Michael J. Ross writes After installing and learning the basics of the content management system Drupal, many Web developers do not know how to best proceed from there. They may realize that much of the programming potential of Drupal —
An anonymous reader writes Verizon Wireless will forge a deal with Microsoft to include the software giants Live Search on its mobile phones, giving Microsoft a victory over rival Google and ending a months-long dance toward the partnership. Microsoft CEO
overheardinpdx writes Im sad to report that longtime HPC technology pundit Roland Piquepaille (rpiquepa) died this past Tuesday. Many of you may know of him through his blog, his submissions to Slashdot, and his many years of software visualization work
Smivs writes The BBC are reporting that footage of one of the worlds most strange and elusive mammals has been captured by scientists. Large, and with a long, thin snout, the Hispaniolan solenodon resembles an overgrown shrew. It can inject
s31523 writes Today a US airline carrier conducted a 90 minute test flight with one of its engines powered by a 50-50 blend of biofuel and normal aircraft fuel. This was the first flight by a US carrier after other
Wide Angle writes in with a PBS report on tough economic news from Ireland: Dell announced that it will relocate its manufacturing plant in Limerick, Ireland to Lodz, Poland. Dells announcement... is a severe blow to the Irish economy, which
An anonymous reader writes AMD debuted its 45nm Phenom II processors, and The Tech Report has already run them through a complete suite of benchmarks to see how they perform compared to Intels latest and greatest. The new 2.8GHz and
Misch writes Representative Rick Boucher (D-VA) will be taking the chair of the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet. Rep. Boucher has been an advocate for consumers rights, is a co-founder of the Congressional Internet Caucus, and has participated
Barence writes At CES, Palm announced what promises to be the product that finally matches and even betters the Apple iPhone, and certainly looks to be the most important product announced at this years Consumer Electronics Show. Its called the
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes In Atlantic Recording v. Brennan, the landmark Connecticut case in which the first decision rejecting the RIAAs making available theory was handed down, the RIAA has finally thrown in the towel and dismissed its own case. Mr. Brennan
pln2bz writes Astronomers looking for confirmation for emissions from early stellar formation in the cosmic microwave background radiation instead found a signal indicating large amounts of unaccounted-for spiraling magnetic fields in space, but without any accompanying infrared emissions. The discovery
CurtMonash writes Fandome offers a fascinating video explaining how the first-down line on football broadcasts actually works. Evidently, theres a lot of processing both to calculate the exact location being photographed on the field — including optical sensors and two
nandemoari writes A six-year-old who recently stole his parents car and drove it into a utility pole has passed the buck onto a familiar scapegoat: the video game, Grand Theft Auto. Rockstar Games controversial Grand Theft Auto video game has
An anonymous reader points to this article at exclaim.ca, which begins Just when Beatles fans thought the band were finally going digital, the Norwegian national broadcaster has been forced to call off the deal. Broadcasting company NRK has had to
Hugh Pickens writes BBC reports that more people need to donate their brains to medical research if cures for diseases like dementia are to be found and are urging healthy people as well as those with brain disorders to become
snydeq writes Sustainable ITs Ted Samson raises questions regarding the purchasing of carbon offsets, a practice growing in popularity among tech companies such as Dell, Yahoo, and Google in an attempt to achieve carbon neutrality. Essentially financial instruments, carbon offsets
An anonymous reader writes SD cards with a theoretical maximum capacity of 2TB are in development by Panasonic and the SD Association, it has been announced. The technology is called Secure Digital Extended Capacity, or SDXC, and Panasonic has announced
gregg writes Six weeks before the nations television stations are scheduled to convert to digital transmission, the Obama administration is asking Congress to consider a delay. In the most significant sign to date of concern about the impending digital TV
techmuse writes Lexus has announced plans to send targeted messages to buyers of its cars based on the buyers zip code and vehicle type. Unlike regular spam, these messages will be delivered directly to the buyers vehicle, and will play
CWmike writes The rumors turned out to be true. Microsoft will release a public beta this week of its next desktop operating system, Windows 7, hoping it will address the problems that have made Windows Vista perhaps the least popular
By now, weve seen everything were going to see, and here is the cream of the crop, at least of products youll hopefully be able to buy this year—heres the best of CES: Recession edition.
ZDNet reports that the iPhone 3.0 firmware will support quad-core processors in an upcoming iPhone hardware revision. While Apple has not yet detailed iPhone 3.0 firmware, MacRumors has independently heard from a reliable source of this same multi-core support in
At CES, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced the public availability of the Windows 7 beta release. PC World has been running evaluations of the forthcoming replacement to Microsofts much-derided Vista for some time now, and we just couldnt wait to
The gOS (”good OS”) project has issued an SP1 release of gOS 3.1 Gadgets. This latest gOS release implements numerous package updates, bug fixes, and configuration enhancements, and continues gOS’s strong dependence on Google’s web-based applications.
A new report by the research company has taken a look under the hood of both in-house and commercial e-mail services, and put some numbers on the per-user costs associated with a variety of options. The surprise result was not
The SD Association has announced a new card spec dubbed SDXC (eXtended Capacity) that can support memory capacities up to 2TB with read/write speeds to 104MB per second.
