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1 Businesses Can Win the Competition Against Open-Source Technology |
 Lenny (8) 106 days ago Comments (0)
business and finance, computers, freedom and privacy, open source |
www.gsb.stanford.edu - Two business professors from Harvard and Stanford have combined to publish 'Divide and Conquer: Competing with Free Technology Under Network Effects‚' a research paper dedicated to helping business executives fight the onslaught of open source software.
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1 Modern Forth systems are not like their ancestors |
Lenny (8) 110 days ago Comments (0)
computers, technical, forth, programming, embedded systems |
www.ddj.com - Stephen Pelc‚ managing director of MicroProcessor Engineering Ltd‚ discusses some of the advantages a modern forth system has given him in various embedded systems projects.
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2 There's More Than a Browser War |
 Telamon (4) 119 days ago Comments (0)
business and finance, computers, internet, web browsers |
osnews.com - When Google released its new (and first) browser a few days ago (Chrome)‚ many praised that move or welcomed this new player into the arena‚ but many others simply were a bit surprised and wondered if a new browser was really needed. This article shows how this is a self-preservation strategy to defend it's core business.
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3 Strangest feedback on ebay |
Lenny (8) 240 days ago Comments (0)
humour and bizarre |
i299.photobucket.com
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1 Turn Inline Links Into Padded Blocks for Larger Clickab Areas |
Lenny (8) 124 days ago Comments (0)
computers, technical, css, web development |
www.usabilitypost.com - There's a very quick usability trick you can do with the links on your site to make them easier to use. It's something that I don't see talked about very much‚ and a lot of sites don't implement it. Link padding and blocks — that is‚ increasing the clickable area of your links to make them easier to click on.
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1 Tcl the Misunderstood |
Lenny (8) 132 days ago Comments (0)
computers, technical, programming, tcl |
antirez.com - An experienced Tcl programmer shows why he thinks that Tcl is so good. It certainly makes for interesting reading.
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1 ISO‚ IEC reject appeals‚ approve OOXML spec |
Lenny (8) 144 days ago Comments (0)
computers, microsoft, ooxml |
www.infoworld.com - The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) have given the green light to publish the Microsoft-backed Office Open XML (OOXML) specification after organization leaders rejected appeals from four countries to protest the vote that approved OOXML as a standard.
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1 Guns for Texas school's teachers |
Lenny (8) 144 days ago Comments (0)
education and study, law and order, guns, schools |
news.bbc.co.uk - Teachers in one part of the US state of Texas are to be allowed to carry concealed firearms when the new school term opens this month.
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1 Heretic and Hexen liberated! |
Telamon (4) 120 days ago Comments (0)
computers, entertainment, news, games, open source |
www.fsf.org - After several years of trying‚ members of the Doom community have succeeded in getting the source code to Heretic and its sequel‚ Hexen to be re-released as free software under the GNU General Public License.
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2 The Future of Mobile Phones |
 Biggles (0) 106 days ago Comments (0)
freedom and privacy, lifestyle, science, technology, electronics, mobile phones |
googleblog.blogspot.com - Really interesting article on how mobile phones may be used in the next 10-15 years
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2 How to build a working digital computer 1967 |
 Hobbit (0) 111 days ago Comments (0)
computers, education and study, technical, technology, electronics, diy, home build, retro, vintage |
www.bitsavers.org - This is a great pdf that shows you how to construct a digital computer from scratch. It even shows you how to construct core memory and drum memory.
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1 The Metagovernment project |
Lenny (8) 154 days ago Comments (0)
freedom and privacy, law and order, politics and government, metagovernment |
metagovernment.org - The Metagovernment project invites all people to participate in governance as much or as little as they wish.
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1 Study revives six degrees theory |
Lenny (8) 157 days ago Comments (0)
computers, people and culture, technology, mobile phones, text messaging |
news.bbc.co.uk - A US study of text messages suggests the theory that we are all linked by six steps to anyone else may be right - though seven seems more accurate.
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1 Lazy Linux: 10 essential tricks for admins |
Lenny (8) 164 days ago Comments (0)
computers, technical, command line interfaces, linux |
www.ibm.com - Learn these 10 tricks and you'll be the most powerful Linux® systems administrator in the universe...well‚ maybe not the universe‚ but you will need these tips to play in the big leagues. Learn about SSH tunnels‚ VNC‚ password recovery‚ console spying‚ and more. Examples accompany each trick‚ so you can duplicate them on your own systems.
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1 CLI Magic: For geek cred‚ try these one-liners |
Lenny (8) 166 days ago Comments (0)
computers, technical, linux, command line interfaces |
www.linux.com - Some example one-line linux commands to show how useful piping and a cli on linux is.
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1 Integrated circuit is 50 years old today |
Hobbit (0) 115 days ago Comments (0)
art and humanities, technology, electronics, history, integrated circuits |
www.custompc.co.uk - The first microchip was first demonstrated by Jack Kilby from Texas Instruments on 12 September 1958. It might not be much to look at‚ but then Texas Instruments admits that Kilby often remarked that if he’d known he’d be showing the first working integrated circuit for the next 40-plus years‚ he would’ve ‘prettied it up a little.’
