Placeopedia.com – Connecting Wikipedia articles with their locations
Placeopedia.com cleverly lets you link Wikipedia articles to Google Maps data. It’s interesting to see the combination of two great Internet resources together.
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A Color Portrait of the English Language
It’s a map of 33,000 English nouns. Each noun is assigned a tiny rectangle who’s color is based on an internet image search for that noun. It’s interesting so see what causes some of the color aberations – for example… Read More »A Color Portrait of the English Language
How to become a hacker
Nat Friedman has an interesting article on his blog, entitled “How to become a hacker” – and by hacker, he means computer programmer. He lists the secret as this: Download the source code to the program you want to change… Read More »How to become a hacker
Zenworks 7 Imaging
From evilzenscientist’s blog: “evilzenscientist :: thoughts � ZENworks 7 imaging: “ZENworks OS imaging has always been based on the Linux kernel – it’s fast, efficient, has a great networking stack and is also extensible. None of the problems of DOS… Read More »Zenworks 7 Imaging
Corsaire White Paper: Securing Mac OS X
I just ran across the Corsaire White Paper: Securing Mac OS X via Slashdot. It’s a good read, and mentions quite a few things that should be in place for a mac with critical data, software, or network access.
Toms Networking Reviews Asterisk@Home
Tom’s Networking has a nice review of Asterisk@Home – it’s a nice read aimed at the tech literate who might be somewhat new to VoIP. If you’re looking for a live linux asterisk distro, Asterisk@Home is my personal preference.
Zenworks Imaging boot cds
I’ve been having fits getting zenworks imaging to work with Dell Optiplex GX280s and GX510s. I finally came up with a solution that works 100% of the time. Set the SATA drive to compatibility mode in BIOS, and use the… Read More »Zenworks Imaging boot cds
NX
I’ve been very interested in the series Linux Journal has been running on NX. They describe it as: “a new technology that allows one to run remote X11 sessions across slow or low-bandwidth network connections. User experience with NX is… Read More »NX
Open SUSE
Novell has recently “opened” their development of SUSE Linux, creating a project called Open SUSE To clarify what Novell means when it says it is “opening” SUSE, Mancusi-Ungaro says “SUSE Linux is already open from a code perspective. [It] has… Read More »Open SUSE
Google News RSS Feeds
From the Google blog: Posted by Vijay Boyapati, Software Engineer “For some time now, the Google News team has noticed a steady uptick in feature requests for feed support. We are happy to announce that starting today you’ll be able… Read More »Google News RSS Feeds