Wherein I have the most popular video on youtube and I get ranked 6th in the most viewed because Im not a partner (and yes, they had just done an update on the chart, so its not like it just
Logo design in today’s world is totally under rated. People do not understand how important a good logo is and how valuable it is to their business. This article outlines the ways in which you should NOT go about getting
If you have analog and you don’t have a converter box yet, then Wednesday night at 7 p.m. and 8 p.m., you noticed the flashing screen telling you that you needed one. Only about 200 calls came into the center
There are exciting new features in the pipeline for Cascading Style Sheets that will allow for an explosion of creativity in Web design. These features include CSS styling rules that are being released with the upcoming CSS3 specification.
This is another one of those cases where you say to yourself “what the hell are these guys spending so much time creating these major works with Legos?”I guess it’s not my place to ask why these guys never get
ProgDVB offers a complete alternative for watching TV on the web. With this incredible desktop application you can instantly watch hundreds of channels, listen to the radio, and record high definition quality videos, all via satellite. With access to several
Most people think of Google Maps in terms of finding a place or business, or getting directions from one point to another. Others use the satellite images and terrain mapping features. But there are tons of other uses out there
Smart parking meters that send motorists a text message when they have spent too long in a parking space and incurred a fine could become a familiar sight on British high streets.
Amid a green-themed Consumer Electronics Show, Greenpeace says electronics firms are getting more eco-conscious to meet consumer demand but fall short of whats possible.
The companys JBoss business is booming, it says, paving the way for it to compete well beyond its roots in the operating system--perhaps tackling the application business in earnest.
Maksym Yastremski, the alleged mastermind behind the T.J. Maxx credit card hack, has received 30 years in jail for his alleged involvement in attacks on Turkish banks.
In a first, the CEO of the oil giant Exxon calls for a carbon tax, rather than a cap and trade. Meanwhile, small solar start-ups Heliovolt and Spectrawatt hit hurdles.
Investment bank is projecting zero percent growth for the industry in 2009, which should portend more money for the dominant software vendors--and less for the smaller ones.
Sales of music downloads wont surpass silver discs for a while--a report projects the year 2012. So fess up: a lot of you are still buying discs, and I want to know who you are.
After Obama sets goal of doubling renewable energy in three years, more details and concerns emerge on the clean tech-related policy incentives from Washington.
Dell snaps up Microsoft IT consulting company Allin, in a move to boost its consulting business round such areas as collaboration and business applications.
Microsoft spends billions of dollars each year on research and development, but it spent only $50 on its new Tag application--the price of a Starbucks gift card.
Dont let minor computer-related aches become major pains. The key is to try various ergonomic alternatives to find the PC setup that makes the difference for you.
Through Amazon Web Services Web-based management console, the cloud-computing service enters territory already claimed by formal and informal partners.
What does Microsofts CEO worry about most? Its Google, Google, Google. Steve Ballmer also talks about the state of Windows, taking software to the web, and the troubled economy. Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer arrived at the Consumer Electronics Show
Our future will require todays high school and college students to develop a unique skill-set never seen before. We must develop 21st century skills to prepare for tomorrow, says IBMs Kevin Faughnan. Commentary - Over the next five years, the
A top Microsoft Windows exec spoke to ZDNet UK about the new operating systems potential appeal for enterprise users. Windows 7 is going into public beta, Microsoft head Steve Ballmer announced at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas late
A Windows Server worm that is attacking business systems also propagates via USB, says F-Secure. A Microsoft worm that is currently attacking business systems is also a USB worm, security vendor F-Secure has warned. The worm, which F-Secure calls Downadup,
Both US-CERT and security organization F-Secure have issued warnings, urging IT professionals to apply a Microsoft patch. Business systems are being attacked by a worm exploiting a known Microsoft vulnerability, IT security experts have warned. Both US-CERT and security organization
Australian AOL users suffered an email holiday last month as a billing glitch locked them out of their AOL.com email accounts. Australian AOL users suffered an email holiday last month as a Primus billing glitch locked them out of their
Indian outsourcing company Satyam Computer Services announced Wednesday its founder and chairman, B. Ramalinga Raju, has resigned, following an admission that he inflated its financial performance. Satyam Computer Services announced Wednesday its founder and chairman, B. Ramalinga Raju, has resigned,
HPs latest low-cost Mini 2140 subnotebook has a few extra features that mark it out as suitable for business use, the manufacturer has claimed. HP on Monday launched the Mini 2140, a netbook the company says is suitable for use
Review: MacHeads is a superb film that will give Apple haters a few cheap laughs, and Apple fans a few cheap thrills. But itll entertain both equally, while educating everybody else. Prominent sex blogger and renowned Apple fangirl Violet Blue
China has cracked down on a global software-counterfeiting syndicate, with 11 ringleaders each facing up to six-and-a-half years in jail. Eleven counterfeiters have been given jail sentences of between one-and-a-half and six-and-a-half years by a Chinese court after being found
Freescale has unveiled an ARM-based, Ubuntu-toting netbook reference design, claiming it will bring cheap internet devices to the younger, more widget-centric generation. Chipset manufacturer Freescale on Monday unveiled an ARM-based blueprint for cheap, low-cost subnotebooks. At the heart of the
