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Geek Insults - Or Things Computer Literates Call You Behind Your Back
2008-06-09 19:43:00
I was browsing Cracked.com and chanced upon 8 Medical Terms Your Doctor Uses to Insult You. Cool idea, I thought, because the computing community has words like that, too. Here’s the list. If you see one of these expressions stamped on your support ticket at the computer repair center, or if the field engineers at your ...
More About: Microsoft , Computer , Geek , Back , Things

How To Run Windows 3.1 on DOSBox - inside Windows or Linux!
2008-05-25 20:36:00
Step one: You’ll need DOSBox installed and running. The latest release, 0.72, runs exceptionally well and gets rid of the old lag issues with previous versions, so that’s what I’m using here. You should probably not go into the DOSBox forums talking about this - running Windows isn’t what they had in mind with this ...
More About: Linux , Microsoft , Inside

If Geek Sexual Roles Were Reversed
2008-05-22 20:40:00
Whether it be in Geek dom, Linux, programming, gaming, web design, or anything else touching the IT sphere, the lament is heard over and over: where are all the girl geeks? Well, guys, let’s try putting ourselves in the ladies’ place and see if we can figure out what it’s like for them… IRC Linux_ghetto chat, Tuesday, ...
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Baking a Batch of Demotivational Posters
2008-05-12 20:47:00
What’s this? People on the Internet are still confidently striding into the 21st century, sublimely convinced that they are the champions who can conquer the world? Well, I’ll just have to see if I can fix that… Image Sources: absolutely everywhere.
More About: Humor , Baking , Posters , Batch

The Programming Languages Zoo
2008-05-07 06:18:00
It’s time to play our favorite game: “geek analogy”. Where we take a category of objects in a class known to geeks and make up hysterically funny comparisons to a set of real-world objects. Today, I’d like to talk about what animal each of the programming languages would be if they were occupants of a ...
More About: Programming , Humor , Animals , Languages , Programming Languages

Social Online Games
2008-05-03 09:15:00
The more things change, the more they stay the same. We’ve come all the way from IRC chat and Bulletin Board Systems to Twitter and Social News Sites. Which means that after 20 years of booming technology progress, people are still amusing each other primarily by… sending each other strings of text. Big deal! We ...
More About: Games , Online Games , Social Networks , Trivia

Reasons why I havnt blogged
2008-04-26 09:20:00
Top Reasons I Haven’t Updated This Blog in Six Months 1) I’ve been breathlessly watching to see how the MicroHoo soap opera plays out. Will Microsoft buy Yahoo ? Will Yahoo partner with Google? Will Yahoo sell Flickr? Will Microsoft buy Digg? Will Digg sleep with Yahoo to get back at Microsoft while Microsoft blackmails Google and ...

Dancing the Google Dance
2008-01-31 16:42:00
You may have heard the term “Google dance” tossed around on the Internet, and wondered what it means. Well, you know how when you’re looking for something - like your car keys - and you pat your pockets and turn around and stoop over to look under the newspaper and run to the closet to ...
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Things in Technology that Will Not Change in 2008
2008-01-23 13:16:00
I’ve done a few looking-back posts for 2007, now for a looking-forward one. Speculate how you will, but the things in this list are all tried and true technology staples, and 2008 won’t be the year they go away, either. We will never invent the perfect programming language. - As Brian Hayes calculates in one of the best programming essays I’ve read this year, ” The Semicolon Wars”, we have invented one new programming language per week since Fortran came out. And if you count beyond mere languages to platforms, development environments, frameworks, libraries, and so on, you probably get something like a new way to code every day of your life. I like having so many languages to choose from, but isn’t it starting to look like we’re searching for a Holy Grail, here? And all we find are more and more ordinary cups. We will never be free of misologists - Here is the Wiki definition of a misology. And here, published just recently, is a S...
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The Biggest Bad Guys of Technology 2007
2008-01-10 17:26:00
Quick, Commissioner Gorden! Turn on the Bat-signal and summon the Dark Lord of Gotham to rid the city of this nefarious cast of evil-doers. It’s a tough choice narrowing it down to the number one bad guy of technology. The best we can do is round up the usual suspects from 2007 and present them ...
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The Year of Digg 2007
2008-01-04 20:27:00
The social web has come into its own, become a force to be reckoned with, and has possibly even peaked. But no site tells this story more clearing than the amazing Digg .com. Here’s a look back at the stories which shaped Digg, and by extension, shaped the social web as we know it. Digg This: 09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56 -88-c0 ...
More About: Phone , Social Networks , Ron Paul , Year

People Who?ve Never Run Linux Shouldn?t Write About Linux
2007-12-26 15:46:00
The title of this post occurred to me when I read the post Our Linux Dream. Somehow, even though people get the idea that specialized fields require some experience in that field before you can say anything intelligent about it, people hear the word “Linux” for the first time, Google it long enough to see ...
More About: People , Microsoft , Office , Desktop

What Does XKCD Stand For?
2007-12-20 12:20:00
XKCD is not a Linux X-window program. Just to start with! XKCD is the phenomenally funny comic done by Randall Patrick Munroe, a degree-holder in physics who works for the United States NASA space program. It has become the official cartoon of social news culture, and a large share of geeks and hackers as well. ...
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Top 7 Reasons Why I Didn?t RTFA
2007-12-16 17:44:00
If you don’t go on social news sites a lot (lucky you), I have to explain that “RTFA” stands for “Read The Fine/Fun/F*%#ing Article” and is generally bandied about in the discussion section of said social news site. Anywhere in the comment threads, you’re likely to bump into someone who asks a question or makes ...
More About: Windows , Linux , Apple , Social Networks , Tube

A Look at WebHostingChoice.com
2007-12-12 17:04:00
www.WebHostingChoice.com is a search site for finding web hosting services according to the guild lines you submit. When everybody starts out to get their own web domain, their first question is “Which web host should I choose?” But just searching Google doesn’t get you the answers you want - an impartial recommendation by people like you, ...

