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8 Net Users We Can?t Stand
2007-10-30 21:16:00
1. People who don’t know how to mark up a comment or post. How do I make a link? Is it [linkURL: linked text]? linked text [linkURL]? < link > linkURL, “linked text” < /link > ? Ten years ago people at least understood basic HTML. Now, it’s a toss-up whether they manage to type ...
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Linux Has More Phony Friends Than A Pop Star
2007-10-28 23:04:00
Over and over again, you see the mainstream media and corporations treat Linux and open source like that one poor fat kid who always got picked last for dodgeball in school. Software companies refuse to admit that Linux exists, until they’re in financial trouble themselves, and then all of a sudden… oh, all right, we’ll port it to Linux. Big corporations resist open source until their platform is sinking and then at the last minute… oh, all right, we’ll go open source. And of course, media figures will pick on Linux with glee, until they get in trouble for it and then have to apologize to Linux while scuffing their toe, under the watchful eyes of the principal. But they’ll box Linux’s ears again, as soon as nobody’s looking. Case in point: Dan Lyons. That wild rascal who has been amusing the ‘net audience with so much wacky hijinks lately. You’ll remember him from such zany fiascoes as the “Fake Steve Jobs”...
More About: Friends , Star , Phony

Things That Piss Geeks Off
2007-10-28 22:30:00
The Geek community is sometimes one of the easiest demographics to peg. Go to Star Trek conventions, have a level 78 wizard in a MMORG, collect manga? OK, you’re in. Try that with soccer moms or middle managers. You’re likely to end up running into a soccer mom who is a middle manager. One of the most gregarious attributes of geeks is that when you have one geek mad at you, they’re all mad at you at the same time. Here’s something that I think may help non-geeks deal with geeks a little easier: when you have a whole slew of geeks mad at you, and you don’t know why, check this list: Laziness - Number one, and probably numbers two through five as well. I’m not talking about body-lazy; geeks here are indifferent. But mental laziness drives geeks to scream and claw down masonry. If you ever want to get flamed to a golden brown with a side of Hollandaise sauce, just pop into a chat and ask a question that Google could have answered, or post in a ...
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Six Ways That Windows Will Never Catch Up To Linux
2007-10-28 00:50:00
Long-term readers of this site will know that I use both Windows and Linux regularly. I appreciate the relative strengths and weaknesses of each. And I admit that there are places where Linux is simply left behind (games, some graphics applications). But one thing I rarely see is a discussion of where Windows is failing ...
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Facebook Gets Assimilated into the Microsoft Collective.
2007-10-26 01:55:00
Ah! Where did all these Facebook stories come from all of a sudden? Wired sniffs about it haughtily. O’Reilly Radar beeps frenetically. Programmable Web makes a pithy observation. The Register snarks about it. Read-Write Web wrings its hands over it. Are Technica reports the facts. ZDNet looks alarmed. Search-Engine Watch watches the deal like a hawk. C-Net makes some analysis. Munchkins. Nothing at all to ...
More About: Microsoft , Collective

Firefox 2.0.0.8 Review
2007-10-24 18:27:00
The new Firefox just came out five days ago, and I’ve had the opportunity to get an early peek at it. This update is important, because it fixes a whole slew of security and stability issues, in both Windows and Linux. It also now has official support for Romanian and Georgian languages. Given how many Romanians ...
More About: Mozilla , Review , Firefox 2 , Themes

