To clarify, I installed Linux Mint "Elyssa" – XFCE Community Edition. The Kubuntu 7.04 install that I had on this laptop seemed to run fairly slowly, so I decided to experiment with a lighter weight, yet still full featured, setup. I hardly had to intervene with the install. I was asked to set up a [...]
Archives for September 2008
Google Calculator cheat sheet
I just found an awesome site describing some of the features in Google while looking for info on Google Calculator: Google Guide My first find was the Quick Reference: Google Calculator (Cheat Sheet). I like this tip from Google Guide solutions to Calculator problems: Compute the probability of your winning the lottery if you buy [...]
Way to go, Beshear.
Kentucky is getting a lot of love on the Tech Blogs… Kentucky tries to seize gambling site domain names – on ArsTechnica State of Kentucky Seizes Control of 141 Domain Names – on SlashDot Kentucky judge moves to seize gambling sites' domains – on ValleyWag Kentucky Governor Seizes Online Gambling Domain Names – on TechDirt [...]
The trouble with Twitter
The Trouble with Twitter The trouble with social networking… (see The Social Brain Hypothesis, page 184, column 3) British anthropologist Robin Dunbar [...] noted in 1992 that humans—like other primates—can handle only 150 relationships. If we try to add many more connections, our little brains get overloaded. The conclusion from a ballpark example… Thus Twitter [...]
My thoughts on Yammer
I commented on @joewheeler’s take on Yammer (Yammer.com): I’m not entirely sure that there is as huge of a barrier to adoption from the corporate side. Office Communicator and Windows Messenger before that offered private network IM capability. Additionally, the Millenials and like-minded young adults are starting to filter into the workplace as interns and [...]
A recommended book for me to read
CODE: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and SoftwareISBN: 0-7356-0505-X; Microsoft Press; September 29, 1999; 400 pages (hardcover). ISBN: 0-7356-1131-9; Microsoft Press; October 11, 2000; 400 pages (softcover).
The growth of Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_of_Wikipedia I love these graphs. That’s all. An increase of 2,000 articles per day on Wikipedia. Even if you managed to read 3,000 articles per day, you’d spend 2 years just reading the current set, and in that time, Wikipedia would probably have doubled in size.
Firefox vs. Chrome
I’m currently trying out the Chrome browser from Google. Very nice so far, however, pros and cons for each so far are:Firefox:Pros– TwitterFox Delicious Ubiquity ScribeFire Cons– Memory hog. Chrome:Pros– Pretty (in a minimalist sort of way) Fast Relatively lightweight (in a 2008 application sense, not in an absolute program sense) Special about: pages Cons– [...]
Google browser officially to debut on Windows tomorrow
Google “launches” browser with a cartoon It would seem to be a natural progression that if you’re using Google services for 90% of your web usage (Google, Maps, Gmail, Blogger, Sites, Docs, …) then a Google browser would make things run “even smoother.”This is something that Internet Explorer has had in a way for some [...]
Free tools article at Lifehacker
Free: Free Replacements for Paid ToolsI never really considered GParted as a replacement for PartitionMagic.
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