperclip guy who used his blog to orchestrate the trade of a single red paperclip, and tried to parlay it into a house? Well, he succeeded, after 14 trades. Here's how it went. A single, red paperclip A pen shaped ...
Published: July 8, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 940
Red Hat Buys JBoss, Plus an Opinion or Two on the Business of Open Source
Red Hat Signs Agreement to Acquire JBoss: This is interesting, but we all knew it was coming. Red Hat will acquire JBoss for approximately $350 million in initial consideration, plus approximately $70 million subject to the achievement of certain future performance metrics. The transaction consideration is composed of approximately 40 ...
Published: April 23, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 892
One Red Paperclip
Here's one of the most interesting blog concepts I've seen in a while: This red paperclip is currently sitting on my desk next to my computer. I want to trade this paperclip with you for something bigger or better, maybe a pen, a spoon, or perhaps a boot. [...] I'm ...
Published: November 9, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 891
Red Storm Rising
Sandia supercomputer to be world's fastest, yet smaller and less expensive than any competitor: This description of the new "Red Storm" computer being developed at Sandia is like porn for hardware geeks. Supposedly, this machine is going to take the title of World's Fastest Computer back from the NEC Earth ...
Published: September 1, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 876
Cray's New Supercomputer
Cray forecasts Red Storm for masses: It's about time that Cray re-entered the commercial market. I remember when Cray was a force to be reckoned with. Things were never quite the same after Seymour Cray the founder of the company died in a car accident back in 1996. ...
Published: November 3, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 820
No More Boxed Linux from RedHat
Linux and Main - Red Hat to abandon retail channel "Red Hat, the leading American distributor of Linux, is abandoning the retail channel, the company is expected to announce Monday. ... The company's next major release, codenamed 'Cambridge,' will not be provided in boxed, retail form..."
Published: July 19, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 815
Speed Sensing Traffic Light
Stoplight to punish suburban speeders / Pleasanton finds a way to slow impatient drivers: Fascinating they've found a way to turn speeders into red light runners. In a move unprecedented in the Bay Area, the city's traffic engineers have created a traffic signal with attitude. It senses when a ...
Published: April 7, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 794
Can Diversity Be a Bad Thing?
vs. Linux GUI: Owen found an interview that really, really hits the nail on the head about a big problem with Linux. Right now, the Linux community values "diversity" too highly to ever get a single, consistent GUI, let alone a good one. At the same time, it holds on ...
Published: April 12, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 789
Verisign Moves to Linux
VeriSign Migrating 2,000 Unix Servers to Red Hat Linux: In the midst of the SCO battle, IBM releases new ads, and now Verisign goes and does this: "In the latest big win for Linux and open source, infrastructure service provider VeriSign has decided to migrate 2,000 of its high-performance Unix ...
Published: September 9, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 779
Standardized Linux on the Horizon
Free Standards Group Announces General Availability Of Linux Standard Base 2.0: I believe that one of the true keys of Linux success is standardization between distributions. There was an attempt some time ago with United Linux to create a standard file system, but Red Hat never signed on so it ...
Published: September 14, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 763
Captain, I'm Picking Up Liberals...
Gravity Monkey has come up with red|blue, a little app for your Java-and-GPS-enabled cellphone. The app connects out to the FundRace.org campaign fundraising database, and provides a Democrat/Republican Geiger Counter that reads the political leanings for whereever you are. It gets even wackier than that. If you are usign a ...
Published: October 4, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 752
Big Fix Duct Tape
A new issue of my favorite magazine This Old House -- showed up in my mailbox today, and among the many great articles was a blurb about something that'll make Red Green do a double-take; a roll of duct tape that's a full 12 inches wide. Tyco Adhesives is ...
Published: December 30, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 746
Great Big Stuff
Rob and I were just discussing Deane s habit of meticulously editing our posts for proper grammar, spelling, and markup. It s one of the things that (I think) makes Gadgetopia a good read, but we were wishing for a giant red pen to use, either as a gift or an instrument ...
Published: September 7, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 735
Santa's Blog
Proof positive that everybody is blogging. Even the big guy in the red suit. Link. One of the more interesting posts is the list of 100 Things About Santa. Turns out even Santa has an iPod. See number 38.
