If we just admit we are heading in to a technology Duopoly split between Microsoft and Google.
Microsoft is the reigning king of the desktop, Office Automation, and all things local.  Google reigns over all things Net, Search, and Connected.  As the lines blur between the desktop, the Net, and the Cloud, the two kings will [...]

Filed under : Industry News

Mark Condon works as a Flash and Web Developer using PHP, and MySQL. Mark also does user interface work with JavaScript, and JavaScript libraries. He’s also developed a number of Facebook Applications in FBML, FBJS, and FBQL. Creating sites that follow the W3C Web standard while using XHTML and CSS to develop multiple sites in [...]

Filed under : Riches and Lifestyles

I saw a BigFoot KillerNic (killernic.com) in the Microcenter the other day, and wondered how good it really was, so I bought it figuring if it sucked I could return it.  It did, and I did.
I put the KillerNic up against the real world experiences I could simulate in my humble home, and compared [...]

Filed under : Computers, PCs, and Macs, Hard on the Pocket Book, Reviews

Magic Jack.com is supposed to work with "any Computer"  well, not really.  It doesn't work with Cell Processor Macs, Linux PC's, and it doesn't work on computers which have firewalls, corporate security, or which you don't have administrative privileges on.
It should also be pointed out that if you are playing games, doing heavy surfing, or [...]

Filed under : Site Reviews

These Windows Vista Components are that are safe to remove, just make sure you know if you need them, or are going to use them.
 
ActiveX Installer ServiceDon't removeIf you want flash updates and things of that nature to happen you will need this.
GamesFeel Free To RemoveGames will just waist time.
Indexing ServiceSafe to removeThis might make [...]

Filed under : Computers, PCs, and Macs

Helios Linux is a free Linux OS for the PlayStation 3.  Helios Linux is designed to be a high performance PDF and Image server for Mac, Windows and Unix Web Clients.  The Playstation 3 makes a great platform for Helios Linux, as it supports Sata Hard disk, and Gigabit Ethernet, so it can easily handle [...]

Filed under : Computers, PCs, and Macs, Gaming

So Stage 1 was making the thing work at all, but Stage 2 is doing SEO to improve how it scores in search engines.  So I replaced all the Query based Category links with nicely formatted Search Friendly Human Readable ones. 
Doing the copy and paste to put these in this list was a good [...]

Filed under : Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

This Guide will walk you through how to install a firewall on linux using IPCop
 
What is IPCop
The IPCop project is a GNU/GPL open source project that offers an exceptional feature packed 
stand alone firewall to the internet community.  Its comprehensive web interface, well documented 
administration guides, and its involved and helpful user/administrative [...]

Filed under : How To, Technical

Welcome to the future of instant messaging. AIM 6.5 lets you update your status, change the color of your Buddy List® window, play games with your buddies with QQ Games and so much more.
Installing AIM 6.5 overwrites any AIM 6 software that you might have on your machine. However, you can still use AIM 5.9, [...]

Filed under : Industry News

A How to Guide: Microsoft Windows Media Video 8, and DivX
By Brandon Wirtz
bwirtz@griffin-digital.com
This document has now been expanded in to a full fledged book and multimedia presentation.  To find out more visit my Digerat.com page here
An Introduction: 1
Choosing the Right Codec: 2
Best Codec by Bit Rate: 3
Implementation: 4
Live Video Stream to 30 simultaneous users (Windows [...]

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The Fearless Leaders:
Steve Jobs knows brandwidth. Apple is not competing with PC’s anymore. A PC is a tool, a Mac is a status symbol, and brandwidth is what got Apple to that designer label status. Steve Jobs was recently interviewed by Rolling Stone. He is talking to Disney about a job they offered him. He [...]

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In the days before Google your brand was measured by your .Com. Today your page rank at Google says a lot, but if someone will buy your T-shirt you know you have hit the big time. CitiBank gives its T-shirts away on college campuses, Electronic Arts sells their Shirts for $30 a piece.
The Big Guys:
Steve [...]

Filed under : Rants and Tangents

Tom Kelly, chairman and CEO of embedded Linux operating system provider MontaVista Software Inc. is in Europe to do some shopping. Kelly said that he felt Europe was under-presented in MontaVista's sales and that he was on the look out for one or more acquisitions that would bolster the company's presence here. Full Story [...]

