Thinking about moving your website from PHP4 to PHP5, but are bit hesitant? Well this is an excellent case study showing how a real search engine made the transition along with the benefits that has been seen.

At first I was a little bit sceptical about migrating Orase from PHP 4 to PHP 5, because the […]

I am figuring that companies such as Google implement their databases mainly on RAM and is part of the reason for the search results being so fast. If they are not I am sure they are looking to do so in the future.
RAM is superfast and I prefer to use it over solid state technology […]

Is it scary to find that we pay these people millions of dollars a year to only find out that they are using DOS for their billion dollar machines or that they had to hack DOS to get the thing back working again?

In a presentation at the Hot Chips conference here, Denise said that the […]

You ever play an MMORPG where you had to kill rat after rat after rat just to gain enough experience to get to the next level. Takes all the fun out of the game really, but it is an evil necessity in the online world.
Why don’t you just outsource that work and wait till you […]

Back in 1994 I went to London on a soccer trip and of course experienced all the great sites. The best was this little arcade that I happened to stumle upon and it featured the first VR game I had ever seen. I anxiously jumped right in and got my ass whooped, but that experience […]

If Garfield comic strip is to Network TV, then Sinfest is the equivalent to HBO–the online comic strip is a funny, acerbic view on society, religion, and pop culture that regular newspaper syndication can’t handle. Creator Tatsuya Ishida doesn’t need syndication–the futility count is 11–because since 2001, he’s been churning (daily!) strip after strip following […]

If you’re a software developer, you know that when your product is in beta, tough decisions have to be made. You always want to make your product better and fix all of the bugs found by your customers, but there just isn’t always time for that. However, since your app is in beta, you can’t […]

I remember not too long ago when Open Source was all the hype and everyone was excited to start a new SourceForge account just to say that they are working on a project. Too bad those projects only lasted long enough for the person to login to the site one time.
Too many people expect programmers […]

You have to respect a site called Linux.com that can post an article on the imperfections of using Linux for home use. Of course this might only want to make you try it out even more. I would like to know though why Roger selected Mandrake 10 as his choice of install.
In any case it […]

John Terpstra provides an example of simple Samba network server architecture. The customer wants a simple solution, but knowing this business is about to grow rapidly, this network will be designed so that it can meet future needs without limitation. This simple network uses User Mode security but delivers it with the same simplicity of […]

Before there were online games like Counterstrike that allowed people to sit around and compete with each other in their mom’s basements, there was a little pass-time called arcade gaming, where you actually had to leave the house in order to play.
In 1983, Life magazine gathered together the best-of-the-best from the arcade world for a […]

I was excited to see the headline of this article thinking that it would go over the numerous amount of ways hackers like to get into websites and ways to prevent that. Unfortunately, this article is more of a preface that you see at the beginning of a book.
I know any article like this could […]

Apparently the U.S. Patent Office has recently granted a patent for ethical A.I.
John LaMuth was granted the patent for his ethical core of A.I. rules, which, are designed to allow for the creation of virtuous thinking machines.
Few things are as exciting as when it seems like reality is approaching the technological level of science fiction. […]

Forever Geek is expanding and we would like to bring on two to four more enthusiastic individuals to join our kickass crew. Benefits include:

Increased phone calls from members of the opposite sex
More TV endorsements
Picture on front of Wheaties box
Meet the President
Unlimited oxygen
Guaranteed death and taxes

Real benefits include:

Joining a fun website with a fun group of […]

To follow up on JC’s entry, Who said DOS is dead?, I present to you dosgames.com. I must warn you though, if you are an ol’ school player going through these archives will bring back some great memories and you may be forced to download the games and lost any grip on reality.
This is when […]

Todd Dominey does a review of Apple’s Airport Express gadget and include two gotchas that Apple forgot to mention:

You must have a wireless card to setup Airport Express
Extending range requires 802.11.g

One thing he notes that is greatly mentioned that many others have also clamored for is a remote control for the unit. I am sure […]