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AskReaMaor.com - Computer related blog, i talk abo

AskReaMaor.com - Computer related blog, i talk abo
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7 Reasons Why Microsoft is DOOMED!
2007-09-02 21:43:00
Not this year, not next year… but soon - almost certainly by the next decade. #1. Their business model is a dead-end. - Back when Microsoft first started business in 1980, software as a commodity was still a fuzzy concept. Computers, themselves, were flying off the shelves, and of course you bought game cartridges for game ...
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August?s Report - Summer Slowdown.
2007-09-02 15:55:00
Well, unlike John Chow (who gave us yet another reason to hate him) I don?t earn anything NEAR $17,000 per month from this blog. Last month, if you remember I had an All-Time record in revenue, I made little over $150 with the help of my main 4 Sponsors. This month is the worst of all summer months, ...
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Sunday?s Spam #2
2007-09-02 15:10:00
I really hope to start and write this corner each and every week, Last time it helped me to get few links back and it’s always nice to remember how good was your week (or how bad in my case). Well, let’s start with some articles I had this week: 1. 7 Ways to Drive a Woman Away ...
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The 7 Funniest Sites on the Web
2007-09-01 20:27:00
Readers of this site will recall that I’m somewhat good with humor myself, when the fancy strikes me. Now, there’s a lot of contenders for humor sites on the web… trouble is, lots of them are way less funny than they think they are. Humor, after all, is tough. It’s easy to come up with ...
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Links, links, everywhere, nor anything to read?
2007-08-31 20:32:00
Social bookmarking. Seems a new user-driven content site pops up every day. And it seems that now we have 100,000 social bookmark sites, which are not only repeating each other’s content, but the same dumb mistakes over and over again. Everybody wants to be the next Digg, Reddit, or Netscape. What we need is one ...
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Links, links, everywhere, nor anything to read…
2007-08-31 20:32:00
Social bookmarking. Seems a new user-driven content site pops up every day. And it seems that now we have 100,000 social bookmark sites, which are not only repeating each other’s content, but the same dumb mistakes over and over again. Everybody wants to be the next Digg, Reddit, or Netscape. What we need is one quality bookmarking site. A site which: Automatically checks other bookmark sites for updates. The same link gets grabbed from site to site anyway, often with the submitter too lazy to even change the headline or the description. So it might as well aggregate all the RSS feeds and run them for you. Yes, we already scraped the 5000 other news sites. Do you have something new to show us? Automatically check the URL for dupes. The dupe thing is serious. No matter if it’s been 1000 years ago, the link gets submitted once in history and once only. An attempt to submit a second copy automatically transforms into a vote for the first time it was submitted. Ditto for lin...
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Last chance to win Apple iPhone
2007-08-31 20:28:00
We have more than 20 People on this contest and 68 tickets were given out, this is your LAST chance to join in, the rules are Very simple, just check up the Contest Page. Today is the final day to join in, don’t miss this GREAT opportunity to get FREE iPhone; it would be a shame to lose it just because you were so lazy to write few words for this already too popular blog In the mean time, I want to thank John Cow (not to be mistaken with the root of all evil, John Chow) for making this competition a bit more popular on the last few day… The draw itself would be taped on video and uploaded to this site, it will be available on Sunday’s afternoon, so be sure to visit us back. and if you’re as lazy as i know you guys, you better register to RSS to get updates (*hint* Signup *hint*) No, it’s not a de-ja-vu, I seems to have nasty problem with Unicode characters in my blog, I’m trying to locate and fix it as soon as possible, bare with me. Dont be evil...
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8 Linux Distros You’ve Never Heard Of…
2007-08-30 20:07:00
Since DistroWatch was so nice to link to me last week, I figured I’d explore their site and see if I can find anything interesting to chat about. One thing that’s always been interesting is their distro popularity meter, which measures how many hits the index page of each distribution gets. It is not scientific by any means - it tells you nothing about whether people install the distro, merely that somebody clicked a link and visited that distro’s listing. Yet it is taken so seriously by some that there was a recent scandal about one distro rigging the chart by generating false hits. The less said about that, the better! Near the bottom of this list lurks some Linux (and BSD?) distros that never seem to get any news, so why don’t we check them out? Some of these here sound fascinating; perhaps they are underdogs just because nobody bothers to look beyond the Top Ten? OpenLX - A Linux distro from India based on Fedora core. India is one of the countries ...