Eight Linux Command Lines That Anybody - Even Grandma - Can Do
2007-10-23 21:33:00
Welcome back to your old nemesis: the command line! Scary and inscrutable, this dark, looming environment will be yours to tackle. While many guides out there start you off with the basics of viewing and navigating the file system, I thought I’d provide an alternative beginning point: simple one-word commands that are benign and couldn’t ...
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Firefox Plugin Review - Hebrew Calendar
2007-10-21 21:08:00
The Hebrew Calendar plug-in for Fire fox puts the current Hebrew date on the lunisolar calendar right in your status bar, and also comes with a set of nice features. One of the handy features is a full-size calendar that opens in your browser, showing a handy co-relation between the Hebrew date and the goyim calendar date. ...
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Firefox Plug-In Review - Chatzilla
2007-10-20 23:29:00
You can keep your AIM, MSN, and Yahoo chat clients with the flashy graphics and the bloated features… IRC has been around almost two decades (it’s 20-year anniversary will be August of 2008.). It is still going strong because simple text with a few commands and features is basically all you need. It is also ...
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Other People With An Axe To Grind Against Linux
2007-10-19 19:05:00
There may indeed come a time when Microsoft goes down at last, and all the little FOSS penguins can hoist their swords in the air and “Hurrah!” for bringing down the Gulliver. But will that day really be victory? Don’t get your hopes up; if it seems that getting Linux accepted into the mainstream is ...
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The Son of Demotivational Posters
2007-10-16 20:17:00
Ha! After Marco Folio published a list of favorite demotivational posters,I decided to try my hand at them. Well, the addiction has set in, and now I can’t stop. I’ll try getting some counseling for this. Meanwhile, enjoy the fruits of my latest obsession, and be sure to post a link to any other archives ...
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Another Linux Patent Suit
2007-10-15 23:39:00
Living outside the US, I’d like to lead off with one, big, fat wake-up call to commercial software companies: the rest of the world doesn’t give a weak hoot about what goes down in the US state of Texas. The last time people in other countries paid attention to a drama in Texas was when ...
More About: Linux , Microsoft , Patent , Tent , Suit

Demotivational Posters Revisited
2007-10-14 22:04:00
Oh, look! Marco Folio has published a list of favorite demotivational posters! I scanned through the list, and decided that this meme could do with some fresh blood. So I’m taking my own shot at them… Anybody desperate to stop me before I do it again? Note: These images come from Davezilla. Who’s such a nice guy ...
More About: Posters , Photoshop , Gimp

An Up-close Look at Avot Media
2007-10-13 18:08:00
In a cave somewhere in dinosaur-land, there is a caveman. This Neanderthal, living in the Stone Age, is the last person watching video on a television set. But when mobile devices get good enough at video, he’ll switch, too. Mobile devices have now gotten good enough at video. Meet Avot Media . Avot is a new service ...
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Free Software Graphics Programs That Aren?t Gimp
2007-10-12 20:03:00
As follow-up to my rant over how Gimp vs Photoshop is a stupid flamewar, I’d like to take a post to link to some other free software graphics programs besides Gimp. So many people who go looking for an alternative to Adobe’s expensive creative suite are directed to Gimp, and yet Gimp is only the ...
More About: Software , Graphics , Blender , Programs

New Rules for Cool Fools
2007-10-10 20:36:00
Every now and then, I check the news feeds and see several sites out there that desperately need a dose of me. This is one of those mornings. Hail and hear well, oh denizens of the Internet, as I mete out a king’s measure of wisdom to your sorry selves…. New Rule: Accept that stupidity is ...
More About: Photoshop , Misc , Cool , Rules , Halo 3

7 Reasons Why Gimp vs Photoshop is the Stupidest Flamewar in History
2007-10-09 21:46:00
1. It’s gone on long enough. A Google search for “Gimp vs Photoshop ” in quotes currently shows 23,400 hits. I’ve been seeing it since the turn of the century. Much more often than I’ve seen the canonical geek flamewars of Emacs-vs-vi, Gnome-vs-KDE, and all. 2. The Gimp development team says that Gimp has nothing to do ...
More About: Linux , Microsoft , History

Making bad websites behave with Firefox
2007-10-08 22:25:00
Some websites out there just can’t get the message: we don’t want them to do things with our computer without our permission. The best policy is usually to avoid them, but unfortunately we still get embroiled in a debate on Slashdot or have to research something and the only way to complete the task is to go to that ...
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Social Engineering with Pretexting
2007-10-07 21:29:00
In an early scene in the movie “Sneakers“, a security guard is aroused by an alarm and rushes to the phone. The voice on the phone reassures the guard that this is a false alarm, and that it should stop in a minute. It does. The guard is visibly relieved and thanks the officer. Then ...
More About: Social , Internet , Engineering , Erin , Social Engineering

