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Are Apple and Linux Allies?
2007-08-04 21:29:00 Here and there in the blogosphere it’s been hinted that the Linux fans don’t have nearly the animosity towards Apple and OS X that they do towards Microsoft and Windows. You see plenty of hissing and spitting between the Windows tribe and the Linux tribe, with Apple users staying mostly out of the way. ... More About: Allies , Lies
Quick, Duck! It?s another Web 2.0 Bubble!
2007-08-02 22:30:00 It’s about time we paid some attention to one of the A-List bloggers, and today Dvorak interests me. His latest post for PCMag declares that a new Bubble -bust of the Web market is coming. Now, say what you will; Dvorak really goes out of his way to be controversial and groups like the crew of Slashdot ... More About: Quick , Duck , Web 2.0
The 7 Bloggers types (A Field Guide to Bloggers)
2007-08-01 21:08:00 Diary Daisey “A blog all about me.” Because that’s what everybody wants to know is all about meeeeeeee! Count on Diary Daisey to keep you up to the minute on her kids, cats, fights with her husband, and all about her domestic environment. Oh, and if she buys a new tablecloth, you’ll get a picture, ... More About: Bloggers , Guide , Types , Logger , Blogg
July?s summary (Milestone 1 and 2)
2007-08-01 08:32:00 Ladies and Gentleman, Geeks and? grandma ?! we’ve finally did it, not only did we TRIPLE last month revenue we also have more than 100 RSS readers daily, it took a little more time then I initially expected, but it’s great to finally see it with my own two eyes. This month was very special as ... More About: Google , Internet , Money , Auction , Link
6 Easy Steps To Get YouTube Famous
2007-07-30 21:53:00 If you want to be truly big on the Internet, then you need to get on YouTube . YouTube is public acess television for the new millenium, and the truly 1337 are making their mark there. Blogs are fine, your MySpace was cool for five minutes, but your YouTube channel is what is really going ... More About: Video , Youtube , Famous
Slot Machine Hacking
2007-07-29 21:42:00 Slot machines, aka fruit machines and one-armed bandits, have been getting a little press in the news amongst the geek community lately. A recent case of a slot machine with faulty software has raised the question of whether a person playing a machine is guilty of a crime if they knowingly exploit a defect. Doubly, there ... More About: Machine , Casino , Slot Machine , Mach
Computer Security
2007-07-28 22:27:00 The Internet is a dangerous place, and you should be aware of that by now. If it’s not the stalkers hunting you down through your IP, then it’s data miners stealing your personal information, or god forbid, RL burglars breaking in and taking your computer away completely. Read on to find out the best ... More About: Security , Computer , Computer Security
What Every Geek Should Know About Coffee
2007-07-26 20:15:00 More authoritative sources than I have noted that caffeine and computer geeks just seem to go together. We seen to especially need the extra energy for the brain boost to finish that all-night coding run, crawl through that 1000-page Unix manual (also makes a handy weapon!), or finish that web design project before deadline. ThinkGeek ... More About: Geeks , Coffee , Misc
Mac vs Windows (Round 1,330,542)
2007-07-25 22:09:00 The Windows vs Mac debate has been raging since time itself began. Since Adam and Eve were in the Garden of Eden, or when the Big Bang exploded throughout the Universe, or when the Turtle began to swim through the skies, whichever creation story you go for, Mac and Windows have been locked ... More About: Apple , Microsoft , Round
iPhone death - sooner than predicted.
2007-07-24 16:14:00 iPhone s are the latest technology, and created more hype on release than perhaps the last Harry Potter book did (and unless you live under a rock you were probably besieged by throngs of Harry Potter fans dressed in Hogwarts gear rushing to their local bookstores) which means they’re really big. They’re also kind of ... More About: Contest , Apple , Mac , Iphone
Harry Potter and the Root Password
2007-07-22 23:38:00 With the latest Harry Potter book out and all the online fuss about it - somebody got a copy and leaked it online - I thought that now would be a good time to point out that the Harry Potter universe is nothing but a metaphor for Unix hacking. Sure it is! Consider: Magic is nothing but ... More About: Password , Sword
Hello, Tech Support, How May I Help You?
2007-07-21 22:04:00 “Uh, huh. OK. Mmmm-Hmm. I’m going to stop you right here - did you put the disk in the tray? The tray. No, Ma’am, there’s no cup-holder on it, that’s where the CDs go. Uh huh, you’re welcome!” “Hello , Tech Support , How May I Help You? You say… no keys? There are no keys on ... More About: Tech Support
Internet FAQ: The Answers We?d All Like To Give
2007-07-20 21:19:00 Once upon a time before there was an Intern et (yes, there was too a time! Ask your grandparents.), a cartoonist named Al Jaffee had a feature in Mad magazine called “Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions”. Too bad old Al wasn’t in his prime during the current Internet age, because when computers came along, they redefined ... More About: Give , Like
Whoops?
2007-07-20 12:43:00 It seems that when I was editing my .htaccess with some needed redirections I’ve accidently forgot to put “Space” between two pieces of code, without noticing it I’ve crushed the website down for almost two hours, everything seems to be alright and working now, if you happen to see anything wrong please let me now. P.S. to those of you ...
Leet Key - an Extension for Firefox
2007-07-19 23:08:00 You may look at an extension that turns text into various forms of structured gibberish as a silly toy. You may even be right! Sure, you can have loads of fun typing like an 3|173 h4(k3r, |)ud3! But in today’s paranoid Internet culture where everything’s monitored, censored, or scrutinized by various agencies and companies, it ... More About: Firefox , Fire , Extension , Leet
How to be a Really Irritating MMORPG Player
2007-07-18 22:06:00 Massively-Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games offer the opportunity for a top-quality adventuring experience for the hard-core gamer. But with your help, it can become Hell on Earth. Which is exactly what most of these basement-dwelling dweebs need more of, anyway. 1. Use only a 56K dial-up connection. Join games promiscuously. 2. Constantly ask other players if they want ... More About: Player , MMORPG , Really
You Might be a Digg Fan if?