According to most accounts, Cox was second only to Linus Torvalds in the early Linux days, working on the kernel from version 0.11, and sorting out the networking. Just as we were all closing down before Christmas, Linux kernel developer
A Microsoft patent application details a business model whereby the user gets a free or heavily subsidized PC but is charged for usage time, application and performance. Microsoft has applied for a patent on metered, pay-as-you-go computing. US patent application
Yahoo and Intel hope products to be shown at the Consumer Electronics Show in January will mark the beginning of their Internet-fueled expansion to the world of TV. Yahoo and Intel built their success upon widespread use of personal computers,
The end-of-year holidays might be a time of peace on Earth, but CIOs are unlikely to be so relaxed this festive season, with many saying theyll still be on call over the holidays. Christmas may be a time of peace
Chinese networking vendor Huawei has slammed as ludicrous and inaccurate claims that it had links to the Chinese military and government that could cause security problems for the National Broadband Network. Chinese networking vendor Huawei has slammed as ludicrous and
Survey of more than 1,000 Internet activists, journalists, and technologists about tech life in 2020 finds expectations of haptic and voice interfaces. This was originally published in CNET News. Step aside, keyboards, laptops, and 9-to-5 jobs. A survey of more
Despite the bad times, businesses still require their IT to help them stay ahead of the competition by offering customers attractive and innovative products with the service levels they have come to expect says OpTiers Motti Tal. Commentary--The current turmoil
RadioShack will put an Acer Aspire One 3G Netbook on sale Sunday for $99. But theres a catch. You also have to buy a two-year AT&T DataConnect contract. RadioShack will put an Acer Aspire One 3G Netbook on sale Sunday
PricewaterhouseCoopers and security vendor Finjan expect insider fraud and cybercrime to rise as IT jobs are lost. Desperate IT workers who have been laid off will go rogue in 2009, selling corporate data and using crimeware, reports have predicted. The
The Justice Department puts out a free 2009 calendar depicting some of Americas most wanted terror suspects, complete with info on explosives and biological and chemical threats. Get yours while supplies last.
: Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.comLAS VEGAS — Its the eve of the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show, and the floor is a flurry of activity as thousands of vendors set up their wares. Teamsters and union carpenters rub elbows with
A garage inventor has built a new generator that converts a restaurants used deep-fryer oil into electricity and hot water, and he says it could shave hundreds of dollars a month off your average Mickey Ds utility bill.
The legal and technology scholars at the Freedom to Tinker blog predict an $899 iPhone for 2009, piracy prosecutions and an onslaught of civil lawsuits in the wake of the Lori Drew-MySpace case.
The quest for a love potion that could treat losing that loving feeling like any other unwanted mental state, such as depression, has some major hurdles, but scientists are looking into it.
Radiohead, Deerhoof, Nine Inch Nails, Public Enemy, Mariah Carey—plenty of indie, hip hop, and pop artists have welcomed others to remix their songs online. Now classical music aficionados can get in on the act. Renowned cellist and 15-time Grammy winner
1643: Italian astronomer Giovanni Riccioli discovers a faint glow on the night side of the planet Venus. Other astronomers over the centuries since will also observe the Ashen Light, but one of the longest-running mysteries of astronomy still defies conclusive
Who hasnt put a perfectly good fax machine on the curb? In those hasty moments of purging, you think, I dont need this dinosaur. Who faxes anymore? Hope it wasnt a really nice one you junked, because someday youll wish
Button-mashing rock-star wannabes now have a tiny glimmer of hope thanks to Disney Star Guitarist. The game uses an actual guitar with color-coded strings to teach aspiring guitarists to learn new songs, and also features the competitive gaming we know
The sleek, black Palm Pre is no ordinary iPhone clone. Its clean interface has both touchscreen and keyboard inputs and the company touts fast web browsing.
Bursting with anticipation about installing the latest Windows beta? Heres our guide to downloading Windows 7 Beta 1, along with a few things to consider before it becomes available Friday.
The FDA will consider a blood-thinning drug that is produced in the milk of genetically modified goats. The drug would be the first from GM animals approved for sale in the United States.
A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that a U.S. inmate has no right to sue the government for copyright violations. The inmate claimed a calendar he produced and copyrighted while in prison was worth $500,000 and misappropriated by the United
Mosquito courtship involves the precise, harmonic tuning of the wingbeat frequencies of a male and a female. Males who are out of tune will fail to reproduce, giving scientists a potential tool to fight the spread of mosquito-borne diseases such
Chemists have created a group of synthetic enzymes that self-replicate, compete and evolve like a natural ecosystem — just minus the life (as we know it).
Israeli cyberwarriors develop a program that makes it easy for just about anyone to attack pro-Hamas websites. But using this Patriot software means handing over control of your computer to the Israeli hackers.
After releasing the sample-riddled (and critically acclaimed) Feed the Animals in 2008, musical mashup master Gregg Gillis takes center stage in a crowd-sourced documentary about remix culture.
We’ve built, overclocked, and tested our $625, $1,250, and $2,500 performance machines. How will these three systems compare in overall performance and value?
As Intel’s Core i7 architecture starts moving down from the high-end, value seekers can build high-performance LGA775 systems cheaply. Low-cost motherboards
Microsofts Kudo may seem like a throw-away Xbox Live Arcade game focused on user-created content at first, but underneath its colorful service is a powerful programming language that will make the tool a hit in academic circles.Read More...