Published: December 7, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 719
The Halo Oscars
.CNHL Rockets on Prisoner.: Had you ever seen Red vs. Blue: The Blood Gulch Chronicles? I'm addicted, but do we really need an award for it? "The CobaltNova Halo League is proud to announce the first annual Rockets on Prisoner awards that recognize outstanding achievement for Halo related movies. And ...
Published: August 6, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 697
Google Mars
Google Mars This map of Mars, published by Percival Lowell in 1895, was the result of many years spent carefully studying the Red Planet through his telescope. Now you can do the same through your web browser. In collaboration with NASA researchers at Arizona State University, we've created some of ...
Published: March 13, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 695
Thunderbird Spellchecking
Mozilla Thunderbird Inline Spell Checking Test Build: Good stuff coming to Thunderbird. [...] the feature highlights potentially misspelled words with a red dotted underline (much like applications such as Microsoft Word). Users can easily pick from the top seven spelling suggestions using the context menu. This would actually be a ...
Published: January 19, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 694
Wanted: Lost Beagle
Scientists cling to hope Beagle 2 will phone home: I'm sorry, but I think it's gone. Europe's first Mars probe remained silent for a third day, but scientists clung to the hope Saturday that the Beagle 2 spacecraft had landed safely on the Red Planet and would respond to a ...
Published: December 28, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 693
Godzilla Breathes Fire...wire
CharisMac - Firewire Dino: Just what we need: a Firewire hub disguised as Godzilla. Firewire Dino is stomping through town and he means business. With piercing red eyes and an open mouth that lights up when plugged in to the Firewire bus, Firewire Dino is as menacing as he is ...
Published: December 1, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 692
The Fedora Project
Fedora Project, sponsored by Red Hat "The goal of The Fedora Project is to work with the Linux community to build a complete, general purpose operating system exclusively from free software. Development will be done in a public forum. The project will produce time-based releases of Fedora Core about 2-3 ...
Published: September 23, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 691
Sinbad and Linux
Wired News: Sinbad Hears Linux's Siren Song: Watch out, SCO may sue for a cut of the box office. "Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas, an animated movie from DreamWorks Animation Technology that hits theaters July 2, is the first Hollywood production created entirely on Linux. More than 250 Hewlett-Packard ...
Published: July 1, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 689
MSN AdCenter
MSN to offer search ads through AdCenter: Microsoft is going to add contextual pay-per-click ads to MSN Search. Who didn't see that coming? Internet search giants Google and Yahoo no longer have the red-hot search advertising market all to themselves. Microsoft's MSN on Wednesday will unveil its answer to Google ...
Published: March 16, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 688
Microsoft Puts Its Head in the Sand
Microsoft Warns Explorer Users of Worm: According to this article, Microsoft's response to a new worm that exploits a browser flaw is: "'The damage is simply an annoying e-mail,' Sundwall said." Well, yeah, that's what worms do, after all. But wasn't this the same as Melissa, ILOVEYOU, and Code Red? ...
Published: August 4, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 688
Wired Outs Wallop
Will Microsoft Wallop Friendster?: Wired peels back the curtain on Wallop. "In fact, Wallop is Microsoft's venture into the red-hot social-networking arena, using the common Microsoft tack of piecing together existing technologies and packaging them for the novice user. Those technologies include Friendster-style social-networking capabilities, super-simplistic blogging tools, moblogging, wikis ...
Published: November 9, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 688
Comfort Games
Top Five Comfort Games: I like the idea of a "comfort game." For years, it was Total Annihilation for me. For the past six months, it's been Funky Truck 4WD over at Tea Games. Red is good for this too. Like food, games can provide comfort in a time of ...
Published: October 9, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 688
Inline Data
Here's a crazy little tidbit that you should probably never use on a normal web page: Thanks to RFC 2397, some browsers include the 'data:' url type, which lets you embed data resources right in your page. For instance, the image attached to this post looks like this: Mozilla folks ...
Published: June 30, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 685
Google Rips Off OS X Dock
Those guys in Google Labs have great taste, but they must have a bit too much time on their hands. The latest of their brainchildren to be cut loose is Google X, which bears more than a passing resemblance to the Dock in Apple's Mac OS X. "Roses are red. ...
Published: March 16, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 684
XXX Domains Coming
Porn-friendly '.xxx' domains approved: Provided they can get buy-in from the site operators, this is probably a good idea. It would give filtering software something concrete to test against. Pornographers and their customers soon will have a virtual red light district reserved just for them. The nonprofit organization responsible for ...
