Tuesday, February 12, 2008, 01:14 PM - techFoo
I haven't read it yet, but I'm salvating at the prospect of a new Firefly novel. Hats off to Steven Brust for the effort.
Now, go read it!
More fan fic here .
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Thursday, February 7, 2008, 12:44 PM - techFoo
Now here is a petition worth signing.
Please complete this petition so we can add your name to those who want Microsoft to keep Windows XP available indefinitely, rather than force users to upgrade to Windows Vista. With your support, we can convince Microsoft to spare XP’s fate of being discontinued on June 30, 2008.
I, for one, would welcome our .. errr... old overlords ...back.
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Tuesday, January 29, 2008, 03:33 AM - techFoo
A friend of mine switched to running RAID 0 on his main system. I tried to convince him that if he lost just one of the disks, he would lose Operating System, Files, and Settings; Everything. He replied, "It's nothing important, only Vista"
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Friday, December 14, 2007, 08:23 PM - techFoo
The integral z-squared dz
From one to the cube root of three
Times the cosine
Of three pi over nine
Equals log of the cube root of e.
Found here.
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Tuesday, June 6, 2006, 06:02 PM - techFoo
Allchin says Ballmer, the world's 13th wealthiest man with a fortune of about $18 billion, spent almost two days trying to rid the PC of worms, viruses, spyware, malware and severe fragmentation without success.
He lumped the thing back to Microsoft's headquarters and turned it over to a team of top engineers, who spent several days on the machine, finding it infected with more than 100 pieces of malware, some of which were nearly impossible to eradicate.
Among the problems was a program that automatically disabled any antivirus software.
"This really opened our eyes to what goes on in the real world," Allchin told the audience.
(Emphasis mine)
It's 2006 and it took this for them to realize this?
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Friday, March 31, 2006, 03:07 PM - techFoo
6. The discoverer has worked in isolation. The image of a lone genius who struggles in secrecy in an attic laboratory and ends up making a revolutionary breakthrough is a staple of Hollywood's science-fiction films, but it is hard to find examples in real life. Scientific breakthroughs nowadays are almost always syntheses of the work of many scientists.
"the lone genuis" ... I thought he was referring to me for a minute there.
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Tuesday, February 14, 2006, 08:15 PM - techFoo
;)
Take the test:
Your Ultimate Sci-Fi Profile II: which sci-fi crew would you best fit in? (pics)
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Friday, February 3, 2006, 02:53 PM - techFoo
in Cartoon Format.My dad made us learn with flash cards when I was in grade school, 35 years ago. I'm glad he did.
UPDATE: Used it last night to teach my 12 year old daughter about Base-2 (binary), and Base-16 (hexadecimal). w00t!
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Wednesday, February 1, 2006, 03:13 PM - techFoo
Interesting article regarding telcos “$200 Billion Broadband Scandal.”
Broadband Scandals is a well-documented expose, 406 pages and 528 footnotes. Using the phone companies’ own words (and well as other sources), the book outlines a massive nationwide scandal that affects every aspect of state of the Internet. Not only the web but broadband, municipalities laying fiber or building wifi networks, not to mention related issues such as such as VOIP, cable services, the cost of local phone service, net neutrality, the new digital divide, and even America’s economic growth.
The fiber optic infrastructure you paid for was never delivered.
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Tuesday, January 24, 2006, 04:25 PM - techFoo
O'Reilly books have long been my recommendation for non-novice users (Dummies series for novices; I've used them myself). Their website is both deep and wide with content. I just discovered Hacks.| [ 0 trackbacks ] | permalink | related link
Monday, January 16, 2006, 03:51 PM - techFoo
The Web's Download Disasters, Inaugural Edition
When we first started crawling the Web looking for bad downloads last year, we weren't sure what we'd find. Today, a million Web sites and 140,000 download tests later, I can say with confidence that there are some great programs to be downloaded out there. I can say with equal confidence that there's also plenty of train wrecks waiting to happen to your PC.
Wallpaper, screensavers, and smileys; you've been warned.
Unless you use Linux, UNIX, or a Mac.
Then you'll just laugh.
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Monday, January 16, 2006, 02:03 PM - techFoo
A Selfridges spokeswoman said the courses were one-to-one "iPod Survival" sessions and follow questions from its dimwitted customers on how to use iTunes, installing and deleting videos, creating playlists and downloading Podcasts. The courses are given either in-store or on a home visit.
P.T. Barnum would be proud.
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