A new Forrester study looks at the costs involved with various ways of providing enterprise e-mail, and finds that Google has set a new floor that other services may have a hard time matching.Read More...
Mono, an open source implementation of the .NET runtime, is being used to build games for the iPhone and Wii. Ars looks at how static compilation has made it possible for Mono applications to meet Apples requirements for inclusion in
Ars Technicas Jon Stokes gets a first-look at the new Palm pré announced Wednesday at CES 2009. We talk with a Palm representative and have captured video of the smooth new UI.Read More...
Have Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo backed off their support for network neutrality? Not according to a trade group they fund, which wants Barack Obama to push for network neutrality, a bit of copyright sanity, patent reform, and fiber deployment.Read More...
Palm has released its next-generation handset, called the pré, which features impressive hardware specs and uses a new operating system called webOS that runs HTML/CSS applications.Read More...
As decisions are being made in Washington regarding how precisely to shape the multi-billion dollar stimulus package, a variety of industries are doing their best to make sure they get a piece of the pie. The latest bit of lobbying
Windows 7 was front and center during Steve Ballmers first keynote at CES. Microsofts vision for the future involves screens everywhere: your TV, PC, and mobile phone in particular.Read More...
Verizons new Partner Port Program might sounds like some kind of robot sex interface, but its actually about encouraging content owners to pay for direct access to Verizons network. Read More...
Faced with the prospect of losing cable customers to Verizons faster FiOS network, Charter has sued Verizon for patent infringement. Apparently, its cheaper to litigate than roll out DOCSIS 3.0Read More...
We recap our teams second day of Macworld 09 festivities, focusing on iLife, iWork, iTunes and DRM (and all the nitty gritty), VMware Fusions success, Best of Show, and a walkthrough of the Expo floor.Read More...
The group of Harvard Law students defending one Joel Tenenbaum in an RIAA lawsuit have an unusual request for the judge: they want the whole case streamed live over the Internet.Read More...
OQO has been around almost as long as Ars, and through the years the company has been so far ahead of the portable computing curve that it hasnt been able to catch on with consumers. But Intels Atom and the
Newsflash! This just in, teens display risky behavior on MySpace! Tune in later for our special report called “Grass – Green, Sky – Blue.”Overall, 54 percent of the publicly available accounts they checked contained information about high-risk behaviors: 41 percent
Bethesda to Raise Fallout Level Cap To 30 News @ EuroGamerDead Space Added to Steam @ Shacknews GTA: Chinatown Wars Rated 18-Only by BBFC @ VE3DinFamous CES 2009 Movie #1 @ FileShackKillzone 2 Dated For UK, Europe @ Kotaku
Microsoft has just made Windows 7 beta available to the public but you’d better hurry, only the first 2.5 million people will get a copy. Windows 7 is the next release of the Windows client operating system, built on the
Just a reminder to all of you that have not have seen this yet, the fine folks at Thermaltake want your opinions to help shape/mold their upcoming products to better suit your needs. Taking the survey also puts you in
Welcome to the Friday edition of readers can get $20 off this Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-2250 Dual TV Tuner between now and January 12th. That Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 is still $184.99 with free shipping as well. Anyone looking to get
Here is a short video demonstrating some of the new features in Windows 7. The beta should be out today, we’ll post a link when it is ready for the general public to download. Comments
Gizmodo has posted a Top 10 list of gadgets from the first day of the Consumer Electronics Show 2009. I kinda like this Eee keyboard, it’d be just the thing for a HTPC: Asus took the crazy cake with their
Every time you want to complain about your “rights” on the intarweb, read stories like this for a little perspective. All this guy did was speculate that the country’s currency was in trouble and they threw his ass in jail.
ASUS today announced it was named an International CES Innovations 2009 Design and Engineering Awards Honoree. Products entered in this prestigious program are judged by a preeminent panel of independent industrial designers, engineers and members of the trade press to
Phishers are circulating an e-mail that supposedly comes from CNN. The bogus e-mail contains a link to a fake CNN website that offers a video of the current situation between Israel and Hamas. Once you click on the video, an
You know things are tough all over when you read headlines like this. You have to give props to Asustek, the company says it will reduce compensation to executives by 30% and the board of directors will be cut by
AMD, the Advanced Technology Investment Company (ATIC) and Mubadala Development Company today announced amendments to the October 6, 2008 transaction agreements for the creation of a leading-edge semiconductor manufacturing joint venture, currently known as “The Foundry Company. The transactions covered
The Intel® X18-M/X25-M and X25E SATA Solid-State Drives (SSDs) continue to be honored for their breakthrough technology winning the Electronic Products Magazine Product of the Year. Also this week, the Intel SSDs won a special Storage Visions Founders Award recognizing
Most people were thrilled when they heard that Apple is finally ditching DRM but is this really a good move for the company? The Digital Home blog explains why they think dropping DRM might actually hurt Apple if people are
Microsoft has posted an advanced notification covering a critical vulnerability that affects Windows XP, Windows 2k, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Vista. The patch will come out on Tuesday along with an updated version of the Microsoft Windows Malicious Software
Mass Effect 2 at GDC 2009 @ GDC SitePrototype Video Blowout: New Gameplay Footage @ Shacknews S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky 1.5.08 Patch @ FileShack Street Fighter IV Screenshots & Trailer @ VE3DVISA Wont Replace Dusty PS3 After All @ Consumerist
Today at CES, President and Chief Executive Officer Dirk Meyer and OTOY Chief Executive Officer Jules Urbach unveiled a plan to revolutionize the deployment, development and delivery of HD content through the “AMD Fusion Render Cloud”, a massively-parallel supercomputer. The
It is stuff like this that makes it obvious why Yahoo can’t pull out of its downward spiral. Maybe I am just crazy but considering someone that has spent the last decade helping Yahoo get into the mess they are
Dell unveiled the long-rumored Adamo today at CES. Its a stylish ultrathin notebook with an aluminum chassis. We have exclusive pictures for those that are interested....