Published: June 1, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 680
The 2004 Webby Nominations
The Webby Awards: 2004 Nominees: The 2004 Webby nominees have been announced. Friendster is in there, so is Wikipedia (twice). Red v. Blue and The Onion got Humor nods. Music Plasma the mind-bending Flash app got picked for Music. The only "bloggish" nom was Blog for America ...
Published: April 23, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 679
Details of Microsoft's Funding of SCO
Microsoft millions back SCO case: More on the Microsoft money rolling in the back door of SCO. The SEC filing confirms that Microsoft, which has much to gain from dissuading businesses from adopting Linux, has paid at least two sums to SCO to licence Unix, the second for $8m. [...]James ...
Published: November 7, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 678
Christian Video Games
Christian video games a nascent boom?: Awesome. I wanna part the Red Sea. So far, games such as "Spiritual Warfare" and "Exodus: Journey to the Promised Land" have drawn a loyal following by combining biblical themes with mild action. Users can travel through biblical lands, solve puzzles based on ...
Published: May 17, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 678
2003's Web Site Mistakes
Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2003: Love Nielsen or hate him, there's some good advice here. 8. Products Sorted Only by Brand. Sites that offer many items ought to provide winnowing and sorting, which is a highly useful way to deal with lists and is fortunately fairly common. Unfortunately, ...
Published: December 22, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 678
Ham Radio's Role During the Blackout
Ham radio operators step into the breach when tech failed: Interesting story about how ham radio operators step in to fill the gap when there's been a terrorist attack or natural disaster. Apparently they're trained for this. "In the New York-Long Island region, with a population of nearly 10 million, ...
Published: August 19, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 672
Highlighting HTML Markup Errors
Helping your client maintain markup quality: Interesting concept of a way to help your clients keep their markup clean: style it ugly when it s wrong. [ ] one idea is to make any errors or suspicious markup obvious to the person working on the document. One way of doing that is ...
Published: October 14, 2007  Geek Popularity Factor: 670
The Cell Phone Water Detection Sticker
The Tell-Tale Part: I had no idea this existed. Open the case of your mobile (cell) phone. Do you see a round white sticker, similar to that in the first photo below? [...] This is a water damage sticker, which changes colour if moisture gets into this bit of the ...
Published: October 17, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 669
Ferrari Laptop
AAcer presents exclusive Ferrari 3000 notebook: I want to put this right next to the VPR Matrix designed by Porsche that I'll never own. "Acer, Official Supplier to the Scuderia Ferrari racing team, announces the exclusive Ferrari 3000 notebook that perfectly combines the essence of two persistently avant-garde companies with ...
Published: October 13, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 665
Bad Web Presence Case Study
Charity Begins at Home. It Can End Online: Here's a fascinating story of incredible Web incompetence. A journalist tried to donate to the Cousteau Society but was thwarted at every turn by an abandoned site, a Flash site invisible to search engines (the link above), and an email delivery issue. ...
Published: January 9, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 665
Virtual Stuff Stolen, Sued Over
Online gamer in China wins virtual theft suit: This guy was playing Red Moon when a someone broke into his account and stole a bunch of his (virtual) stuff. He wanted the stats and stuff restored to his character in the game, so he sued. "I exchanged the equipment with ...
Published: December 21, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 665
Wal-mart Turns to Bloggers
Wal-Mart turns to bloggers to gild its image: Wal-mart is sending "excusive" information emails to hand-picked bloggers to try and inject their side of stories into the blogosphere. [...] Wal- Mart is increasingly looking beyond the mainstream media and working directly with bloggers, feeding them exclusive nuggets of news, suggesting ...
Published: March 7, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 664
The Call for a Standard Linux GUI
Linux vs. Windows: Choice vs. Usability: Yes, yes, yes. The lack of standard operation with Linux GUIs (and perhaps more importantly individual Linux applications) is a huge barrier to desktop acceptance. "The multiple-GUI problem illustrates a basic difference in Windows and Linux. Windows has one general GUI interface ...
Published: August 30, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 664
Windows vs. Linux: Not What You Expect
Windows web server more secure than Linux, says unpublished study: I never would have picked this outcome. This is one study I might actually read. In a comparison of Windows Server 2003 and Red Hat Enterprise Server 3, two researches believe that they found Windows Server to be more secure ...
