Netbooks For Road Warriors On A Budget — netbooks — InformationWeek. In the headline, the phrase “laptop replacment” is used. The work laptop that I use on a daily basis is a “desktop replacement,” but I don’t want to have to pay for my own–yet I don’t want to be tied to my desktop’s location [...]
Archives for February 2009
Silverlight on Linux
Moonlight 1.0 brings Silverlight to Linux – Ars Technica.
Cloud-based IDE?
IDE in the cloud: Mozilla Labs’ browser-based IDE prototype – Ars Technica.
Clearly I missed out on all the fun.
Apparently, there was another exploit on Twitter today? #dontclick Those exploited would end up tweeting the following message: Don’t Click: http://tinyurl.com/amgzs6 So, it was a Twitter worm by way of clickjacking. Though I missed out on the fun, I learned a new security term: CSRF (Cross-site request forgery). I tell you, security geeks get to [...]
Changing the e-mail program used by Firefox for mailto: links
Changing the e-mail program used by Firefox – I used this to change mailto: links to go to GMail instead of starting up Outlook or Outlook Express.
This is why I use WordPress now.
What’s Your “Web Service Tanked” Contingency Plan? | Social Media Explorer. I commented on this on the site as well. My key concern is not the service going down, but being at the whim of a “free” service that may decide to automate some processes like abuse handling. I’m still reliant on external hosting, but [...]
Kryder’s law and hard drive pricing.
Hard Disk Historical Pricing (found from Kryder’s Law – A rule of thumb for hard drive growth). It’s amazing that in March of 1986, $48/MB was the sweet spot for a hard drive. By other milestones in my life: By the time I started college in 1994, the cost was under $1 per MB. By [...]
Solid State Disk Hype?
I opened up InformationWeeek today and saw this article: Solid State Disks, Demystified. So, the current benefits of SSD technology may be exaggerated. Faster boots: Read time bias and slimmed-down OS have helped exaggerate these results. Battery life: Other devices are still consuming the same amount of power, which is not insignificant in the power [...]
Twitter Game #stucksonggame
I think I’ve just invented a new Twitter game. Reference a song that will get stuck in people’s heads until they expel the demons by listening to the song, or replacing the song with another “catchy” song. When you’re caught by a “stuck song”, you have to either pass that song on, or replacement song. [...]
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