Look What I Found
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.
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
Hilarious.
Marigan’s Weblog
How the vi editor would seem if it has been made by Microsoft
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.
I figured that all their software would have been Q&A’d for something like that. Someone is going to be looking for a job today.
Slashdot | Creative Zens Ship with Worms
An anonymous reader writes “Engadget reports about 3700 Creative Zen “Neeons” shipped with a virus. The virus in question was the W32.Wullik.B@mm worm. Creative released a statement today to help consumers pinpoint the possibly effected devices.”
10 Minutes, what are you waiting for?
TechFreaks v2
Xbox modification has come a long way in the past couple years. With the introduction of the TSOP mod, potential modders no longer had to shell out money for a modchip; rather just bridge two points on the Xbox motherboard. Now one doesn’t even have to open up his Xbox. Welcome to the world of soft modding. Using code exploits in certain games, a user is able to load a phony gamesave that will boot into a Linux based operating system and allow a user to mod his Xbox… in under ten minutes.
I figured that this was going to start to happen sooner or later…I thought a little sooner though.
Revenge of the Sith DVD only
Video Business reports there will be no VHS release of Revenge Of The Sith…
Some good information of Skype/Gtalk verses SIP. I may have to give SIP another look-see.
Google Talk And Skype Are Boring, And Here’s Why | The ChangeLog
Saw this one coming…..especially with RFID here.
The End of the Barcode
valdean writes “The University of Wisconsin RFID Lab, principally funded by a dozen Wal-mart suppliers including 3M, Kraft Foods, and S.C. Johnson & Son, believes that RFID could spell the end of the ubiquitous bar code. The big draw? Speeding up supply-chain management. Wal-mart’s warehouse conveyor belts presently move products at 600 feet per minute… but they want to be faster. And better informed.”
Cool script to scroll the page when you visit a anchor on the same page.
Smooth scrolling demo
It’s quite often, when navigating through a long document, confusing or disorienting for users to click a link which immediately jumps them to somewhere else in that document. Are they on the same page, on a different page, should they scroll more from here, what’s going on?