Published: February 18, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 662
See the Ether
Deane has always had this idea that someday if all the radio waves we put into the air might someday become visible, we wouldn't be able to see or get anything done for all the data and conversations flying around. On the evening of May 4th, above the Meridian in ...
Published: April 8, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 660
As The Sims Turns
Wired News: Every Sims Picture Tells a Story: Players of The Sims online are using the "family albums" to create graphic novels of sorts: "[Nicole] Service, known in the Sims community as nsknight, has created several albums that are highly ranked by her peers. Among them is her six-part Vanderbilt ...
Published: July 2, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 660
Barbary Monitor
Barbary Software: Cool little monitoring app written by an independent programmer in 17 weeks and 5 days of evenings and weekends. Barbary Monitor continually monitors software and computer systems, showing at a glance which systems are working and which aren't through a simple "green is good, red is bad" display. ...
Published: December 6, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 660
New iPods Finally Announced
You can stop speculating. Apple has added two new iPods to their line up. The U2 Special Edition and the iPod Photo. The U2 version is black with a red dial and will feature the signatures of the band members engraved on the back. The iPod Photo will support iPhoto ...
Published: October 26, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 659
Olympic Network Security
Cyber front has favorable bytes: The Olympic computer network is safe, everyone you can all relax. "Green is good. Red is very bad," says Jean Chevallier, executive vice president of Atos Origin, Paris-based head of the Games' $400 million information system. In between are yellow (mild) and orange ...
Published: August 23, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 659
HSL Color Specification and CSS3
A (CSS) Horse of a Different Color: The W3C is busy working on the CSS3 specification. This article has information on an interesting twist to colors: specifying them in HSL (Hue, Saturation, Lightness) instead of the traditional RGB (Red, Green, Blue). I tooled around the What's New page at the ...
Published: July 2, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 657
Hybrid Vehicle Incentives
States Hoping More Will Buy Hybrid Vehicles: Government is rolling out the red carpet to hybird vehicles in the form of incentives to drive them. Anything from tax credits to free parking. At least 15 states and three cities have incentives in place. Thirteen states are considering such measures. Oregon ...
Published: May 27, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 654
Meanwhile, back on Mars
I must admit I was shocked to find out today the the Mars rovers are still quietly going about their business on the red planet. They're still plugging along climbing through craters and scratching rocks. The Spirit rover has travelled over two miles since it landed. The folks at JPL ...
Published: September 7, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 654
National Geographic and Google Earth
National Geographic and Google have teamed up to add a National Geographic layer over Africa in Google Earth: Across Africa, you will see the familiar yellow National Geographic logo. Zoom in to see the title of each feature article or photograph. Click the icon and a pop-up balloon shows a ...
Published: September 23, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 651
Disposable DVDs
Disney unveils DVDs that self-destruct in 48 hours: I'm not a big environmental rights guy, but do we really need another disposable anything? The amount of landfill waste the computer industry generates alone is bad enough should we be encouraging people to throw DVDs in there as well? "If ...
Published: September 9, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 651
The Google AdSense Approval (Rejection?) Process
Making Sense of AdSense: Don't feel bad, Anil, Gadgetopia was rejected too. We still can't figure out why. "There's a far more serious problem with AdSense, though. The approval system is capricious, even arbitrary. It's understandable that Google wants to make sure sites aren't just ad farms, and it's in ...
Published: September 22, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 646
Windows Found to Have Lower Total Cost Of 0wnz0rship
CNet remarks on a study that pokes a little fun at the numerous MS-funded studies that suggest that Windows has a lower TCO, while Linux silently but surely gives you cancer. The study suggests that Windows also has a lower T0t4l c05t 0f 0wnz0rship, the cost a cracker has to ...
Published: August 13, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 643
When Oakley Meets Camera
When the Oakley CEO starts a camera company, here is what it looks like. Typical high-end HD camcorders have 2.1M pixel sensors and record with 3:1:1 color subsampled video at up to 30fps. We deliver 12M pixels at up to 60fps and record RAW, or 2x over-sampled HD in 4:4:4 ...
Published: April 16, 2007  Geek Popularity Factor: 642
Macs In Space
Space.com has an article about the computers controlling the Mars rovers; turns out they're using RAD6000 processors, which are glorified PowerPC chips designed for the rigors of extra-terrestrial duty. Kissin' cousins to the G4 on my desk! "This has become a real workhorse for space missions," Scuderi said. "We currently ...
