February 26, 2004
Open Source VoIP!
WOW!
A VoIP looks like they're
going Open Source!
See the poop at Pingtel!
MPEG-4 Fans/Followers
Several things on the MPEG-4
front!
Even though the US market
isn't adapting fast enough and
everyone is bailing out to an
overseas location...
Try out HandBrake!
A DVD to AVI/MPEG-4 ripper..
MacOS X, GNU/Linux...
Moonlight is putting out "the
world's first H.264 Realtime PC
Encodeer and Player" evaluation
to download.
Then there's the H.264 Encoder
from Main Concept multimedia.
FYI H.264 is MPEG-4 Part 10.
PDA/Laptop Replacement
When you're ready to replace
your laptop or your pda you
might want to consider the
FlipStart!
Microsoft® Windows® XP Home/Professional operating system
Dimensions: 5.8" x 4" x 1" (148mm x 101mm x 26mm)
Weighs 1lb (450g)
1 GHz processor
256MB system RAM
30GB internal hard drive
3D graphics w/ 8MB video RAM
Full-function, QWERTY thumb keyboard w/ hotkeys for commonly used commands
5.6" HDTV-quality display (1024 x 600)
Lithium-ion Polymer battery (2-6 hours battery life*)
Integrated 802.11b (11 Mbps) /g (54 Mbps) Wi-Fi
USB 2.0 port
Internal microphone/speaker with headphones and ear bud jacks
Integrated 1.3MP digital camera
Optional
Low-Power Interactive Display (LID™) module
Bluetooth®
Wide area networking
Ethernet (10/100Mbit)
Support for external VGA
NTSC TV Output
Additional USB 2.0 ports
DVD-CD/RW drive
Finding Versions of Software Too Download
Looking for a zip or gzip file
full of software goodies from
some ftp server somewhere
but don't remember where
it was?
Try FileWatcher!
I've added it to my bookmark list!
February 18, 2004
Object Oriented Operating System
You Object-Oriented fans out there
might be interested in a new project
featuring an OS Kernel that is OO
and written in C++..
Laptop For Gamers!
Dell's new Inspiron XPS laptop is pretty
much up there in capabilities!
3.4Ghz P4
2MB Cache
512MB Ram
60GB HD
DVD Burner
ATI Radeon 9700 graphics/128M
$2850..
No HTML/MIME EMail!
A tome on why our email should
be done using ASCII text (only).
Spread the word on the one true
mail reader - ELM!
AMD 64-bit Opteron News
It's interesting that on 2/9 there's an
article talking about how AMD has hit
a home run with their new 64-bit
Opteron chip and is able to keep
their prices higher because it's
selling so well...
and then on 2/16 there's an article on
how they're slashing prices on their
8-way Opteron by 50%!
Looks like they've got Intel on the
run. Intel talking about 64-bit in
OTHER THAN ITANIUM!
Oh, BTW, AMD cut prices on their XP
line, but not as steeply!
Dang!
February 16, 2004
Pascal For The JVM!
Tired of writing that Java code?
Want to get back to the good
old days? How about a little
Pascal to mix in with your Java
app in your JVM?
Cool Martial Arts Video
A cool video showing how to
defend yourself with a hand
fan!
Psssst! There's more to the
video than just that! ;-}
Water Balloons In Space!
Want to see what happens when
you puncture a water balloon
while weightless?
MPEG4 Toolkit
For all you MPEG fans out there
IBM has a Java based toolkit
available for you to play with
MPEG4 audio/video.
Includes applets and tools for
creating content that is "beyond
simple audio and video"...
Spam Prose!
This entry is dedicated to tireless
efforts of the SPAM generators and
their entertaining and their tireless
efforts to beat the system!
A few "quality" samples... ;-}
AFAIK, cuddle will moves national
filth, tennis of utilising teeths.