As some of our regular readers might have noticed, at Anandtech IT, we have been trying to spice up our articles and benchmarks by taking them a bit further than the usual rundown of standardized tests. Instead of limiting ourselves to tests
If the past two CESes were mostly display shows, this years was about netbooks and mobile devices. Were done hearing about convergence, its now the age of devices....
Though stereoscopic shutter glasses have been around for a while, the time is ripe for a resurgence if hardware and software makers get on board. NVIDIA is making the first big push with their GeForce 3D Vision....
Have you been waiting for AMDs return to competition? The Phenom II does just that. Its still not the Return of the Jedi, but on its third try AMD got it right. Phenom II is the first competitive quad-core CPU
Touch enabled Eee PCs, an Eee Keyboard with built in computer, glass touchpad and wireless HDMI, and a new Atom based notebook with a 512GB SSD - standard. ASUS kicked off CES 2009 right with a huge expansion to its
What did you think was the most interesting, innovative and exciting developments we talked about in 2008?If I had to pick something that actually shipped this year, it would be Intels SSD drives. Those things are the new hotness. Still
NVIDIA and AMD have been moving toward GPU Computing for a long time with CUDA and what became ATI Stream. How do things change with an API that runs on all hardware?...
You asked and we delivered: 20 lower wattage power supplies tested and reviewed. Those of you looking for a good PSU for a moderate system need look no further....
In to every geeks life a little rain must fall. This month, that rain fell on my wife, Laura. Laura is a sort of right brained artist. She has a bachelors degree in applied mathematics from NCSU, and shes also a
The competition in the X58 market is finally heating up and that is good news for enthusiasts and buyers alike. The retail introduction of the Foxconn BloodRage and DFI LP X58-T3eHS at the $299.99 price range is significant in this
Yes, netbooks are inexpensive and can handle basic computing tasks, but many people would like a little bit more oomph -- and perhaps a larger package. The ASUS N10JC gives users exactly that, and may just be the netbook youve
This article is different from the previous ones, as we have changed the methodology we use to evaluate a server CPU. Read on, and find out why we feel this is a better and more realistic approach to compare the
Silverstone has just released a new video about the positive air pressure they are using in the previously tested Fortress FT01 case. Silverstones engineers used smoke to show the air circulation within the chassis which looks very impressive. We have
There are a huge number of PC suppliers out there, and everyone has different needs when it comes to a desktop system. In this guide, provide our recommendations for several systems at various price points....
We dont have any performance details, but we do have hardware specifications. This part looks lean, mean, and poised to take the single card multi-GPU crown from AMD....
Many of you have commented that our NewsVac section hasnt been refreshed since the middle of last month. Others have noticed that our story volume has dropped off. Changes are coming to Linux.com, and until they arrive, you wont see
The free and open source software community has been waiting for the G1 cell phone since it was first announced in July. Source code for Googles Android mobile platform has been available, but the G1 marks its commercial debut. Its
Many public administrations already use open source Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to let citizens look at public geographic data trough dedicated Web sites. Others use the same software to partially open the data gathering process: they let citizens directly add
The Interclue extension is supposed to give you a preview of links in Firefox before you visit them, saving you mouse-clicks and, with a little luck, allowing you to move quickly between multiple links on the same page. Unfortunately, the
Shell programming is heavily dependent on string processing. The term string is used generically to refer to any sequence of characters; typical examples of strings might be a line of input or a single argument to a command. Users enter
Many religions have some sort of holiday during this season, where we look back at the joyful moments of the year thats coming to a close, and look ahead with anticipation and hope to the year to come. We hope
Google Maps gives you a quick and easy way to add maps to your Web site, but when youre using Googles API, your ability to display other data is limited. If you have your own data you want to display,
At a time when new and buggy features cloud basic computer functions, its refreshing to see a new release of a distro like Slackware that stays true to its core philosophy. Slackware has an unfair reputation of being a distro
Documentation is one area in which free/libre/open source software (FLOSS) is weakest. A project called FLOSS Manuals is trying to remedy this situation. The idea behind project is to create quality, free documentation for free software.