Published: January 29, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 641
Content Management as a Practice
Four years ago, when announcing that the long sought-after title for his profession that of interaction architect had finally been found, Bruce Tognazzini started off his post with: This is the most important column I have ever written. Now, as much as I love hyperbole, I m not going ...
Published: August 15, 2008  Geek Popularity Factor: 641
Monster App
I love these new "timed team event" shows like Monster Garage, Monster House, and Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. In these shows, a team has to build or convert something in a set time limit, usually five days. There's usually a lot of drama, yelling, and screaming, but they invariably end ...
Published: December 14, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 640
Where's George?
Whilst pulling some cash out of my wallet today I noticed some red and blue stamps on the face of one of the dollar bills: See where I've been. Track where I go next. WHERESGEORGE.COM So being the curious guy that I am, I went there. What a cool idea; ...
Published: February 9, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 640
Point, Click, Shop, Print
While not new, today I got to try first-hand the Fuji Aladdin 2000 Picture Center at a local Wal-Mart. I'd used Wal-Mart's online photo services before, and have always been impressed at the simplicity and cost ($0.26 per print), but I was frustrated that I had to wait 7-10 days ...
Published: June 3, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 637
Online Banking
A quick read discussing public perception in the world of online banking: The updated report from the Better Business Bureau study shows that fear has unrealistically worsened. "Our numbers show that fears about online identity fraud may be out of proportion to the relative risk, causing consumers to ignore the ...
Published: March 24, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 635
Detecting Photoshop Hacks
Technology > Circuits > What's Next: For Doctored Photos, a New Flavor of Digital Truth Serum" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/22/technology/circuits/22next.html">For Doctored Photos, a New Flavor of Digital Truth Serum: A group of folks out at Dartmouth College are breaking new ground in the art of detecting if images have been altered or ...
Published: July 29, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 635
One Laptop Per Child
Something interesting from the MIT Media Lab: The MIT Media Lab has launched a new research initiative to develop a $100 laptop - a technology that could revolutionize how we educate the world's children. Here are the basic specs... The proposed $100 machine will be a Linux-based, full-color, full-screen laptop ...
Published: September 29, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 632
Interview with Jamie from Mythbusters
Interview with Jamie Hyneman of Mythbusters: A great interview with one of the guys from MythBusters (the one with the mustache), which is sort of our theme show around here. This interview is short and not very deep, but does it have to be with exchanges like this? Joe: What's ...
Published: October 23, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 628
Stupidest Interface Ever
The image above illustrates what is perhaps the stupidest interface ever. It's the "Network Connection Status" dialog in Windows Server 2003. Look the area outlined in red, and you can imagine why I'm irritated. I was debugging a server issue over terminal server, and I wanted to check something on ...
Published: August 10, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 626
Build a Smarter Search Engine
Build a Smarter Search Engine: This is an article from JavaPro magazine about building a Case Based Reasoning (CBR) search engine: "A man walks into a car dealership and tells the salesperson about his perfect car. It would be red, have four doors, a large trunk, 300 horsepower, side airbags, ...
Published: September 4, 2002  Geek Popularity Factor: 626
Gmail Paper
About Gmail Paper: This is a little early to be an April Fools joke, so I have to assume it's legitimate. Not it's not -- I just checked the calendar and was shocked to realize it's April 1. You can ask Google to send you a paper archive of all ...
Published: April 1, 2007  Geek Popularity Factor: 624
The World's Most High-Tech Hotel?
A traveling geek's gilded dream: We've already established that the folks in Dubai like to build big. That apparently extends to their neighbors in Abu Dhabi as well. The Emirates Palace is certainly the world's most expensive hotel, and is being heralded as its most high-tech as well. The unique ...
Published: April 23, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 624
Bride of the Friday Diversion
It's a long weekend coming up for us U.S. folks, so we'll need some extra diversion this week. I was thinking of keeping this one in my back pocket to slowly mete out future Friday Diversions, but this way you can divert yourselves if I miss a Friday or two ...
Published: September 3, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 621
"When in Rome" for Yahoo, Google, and MSN in China?
Michael Robertson (the guy from MP3.com, Linspire, and now SIPPhone) writes up "Michael's Minute" a few times a month, which is sort of a letter to customers that's often informative, but usually relates to MS-vs-Linux type issues. This week, though, he wrote a thinker of a piece on how far ...