The Software Guru Looks up From His Meditation?
2007-10-06 22:42:00
…as a pack of programming students hoist up over the cliff’s edge at the top of the mountain to seek counsel from the wise one. Entering his cave in a pack, the first one says: “I’m having a hard time learning to program. It seems that I’m a visual learner - I need videos to explain ...
More About: Software , Programming , Meditation , Cobol , Guru

Dont Panic ! - Ok, Panic !
2007-10-05 23:11:00
It seems we had a problem with the .htaccess file, For some reason he was overwritten with empty file, sadly this resulted in false navigation, a lot of pages were directed to empty white pages. Everything SHOULD be ok now, if you happen to find anything wrong let me know. I would like to thank all those who took ...
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Social Engineering - How Hacking is Really Done
2007-10-05 18:15:00
The movies and even TV media have misled us countless times; somebody is trying to hack into a system. They have a screen of scrolling, indecipherable code going by. The hacker types in some mystical incantation and a big, dumb box pops up on the screen: “access grated”. The crafty hacker cackles at his own ...
More About: Social , Engineering , Ally , Done , Erin

The Son of Stupid Answers to Smart Questions
2007-10-04 20:22:00
Of course, after civilization collapses and I’ve been frozen in carbonite for 1000 years and thawed out and asked what the blazes happened, and after the scientists get done with me, the reporters will want a lot of interviews. They’ll want to know more about the IT industry. I’ll have to be sure to be ...
More About: Programming , Internet , Question , Questions , Computer

Stupid Answers to Smart Questions
2007-10-03 19:59:00
I have a new project I’d like to tell you all about. I’m going to volunteer to be cryogenically frozen and suspended in a time capsule, set to be thawed 1000 years from now so I can explain the IT industry to the scientists who will thaw me out, then. Also, I will have to ...
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Happy Birthday ProBlogger
2007-10-03 16:16:00
Number one Blog is having a CRAZY week, Darren (the owner of ProBlogger) managed to put his hands on more than $54,000 worth of Sponsored gifts just to hand them all to his Readers. Yesterday he offered SEO book ($79 US) worth, Premium Directory listing (Worth $50 US) and a weird scar treatment cream ...
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Seven More of the Coolest Online Generators
2007-10-02 22:03:00
So, you liked “Seven of the Coolest Online Generators ” ? then here’s part two: You would think I could leave them alone after that last post. But no. I just can’t resist snagging a free image or generated joke. Herein, the best ones I’ve found culled from my endless bookmark collection. Blingy necklace - Bada-boom, bada-bing! Yo, ...

Don?t Panic! - New Design.
2007-10-02 16:37:00
I told you I’m testing out a new design; don?t blame me if you’re too lazy to click the huge RSS button on the right side. testing out the design might take a day or two and I’ll be more than happy if you could assist me with finding bugs in it, so far I’ve proof-checked it ...
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Must? Post? New? Rules?
2007-10-01 23:01:00
Ugh! The Internet seems to have taken a few lung-popping drags off the silly pipe this week. I see we’ll have to set some new rules. New Rule : - Web 2.0 news reporting has to slow down. The story broke about the first test of a GPL license in a United States court. Hours later, Slashdot ...
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Sunday?s Spam - September 30, 2007
2007-09-30 16:33:00
Wow, what a busy week? This week, I’ve celebrated yet another milestone, not only have I decided to redesign my blog - don’t worry, the hideous green stays - but I’ve finally passed the 10,000 spam comments mark! Yes indeed, it’s time to thank all those ED’s medicines for doing me the honor and spamming my ...
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The Top 10 GENUINE Geek Movies - Second 5
2007-09-29 22:33:00
Continued from part 1… This is the second half of the movies which I (and most will concur) think best capture geek culture. Let me remind you again: these are movies which either are about geeks, computers, technology, or hacking, or which will evoke the “geek spirit”, and not just movies which geeks temporarily like. ...
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