This is the stuff I like to read about. Geeks saving their asses by using the basic tools of Linux. This guy had a production server crash on him and he had to perform a restore of the system, something he has never done before. Personally, I would be sweating bullets if this situation occurred […]

News.com.com (no that isn’t a typo) has an article on how software developers are beginning to work normal hours like the rest of the working world as opposed to the 70-80 hour work weeks that made their population so famous. Glad to see that most people are starting to realize that hanging out with family […]

Sure, OddTodd is probably old news for most, and granted, there’s nothing particularly “geeky” about him, but having just re-entered the ranks of the unemployed (ugh, don’t even get me started… although, I expect it to be very brief) for the first time in over two years, I thought maybe it was about time to […]

I was recently assigned the task of converting a system running Windows XP to dual-boot Windows and Linux. The user needed to run Windows most of the time, but occasionally needed to boot Linux to run special applications. The one overriding requirement was to change the existing Windows setup as little as possible. In this […]

Taking pics of people in the dark is really fun. No really it is because you never know what the result is going to be. Sometimes, it can be lame since it’s hard to tell what color hair the person has (I focus on the bigger issues obviously), but that shouldn’t stop you from trying […]

Bitmap or “pixel fonts” were all the rage a few years ago, and still pop up every now and then today. There are already some great sets out there, much of which you can find at “DaFont.com”:http://www.dafont.com/, but if you don’t see anything you like there, you can always create one yourself.
Normally that would involved […]

“Reliable sources” near and dear to Think Secret say that new iPod minis are going to come out soon with color screens and larger hard drives:
Highly reliable sources have confirmed that the next iPod mini will gain a full-color active-matrix TFT screen while the form factor will remain largely unchanged. The color screen will be […]

Constantine comes out today, but there is one problem. It has Keanu Reeves. I don’t like this guy. I really don’t. I remember one time my brother put on a play for us in the living room and he was 5-years old and all I could think was how he could be Keanu’s acting coach. […]

John Gruber has a followup to his Apps of the Year, 2004 entry with an entry showing us what these apps have in common. Basically it takes at the very least three characteristics to even be considered in the running.

Produce great documentation (a lot of open source apps fail miserably at this)
Take scripting and extensibility […]

Many months ago when I pined for a Gmail account of my very own, I signed up on the Gmail site to receive information and news about Gmail. My secret hope was that this would get me an invite to join. It didn’t. (Of course, I received an invite from someone a […]

If you are parent of children who go on the Interent then it is vital that you run over and checkout Microsoft’s guid to computer slang. Here are some of the basics:

Numbers are often used as letters.
Characters of similar appearance can be used to replace the letters they resemble.
Letters can be substituted for other letters […]

From the “Just Because You Can” category, this site shows you how to fry an egg using the heat generated by your processor. This person used an AMD Athlon XP 1500.
Then he built the “cooker” using the following materials.
The tools needed are:

1 x Egg
1 x Roll of Silver Foil
1 x Brown Sauce
2 x Slices Bread
1 […]

Well after all the rumor and speculation it looks like About.com has found a buyer and it’s the New York Times.

The New York Times Co. on Thursday said it will buy online information portal About.com from publisher Primedia Inc. for $410 million as it works to broaden its online advertising base.

I’m not sold on the […]

Microsoft has posted an update to WMP to try and prevent Trojan horses looking to make their homes within PC users’ computers. I haven’t seen the update on my PC for automatic update, but I am sure it is coming along shortly.
Sometimes I feel left out of all this patch hoopla, because I never experience […]

Well, well, well, look what we have here. I haven’t mentioned SCO around these parts for a very long time bascially because all the news was the same. It was either SCO is screwed or SCO is really screwed. Well this news item is somewhat different because if this happens basically there are no more […]

An interesting read concerning Cocoa development on the OS X platform. I remember in the early 90’s being an ISV (independent software vendor) was all the rage. Then came the time where the larger companies were stomping the little people and even if you didn’t have that much competition with your product, you still had […]