10 Latest News, Blogs, Tips, and Reviews that I find Interesting and Useful:
1. Yahoo rejects joint-bid for search business by Icahn and Microsoft
Yahoo announced Saturday night that it rejected a joint-buyout proposal that Microsoft and investor activist Carl Icahn offered the night before, which called for a "complex restructuring" and sale of Yahoo's search business to Microsoft.
More @ CNET News
2. ReiserFS Dev Leads Cops to Wife's Body
Hans Reiser has led authorities to a body believed to be that of his estranged wife in the hills of Oakland, Calif. The area where the body was recovered is less than a mile away from where Reiser lived. She disappeared in 2006; he was found guilty of her murder in April.
More @ LinuxInsider
3. Introduction to Google Ranking
In May, Udi Manber introduced our search quality group, the group responsible for the ranking of search results. He introduced various teams within "Quality" (as we like to call the group) including Core Ranking, International Search, User Interfaces, Evaluation, Webspam, and other teams. In this post, I want to tell you more about one of these: the Core Ranking team.
More @ Googleblog
Yahoo announced Saturday night that it rejected a joint-buyout proposal that Microsoft and investor activist Carl Icahn offered the night before, which called for a "complex restructuring" and sale of Yahoo's search business to Microsoft.
More @ CNET News
2. ReiserFS Dev Leads Cops to Wife's Body
Hans Reiser has led authorities to a body believed to be that of his estranged wife in the hills of Oakland, Calif. The area where the body was recovered is less than a mile away from where Reiser lived. She disappeared in 2006; he was found guilty of her murder in April.
More @ LinuxInsider
3. Introduction to Google Ranking
In May, Udi Manber introduced our search quality group, the group responsible for the ranking of search results. He introduced various teams within "Quality" (as we like to call the group) including Core Ranking, International Search, User Interfaces, Evaluation, Webspam, and other teams. In this post, I want to tell you more about one of these: the Core Ranking team.
More @ Googleblog
4. Clove 2 glove for one handed input
5. Penumbra Overture - If You Dare
I've always liked computer games. When I used Windows I liked to play games like Myst and Riven, but when I switched to Linux I had to be contented with first-person shooters. Fortunately, they do have a bit of puzzle intermixed with all the combat, but I still grow weary of gunfight after gunfight. That's why when I heard of Penumbra, I was quite excited.
More @ Tuxmachines
6. Monkeypatching For Humans
Although I love strings, sometimes the String class can break your heart. For example, in C#, there is no String.Left() function. Fair enough; we can roll up our sleeves and write our own function lickety-split:
More @ CodingHorror
7. Book review: Blender 3D: Architecture, Buildings, and Scenery
You probably know the open source 3-D modeler Blender for its animation tools, which have brought audiences short films Elephants Dream and Big Buck Bunny. But Blender can create realistic 3-D models for any purpose, as Allan Brito's Blender 3D: Architecture, Buildings, and Scenery (Packt Publishing, $45) presents. This book approaches Blender as an architecture visualization tool, detailing the features built in to the editor and the techniques that make architectural modeling differ from crafting game or video effects.
More @ Linux.com
I've always liked computer games. When I used Windows I liked to play games like Myst and Riven, but when I switched to Linux I had to be contented with first-person shooters. Fortunately, they do have a bit of puzzle intermixed with all the combat, but I still grow weary of gunfight after gunfight. That's why when I heard of Penumbra, I was quite excited.
More @ Tuxmachines
6. Monkeypatching For Humans
Although I love strings, sometimes the String class can break your heart. For example, in C#, there is no String.Left() function. Fair enough; we can roll up our sleeves and write our own function lickety-split:
More @ CodingHorror
7. Book review: Blender 3D: Architecture, Buildings, and Scenery
You probably know the open source 3-D modeler Blender for its animation tools, which have brought audiences short films Elephants Dream and Big Buck Bunny. But Blender can create realistic 3-D models for any purpose, as Allan Brito's Blender 3D: Architecture, Buildings, and Scenery (Packt Publishing, $45) presents. This book approaches Blender as an architecture visualization tool, detailing the features built in to the editor and the techniques that make architectural modeling differ from crafting game or video effects.
More @ Linux.com
8. iPhone 3G review
9. Companies Love and Loathe IM
Companies can see the benefits surrounding the use of Instant Messaging (IM), but the vast majority still ban its use within their organization, so says a new survey.
More @ PCWorld
Companies can see the benefits surrounding the use of Instant Messaging (IM), but the vast majority still ban its use within their organization, so says a new survey.
More @ PCWorld
10. Random Favorites (Philippine Tech News and Blogs)
*Better by Design - A User Interface Heuristics - My Digital Corner
*HowTo: Install and Run Microsoft Money 2004 on Wine 1.1/Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 - dannybuntu
*How To Make Fedora Support Communication Between Infrared Devices - ILoveTux.com
*100th Post! KDE 4.1 Rocks, School, Textpattern, and C - Jucato’s Data Core
*New Mouse from Microsoft- Tech at Hand
*HowTo: Install and Run Microsoft Money 2004 on Wine 1.1/Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 - dannybuntu
*How To Make Fedora Support Communication Between Infrared Devices - ILoveTux.com
*100th Post! KDE 4.1 Rocks, School, Textpattern, and C - Jucato’s Data Core
*New Mouse from Microsoft- Tech at Hand
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