I have been pretty happy with Gmail. I use it to read my primary mail account and keep another account there for lower priority things. One of the things I don’t like about it is that dots are removed from the name space. johndoe@gmail.com is the same thing as john.doe@gmail.com. I have seen phishing emails [...]
I have decided to a category of “Douchbags” for those people who deserve the title. First up: some twits at Microsoft who filed for a patent for “sparklines”. Sparklines are small graphics and the Wiki page describes them well. These people at Microsoft filed for a patent on this: Samuel Chow Radakovitz, (Redmond, WA, US) [...]
This is amazing work. From Stink Digital.
When I first saw it, I thought it was chivalry. That is funny. Chirality relates to the way molecules are organized: The technique the team has developed for detecting life elsewhere in the universe will not spot aliens directly. Rather, it could allow spaceborne instruments to see a telltale sign that life may have influenced [...]
The French police have saved millions by switching to Ubuntu. Who knew? France’s Gendarmerie Nationale, the country’s national police force, says it has saved millions of dollars by migrating its desktop software infrastructure away from Microsoft Windows and replacing it with the Ubuntu Linux distribution. The Gendarmerie began its transition to open source software in [...]
Microsoft got a patent on putting a cmputer in a car. Really. A vehicle computer system has a housing sized to be mounted in a vehicle dashboard or other appropriate location. A computer is mounted within the housing and executes an open platform, multi-tasking operating system. The computer runs multiple applications on the operating system, [...]
Some moron at CNet needs to fill what passes for column inches in cyberspace and tries to list failed processors. You can tell that he is not an engineer. He lists the Itanium, the PowerPC and the AMD Puma. He doesn’t mention the superior server performance of the Power archtecture. He says that the PowerPC [...]
He calls his pages “Jörg’s useful and ugly pages“, but they are not ugly. He has collected a great bunch of stuff about algorithms. Check out “Algorithms for Programmers”, a work in progress and currently a PDF file of nearly 1000 pages. CORDIC algorithms? Check. Fast wavelet transforms? Check. ? Check. It is all there.
So, Windows 7 Starter Edition is good for only three applications? Microsoft’s decision to limit Windows 7 Starter Edition to running only three concurrent applications could force up the price of netbooks in the UK. The company announced last week that it was launching Windows 7 Starter Edition as a low-cost option designed specifically for [...]
I found this article on line and there are 31 other statements as inane as this one. Note that the title is ‘search’, but the paragraph which follows says nothing about it. 32 Reasons why PCs are Better than Macs – Features – PC Authority 9 – Superior search facilities Our counterparts over at MacUser [...]