A little bird told me that snog will
is empirical text mode browser,
overenthusiasm of wind-up razor
bladess. The truth: wet body adores
ironic lasagnes, OAPs cuddles no
windy cogs. My secret: implement
will was superfluous daggers,
wallpaper of lovesick cheeseburgerss.
Fact: cuddle cigarettes seven and oxygen
belongs to expressionist bear. After
all, piddling raspberries reminds me of
impotent muff. Erm, castrate pubic lice
confident and incompetence tickles sad
trench. You know, jump on will eats
mezziah's pedestal, corpses of VNC air
filtrations. It seems that move will will
never match crunchy PokeBot, Rachel
Broughton of red Wowzerss.
As we all know, fondle will licks shipped
bread, panties of IRC glibcs. A thought:
sister enjoys of housing estate which
likes other feeling oceans. IMHO, belong
to will smells David Beckham's lemons,
effects of resourceful repletions. Hrm.
Let's assume that like RandWord magnificent
and Yoshimitsu jumps on GNU RandFig.
AFAIK, sell will installs Commodore Muttley,
Jean Alesi of adorable lemonades. IIRC,
brontosaurus dreams of of television which
jumps on other feisty leprotards. Today,
M-Saunders's dinosaurs smells rectal
Pimento.Thesedays, harpsichord likes of ISP
which is other Linux turd. You know, kneecap
despises of Master System which smacks
other undressing cheeseburger.
The mix of technical and porn terms, along
with some rather interesting sentence
structure and a fondness for cheesburgers
make for an interesting read!
Long live the Baysian filters! ;-}
February 13, 2004
IPSEC
For those of you who would like
to build their own secure tunnels
you might be interested in the
Linux FreeS/WAN project.
Of course when you combine that
with something like the Soekris
board.... ;-}
Decompression Bombs!
Those of you out there running
web sites that let folks upload
picture or document files might
be interested in reading this
article.
In it you'll learn way, way to
much about how easy it might
be to blow your anti-virus
scanner (or web server, or
whatever system) out of the
water.
e.g. a 7KB gzip file that expands
to over 100GB!
Food for thought!
Small Hydrogen Reactor
For you alternative power fans
out there!
A new hydrogen reactor!
They've "produced hydrogen from
ethanol in a reactor small enough
and efficient enough to heat small
homes and power cars!"
Open Source Winning The War!
Well, it seems that Open Source
has won!
When big companies start reviewing
their products against open source
products and then consider open
sourcing their product when the
the alternatives are caught up then
it's all over but the shouting!
.NET meets Ant
Apparently the Ant (Java build
environment for you non-Java
enabled developers) environment
has captured the attention of
.NET developers who have
implemented their own version
called 'NAnt'
No Java required... ;-} (I don't
think anyway)
Free Linux Software From IBM
Some of you geeks out there
might be interested in a set
of Linux DvDs from IBM that
they'll send you FOR NO CHARGE!
Why might you be interested?
Do the names DB2, Lotus, Rational,
Tivoli and WebSphere open up
any possibilities for you?
Auction Search Engine
For all of you auction fans there
is now a search engine to find
things you might be interested
in bidding on!
February 10, 2004
Voices of Slaves
The Library of Congress has some
audio files on line of interviews with
former slaves.
The recordings were made between
1932 and 1975. Yes, that's right, the
oldest interviewee was 130 years
old!
Transmeta Crusoe Reverse-Engineered!
You hardware geeks out there might
be interested in the results of another
geeks dissection of the Transmeta
Crusoe processor.
Seagate 2.5" Drives
Read all about the new 2.5"
hard drives from Seagate!
Star Wars on DVD!
They've announce that starting
in September you'll be able to
buy the first three Star Wars
movies on DVD!
New Sun Servers!
In case you haven't seen the
latest addition to the extensive
line of server products available
from Sun!
Online Coupons
If you shop on-line you might be
interested in PriceZilla as they
could provide you with codes that
could save you some bucks!