8 Linux Distros You?ve Never Heard Of?
2007-08-30 20:07:00
Since Distro Watch was so nice to link to me last week, I figured I’d explore their site and see if I can find anything interesting to chat about. One thing that’s always been interesting is their distro popularity meter, which measures how many hits the index page of each distribution gets. It is not scientific ...
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7 Ways to Drive a Woman Away From IT
2007-08-29 21:00:00
Everybody’s wondering “why don’t more women game, program, hack, or get jobs in the IT field?” Not a month goes by that I don’t see some CNet-fed pundit doesn’t produce another editorial pondering the lack of women in the geek domain. So, from many years of observing the wired world, allow me to present some of what’s causing women to avoid you IT fields in droves. Singling her out. Imagine walking out of your house in the morning and three women outside immediately point at you and scream “Look! It’s a MAN!” “OMG! Where? Where?” “Jesus, you’re right!” “Lemme see! Does it have a beard?” Yes, it’s easy to say you’d be flattered by the attention, but tell me with a straight face that it wouldn’t freak you out after a while. Left handed compliments. “You code pretty good… for a girl.” “Oh no, I’ve been fragged by a girl!” &ld...
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Candidates for the Technology Darwin Awards
2007-08-28 19:15:00
The Darwin Awards are normally handed out to people who manage to end themselves or their ability to participate in the gene pool in some spectacularly idiotic way. But technology companies have some serious Darwinian impulses as well, and we’ve seen many examples of this over the years. If there were a competition for an all-time IT Darwin Award, my list of candidates might look something like this… Note that these aren’t just run-of-the-mill business failures in the computer industry. these are specifically companies that died or are just about dead through their own massive stupidity. Hence, a Darwin Award. #1. The Amiga - The Amiga stands forever in history as the Marilyn Monroe of computers - it was in the prime of its life, had everything in the world going for it, and flat-out committed suicide. Specifically, Commodore computers committed suicide by being mismanaged into the ground right after buying the Amiga Corporation. The Internet is still wailin...
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8 Notes to Self on Internet Etiquette
2007-08-27 16:53:00
Here’s some little reminders I’m jotting down (what else are blogs for?) as reminders of what not to do in the future. #1. When notifying someone of tragic news by email, be sure your font is set to something besides Comic Sans-Serif bold. It just doesn’t look right. #2. Do not use LOLCATS jokes in real-life. Most people still don’t know about them yet. Ordering your lunch at the drive-through window with “I C4n H4z CHEEzburGER?”, for instance. #3. When you’re at an Internet cafe or other public-access point and you spot someone having a Blue Screen day, do not burst into laughter as you walk by because you run a Linux box at home that has an uptime measured in years. Even if it really, truly is funny. #4. Quit being surprised every time you hear about a new sex fetish you’ve never heard of. Get used to the fact that the human race, currently at 6.3 billion, has 6.3 billion ways to enjoy sex, and some of those ways will invo...
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Windows users: Get Ready for a Long Weekend
2007-08-25 22:20:00
If you have Windows Vista or Windows XP and you’ve been having problems like not being able to run games or get updates, it’s because the Windows Genuine Advantage server is down and won’t be back up until Tuesday. This is causing every Windows install that happens to check in to be marked as counterfeit. The discussion on the Microsoft forums has not been kind. As you might expect, the “U-word” Ubuntu has been bandied about. The real confusion is when users don’t know what’s going on, and so they try to reinstall, scan for viruses, or try to fix the problem themselves. Getting on the phone with tech support causes even more confusion. One poster hinted: “for the XP version there is a download available that will validate you without having to use the validation server - as long as you don’t try and use windows update for XP since that uses the the validation server when you log-in to the Internet update site.” But so...
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DBPedia - a New Way to Play with Wikipedia
2007-08-24 19:29:00
Programmable Web has announced the availability of a new API for automating queries to Wikipedia . That may not sound very exciting, but stay with me - it gets better. The API can be used to query Wikipedia using SQL-like queries. OK, so what can it do? The docs page lists many new possibilities. For instance, you can use it to perform “smart searches”. The Leipzig query builder gives ready examples, for finding all the tennis players from Moscow or all the sitcoms set in New York City. Making your own query requires you to understand SQL, though. At the time of this posting, the query engines of Berlin, OpenLink, and Free Text Search all seem to be having database errors, probably because of all the heavy traffic they’re getting. But the upshot is that this can enable webmasters (and bloggers) to automatically include tables, data sets, and other gizmos in the body of a post without having to do the grunt work. This will look something like the infobox temp...