A next-generation package manager called Nix provides a simple distribution-independent method for deploying a binary or source package on different flavours of Linux, including Ubuntu, Debian, SUSE, Fedora, and Red Hat. Even better, Nix does not interfere with existing package
Managing buddies on a few online social networks isnt too much of a hassle, but throw in your contact list from instant messaging platforms and online apps and services like Flickr, Digg, and Twitter, and you have a contact list
As a regular browser of the Firefox Add-ons site, Im troubled by the apparent proliferation of proprietary extensions in the last year. Maybe Ive simply exhausted the free-licensed extensions that interest me, but recently every interesting-looking extension seems to be
The past couple of years have seen an explosion of open source programming languages and utilities that are geared toward children. Many of these efforts are based around the idea that, since the days of BASIC, programming environments have become
Its that time of the year again. No, not Christmas -- its the time of the year we get the latest versions of our favorite Linux distributions. Version 11.1 of openSUSE is being released today. Designated as a point release,
Lets take a look at three projects that are aimed at showing calendar information through a Web interface: WebCalendar, VCalendar, and CaLogic. These projects run on a LAMP server and provide a Web interface to calendar events.
For many years Spamhaus has been top dog in the anti-spam world of DNSBL (Domain Name System Block List; also known as Realtime Blackhole Lists or RBLs). But Spamhaus is no longer a 100% free service. Even small nonprofits are
If Parkinsons Law for computers holds true, then no matter how much disk space you have, it will get used up. If youre already feeling a pinch, consider using a disk space analyzer tool to see whats eating your space.
The week-long Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDS) meets every six months at changing locations to discuss what will be in the next release of Ubuntu. The mostly unpublicized FOSScamp always meets the weekend before. The FOSScamp un-conference has no program, no
Pulse is a build server that can monitor your source repository and trigger a build and test cycle every time somebody does a commit. With Pulse you will always know if the most recent sources in your revision control system
Properly speaking, Nadav Rotems Open Text Summarizer (OTS) is not a summarizer at all. True summaries generally involve rewording contents at a higher level of generality while preserving the meaning, not just producing a condensed version of the original the
A conversation with Raven Zachary at Macworld prompted me to dig into the state of new apps on the (U.S.) iTunes App store. First, I looked into the number of new apps that become available on a weekly basis. In
The release of the Amazon Web Services console has had a number of people predicting doom for cloud tools providers. On the contrary, by removing a barrier to experimentation that has kept people out of the cloud, the Amazon Web
Four questions, one per link: what next, can it solve a big problem, whats the final boss for Python programming, and why on earth would anyone want yogurt that glows in the dark? End Times - gloomy piece on the
I spent about an hour yesterday morning on the phone (at Canadas rather obscene cell phone rates) speaking with an editor for Continental Whos Who. The pitch is pretty typical (and I had an idea what was going on, so
In case you need to catch up, Anne Thomas Manes of Burton Group declared that SOA met its demise on January 1, 2009, when it was wiped out by the catastrophic impact of the economic recession!.
Four quickies from databases, telephone history, botnets, and disaster tech. MemCacheDB - a persistent storage engine for fast and reliable key-value based object storage and retrieval, with transactions and replication (via stinky). Joining Cassandra, Prophet, CouchDB, and many others in
Rick Loop.pooL Walkers shows veer from hypnotic to energizing to amusing in the space of a single minute. Follow along as he whips DayGlo orange plastic, bar glasses, vibrators, and
What is the appeal of black and white photography? After all, we see the world in color, and a gray day is emotionally perceived as depressing and monotonous. Historically, black and white is easy to understand. Monochrome photographic processes were
...the whole world smiles with you. No its not a typo, the acronym for the W3Cs Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL) is pronounced smile, and the SMIL Animation module sure makes me smile; even more so given the fact that
Four quickies from databases, telephone history, botnets, and disaster tech. MemCacheDB - a persistent storage engine for fast and reliable key-value based object storage and retrieval, with transactions and replication (via stinky). Joining Cassandra, Prophet, CouchDB, and many others in
One particularly sweet and surprising piece of tech news happened just before Christmas, traditionally a pretty slow time of year for most important announcements: Rails and Merb will be merged into Rails 3. Judging from the wealth of comments on
For the most part, new EXQuery functions would simply represent wrappers around existing XQuery extension functionality in order to provide a consistent interface between databases. It would also set a bar that determines the minimal expectation of such databases and
I enjoyed this interview with Richard Jefferson (caution: PDF) from Com Cincia No. 102, October 05, 2008. Richard runs CAMBIA, a group that fights for open innovation in biological sciences. Hes particularly cautionary about the potential for patents to greatly
Reading Om Maliks Nightmare on Tech Street piece, I wonder if were actually just waking up from the nightmare. Yes, the abrupt collapse of demand for consumer electronics and their ilk will hurt tech companies--Im bracing my own for the
In the recent round of Yahoo! layoffs was someone Id just met, George Oates. She started the Flickr Commons, where galleries, libraries, archives, and museums can post photos and the community can tag them. She was a tireless ambassador, as
Draw closer around the flickering firescreen, and hear four tales of brains, words, medical improvement, and the sharp ache of the wisdom teeth of the future poking through the soft gum of the 21st century as diagnosed by Dr Sterling.
