Cool. That’s my team!
ESPN.com – NFL – Panthers offer tickets to New Orleans evacuees
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The Carolina Panthers are giving 350 tickets to Sunday’s game against the New Orleans Saints to Hurricane Katrina evacuees.
Vent Cerf working for Google?
Wow, I wonder what they have in mind…
Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters
hsuwh writes “Google has hired Internet pioneer Vint Cerf away from MCI as its “Chief Internet Evangelist”. “He is one of the most important people alive today,” said [Google CEO Eric] Schmidt, who has been friends with Cerf for more than 20 years. “Vint has put his heart and soul into making the Internet happen. I know he is going to jump right in here and start shoveling out new ideas for Google.””
Bob Denver passes away…
Bye little buddy.
Bob Denver, TV’s Gilligan, Dead at 70 – Yahoo! News
LOS ANGELES –
Bob Denver, whose portrayal of goofy castaway Gilligan on the 1960s TV show “Gilligan’s Island” made him an iconic figure to generations of TV viewers, has died. He was 70.
Keeping the Net up in the Big Easy
On our podcast Technorama we did an interview with Michael Barnett, one of the guys from the New Orleans Data center that weathered Katrina.
It was interesting to hear him talk about what has been going on and how they dealt with it all.
So if you have been following the story, or haven’t go and check it out.
Beagle Desktop Search Reviewed
I have really wanted to see this in action…however I have had trouble with getting it running myself. I do think that this will eventually be an important project.
Beagle Desktop Search Reviewed
An open-source alternative, Beagle provides fast indexing and searching of all your files. Kevin of the LinuxForums.org content development team has used it, abused it and reviewed it.
Talk about keeping the Net up!
I found these guys through an article on Wired. This is impressive. They are keeping their data center up despite the destruction and mayhem around them.
I have been monitoring their IRC channel it is mind blowing to read about all this.
Links to Photos and blogs are available through the wired article.
Wired News: Flood Waters Can’t Sink Net Link
Despite the loss of most public utilities, at least one hosting company in hurricane-battered New Orleans is still online, fighting against time and the odds to keep part of the internet humming.
Update: Here is another link to an MSNBC Article
My Ubuntu CDs Arrived!
Well, I am a fan of Ubuntu Linux. I have been looking for something to use instead of Fedora. Not that anything is wrong with Fedora, I just wanted to try something different. Ubuntu has been everything I was looking for. Easy to install, use, and I can get my hands dirty when I want.
Well I recently read that they would ship you for free a copy of Ubuntu Linux on CD. So I took them up on it. Today I received a package that contained 10 packs that had an Install CD and a Live CD each.
That is pretty awesome, and that is why I like Linux so much. Not just for Gnome, KDE, bash, flexibility, but for the sense of sharing that Linux promotes.
9 Weeks to Pump Out New Orleans?
I can’t put into words how I feel for those in New Orleans right now.
9 Weeks to Pump Out New Orleans?
…In this hypothetical storm scenario, it is estimated that it would take nine weeks to pump the water out of the city, and only then could assessments begin to determine what buildings were habitable or salvageable…
If Microsoft had made vi
Hilarious.
Marigan’s Weblog
How the vi editor would seem if it has been made by Microsoft
10 Years of Opera
Sign up today, and you get it for free. I think that this is an excuse to check it out…again. I am pretty happy with Firefox, but I did like Opera back in the day.