It looks like the support you got from RedHat for release 9 is done with today. They would love for everyone to switch over to RedHat Enterprise Linux, but why pay for Linux? Jump on over and download Debian or Fedora and upgrade your lifestyle (god I sound like a bad commercial).
If you have no [...]

Why settle for a regular system with a noisy CPU fan when you can build one that is cooled by water? Who cares that if one of the pipes develops a small leak and gets on your active computer parts that you are basically screwed? In any case, if you like living on the edge [...]

Google plans to earn 2.7 billion dollars through an auction style IPO.

Yet another probably useless specification from everybody’s favorite standards body.

David Coursey makes an interesting point on why many people are not interested in Office competitors WordPerfect and StarOffice (OpenOffice). Outlook makes the Office Suite invaluable to a lot of people. Neither package offers and email client. I know on Linux you have Evolution, but it does not come with OpenOffice. Why should someone who [...]

Eric Gradman has written an essay about the new breed of software which has formed since the early days of the net where usenet and email were the primary communication modes. He makes some interesting points about centralised, aggregate style of social software such as livejournal and friendster and how they could be changed/improved.

The title is deceiving. When I read it I thought it was another PVR solution, but all it is a storage device. The “media” comes in because it can handle 8 different types of media. Don’t know how useful that is to people, but at $250 there are cheaper solutions available for those that just [...]

Try to ignore the girl in the photo and focus on the cool screen. I couldn’t have one of these in my car because I would be trying to steer by looking at the screen. Seems like it would be the real-world equivalent of Grand Theft Auto.
I also don’t see this system fitting in anything [...]

If you need a good laugh read this story. No pictures (thank goodness), but some great crayon illustrations.

Yesterday we had RSS Jobs and today we have RSS Quotes. Eventually RSS Readers will replace web browsers and the world will find out that we gained zero productivity out of the transition. This one stays free forever, but is limited to five quotes. My tech picks would be Apple, AMD, Yahoo, Novell, EMC.

The Web Services Choreography Description Language (WS-CDL) is an XML-based language that describes peer-to-peer collaborations of Web Services participants by defining, from a global viewpoint, their common and complementary observable behavior; where ordered message exchanges result in accomplishing a common business goal.
The Web Services specifications offer a communication bridge between the heterogeneous computational environments used [...]

This is not a gaming computer, or an office system — it is a software development workstation, with support for various programming, scientific, and mathematical packages. This article explains the choices I made and describes the process of getting the system up and running.

The only thing preventing this beauty from becoming a gaming machine is [...]

If you are like me and currently available on the job market, searching Monster, Dice, and HotJobs everyday can get tiresome. Wouldn’t it be cool to just open up your RSS Reader and read about new jobs just as easily as you read updated blogs? Well now there is a service that allows you to [...]

Exceptions are a very powerful concept when used correctly. An important cornerstone in the design of a good application is the strategy you adopt for Exception Management. You must ensure that your design is extensible to be able to handle unforeseen exceptions gracefully, log them appropriately and generate metrics to allow the applications to be [...]

If there was any person working at Sun that was left to respect (ignoring newly added Tim Bray) it was Jonathan Schwarz. Well now Schwarz has decided to call RedHat a fork of Linux and I being to question why he says such a thing. I think its because they are pissed they didn’t jump [...]

infoSync World reviews the new Nokia 6820. Another phone with a lot of cool features. The article mentions that the phone is available in many European countries. Well, I know us Yanks are spoiled and everything, but why do we get the cellphones last? Maybe our networks aren’t as robust or technologically advanced as those [...]