If You Can?t Buy Friends, What Do You Have Left?
2007-12-11 16:08:00
Mandriva, the French Linux distribution, and Microsoft recently got tied into a little drama over in, of all places, Nigeria. And speculation went wild, and when the truth outed, it proved beyond anybody’s guess. So, Mandriva sells 17,000 Classmate PC laptops to the school district of Nigeria, and the laptops will have Mandriva pre-installed. The intrigue ...
More About: Windows , Friends , Left

New Rules for the Dazed and Confused
2007-12-03 21:05:00
It’s such a spin-dizzy time in the blogosphere right now. Who’s a friend and who’s not? Which way should I bet? Who’s got the scoop and who’s just pretending to? In these times of shifting alliances and uneasy power balances, I’d like to use this issue of New Rules to clear up some recent confusion. New ...
More About: Humor , Microsoft , D and C

Online Graphics Tools - part 2
2007-11-28 18:43:00
Continued from part 1, these are some handy online tools useful for graphics artists, whether you’re a Photoshop virtuoso, a Gimp master, or just a working grunt who needs to get this image done already! Big Huge Labs - This one site has dozens of graphics generators - it’s almost like having Photoshop Effects on tap! ...
More About: Graphics , Tools , Space , Online

Online Graphics Tools - part 1
2007-11-23 18:11:00
Web 2.0 promised us the “web as a platform”… so where the heck is it? It’s getting here, but slowly. Despite companies like Google and Adobe spinning lofty plans to provide it, “Photoshop in a browser” is still a long way off. But there are small, scattered graphics tools lying around out there, whose component ...
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The Windows 7 Wishlist - I Wish It Were Linux
2007-11-19 21:07:00
What, fix Vista? Why should we? No, we’re just going to let it sink into the tarpit and start working on Windows 7. And so the “wishlist” - the list of features they’re hoping to include in the next release - is published over at Techborge. For once, Linux users can truly afford to be smug. ...
More About: Microsoft , Fire , Wishlist

Linux Distros That Could Take The Lead Soon
2007-11-15 21:27:00
After more than 15 years of Linux development, the last couple of years have seen an explosive spectrum of progress in conquering the desktop. It is as if the world is suddenly waking up and discovering Linux. Ubuntu has a place in the history books already as the distro that pushed to make this happen, ...
More About: Cent , Mandriva , Lead

Linux Link-O-Mania
2007-11-12 21:28:00
When my bookmark folder for the Linux category started to fill the whole screen, I knew it was time to share some of these gems I’ve saved over the years. I hope everybody interested in Linux, veteran and amateur alike, finds something here to like. Packages Tux Finder - a package search tool, finds repositories for most ...
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Why Search Engines Work Like They Work
2007-11-10 21:01:00
A while back, the post “More Evil Things to Type into Google”, which is the current most popular post on my site, got a comment from one “Silex” responding to my assurance that there is nothing illegal about typing in a search string. Silex says: “I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but accessing ...
More About: Search Engines , Work , Search , Engines

Get a ?Copy-too?; a New Way to Protest Intellectual Property
2007-11-07 20:41:00
It’s getting almost tiresome to refer to George Orwell over and over again. We need a new guy. One who can look at some of the new methods of intellectual property control and appreciate their truly gruesome horror. Brace yourself for one scary story: Ars Technica is reporting on the new actions taken by an obscure ...
More About: Property , Intellectual , Protest , Copy , Intellectual Property

Eight Quick Ways To Make Your Network More Secure Than It Was Before
2007-11-06 23:02:00
Whether you have a home server setup or run a small business, anywhere where you have two or more computers connected together, there you have a network. And any point at which that network connects to the outside Internet, there you have a potential security compromise point. While network security is a deep subject, there ...
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Linux PCs: The State of the Market
2007-11-05 21:57:00
Microsoft (and perhaps even Apple and Sun) may not like it. A hundred A-list bloggers may harrumph their discontent with the idea. But Linux , like a kudzu vine, is slowly insinuating itself into the desktop PC market anyway. First there was the much-blogged “$100 laptop”. The OLPC project keeps plugging along, with a new country every ...
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The Seven Most Humiliating Moments of Star Wars Fandom
2007-11-04 18:20:00
It’s been a while since the last of the Star Wars movies came out (at least until Lucas’ muse gets the itch again), and yet the cult of Star Wars just keeps chugging right along. The original Star Wars was released in 1977, so it’s celebrating its 30th year. And what the heck, Star Wars ...
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The Quest for Quake
2007-11-03 21:26:00
I’ll bet there’s dozens of readers out there who have had a similar experience to mine: Here it is, 2007, and I suddenly had a hankering to play the original classic Quake . Don’t ask me where that came from! The original Quake had that great medieval feel to it. So I rummaged around the old CD ...
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Firefox Trivia
2007-11-02 19:27:00
OK, Fire fox fanbois (and fangrrls!), here’s a round serving of facts about the One True Browser to sate your appetite for all things Mozilla -derived! Geek-elite Jamie Zawinski was the first to name Firefox’s predecessor, Mozilla, and he recounts many fun anecdotes from those days on his site, along with his own telling of the open-source release ...
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Six Exercises to Learn Programming
2007-11-01 21:10:00
So here are our future hackers, who have picked their first language, have gotten through all the intermediate exercises in the book. Right when you finish your first book in your first language, that’s when you feel curiously unsatisfied. You don’t feel like you’ve mastered the art, but you’re not sure where to go next. These ...
More About: Programming , Exercises , Learn