I’ll try to keep this short, but here is my experience trying to install Ubuntu on my Dell Inspiron 1100 running Windows XP SP2.
I’m an IT professional, and I keep hearing that Ubuntu is incredibly simple to install, etc. etc. So I finally get around to cleaning up the hard drive space necessary and downloading […]
I really wasn’t going to post anything else about the iPhone, at the very least until I use one myself. But Abe’s notes are very good, if you’re at all interested in seeing an critical look at the interface design of this product.
Interesting notes about the non-tactile buttons. One complaint I’ve heard is […]
Check out this comparison test of a 86 Mac Plus Vs. 07 AMD DualCore:
Check out the results! For the functions that people use most often, the 1986 vintage Mac Plus beats the 2007 AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+: 9 tests to 8! Out of the 17 tests, the antique Mac won 53% of the time! […]
Not as pretty as the iPhone, but it’s much smaller than it looks in the above pic.
More info: Neo1973 entry on Wikipedia.
(Above: Nokia 800 running Linux)
A friend of mine bought an iPhone this weekend, and I can now safely say I wouldn’t buy one, even if I had the money. She dropped $600 on the thing, but now can’t use it for anything (except emergency calls) - no music, no PDA, nothing - until her current […]
I’ve been meaning to comment on Abe’s comments on my Myspace vs. Friendster post, but now comes along something else interesting:
Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace by danah boyd.
This is well done and interesting. I’ve got nothing to argue with here, per se. But what’s interesting to me is that Facebook has only […]
On IM this morning:
Klintron: the google phone will crush the iphone
Klintron: and it will be free
Klintron: but it will record all of your conversations
Dr. Gabbo: and target ads
Dr. Gabbo: into your ear
Klintron: yes
Klintron: it will play little ads while you’re talking based on what you talk about
Dr. Gabbo: that would be fucking funny
Klintron: like […]
Abe says, in reference to this:
It’s funny to read the tech types on this stuff cause they just don’t get culture. Sure the Facebook app platform is light years ahead of what MySpace is doing, but it doesn’t exactly help you promote your band or your photo studio or your art does it? I’m actually […]
Something’s bothering me about my mobile technology and public space post (besides sounding like an anarcho-hippie by talking about “reclaiming” something), and no one’s called me on it. I utterly failed to make a case for why these changes to public space might be bad.
My attitude towards social change is usually brutal: evolve or die […]
This post Is The Bedouin Worker Killing The Third Place? got me thinking again about the subject of mobile technology and public space. Years ago, there was thread on Margin Walker about “third places” and the concept of “fourth places.”
To sum up, the “first place” is home, the “second place” is work and the “third […]
A while ago Adam Greenfield posted something about the absence of women at tech conferences.
Today he linked to this. Maybe it’s shit like this that keeps women away from tech conferences, and the tech industry in general.
Cory Doctorow says:
A Platform for RFID Security and Privacy Administration is a paper by Melanie R. Rieback and Georgi N. Gaydadjiev that won the award for Best Paper at the USENIX LISA (Large Installation Systems Administration) conference today. It proposes a “firewall for RFID tags” — a device that sits on your person and jams […]
I’m pleased to announce that I’ve joined the team at WorldChaning as part of their local blog initiative. I’ll be a regular contributor to the Portland blog and will likely be involved in whatever local events take place. I’ll be at the WorldChanging tour stops in Portland as well. E-mail me or […]
Nicholas Carr on the fact that Google and Windows Live Search place hate site as one of the top results for “Martin Luther King”:
A Microsoft spokesman is even more explicit in asserting that the King result is a manifestation of algorithmic “integrity”:
###The results on Microsoft’s search engine are “not an endorsement, in any way, of […]
I’ve been saying for a while that when MySpace starts letting unsigned musicians sell their MP3s through MySpace, the whole game will change. Usually people just look at me and said “You mean if MySpace…” Well, they’re doing it, and they’re doing it right (no DRM). No word on whether they’re letting […]
Attensa (my employers) are previewing Attensa for Outlook 1.5 at Syndicate today (see the announcement here). I’ve been testing 1.5 and I have to say, it’s really cool. The AttentionStream™ technology is still young, so don’t expect miracles, but I’m already finding it useful. In the mean time, there’s 1.2 which we’ve […]
Josh Ellis’s latest rant about the Grim Meathook Future (this time he talks a bit about the alternatives):
It’s a simple fact that the American lifestyle is unsustainable for more than maybe another decade. That means that all of the companies that are in the business of outfitting that lifestyle are screwed. It’s hard to sell […]
I remain skeptical of whether we’re truely entering some sort of post-capitalist “attention economy.” But I’m a techie, not an economist, so I’ll leave that discussion to people better suited for it for the time being.
Regardless, attention is the new technological frontier. Reading through notes from ETech 2006, as well as other recent blogosphere […]
Another plea for help from my readership:
I’m trying to use this WordPress hack to import my del.icio.us bookmarks in WP: YADD.
I’m having trouble figuring out how to setup the chronjob right. If anyone could help me out, or at least point me to a relevant guide to setting up chronjobs, that’d be great (my […]