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04 Dec 2001 CIO: People Who Need People. Good piece about the role of community in coporate web sites. [thanks, Tomalak's Realm]
[ 04-Dec-01 6:24am ] Ransom Project - Theoretic Solutions : The Ransom Project is a software publishing model where the rights to the source code remain restricted until a set amount of money is collected or a set date passes, at which point the code is freed One solution to the problem of compensating programmers for open source work.
[ 04-Dec-01 6:19am ] 03 Dec 2001 Drupal for Klogs. Dries Buytaert, the creator of Drupal, sent this reply to John Robb's K-Logs mailing list, but it didn't make John's cut. No, I don't want to get involved in any controversy surrounding John's policies. He's writing excellent stuff and has every right to moderate as he sees fit. [thanks, Blogarithms] But I got this past the censor. So Drupal still got it's mention.
[ 03-Dec-01 8:08am ] Little mini text ads done as a linkshare system by a guy in India. Now you can be a BlogSnob! Nice.
[ 03-Dec-01 8:02am ] 02 Dec 2001 Anthrax found in email attachment : McAffee have proposed a number of safety measures. Firstly, cover your computer with fine gauze to prevent any spores from escaping through the fan vent.
 [ 02-Dec-01 8:32am ] There's really quite a cool little announcement of a system from IBM to turn any machine into a web server, with dyndns based on your email address and shared cacheing among peers so that the content is still available if your machine goess off air. Here's Slashdot's take on it.Slashdot | uServ -- P2P Webserver from IBM Inevitably, they pour scorn. But the ideas are still neat. Of course, IBM is talking about selling the code. But there's enough detail in the article to be the base of an open source development. And the technology's really not that hard. Bet you could do the entire thing, both client and server in perl/python. Even PHP if you bundled apache/php. And in fact Magi does almost all of this already.
[ 02-Dec-01 8:14am ] 01 Dec 2001 The Home Depot Bet - Home Depot Bet Weblog - Coming Soon : Many people asked what it was like to spend 16 hours in the home depot. For those who want to know I provide you with a transcript of the journal that I kept during the event. It is raw and unedited so be warned. Due to the state of insanity that I was in on this strange day I take no responsibility for what I wrote. File under bizarre behaviour.
[ 01-Dec-01 8:00am ] 30 Nov 2001 I love Friday nights. c/o NTK, I get to discover 10 Things you genuinely never knew about......The Queen Mother
[ 30-Nov-01 8:16pm ] The Register : The industry group set up to help drive the Government's broadband strategy is due to publish its final report on Monday.
The report claimed that the pricing of ADSL is a "huge issue" and warned that the proposed price point of around £50 a month is regarded as a "death knell for ADSL". Instead, the BSG said the cost of ADSL for home users should be between £20 and £30 a month, which would put it on a par with countries such as Korea and Singapore. To which I say "Bollox" The magic price point is £10 per month. And £20 pm for 1Mb/s symmetric with no restrictions. If they really want to see some demand, that'll do it. Come on guys, light up that fibre! Now with Moore's and Gilder's laws are those prices really so unreasonable? I was paying £10 pm 8 years ago for 14.4K, The same price now for 256K is not so ridiculous. [ 30-Nov-01 5:53pm ] The Register : Music sharing operation KaZaA has responded to a Dutch court's order to cease infringing copyright by stating that it is impossible for it to do so. The bext thing for KaZaA to do right now is declare bankruptcy and go out of business. Shortly after leaking their protocols of course. I hope they've got the balls to do this, although I suspect they'll be suckered into trying to keep going and end up racking up huge lawyers fees.
When will the RIAA realize that pandora's box is open? KaZaA's code is currently exposing and distributing more MP3s than at Napster's peak. [ 30-Nov-01 5:46pm ] What if your name was an Acronym? BOND = Being Optimized for Nocturnal Destruction!
[ 30-Nov-01 3:19pm ] 29 Nov 2001 Sending a malformed SMS message to some Nokia phones can crash the phone and lock the user out.Link [thanks, bOing bOing] I'm not in favour of cracking, but this is rather cool. You can kill some Nokia cell phones with a carefully mal-formed SMS message. They need to be reset afterwards and possibly need a new SIM card afterwards or they don't even turn on. So the big question is whether you can combine this technique with a PDA and scanner to deliberately target the infuriating person at the next table in the restaurant. Not that I'd encourage that sort of behaviour!
[ 29-Nov-01 8:21am ] In an act of guilty patriotism, liberal SUV owners are finally swapping their gas-guzzling behemoths to help reduce America's unsustainable dependence on foreign oil. [thanks, Alternet.org] D o you believe this? I don't believe this! It's an American's goddess given right to take the kids to school in an 8litre V10 Dodge Ramcharger Light Truck, "because it's safer".
[ 29-Nov-01 8:18am ] Yaysoft.com - Redefining Pointlessness A weblog directory derived from weblogs.com stats.
[ 29-Nov-01 7:54am ] 28 Nov 2001 Web Services Architect : Articles : UDDI - the Weather Report : 48% of the production UDDI registry (tModels tested only) has links that are unusable. These pointers contain missing, broken or inaccurate information. Hmm? More work needed here by the UDDI.org. Should we take this as another reason for building an independent distributed registry but using the UDDI standards?
[ 28-Nov-01 1:24pm ] I've just come across another mailing list discussing the use of weblogs in Knowledge management. Particularly for business use inside corporations and de-centralized workgroups. It's the aptly named Klogs list and has nothing to do with the Dutch! http://groups.yahoo.com/group/klogs
27 Nov 2001 Take your Unix Netscape bookmarks files plus this http://bk2site.sourceforge.net/ to make this http://www.multiagent.com/ completely automatically. How cool is that! I wonder if this could be done with Internet Exploder? Maybe by auto-FTPing the bookmark folders to a *nix webserver?
[ 27-Nov-01 9:42pm ] BroadBand Britain : The aim of the campaign is to generate an independent on-line petition to illustrate the depth of feeling of the British business and consumer publics - "We want a million signatures by Christmas!"
[ 27-Nov-01 6:34pm ] 26 Nov 2001 Craig asks "Why is this man smirking?" -- referring to John Ashcroft and his ever-present smug. Well, I'll tell you why... Evil Emperor Asscroft is smirking because he loves watching freedom shrivel and twitch as it dies --writhing in pain-- as the dark lightning crackles from his powerful fingertips. Emporer Asscroft cannnot contain the deep, sick pleasure he feels inside... seeing how Operation Enduring Evil is proceeding so well. [thanks, blackholebrain] I've just seen Dubya on the TV. He was telling a joke about how they said they'd get the Afghanis (or Taliban as they're usually known) on the run and now they were on the run. Apart from finding this really offensive, I wonder about the lack of gravitas in Dubya. Even when he's serious he has this unfortunate habit of smirking at the camera. We're also getting the propoganda build up about moving into Iraq, Somalia and Yemen next, now this one's nearly over. Presumably they all have oil that we need? Or do they all grow poppies? Or am I just a cynical old bastard who shouldn't ask these questions, because that means I don't care about Sept 11? For more on this and other questions, try today's Mike Hume column in The Times.
[ 26-Nov-01 6:45pm ] A new, miniature, fuel-powered engine the size of a shirt button could prove to be an alternative to the run-of-the-mill battery. By Louise Knapp. Mmmm! Hydrogen powered, gas turbine, electricity generator, with a rotor that does 1-2.4 million rpm, and generates 20W. And all in a 1cm3 package (without fuel). Butane or similar would be a whole lot easier than hydrogen, but pretty cool nonetheless. [thanks, Wired News]
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