Published: September 23, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 620
Fedora Core 1
I'm writing this entry from my new Red Hat Fedora Core 1 machine. It's very nice. Install was as simple as Windows (simpler, probably), and it's very functional right out of the box. It had network connectivity right away, and I can browse all my Windows shares without a problem. ...
Published: April 2, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 618
NT4 Users In A Pickle
Netcraft reports that about 1.1% of the websites that they track are still served up by NT4, and that there's a major security flaw in NT4 that will go forever unpatched due to its end-of-life status. Hundreds of thousands of web sites that continue to run the Windows NT4 face ...
Published: March 10, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 612
Cluster Ballooning
I first saw a post about this a while back at Neatorama, my first thought was the closing scene in the ancient movie The Red Balloon , where the kid floats away at the end hanging from a bunch of balloons. John Ninomiya, who runs the www.clusterballoon.org website, says that same ...
Published: June 3, 2007  Geek Popularity Factor: 606
Onfolio
Onfolio: An interesting new app for organizing information you find online. It'd be better, I think, as a Web-based app rather than a client tool. Watch the Flash presentation here for the quick skinny. My question is, is there a need for this product? In the end, this seems like ...
Published: April 18, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 590
C'etait un Rendezvous
In 1976, a Frenchman made a film called "C'etait un Rendezvous" consisting solely of some guy driving a Ferrari really, really fast through the streets of Paris. The idea is that the guy wanted to meet his girlfriend (hence the title) and the film ends with him parking the car ...
Published: February 22, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 587
Wikipedia NPOVs
What would happen if you made a Wikipedia entry on yourself? I was browsing Wikipedia this morning, as I have a tendency to do (I started with Pontius Pilate and ended up at David Beckham figure that one out), and I got to wondering what would happen if I ...
Published: March 25, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 587
Programmer Competency Matrix
Programmer Competency Matrix: This page presents a matrix of programmer skills and what it requires to be at different levels, 1-4, from novice to master. For instance, for data structures, it outlines the following levels: Doesn t know the difference between Array and LinkedList Able to explain and use Arrays, LinkedLists, ...
Published: June 30, 2008  Geek Popularity Factor: 587
Ego Surfing with George Clooney
Interview with George Clooney - On Career, Sex And Politics: Ever wonder what stars think about all the stuff written about them on the Internet? Well, this is one of the most simply inventive things I ve seen in a while: Esquire sat George Clooney down to surf the Web about ...
Published: March 17, 2008  Geek Popularity Factor: 587
Someone Owes Me An Operating System
I'm a little frustrated with Microsoft and a couple computer manufacturers tonight. You see, I'm owed an operating system, and these companies are conspiring to prevent me from collecting. I had an NT4 server. It was an old machine, and we replaced it earlier this year with a very fast ...
Published: September 11, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 575
The Secret of Intranet Adoption
Here's something I believe to be true: intranet adoption is more a function of personal and corporate psychology than of technology. Put another way, the greatest technology in the world won't help if your employees aren't interested in using your intranet for whatever reason. I'm involved, to some extent, in ...
Published: November 1, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 567
C'etait un Rendezvous: Duped by the Soundtrack
Two years ago, we posted about C etait un Rendezvous, a short movie shot in 1976 showing a supposedly breath-taking drive through Paris in the early morning. We said this: The entire film is shot from the bumper of the Ferrari (a 275 GTB) as it jams through the streets of ...
Published: February 22, 2008  Geek Popularity Factor: 551
Katrina's Wrath and Google Maps
Those geniuses at Google are at it again, now providing satellite photos of the areas of New Orleans, LA, that were hardest hit by Hurricane Katrina. If you do a Google Maps search for New Orleans, LA, you'll get the map of the city with an extra red button, labeled ...
Published: September 4, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 549
Steganography
Steganography is very cool. No, it's not a dinosaur &mdash it's a method of sending hidden messages so that no one knows a message has been sent. Well, that's just boring ol' cryptography, you say. No when you encrypt a message and send it, anyone who intercepts the communication ...
Published: April 15, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 549
The GM Report: A Tale of Two Buffets
I m more than a bit behind on my reports from the GM Blogger Junket, but I m going to try and catch up here. I ve already written about the Milford Proving Grounds in general, and about the Advanced Driving Techniques course we went through in the morning. Next up: lunch. ...
Published: October 24, 2007  Geek Popularity Factor: 537
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