2007-07-17 18:30:00 …while watching CNN, you occasionally wonder “how did this story make it in?” …even if you’ve never run Ubuntu , you’re a world-class expert on the subject. …you were the first one at work to mention the coming iPhone. …your boss communicates with you by searching for the last thread you posted a comment to, and posts a reply ... More About: Humor , Digg
You Might be a Digg Fan if?
2007-07-17 18:30:00 …while watching CNN, you occasionally wonder “how did this story make it in?” …even if you’ve never run Ubuntu , you’re a world-class expert on the subject. …you were the first one at work to mention the coming iPhone. …your boss communicates with you by searching for the last thread you posted a comment to, and posts a reply ... More About: Misc , Digg
Search Engine Study - part 4: Making Your Site Search-Engine Friendly
2007-07-16 21:54:00 OK, so you’ve gotten your site put together and you’ve submitted it to various search engines and the odd directory. In the case of human visitors, all you have to do is welcome them with a smile and let them have at it. But in the case of search engines, what do you have to ... More About: Google , Yahoo , Search Engines , Study , Search
Community Love
2007-07-16 11:14:00 Wow, it’s been a while since I took the time to say Thank you, as you all know none of us would exist if it wasn?t for our audience, so without further adieu here’s my Comm unity Love post ! Top Commentators: Coop Search, from Coop Search blog Comrade Smack, from http://www.comradesmack.com Charles Lau, from charleslau.com ? do yourself a favor, ... More About: Beer , Link
Mysteries of the Geek Brain we Will Never Explain
2007-07-15 15:48:00 Geeks are famous for being socially inept, and in all honesty, it’s not too surprising. How can we expect other people to understand us if we don’t even understand ourselves very well? Did you ever consider… Why are we such control freaks and such slobs at the same time? A geek will spend hours lining up ... More About: Humor , Internet , Culture , Geeks , Comics
Search Engine Study - part 3: The Great Search Engine Era
2007-07-14 23:15:00 This is the age of the search. If it is the information age, then search engines are our portal to travel to where the information is. They are the cars for our roads of (WARNING: barfy 90’s metaphor ahead:) the Information Superhighway. They are the automated librarians for our global library. And it all started ... More About: Google , Yahoo , Search Engines , Study , Search
Firefox Add-ons - Free lightweight games (Round 2)
2007-07-13 14:40:00 Continued from the last Fire fox review, these are some more Firefox plug-in games that I’ve found from the Mozilla website. You’ll find all of these games in the extensions section under category ‘Miscellaneous’. Once again, these are the simplest possible diversions - nothing like real games, but more like the simpler Flash and Java games ... More About: Games , Pacman , Free
Announcing the Suck-Up Contest to Win an iPhone!
2007-07-12 15:31:00 We might as well face the facts now: the iPhone is going to take over the world. We saw it before with the iPod - remember? - and everybody said, “Naw! can’t be!” Well, it did be! The problem facing you now is, the iPhone is just too bloody expensive; that is, if you go to ... More About: Contest , Apple , Iphone , Ipod
Are the Simpsons Particularly Popular in Geek Culture?
2007-07-11 19:16:00 Geek culture has a few hallmarks that are so pervasive, you almost can’t function in geek society without them. Monty Python, Star Trek, Star Wars, Firefly, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, role-playing games, medievalism, and anime/manga are all very deeply rooted in the world of computing enthusiasts. While the Simpsons aren’t often identified with geek culture, ... More About: Culture , Popular , Geek , The Simpsons
The Seven Wonders of the Web
2007-07-10 16:45:00 Good old Web 2.0! There’s nothing quite like it to inspire hype. Why, we’re the Internet Nation! We can do… anything! We can make Digg post HD-DVD cracks in hexadecimal! We can write our own encyclopedia! We can search for extraterrestrial life! And if we don’t like the 7 Wonders of the World - why, ... More About: Seven Wonders
Firefox Add-ons - Free lightweight games
2007-07-09 17:12:00 Since Fire fox is getting to be such an expandable browser with so many add-ons, extensions, themes, and plug-ins, that we can start a new feature on this site: a regular review of a Firefox add-on! This time, we’ll talk about Firefox games. What? No, not Flash. Not Java games. Not the games on any site. The ... More About: Games , Free , Add-ons
Developments for the iPhone
2007-07-08 19:20:00 The cool thing with Apple is that they give advance notice of a big product before they release it, and then the product is launched with a stack of new apps for it all ready to go. You could almost feel the industry hold its breath all last week, and to see it all come ... More About: Iphone , Develop
Search Engine Study - part 2: History of Early Search Engines
2007-07-07 20:06:00 As has been mentioned before, there is a difference between the Internet and the World Wide Web. The Internet existed for decades before Tim Berners-Lee came up with the WWW system we use today. It was Berners-Lee who saw the mess we had before and said, “Let’s have a simpler system.” At first, the Internet was ... More About: History , Search Engines , Study , Mozilla , Search
Search Engine Study - part 1: Search Engines Defined
More articles from this author:2007-07-06 19:28:00 A search engine, at its most basic element, is a system built to quickly retrieve information from a computer system. While we usually mean to search the World Wide Web, this definition applies also to anything from an inter-corporate network to a database right down to one computer. So, Google desktop search, Microsoft Vista’s desktop ... More About: Linux , Search Engines , Study , Search 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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