Wisdom from the net as collected by Charlie (aka Cyberchuck)
Jun 30th 2006cyberchucktxMedia & Mobile Communications & Online & Politics & Progressive2 & Technical & Technical3 & Web
Smart Mobs: blog and book by Howard Rheingold, a giant in the online community world (he started The Well in CA). About the book … Continue Reading »
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Jun 30th 2006cyberchucktxMobile Communications & Networking & Technical
Kyocera KR1 EVDO-based Mobile Router: uses Verizon EVDO to provide an instant wireless router. EVDO is one of several 3G (3rd Generation) wireless/cell-based high-speed Internet technologies in the US (primarily).
Jun 29th 2006cyberchucktxLINUX & Open Source & Technical
Linux Tmxxine: Open Source Time Travel.
[Obviously a future release
Contains: Audacity, Xaralx (Alpha release), NVU, Extra browser codecs, Java, Xfce, 007 Blowfish encryption of individual files, Festival speech synthesis, View Your Mind, Tuxcards as well as all the Puppy programs in 140MB
Has some VERY interesting ideas, particularly ASQ, the “next generation AI language”. Continue Reading »
Jun 29th 2006cyberchucktxSysadmin & Technical
Splunk: search engine for IT data. “Splunk indexes and links together ALL of the data constantly being logged by ANY service, application or device within your data center, regardless of source or format. Free and for-pay versions available Continue Reading »
Jun 29th 2006cyberchucktxHardware & Mobile Communications & Technical & Wearables
ZYPAD wrist PC: “THE WRIST-WORN PC THAT WILL REVOLUTIONISE THE WAY WE USE COMPUTERS”
Amaro (Udine), 28 June 2006 – The Zypad wrist-worn computer was officially unveiled today by Eurotech, a company dedicated to the research, development, production and marketing of miniature computers (NanoPCs) and high processing capacity (HPC) computers. [ Press release (PDF) with images ] Continue Reading »
Jun 28th 2006cyberchucktxFLASH & Programming & Technical & Web22
KartOO: visual meta search engine. Written in FLASH, generates a “knowledge tree” (their term is “interactive maps”).
Jun 28th 2006cyberchucktxOpen Source & Technical
CodePlex: Microsoft’s Community Development Portal.
Microsoft’s first foray into Open Source community-based projects (they use their own “Shared Source” licensing scheme).
Jun 27th 2006cyberchucktxOpen Source & PHP & Programming & Technical & Web22
GNOPE: GUI development with PHP-GTK2. GNOPE is a program management environment, allowing you to download and deploy applications with a graphical user interface written in PHP-GTK2 on many platforms. Continue Reading »
Jun 26th 2006cyberchucktxCMS2 & Technical
Choosing an Open Source CMS (article at NEWSFORGE.COM). t seems as if everyone is a Web publisher today — from the habitual bloggers and online diarists to the companies running major news outlets, portals, and magazines — and they\’re all using some kind of database-backed content management system (CMS) to do it. There are a lot of CMS choices — Drupal, Mambo, Bricolage, WordPress, and Plone are some of the most recognizable names. While they all perform the same basic functions, you have to pick only one. How do you do it? Continue Reading »
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Jun 26th 2006cyberchucktxOpen Source & Programming & Technical
EasyEclipse: free easy-to-use Eclipse distributions and plugins. Cross-platform installation package(s) for Eclipse Continue Reading »
Jun 23rd 2006cyberchucktxTechnical & Web22
The Web Standards Project: a grassroots coalition fighting for standards which ensure simple, affordable access to web technologies for all. Continue Reading »
Jun 23rd 2006cyberchucktxSysadmin & Technical & Web22
Urchin Web Analytics – Linking Directly to Urchin Reports
: support article @ Google (owner of URCHIN) on the topic of “direct linking” to web analytics reports.
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Jun 23rd 2006cyberchucktxTechnical & Web22
The Web Standards Project: a grassroots coalition fighting for standards which ensure simple, affordable access to web technologies for all.
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Jun 22nd 2006cyberchucktxTechnical & Virtualization
Server virtualization: Getting started guide at Techtarget. Good collection of virtualization articles from a variety of sources. This includes web articles and webcasts ranging from “An introduction to virtualization” at kernelthread.com (an excellent article IHMO) to “Business Benefits of Virtualization” at another TechTarget site.
Jun 22nd 2006cyberchucktx3D & Graphics & Technical
BumpTop: fascinating desktop metaphor within a pen-based 3D environment. Includes videos on Youtube illustrating various effects.
Jun 22nd 2006cyberchucktxHumor & Technical2
Movies/ads from Different District (Apple Ads): wonderful Apple ads from the past. See the “Locate a Movie” section (dropdown) to get a list. One of my faves is the Powerbook section… Continue Reading »
Jun 22nd 2006cyberchucktxLINUX & Networking & Sysadmin & Technical
Using Linux iptables or ipchains to set up an internet gateway / firewall / router for home or office.
Jun 21st 2006cyberchucktxNetworking & Sysadmin & Technical
IPTABLES Tutorial 2.0: Well, I found a big empty space in the HOWTO’s out there lacking in information about the iptables and Netfilter functions in the new Linux 2.4.x kernels. Among other things, I’m going to try to answer questions that some might have about the new possibilities like state matching. Most of this will be illustrated with an example rc.firewall.txt file that you can use in your /etc/rc.d/ scripts. Yes, this file was originally based upon the masquerading HOWTO for those of you who recognize it.
Jun 21st 2006cyberchucktxLINUX & Open Source & Sysadmin & Technical
Backup Manager: an easy to use backup tool. Backup Manager is a command line backup tool for GNU/Linux, designed to help you make daily archives of your file system. Continue Reading »
Jun 21st 2006cyberchucktxCollaboration & Media & Online & Social Software & Technical & Web & Web22 & Work
Connotea- a free online reference management service for researchers and clinicians. Connotea is a free website to help researchers and clinicians manage and share information. Continue Reading »