Its nice to be back after the holidays. I just watched a series of short videos from the Wall Street Journals Digital Network. The series is called the End of Wall Street. It is a short oral history of the
Since Bernie Madoff has put Ponzi schemes back onto the front pages, its worth considering whether we are all complicit in the biggest Ponzi scheme of them all, the idea that the global economy can grow indefinitely. I grew up
Iain Thomson at CES in Las Vegas, vnunet.com, Thursday 8 January 2009 at 23:31:00 New smartphone could repair Palms fortunes As expected Palm has unveiled a new smartphone and operating system that it believes
Iain Thomson at CES in Las Vegas, vnunet.com, Thursday 8 January 2009 at 23:24:00 National system set up for the whole of the US Toshiba, Sharp and Panasonic have teamed up to offer a
Shaun Nichols at CES in Las Vegas, vnunet.com, Thursday 8 January 2009 at 22:29:00 Low-key CES could indicate larger problem, however The 2009 Consumer Electronics Show will be all about green computing, both environmentally
John Sterlicchi, BusinessGreen, Thursday 8 January 2009 at 09:01:00 US Pentagon and New York City to roll out cutting edge energy-saving lighting technology The US Pentagon and the City of New York have this
Tom Royal, Computeract!ve, Thursday 8 January 2009 at 06:51:00 Next generation of Windows available to test from Friday 9 January Microsoft has announced the first public beta (testing) version of Windows 7, its next-generation
Daniel Robinson, vnunet.com, Thursday 8 January 2009 at 05:15:00 First 45nm Phenom fits into Dragon desktop platform for enthusiasts Following the launch of the Athlon Neo for ultra-thin laptops earlier this week, AMD has
Iain Thomson at CES in Las Vegas, vnunet.com, Thursday 8 January 2009 at 03:37:00 Convergence of computers, phones and TV In his keynote address at CES Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer has outlined his
Iain Thomson at CES in Las Vegas, vnunet.com, Friday 9 January 2009 at 00:23:00 Green Plug offers solution to power cabling California-based Green Plug has been showing off its new universal power supply technology.
Tom Young, BusinessGreen, Friday 9 January 2009 at 00:15:00 Zero carbon wind energy now supported by zero carbon fuel cell-powered testing systems The renewables arm of energy giant Npower is due to complete the
BusinessGreen.com staff, BusinessGreen, Thursday 8 January 2009 at 00:15:00 Market data service to provide information on carbon credit risks From today firms should find it easier to assess the risks associated with trading carbon
David Jetuah, Accountancy Age, Thursday 8 January 2009 at 23:25:00 Administrators from Deloitte called in after collapse of 250-year old pottery company, Waterford Wedgwood Four partners from Deloitte have been called in as administrators
David Jetuah, Accountancy Age, Thursday 8 January 2009 at 23:23:00 Hopes for KPMG to create a European single organisation still alive despite economic climate, says the firms joint senior partner KPMG Europe’s joint senior
David Jetuah , Accountancy Age, Thursday 8 January 2009 at 23:23:00 BDO to go to court over Northern Rock valuation, as shareholders and investors demand radical changes to the contract terms BDO Stoy Hayward
Iain Thomson at CES in Las Vegas, vnunet.com, Wednesday 7 January 2009 at 23:24:00 National recycling system set up for US Toshiba, Sharp and Panasonic have teamed up to offer a recycling system for
Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, vnunet.com, Wednesday 7 January 2009 at 22:36:00 Company readies slew of new products Cisco revealed on Wednesday that it intends to launch an intensive new networking campaign. The company
Shaun Nichols at CES, Las Vegas, vnunet.com, Wednesday 7 January 2009 at 22:29:00 Low-key CES could indicate larger problem, however The 2009 edition of the Consumer Electronics Show will be all about the green,
Iain Thomson in San Francisco, vnunet.com, Wednesday 7 January 2009 at 19:53:00 Outside the US at least The burgeoning netbook market is helping to drive Linux adoption around the world, according to new figures
Iain Thomson at CES in Las Vegas, vnunet.com, Wednesday 7 January 2009 at 19:26:00 Better batteries and lower power use Toshiba has been showing off new technologies that it hopes will cut the environmental
Iain Thomson at CES in Las Vegas, vnunet.com, Wednesday 7 January 2009 at 19:26:00 Better batteries and lower power use Toshiba has been showing off new technologies that it hopes will cut the environmental
Paul Allen, Computeract!ve, Wednesday 7 January 2009 at 19:23:00 Yahoo and Microsoft to beam straight through to your living room Toshiba TVs will soon offer the ability to view material from the internet along with photographs, movies and music stored
It was about this time of year that it happened. I had been working at Old Man Keffers garage when he dropped dead. That old piece of dried meat didnt leave a damn thing in order, and the bank shut
2008 is over, and its been quite a year. There are plenty of metaphors to go around. Some refer to the Black Swans (which couldnt possibly exist). Another author writes about the tipping point. I like to think of the
For the last 10 years or so we (my wife and I) have been advocating for a change in how our respective families celebrate the Christmas holiday. This year, with the help of circumstance, we decided to cease observation of
In the last few weeks of every year, most of the western world will be celebrating holidays. It is one of the few times if not the only time of year that family and friends get together and share happiness,
When I get into work, I usually put on a CD. Strictly to annoy the broads in the typing pool. I pipe the music through a speaker I set up one night that vents directly into their cess pit of
It is not the responsibility of non-Muslims to look past barbaric evil attack after barbaric evil attack and recognize that moderate Islam still exists. It is the responsibility of moderate Islam to rein in and destroy the madmen emanating from
This is a rewrite of this diary. People were encouraging towards making it a story. Citations will be provided for images since that jew bastard who runs the place hasnt enabled image tags yet. Making beer is pretty easy, and
I had been running QNX 6.3 on my trusty old 1.4 GHz Pentium III system with two gigs of memory for the last couple years and it was alright. Never quite fast enough despite decent hardware (P3 chips were 2x