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1 How to improve your website's tagline |
Telamon (4) 143 days ago Comments (0)
business and finance, computers, web development, advertising, marketing |
www.useit.com - Some tips and advice on making your companies website standout from the crowd‚ and appeal to the people you want to use it.
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1 Linux tools to convert file formats |
Lenny (8) 169 days ago Comments (0)
computers, technical, file conversion, file formats, linux |
www.linux.com - Short discussion of the problems with converting files formats via text files and linux tools to aid the process.
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1 Copyright row dogs Spore release |
Hobbit (0) 120 days ago Comments (0)
computers, entertainment, games, news, copyright |
news.bbc.co.uk - Hundreds of people have complained about the copyright protecting system on the long-awaited game Spore.
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1 The case for forensic linguistics |
Hobbit (0) 121 days ago Comments (0)
freedom and privacy, law and order, technology, mobile phones, text messaging |
news.bbc.co.uk - Text message analysis is becoming a powerful tool in solving crime cases.
In February 2008‚ linguistic evidence contributed to the conviction of David Hodgson in the murder of Jenny Nicholl.
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1 Technical glitch halts LSE trades |
Hobbit (0) 121 days ago Comments (0)
business and finance, computers, news, work and industry, stock exchange |
news.bbc.co.uk - The London Stock Exchange has suspended trading due to a technical problem that has affected its trading system.
A spokesperson said "connectivity issues" meant traders could not connect with the LSE trading platform.
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1 Declaring love boosts sex appeal |
Hobbit (0) 121 days ago Comments (0)
family and relationships, health and beauty, lifestyle, dating |
news.bbc.co.uk - Telling someone you fancy 'I really like you' could make him or her find you more attractive‚ research suggests.
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1 Party of one: Surviving the solo open source project |
Telamon (4) 149 days ago Comments (0)
computers, open source |
www.javaworld.com - With more than 100‚000 open source projects hosted on SourceForge alone‚ starting a new one is no small undertaking‚ and bringing it to the masses is hardly a sure thing. In this article reprinted from Pushing Pixels‚ Kirill Grouchnikov explores the challenges and pitfalls of being the sole developer on an open source project.
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2 More lie detectors to curb fraud |
Lenny (8) 240 days ago Comments (0)
freedom and privacy, law and order, politics and government, technology |
news.bbc.co.uk - The government is to provide funding for 15 more councils to get lie detectors to catch out benefit cheats‚ who cost taxpayers up to £400m a year.
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1 Dubai plans 'moving' skyscraper |
Lenny (8) 196 days ago Comments (0)
travel and places, architecture, hotels, the middle east |
news.bbc.co.uk - The world's first moving building‚ a 80-storey tower with revolving floors giving an shifting shape‚ will be built in Dubai‚ its architect says.
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1 Over the Shoulder 1 - Text Preprocessing in Forth (Video) |
Lenny (8) 197 days ago Comments (0)
computers, technical, forth, programming |
www.falvotech.com - Watch an experienced forth programmer develop a text preprocessing program in forth.
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1 99 Bottles of Beer |
Hobbit (0) 149 days ago Comments (0)
computers, humour and bizarre, technical, programming, comparisons |
99-bottles-of-beer.net - This Website holds a collection of the Song '99 Bottles of Beer' programmed in 1214 different programming languages and variations. Great for trivial language comparison.
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1 Why Microsoft and Intel tried to kill the XO $100 laptop |
Hobbit (0) 149 days ago Comments (0)
computers, freedom and privacy, news, technology, intel, microsoft, olpc |
technology.timesonline.co.uk - Nicholas Negroponte had a vision: to build a $100 laptop and give away millions to educate the world’s poorest children. And then the fat-cat multinationals got scared and broke it...
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1 autonomo.us activist group to focus on freedom in network services |
Hobbit (0) 153 days ago Comments (0)
computers, freedom and privacy, internet, free software foundation |
www.fsf.org - A new activist group called autonomo.us has launched an online presence to focus on issues of software freedom in network services.
Building on its work with the GNU Affero General Public license‚ the FSF convened a meeting to discuss the impact of network services on free software and user freedom on March 16.
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1 Exclusive: No ice at the North Pole |
Telamon (4) 189 days ago Comments (0)
science, environment |
www.independent.co.uk - It seems unthinkable‚ but for the first time in human history‚ ice is on course to disappear entirely from the North Pole this year.
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1 A Look Inside Wikipedia's Infrastructure |
Telamon (4) 189 days ago Comments (0)
computers, internet |
www.datacenterknowledge.com - In an era when Google and Microsoft can spend a half-billion dollars on one of their global data center projects‚ Wikipedia runs on fewer than 300 servers from a single data center in Tampa‚ Fla. It also has servers in Amsterdam at the AMS-IX peering exchange.
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