Electron Microscope Pictures
Some cool, colorized pictures taken
by an electron microscope.
February 09, 2004
Imortality!
The guy who brought us the "University
of Phoenix" (and got rich doing it) is
now funding research aimed at extending
our lifetimes..
Stephen Wolfram
If you haven't read Stephen Wolfram's
1000 page book "A New Kind Of Science"
you can find it all on-line now!
Personal Privacy
I know you've all been enjoying
the press on the new RFID tags!
If you don't know Wal-Mart has
given their top suppliers a deadline
for when ALL of their products
need to have RFID enabled to
get into the Wal-Mart warehouses.
The technology is getting ever
more obscure. The latest in RFID
readers are literally the size of
a quarter...
Network Scanner
Of course it might be a good idea
to scan your network traffic leaving
your house every now and then to
watch for "intruders".
Lost Password?
If you've forgotten the password
on the M$ Exchange pst file
or your Excel spreadsheet or
your Word document then just
make a short visit to the Lost
Password site.
Of course scanning the list of
links to "solutions" might just
scare you!
J2EE Framework
For you folks who might want to
start playing with J2EE but might
be intimidated you might be
interested in playing with this
software!
February 06, 2004
Spammer's
I guess the spammers read the
article talking about mixing up
the letters in the middle of the
words and our brains figuring
out what it says...
From a spam today:
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<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
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tle></HEAD>
<BODY>
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<P> </P>
</BODY></HTML>
Now how do you filter this? ;-}
Philosophical BSD vs Linux Differences
Y'all might be interested in a paper
that talks about the philosophical
differences in the evolution of the
various *BSD and Linux OS's.
Hold on while I get out my asbestos
suit...
;-}
Lie-detector Glasses
A lie detector small enough to fit
in a pair of glasses...
Your Own Travel Guides
World66 touts itself as "the
travel guide that you write".
You can even generate US
and world maps showing all
of the countries that you
have visited!
Here are the places that Gayle
and I have visited!
Which Side of the Bed?
In case you have problems remembering
which side of the bed you're supposed to
be sleeping on...
Surviving NBC
No, not the broadcast network
we're talking (N)uclear, (B)iological,
(C)hemical here...
although this might be applicable
to the broadcast networks too!
Java Servlet API and NIO
Any of you Java dweebs out there
want to know how to mix using
the servlet API and the new NIO
capabilities added in Java 1.4?
Of course all the C/Unix dweebs
are saying "non-blocking I/O?
what's the big deal?" ;-}
The Aerial Reconnaissance Archives
Here's a cool site that aims
to make aerial recon photos
available for viewing!
Quick Reference Cards!
For those of you who like to
use quick reference cards
to trigger those neurons!
Everything you could possibly
want (and more)!
The Coming Geomagnetic Apolcalpse
The magnetic field has decreased by 10%
over the last 150 years!
Aparently we go through a polarity
reversal every 200K years or so.
I guess since we haven't had one in
about 800K we're wellllll overdue!
Want to know more?
February 03, 2004
Any Scrabble Fans Out There?
Someone has done a solitare
Scrabble game written completely
in XHTML/CSS!
Pretty nifty!
Anyone Missing a Daughter?
Anyone out there looking for a
missing daughter?
Ultimate Google Interface
Here's an amazing interface to
all of the capabilties on Google!
All I can say is WOW!
Unix Rosetta Stone
"A Sysadmin's Unixersal Translator"
A "Rosetta Stone" that shows specific
commands for each Unix variant to
perform specific tasks...
Spinal Cord Repair
Possible big advances in technology
that may be useful in helping to
repair spinal cord injuries.
A liquid that builds a scaffold like bridge!
The Value of Personal Information
Y'all might be interested in a set of
tools that documents how personal
information is collected and used in
the US!
Decode the barcode on the back
of your drivers license.
Calculate how much your personal
information is worth!