Wisdom from the net as collected by Charlie (aka Cyberchuck)
Jul 31st 2006cyberchucktxEnergy & Technical
The Oil Drum: Discussions about Energy and Our Future. “We all see the petroleum economy as the fundamental linchpin of our present democratic society. As cheap oil/energy/gas quietly fades into history, lives around the world will indeed change.” Continue Reading »
Jul 31st 2006cyberchucktxMacintosh & Programming & Technical
Jul 31st 2006cyberchucktxLINUX & Marketplace & Technical
Cedega and Linux – Let the Windows games begin: article on TransGaming.org, a WINE implementation optimized for Windows games on LINUX. Continue Reading »
Jul 31st 2006cyberchucktxClusters & LINUX & Networking & Open Source & Technical & Virtualization
ATA Over Ethernet: Putting Hard Drives on the LAN article in Kernel Korner at Linux Journal. “With ATA hard drives now being cheaper than tape, this simple new storage technology enables you to build storage arrays for archives, backup or live use.” Continue Reading »
Jul 31st 2006cyberchucktxArt & Media & Online
New-Media Power List : a WSJ-produced survey (GIF image of page). “Unknown directors, writers, and producers are being catapulted into positions of enormous influence. Below, our survey.”
Jul 30th 2006cyberchucktxProgramming & Smalltalk
SqueakGtk: port of GTK+ toolkit to Squeak. This project aims to create a Gtk (GNOME GUI) wrapper for Smalltalk Squeak. Actually, wxSqueak is the unique and therefore the most important GUI Toolkit port for Squeak.
Jul 30th 2006cyberchucktxLINUX & Open Source & Programming & Technical
Parallel Programming : article at LINUX Journal. “Whether you’re a scientist, graphic artist, musician or movie executive, you can benefit from the speed and price of today’s high-performance Beowulf clusters.” Continue Reading »
Jul 29th 2006cyberchucktxJAVA & Programming & XML
Jul 29th 2006cyberchucktxHumor & Technical2
Happy Sysadmin Day from a UK Unix / Linux User Group. Somewhat droll animation, loosely inspired by BOFH.
Jul 28th 2006cyberchucktxBlogging & Media & Online & RSS & Technical & Web & Web22
Jul 28th 2006cyberchucktxLiberal & Politics & Progressive
Jul 26th 2006cyberchucktxNetworking & PHP & Programming & Technical & Web22
PHlyMail: – Your Email Everywhere. Nicely done webapp (in PHP) which is a “Webmail on steroids” (my phrase). Has free (lite, single user) and for-pay versions (depending on number of users).
Jul 26th 2006cyberchucktxAJAX & Politics & Programming & Technical & Technical3 & Web22
Jul 26th 2006cyberchucktxMarketplace & Technical & Video & Web22
GetMyVideo: Video Publishing, Searching and Viewing in one application. Product from a Dallas-based company (GMVH Corporation) that allows for cross-platform sharing of video. Currently (mainly) available on Wnidows, but uses Open Source products like MPLAYER so can be produced for multiple platforms (LINUX, UNIX, MacOSX, etc.)
Jul 25th 2006cyberchucktxMarketplace & Open Source & Technical
The Open Source Collective, Inc.: holding company encompassing OpenSourceHost, opensourceCMS, Open Source @ Work, OpenSourceServers, and OpenSourceFund. These five distinct, but synergistic entities, are a unique and valuable asset to the open source community.
Jul 25th 2006cyberchucktxJavascript & Programming
Easy Forms Validation via Javascript from Epointment (”Easiest Validate On Submit 1.0″ script).
Jul 25th 2006cyberchucktxMacintosh & Technical
Experimenting With Light and Motion On Apple Notebook Computers: including verbal descriptions and actual code to use the motion and light sensors built-in to all Apple laptops.
Jul 25th 2006cyberchucktx3D & Graphics & Technical & Video
Image navigation, with a sci-fi touch : CNET article about Touchlight, a 3D touchscreen technology similar to that featured in the scifi flick “Minority Report”. Here’s a research paper to be presented this month (PDF document).
Jul 25th 2006cyberchucktxMacintosh & Networking & Open Source & Security & Technical
Mac GNU Privacy Guard: GPG for MacOSX. Provides encryption capabilities for the Mac including a utility / enhancement to Apple Mail and other MacOSX-based EMAIL clients. Continue Reading »
Jul 24th 2006cyberchucktxTechnical & Web22
Stunnix Advanced Web Server: an advanced cross-platform Web Server for desktop applications and removable media link CDROMs and DVDs. [ Note: Commercial license required.] Continue Reading »