Filed under : Industry News

Microsoft Delivers Silverlight 1.0, Extends Support to Linux  —  "Entertainment Tonight" HSN and World Wrestling Entertainment showcase new online experiences; more than 35 partners commit to Silverlight Partner Initiative.  —  Microsoft Corp. today released to the Web (RTW) Silverlight™ 1.0 …

Source:   Microsoft
Link:   http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2007/sep07…
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Breaking: Microsoft Makes "Flashy" Hollywood Debut with Silverlight……and Extends Support to Linux  —  Microsoft just released Silverlight 1.0, the cross-platform, cross-browser plug-in for streaming video, games and other multi-media content.  The company has a number of content partners …

Source:   Beet.TV
Author:   Andy Plesser
Link:   http://www.beet.tv/2007/09/microsoft-makes.html
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The Word "LINUX" is inappropriate in XBOX Live  —  I love Linux and the XBOX 360, so yesterday I tried to include the word "LINUX" in the motto section on XBOX Live.  I was stunned when I got a message saying "Your motto contains inappropriate language.  Please try again".

Source:   riverag.com
Author:   Gabriel Rivera
Link:   [...]

Filed under : Industry News

7 Reasons Why Microsoft is DOOMED!  —  Not this year, not next year… but soon – almost certainly by the next decade.  —  #1. Their business model is a dead-end.  – Back when Microsoft first started business in 1980, software as a commodity was still a fuzzy concept.

Source:   Geeks and Technology – Linux Windows [...]

Filed under : Industry News

Microsoft kills its 'Get the Facts' anti-Linux site  —  It was a long time in coming.  But Microsoft has finally acknowledged that its anti-Linux site had gone past the point of usefulness.  —  On August 23, Microsoft pulled plug on the "Get the Facts" site, replacing it with a new Windows Server "Compare" site.

Source:   [...]

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Warning this is not an "easy" install.  In fact it is down right complex.

Download the uninstaller
Open the Windows Command Prompt ( Run > cmd ).
Navigate to the directory where the uninstaller was downloaded.
Run "uninstall_flash_player.exe /clean."

Then you can Download ActiveX Control for Windows Internet Explorer (EXE, 1.40 MB)
Agree that you understand [...]

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LinusTorvalds: I Have Never Really Talked To Microsoft!  —  The father of Linux has replied to the questions you always wanted to ask.  —  Swapnil Bhartiya, EFY News Network  —  Sunday, August 19, 2007: Did Microsoft's Men In Black ever met Linus Torvalds?  But why is he so critical of GPLv3?

Source:   Efytimes
Link:   http://www.efytimes.com/efytimes/21160/news.htm
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Xandros expands Microsoft partnership  —  (InfoWorld) – Linux distributor Xandros is licensing messaging protocols from Microsoft as part of an expansion of the partnership the two companies forged in June.  —  Xandros, which offers desktop and server versions of Linux …

Source:   InfoWorld
Author:   Elizabeth Montalbano
Link:   http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/08/15/Xandros…
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Cory Doctorow:
Lenovo has announced that it will bundle Novell SUSE Linux with some of its Thinkpad laptops. Lenovo is the Chinese company that bought the Thinkpad business from IBM — I've bought two Lenovo laptops to run Ubuntu on in the past year, a huge, high-powered T60p and a little X60 tablet, and I've been [...]

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Those of us who read Penny Arcade have waited for this for far too long.
The first game, entitled Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, will be a comic adventure game for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. No date has yet been set for its release.
"We're really excited to be working with [...]

Filed under : Gaming

How many Apple engineers does it take to change a light bulb?  7.  One to design the light bulb and Six to Market it.
I heard this Joke on the Prairie Home Companion the other evening, and it resonated with me.
Combined with the joke about Intel Engineers. 
How many Intel engineers does it take to change a [...]

Filed under : Rants and Tangents, Technical

It won't make your PC faster. It is on by default in Vista. TCP-IP version 6 is available for Windows 2000 here and Linux here.
What is it?
Currently the Internet uses IP Version 4. Version 4 is great for the most part but as it was really designed to handle only government traffic it is [...]

Filed under : Technical

Recently Nike added the option to custom create your own version of the Nike Air Turbulence. At first I was impressed with the ability to create my own shoe with custom color combinations from awesome to ugly. While the color combinations prevent you from making totally stupid choices (Pink with lime green highlights) they do [...]

Filed under : Goofing Off, Rants and Tangents

That "Other" Iphone, for VOIP from Cisco (not the ipod like one from Apple) is based on Linux and as such is required to make the source available.  GPL Violation.org reported that Cisco would conform to the GPL with in the next month.  Computer World has more….
This is really only news because Cisco was recently [...]

Filed under : Rants and Tangents

I saw an add that was fairly clever… Don't know what it is for…  but it is clever.   Here is a link to IEBlog which has the ad.

What do I think it is?  Well…
 
RPF 6 is an Internet 2 multicast protocol, which is mildly inline with wget32 which is a command for getting something over IP [...]

Filed under : Goofing Off, Rants and Tangents

This was probably the most popular article I ever wrote.   And no it is a bit dated with some of the references, but I think it still holds up very well philosophically so I am reposting it.
 
 
Building Brandwidth in an Internet Economy
In the days before Google your brand was measured by your .Com. Today your [...]

Filed under : Rants and Tangents