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3 months ago
in Spyware Protect 2009 strikes again (Scripting News) on Scripting News
I'm trying to think how your experience differs from using Twitter, a human malware infection if ever there were one. Nope, nothing.
4 months ago
in Digitizing Ansel Adams on Scobleizer
Trying to think of something more boring than Ansel Adams photos. Hmmm .. nope, nothing.
6 months ago
in What is a netbook? (Scripting News) on Scripting News
The purpose of Vista is Digital Rights Management (DRM). Until the relationship between MS and the RIAA and the MPAA is made clear, any decisions Redmond might make regarding XP are going to be the opposite of transparent.
12 months ago
in Dan Phiffer on Dan Phiffer
Yo. This made me recall my fave piece of real-world graffiti. 1994, a men's room, University of New Orleans campus, on a condom vending machine in black magic marker, "This gum tastes like rubber."
1 year ago
in Dan Phiffer on Dan Phiffer
That was really good, as I hadn't seen it before. Thanks for posting it.
1 year ago
in Dan Phiffer on Dan Phiffer
Thinking of going toe-to-toe with Amazon or Google, are we? It's not sleep you're in need of, lad.
;^)
;^)
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1 year ago
in Erlang: A Generic Server Tutorial | 20bits on 20bits
You wrote "...so without further adieu..."
Hmmm .. you probably don't want the French for 'goodbye', but the English 'ado', as in fuss, trouble, or bother.
Hmmm .. you probably don't want the French for 'goodbye', but the English 'ado', as in fuss, trouble, or bother.
1 year ago
in Microsoft: We ain’t gonna tell you about Windows 7 on Scobleizer
RH Fedora Core 8 on an aging Dell Inspiron 600m on battery. Suspend to ready in 9 seconds, including re-acquiring wifi.
1 year ago
in “Wait until you see what Ray Ozzie is doing” on Scobleizer
There is an inherent logical inconsistency here that I don't see how Microsoft can resolve to its benefit. A browser-based, standards compliant shift to 'cloud computing' makes the operating system irrelevant and the Office Suite obsolete. Those are the cash cows, Robert, the crown jewels. In effect, Microsoft has no option that doesn't cause it as much pain as benefit.
1 year ago
in I’m sorry for taking over Facebook on Scobleizer
It's all just high school, forever. Yawn.
2 years ago
in I need Excel help, off to Amazon’s Mechanical Turk on Scobleizer
Export to a text file, and from a linux command line:
grep "blogspot.com\|wordpress.com\|livejournal.com\|spaces.live.com\|typepad.com" oldxlsfile.txt > newxlsfile.txt
grep "blogspot.com\|wordpress.com\|livejournal.com\|spaces.live.com\|typepad.com" oldxlsfile.txt > newxlsfile.txt
3 years ago
in Sauce for the goose on Broadband Politics
If I read that thing correctly, ISPs that block ports for residential accounts that they allow for more costly business accounts are in violation. And differing bandwidth rates for upstream/downstream may be in violation.
Home servers for everyone!
Home servers for everyone!
3 years ago
in Yahoo, Google, and Free Speech on Broadband Politics
Freedom for the Chinese people from their communist overlords will come from the Chinese people, not from Yahoo, Cisco, Microsoft, et al. If the Chinese haven't the stones to demand it, they don't deserve it. It's their country, their government, and their laws. If they don't like any of it, they should change it. It is not in an American company's purview to decide which local laws it will obey.
3 years ago
in Be careful what you wish for on Broadband Politics
Circular reasoning. The point of applying external pressure to the President is to ask him to do something he doesn't want to do, under threat of 'I-told-you-so' pressures when his decisions prove non-optimal. In other words, it's all just posturing for future leverage.
3 years ago
in End of the Warblog on Broadband Politics
Nice analysis. Thanks. Turns out we needed better humans. Alas.
3 years ago
in Baseball on Broadband Politics
Short pants? Crikey, how old are you? And when was the last time you watched 10 scholar-athletes engage themselves in the urban version of coordinated swimming?
At least the Stanley Cup finals are within firing range...
At least the Stanley Cup finals are within firing range...
3 years ago
in Linux: A tale of woe on Broadband Politics
After years of membership in the Linux Jihad, I have abandoned the platform as not worth the bother and heartache. I can see its use as a server in high-load situations where you can dictate what hardware you intend to use, but other than that...
3 years ago
in Total Bummer on Broadband Politics
This is the dregs at the bottom of the bottle of sports mania. Intervention time! Into rehab with you!
3 years ago
in Who’s to blame? on Broadband Politics
Mumon, how do you think Stephen Hawking ended up in that wheelchair? You still buying that 'illness' cover-up?
3 years ago
in Who’s to blame? on Broadband Politics
Ah, sweet nihilism. Me, I pretend to care just so I can have something to think about.
3 years ago
in Bored on Broadband Politics
"...We cant have fanatical opportunists kidnapping the rational agenda..."
Well, we'll need an entirely new human race then, won't we?
Gotta go, there's an explosive O'Reilly on that I can't afford to miss.
;^)
Well, we'll need an entirely new human race then, won't we?
Gotta go, there's an explosive O'Reilly on that I can't afford to miss.
;^)
3 years ago
in The most dubious causes of 2005 on Broadband Politics
"...There must be more that Im forgetting, but this has to be the worst year for public displays of stupidity in a long, long time..."
I call it progress...
I call it progress...
3 years ago
in The borg’s coffee sucks, new employee says on Scobleizer
I've got an original, framed , "Boardwatch BillGatus of Borg" poster, a cherished memento of the last 20 years.
3 years ago
in Microsoft’s real competition: Stormhoek on Scobleizer
$400 for a case of wine? Son, you need to read up on double-blind taste testing techniques. You could save yourself some serious cash, invest it in some Web 2.0 bubble-mania...
Here's the essence of it: you have a broadband connection that sits unused while you're away from home (or maybe it's not, but let's assume you're not a p2p junkie). Plus your crappy asymmetric connection is still probably way faster to others on the same subnet than the best professionally-hosted bandwidth. Why not put that to use?
Kind of along the lines of (the defunct) AllPeers or .Mac hosting, but with open code you run on your own computer at home. Simple, but customizable; less like BitTorrent, more like a distributed WordPress. I saw a screencast for something like this recently for easily sharing files through a web interface, but it depended on a central server. This would be entirely peer-to-peer, maybe using dynamic DNS.
Google's and Amazon's hosting are not targeted at the same audience this would be, although I'm sure there are other reasons it's a bad idea. Somebody please point them out so I can stop thinking about it.