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“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.”
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“In this article we discuss a variety of common causes of poor digital images, and present some tips on diagnosing and correcting the problems.”(categories: HOWTO Photography)
Monthly Archives: December 2004
links for 2004-12-29
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“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)
Virtual Apple ][ Online Disk Archive
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, play, and enjoy old Apple 2 games and other disks through the internet and web browser. This web site uses an ActiveX application and Apple IIgs emulator to automatically download and play most Apple 2 disk images online. To play a game, just select the disk from the menu and click on Yes to automatically download the ActiveX emulator and disk images. (Note: Requires Internet Explorer and Windows) Don’t worry, there isn’t any spyware to worry about, and it’s completely free!” (via Boing Boing)
links for 2004-12-28
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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
links for 2004-12-27
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“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.”
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Matrix compares Desktop Search offerings(categories: Search)
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“This article is about a method of reducing noise in images taken with digital cameras – especially long exposure and/or high ISO images taken with digital SLRs.”(categories: HOWTO Photography)
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Nice…”Spoils of an old laptop”
links for 2004-12-24
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Newseum site has has scans of newspaper front pages… interesting…
links for 2004-12-23
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Great stroy … I loved that Calculator
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“…several large Bittorrent tracker sites were shut down, citing concerns about problems with copyright holders.The movie studios think this is a good thing. They’re wrong. P2P is the Content Industry’s worst nightmare….”
links for 2004-12-21
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“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.”
Fax You!
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 bloody fax machine!
Blinkx Video Search
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 the starting blocks (too bad they don’t offer the results in RSS with enclosures)
“The beta offering, dubbed Blinkx TV, captures and indexes video and audio streams directly from television and radio broadcasters to make available news, sports and entertainment clips, the company said. The engine lets people group specific searches using “smart folders” that continuously collect multimedia content from sources including Fox News, HBO, ESPN, National Public Radio and the BBC World Service.” (via
CNET)
links for 2004-12-14
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Wireless (802.11g) Drive Enclosure from Asus… I want one!
links for 2004-12-13
IBM the Google for businesses?
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 building software it hopes will make it the Google of corporate-search technology.”
“IBM is constructing a content management and search product line through acquisitions and by sifting through the results of its research and development labs.” (e.g. WebFountain)
“We very much view unstructured information evolving the same way that relational databases evolved, where companies want to have content repositories that will serve multiple applications…”
links for 2004-12-11
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“We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of TheOpenCD v2.0”
links for 2004-12-10
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“This spreadsheet reads in the RSS feed that Bungie provides for your game information”
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I like this! “Feedspeaker translates text RSS Feeds into badly spoken MP3 files. I like to pretend Stephen Hawking is reading my favorite blogs to me on my way to work.”