It's nice to see Mono getting it's own ecosystem, books and such, it's a great project.

Read the review of Practical Mono

Great gadget article from an odd source, I'd typically rather have a dental visit than interact with PMSNBC, having lumped them in with such technical wastelands as AOL.

They surprised me with a neat layout of Skype and VOIP goodies called Free Calls Get Pretty

Great gadget article from an odd source, I'd typically rather have a dental visit than interact with PMSNBC, having lumped them in with such technical wastelands as AOL.

They surprised me with a neat layout of Skype and VOIP goodies called Free Calls Get Pretty

The Beeb reports: Scientific brain linked to autism, which is a cause for concern, since we know that every few years the typical scientist will descend from the heights of scientific detachment to the realm of the physical and after a few Vodka Collins's might get lucky and have sex, and some of those times have to result in a pregnancy, so it's no wonder it took so long for this trend to be recognized!

Ok, so that was fun to get out, but in all honesty I can say that not autism, but asperger's syndrome is the main cause for concern for me. I took the test I found in Wired's The Geek Syndrome article a while back and scored solidly in the rankings for having an order-oriented mind.

Try it, then administer it to that co-worker who's so irritating that you want to kill them with a copy of a dilbert book.

Everyone's favorite sound byte source and complete nutball; Kevin Mitnick proclaims that OSS is an easier hack, and proves who's side he's on...

Well, give me a long weekend and what do I get done? Not yardwork, that's for sure...


I managed to get the Mac OS X Intel edition developer kit software (we're legal, relax) to load on my IBM Thinkpad T42p, not to my complete satisfaction, but definitely operational.


The video is pretty low-res, only 1024x768 so far, but I'm working on it, the ethernet card is the only valid netowrking device, no wireless, nor do I see 10.4.3 working with wireless, but I have heard that 10.4.4 is likely to work properly with certain third-party cards.


I press the F-keys and the proper things happen, DVD's and CD's are read properly, I can connect and do the usual things on the web. iTunes is an older and about to expire version, so I'll see what I can do to update it, ie: download the power version and install it to run under Rhapsody, er, Evolution, um, Rosetta, whatever the hell they call the translation software...


I have it running in VMWare also, with full functionality, 1400x1050 resolution, same problem with iTunes, and it's definitely not running at full speed. So it's possible, and even likely that Apple will see a lot more people running OS X on Intel than they did run on the Power boxes, but obviously not supported.


The other issue that I see happening is that we'll probably be triple-booting OS X, SUSE and Win XP/Vista if it's even remotely possible. I will be dual-booting OS X and SUSE Linux 10.2 (which they have reported will load and run and integrates very closely with the iMac Intel, and probably will with the MacBook Pro.


I've ordered the MacBook Pro, (about 2 minutes after he announced it) and will post impressions of it when it arrives. I definitely expect some glitches and early adopter kvetching to occur, but my time utilization has dropped to below 100% lately, so it's time to play with something else for a change..


Ross

Read more about Parallels, a competing product to VMWare, though much cheaper and somewhat of a knock-off.

Remember that scene in the movie where the hero says: "Hold it or this computer get's a virus?", or something like that, well either you buy Vista, or you are operating an unsafe computer...

Allchin: Buy Vista for the security

Intel Mac builds for Firefox, Thunderbird and Camino are almost official, they build and work, just no flash and java yet

A new Vista on Linux

New Samba targets Active Directory

Thanks to Len at IBM for this link: All the Blade Server love you could ever want - Learning Guide: Blade Servers

Great article about how vendors are scrapping over what's left of the Unix Market - What's Left of Unix?

The CIO of the New York Police Department undertakes an Overhaul

Now THAT's what I want, sign me up, where's my credit card?

Belkin CableFree USB Hub Enables Instant Wireless Connectivity of USB Devices

Ok, so I read The essence of a Geek and I get it, but you folks need to understand the mind of a REAL geek.

When you have mastered a VERY difficult topic, and you KNOW the deal, I mean Capital "T"he Capital "D"eal, and you are the Master of the Universe you have chosen to play in, or hell, at least ONE of the Masters of that Universe, you have reached NerdVana.

Ok, so then when you find that Mom and Pop are getting into your space, when the Common Consciousness is impinging on YOUR snuggly-mind-space, then you get a little cranky and make it harder for folks to do just that.

One of the things I have learned from listening to ITConverstations.com is from Jonathan Schwartz of Sun, the posterchild of how to preside over a companies demise, (but that's ANOTHER rant) and you have to go UPMARKET away from the Common Consciousness.

If you are the MASTER of the Linux Desktop Universe, and people are getting into the Linux Desktop like the Republicans got into speed in the late 60's (and I AM a Republican, so that doesn't mean I can't use it as a JOKE, so get over it) then you need to GO UPMARKET, and find the most likely and tasty HARD THING to get into (like XEN virtualization, so go get your own) and stake your territory out, and get good at it in preparation for the MONEY PHASE.

I define the MONEY PHASE as the phase when the Common Man, or Lower Techie will pay BIG MONEY to learn how to inhabit the last part of the CURVE where it's cool and you can take advantage of that trend.

Jeesh, this is the LONGEST post I have ever put on this blog, (Thanks Sean for telling me I am a man of few words, I have used up WEEKS of them in this post alone) and I mean all of it.

Go EMEA! Firefox 'passes 20 percent market share' in Europe!

Uh oh, SWSoft is trying to get a competing virtualization standard put into the Linux Kernel.

Oh Linus, don't F*** this up, make them componentize this like you did LSM!

Read the news at: CNET - Companies push Linux partitioning effort

Want to really get the most out of the Beagle Search Tool in GNOME? Visit www.planetbeagle.org and get your Doggie ON!

A heaping helping of O'Reilly Podcasts for all my audiophilic friends and readers

An interview by John Littler from O'Reilly Dev Center with Aaron J. Seigo Previewing KDE 4

What a GREAT day, when you see on NasDaq that Apple is Worth More than Dell

Another sign of the advance of OSS, MySQL Gets Government Thumbs Up.

Well as long as it's the THUMB they are getting and not other fingers...

Great Linux Gazette article about Journalling File Systems

Homeland Security helps secure open-source code

Huh, Pigs CAN fly, they're putting mono in fc5 (that's Fedora Core 5)

Guess you shouldn't have ordered Das Kapital and Edward Abbey's Monkey Wrench Gang from Amazon, hmm?

Check out Data Mining 101: Finding Subversives with Amazon Wishlists and then go change your name and pants...

A great OS X docker application for Linux is KXDocker

Benchmarking Filesystems Part II Linux Gazette : January 2006 (#122)

Benchmarking Filesystems LG #102

New Mass CIO Appointed, Full Speed Ahead with ODF

Novell OES, The Leading Linux Server Product vs. Windows 2003, Server

What Tech Skills Are Hot for 2006?

French Military Police Switches to Firefox

Wisconsin Requires Open Source, Verifiable Voting

Boot loader showdown: Getting to know LILO and GRUB

What if Motorola Unveils iRadio
and nobody cared? I mean honestly, if I wanted to listen to Radio, I'd get something that really worked everywhere, like the XM or Sirius units that plug into the boombox or stereo, car and with headphones.

Honestly, could Motorola be more of a bunch of me-too fanboys????