Monthly Archives: December 2004

links for 2004-12-30

Posted on December 30, 2004 by hatch

Games Knoppix “A distribution of Knoppix loaded with games has a bootable CD with 700 MB of open-source games, 3d support for NVIDIA, ATI, and Intel Extreme, gamepad support for XWindows.” (categories: Games Linux Open_Source) Troubleshooting Your Images “In this … Continue reading →

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links for 2004-12-29

Posted on December 29, 2004 by hatch

CEO resigns from PeopleSoft “PeopleSoft founder David Duffield, who returned as chief executive of the business software maker during its takeover battle with rival Oracle, has resigned from the company.” (categories: IT PeopleSoft)

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Virtual Apple ][ Online Disk Archive

Posted on December 29, 2004 by hatch

These guys have an entire library of old Apple ][ programs online that run within the browser. They use an ActiveX control that's an Apple ][gs virtual machine emulator running within the IE... Sweet! [with Virtual Apple]…”you can now relive, … Continue reading →

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links for 2004-12-28

Posted on December 28, 2004 by hatch

Koch’s IT Strategy Last week’s acquisition of Peoplesoft by Oracle is the final example of how badly the original mission of enterprise software–business and technology integration in a box–has failed

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links for 2004-12-27

Posted on December 27, 2004 by hatch

Open Text Summarizer “The Open Text Summarizer is an open source tool for summarizing texts. The program reads a text and decides which sentences are important and which are not.” (categories: Dev Search) Desktop Search Matrix Matrix compares Desktop Search … Continue reading →

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links for 2004-12-24

Posted on December 24, 2004 by hatch

Collection of front pages of today’s newspapers Newseum site has has scans of newspaper front pages… interesting… (categories: News Service)

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links for 2004-12-23

Posted on December 23, 2004 by hatch

The Graphing Calculator Story Great stroy … I loved that Calculator (categories: Mac Software) The MPAA has no idea what’s about to hit them “…several large Bittorrent tracker sites were shut down, citing concerns about problems with copyright holders.The movie … Continue reading →

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links for 2004-12-21

Posted on December 21, 2004 by hatch

VentureBlog: Coming Soon: Desktop In Your Pocket “Last year, I wrote an article about using your mobile device as a window into your desktop world. This year, we are several steps closer to that goal.” (categories: Mobile Search)

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Fax You!

Posted on December 20, 2004 by hatch

I said it last year around this time and the year before too. Now Ev is saying it and of course Anil had said it way before anyone, but PLEASE let us make sure we rid the world of the … Continue reading →

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Blinkx Video Search

Posted on December 16, 2004 by hatch

Not surprisingly we’re going to see much more in the way of video or “multimedia” search from the likes of Yahoo, Google and of course Microsoft, but it looks like the Blinkx Video Search is the first one out of … Continue reading →

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links for 2004-12-14

Posted on December 14, 2004 by hatch

WLAN Hard Drive Box Wireless (802.11g) Drive Enclosure from Asus… I want one! (categories: Hardware IT WiFi)

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links for 2004-12-13

Posted on December 13, 2004 by hatch

Hacking Google Suggest Adam Stiles has some sample code for hacking Google’s new Auto Complete feature (categories: Google Hacks Search) Couchbike “In 2002, two intrepid cyclists rode a human powered couch through Maritime Canada.” (categories: Cycling Humor)

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IBM the Google for businesses?

Posted on December 13, 2004 by hatch

There are few specific details in this article on CNET about IBM’s push into the Enterprise Search market, but it does hint at IBM’s commitment to “higher-margin software and services” during its transition from the PC Hardware space. “IBM is … Continue reading →

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links for 2004-12-11

Posted on December 11, 2004 by hatch

TheOpenCD “We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of TheOpenCD v2.0″ (categories: IT Open_Source Software)

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links for 2004-12-10

Posted on December 10, 2004 by hatch

Halo 2 RSS Excel Workbook “This spreadsheet reads in the RSS feed that Bungie provides for your game information” (categories: Games RSS) FeedSpeaker Blog I like this! “Feedspeaker translates text RSS Feeds into badly spoken MP3 files. I like to … Continue reading →

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