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1 Businesses Can Win the Competition Against Open-Source Technology |
 Lenny (8) 712 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) 716 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) 725 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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1 Turn Inline Links Into Padded Blocks for Larger Clickab Areas |
Lenny (8) 730 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) 738 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 Heretic and Hexen liberated! |
Telamon (4) 726 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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1 ISO‚ IEC reject appeals‚ approve OOXML spec |
Lenny (8) 750 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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2 How to build a working digital computer 1967 |
 Hobbit (0) 717 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 Study revives six degrees theory |
Lenny (8) 763 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) 770 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) 772 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 Linux tools to convert file formats |
Lenny (8) 775 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) 726 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 Technical glitch halts LSE trades |
Hobbit (0) 727 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 How to improve your website's tagline |
Telamon (4) 749 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 Party of one: Surviving the solo open source project |
Telamon (4) 755 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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1 Over the Shoulder 1 - Text Preprocessing in Forth (Video) |
Lenny (8) 803 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) 755 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) 755 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) 759 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 A Look Inside Wikipedia's Infrastructure |
Telamon (4) 795 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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1 'Shake-up' for internet proposed |
Telamon (4) 804 days ago Comments (0)
computers, dns, internet |
news.bbc.co.uk - The net could see its biggest transformation in decades if plans to open up the address system are passed.
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2 Web pages have 'come alive and started breeding' |
Telamon (4) 851 days ago Comments (0)
computers, artificial intelligence, internet |
www.telegraph.co.uk - Living web sites that grow‚ develop and evolve to suit the taste of the people that read them are now finding their way on to the internet.
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