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The 10 “Geek” Movies That Should Never Have Been: part 2
2007-08-23 23:43:00
Continued from part 1… #6. Independence Day - Deserves special mention for (a) having Jeff Goldblum as a geek in it - arrest him now before he does it again! - and (b) the aforementioned Jeff makes a computer virus on his Hack - oops, his MACintosh and uploads it to the alien’s computers. Sure, in a world where you can’t listen to a song made for Microsoft’s Zune on your iPod or read a Unix file on Windows, this makes tons of sense, doesn’t it? #7. Enemy of the State - Nothing would be wrong with this movie, if The Conversation didn’t exist. But since the Conversation does, indeed, exist, Enemy of the State is stuck forever being a blatant rip-off of the concept from an unrecognized timeless classic, with a far less talented crew, bigger budget, and a not nearly as interesting story. #8. Mission Impossible - Yeah, sure, that’s what real-life cyber-espionage is like. Uh huh. Beyond the scene where Tom Cruise does his Spiderman impres...
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The 10 ?Geek? Movies That Should Never Have Been: part 2
2007-08-23 23:43:00
Continued from part 1… #6. Independence Day - Deserves special mention for (a) having Jeff Goldblum as a geek in it - arrest him now before he does it again! - and (b) the aforementioned Jeff makes a computer virus on his Hack - oops, his MACintosh and uploads it to the alien’s computers. Sure, in ...
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The 10 ?Geek? Movies That Should Never Have Been
2007-08-22 20:49:00
Right up there with the cowboy, the samurai, the knight, and the Goth, the archetype of the hacker will live forever in history, hilariously misconceived and tragically misunderstood. But of all the historic archetypes, the hacker alone had the distinction of being born in the multimedia age, and hence was the only kind to be ...
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The 10 “Geek” Movies That Should Never Have Been
2007-08-22 20:49:00
Right up there with the cowboy, the samurai, the knight, and the Goth, the archetype of the hacker will live forever in history, hilariously misconceived and tragically misunderstood. But of all the historic archetypes, the hacker alone had the distinction of being born in the multimedia age, and hence was the only kind to be laughed at to his or her face. These cases in point: movies which try to get a handle on geek culture… and fail miserably. If you want to know anything about geek culture, start by not seeing these movies. #1. The Matrix - I’m starting with this one because many who consider themselves pretty wired individuals even fell for this shameless pandering to the tech generation. This movie series pretends to be science fiction, while actually being pure fantasy with more plot holes than American foreign policy. No, don’t tell me about escapist fiction. Who wants to escape into a gutter? Why do humans make better batteries than E Coli? Why do th...
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New Rules for the Web - Second Half of August 2007
2007-08-21 22:47:00
New Rule : When Role-Playing Gamers finally take our advice and get out more, they have to leave their fantasy world at home. We’re all very glad for you that you have at last found your place as otherkin in the land of hobbits, but when you’ve played Dungeons and Dragons so much that it starts to change your religion, that’s about as far as you need to share it with the rest of us. You may think you’re wearing a +6 Wardrobe of Coolness, but the rest of us are reaching for our -2 Barfbag of Nausea. New Rule: John C. Dvorak could use a testosterone injection and a Viagra cocktail, pronto. I can remember when Dvorak was the rottenest, meanest technology scrooge around. Dvorak alone could get so many people hating him at once, he could start a riot at Comdex just by walking in the door. But after 25 years of being the loudest troll to thunder across Silicon Valley, he has now decided that he’s a 14-year old girl on MySpace. His blog - did you click tha...
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Anatomy of an Internet Hoax - Your Thumbs Work Fine for the iPhone
2007-08-20 21:09:00
You’d have to be blind (or not addicted to the Internet ) to have missed the story going around this week about the man who surgically altered his thumbs to be able to operate his iPhone better. Quite a few sites seemed to take it seriously. But the originators have now come out to say it was a joke. Well, no one could fault you for thinking “maybe it could happen”. The Internet, and the world it talks about, is one strange place. But lately I’ve noticed the news feeds taking on a more drastic tone. It seems that anybody can say anything and have somebody believe them. The iPhone thumbs story had a whiff of satire to it, for several reasons. The iPhone just came out and has had a massive amount of media frenzy around it. In these days of plastic surgery jobs and outrageous body mods, another story about somebody messing with their own design doesn’t raise an eyebrow. And remember the Boing Boing story about implanting a magnet in your finger to giv...
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