The fridge in the kitchen nearest to me at my place of work has a bunch of those dictionary fridge magnets on it. Over the last few months the face of the fridge has been the subject of a fascinating
Two essays from Ayn Rands The Virtue of Selfishness are reprinted in Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal as the ethical basis for her moral defense of capitalism. Mans Rights and The Nature of Government are pedestrian defenses of a natural law
A recent episode of Boston Legal featured a courtroom drama where a farmer filed suit in order to be able to test all of her herd for BSE1/vCJD, the agent which causes mad cow disease (otherwise known a bovine spongioform
First, they say that between 160,000 and 3 million manufacturing jobs are on the line, but then turn around and blame the unions (the organization that represents those workers). In fact, foreign (mainly Japanese) automakers employ almost as many Americans
The other day, while booting my eight-core 3.2 GHz Mac Pro with 32 GB RAM, I watched my system startup messages (nvram boot-args=-v) and thought of Darwins origins at NeXT as a pastiche of academic research and hacker hobby. Darwin
First off, I WAS COMPLETELY WRONG. So much for predictions of a year and a half ago. Looking back its easy to see what happened. There is a collective sigh of relief throughout the U.S. and most of the world
On election day, Californians narrowly approved Proposition 8, an initiative to amend the state constitution to include only marriage between a man and a woman is valid. Undoubtedly this vote was a setback for gay rights throughout the country, but
Around here, its basically preaching to the choir, so most of you probably recognize this already, but buying anything with DRM on it is basically asking for trouble down the road. The latest example? An eBook seller named Fictionwise has
One of the more important points made in Matt Masons book, The Pirates Dilemma is that piracy almost always is a leading indicator for what the market wants, but isnt being delivered. This is a point thats extremely difficult for
BoingBoing has the latest story of trademark insanity, where a charity focused on the rare, but apparently serious disease of Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia (CDH), is trying to trademark the phrase Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Awareness and appears to be threatening other
It happens over and over again... if you cant innovate to compete, why not litigate to compete? Broadband Reports points out that Charter Communications is now suing Verizon for patent infringement relating to Verizons FiOS fiber optic internet connections. The
A Skeptical Cynic among our readers points us to a post over on the EFFs blog about how Apple is still a huge supporter of DRM, despite getting the record labels to dump DRM from music files. This isnt a
A popular theme at this years Consumer Electronics Show is merging the internet with the television. As the WSJ reports, a number of companies have announced products that aim to bring net content into the living room: some LG televisions
Most of the time when we see studies about the cost related to being online, its about how much it costs in various places to get connected. However, a study over in the UK is looking at the cost of
While legislators try (and fail) to ban the use of mobile phones while driving, the market for technology to kill phone use while driving is heating up. Last month, a company announced a device aimed at stopping teens from talking
This probably wont come as a surprise to pretty much anyone, but a new study by Ofcom in the UK found that, on average, customers received bandwidth at approximately 45% of the speed that was being advertised. Welcome to the
Sure, weve seen all sorts of moral panic-type reports about kids not thinking so much about the consequences of what content they reveal about themselves online, but it still strikes me as a bit unlikely that one in five teens
A newly published study from Oxford University suggests that Tetris is a useful tool for treating post-traumatic stress disorder. The study doesnt seem wholly comprehensive, but the basic idea is that the game engages the mind in such a way
Whenever we talk about changes impacting the movie industry or the television industry, theres always someone who chimes in with claims about how will we be able to make $200 million movies any more? Of course, that question has a
The DMCA has plenty of problems, but one of the more ridiculous is the whole concept of the notice and takedown procedure that service providers need to follow. Basically, if a copyright holder feels that its copyright is being infringed,
Weve seen stories of people being fired over email and even text message before, but now theres a story of a Canadian spa worker fired via Facebook (via Michael Geist). The woman still got dressed and went to in to
Right after the election, there was plenty of talk about how President-elect Obama would need to give up email just as President Bush did when he took office eight years ago. As plenty of people pointed out at the time,
In trying to explain why a music tax is a bad idea, I pointed out that if you start with music, you quickly have to start adding pretty much every industry disrupted by the internet. The obvious one is movies,
Ive said in the past that economic bubbles arent necessarily a bad thing for the overall economy. Afterall, a bubble (at least one in a productive area, such as technology) tends to get a lot of money thrown at some
There have been several signs over the past year that movie theaters are beginning to understand that they need to change their businesses if they are to stay in business -- for example: bigger and better screens, more luxurious environments,
An anonymous reader called our attention to a comment reposting some fantastic thinking on the dangerous trend of believing we can own, sell or steal ideas. The comment was in response to a post on Slashdot from a college student
Trent Reznor is making it awfully difficult for me to finish the presentation Im giving about him next week at MidemNet, because he keeps on doing stuff that should be mentioned in that presentation (I may have to ask the
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