10 Latest News, Blogs, Tips, and Reviews that I find Interesting and Useful:
1. Banish your daemons for a faster Linux PC
In common with other parts of the early Unix operating system, the term 'daemon' gives little away about what its function might be.
More @ TechRadar
2. Bush Data Threatens to Overload Archives
The National Archives has put into effect an emergency plan to handle electronic records from the Bush White House amid growing doubts about whether its new $144 million computer system can cope with the vast quantities of digital data it will receive when President Bush leaves office on Jan. 20.
More @ NYTimes.com
3. Tracking Santa: the backstory
When I look back on four years of tracking Old St. Nick on Christmas Eve, I can't help but smile. The Santa tracker has really come a long way. I always thought NORAD's Santa Tracker was a great holiday tradition, but I felt like it could have been even better if people could visualize exactly where Santa was on Christmas Eve.
More @ Googleblog
In common with other parts of the early Unix operating system, the term 'daemon' gives little away about what its function might be.
More @ TechRadar
2. Bush Data Threatens to Overload Archives
The National Archives has put into effect an emergency plan to handle electronic records from the Bush White House amid growing doubts about whether its new $144 million computer system can cope with the vast quantities of digital data it will receive when President Bush leaves office on Jan. 20.
More @ NYTimes.com
3. Tracking Santa: the backstory
When I look back on four years of tracking Old St. Nick on Christmas Eve, I can't help but smile. The Santa tracker has really come a long way. I always thought NORAD's Santa Tracker was a great holiday tradition, but I felt like it could have been even better if people could visualize exactly where Santa was on Christmas Eve.
More @ Googleblog
4. Tourists Rescued from Swiss Mountains Thanks to Magic iPod
5. Google, WalMart, and MyBarackObama.com: The Power of the Real Time Enterprise
What do Google, WalMart, and MyBarackObama.com have in common, besides their extraordinary success? They are organizations that are infused with IT in such a way that it leads to a qualitative change in their entire business.
More @ OreillyRadar
6. Top Technology Breakthroughs of 2008
Here's our countdown of what rocked our world in 2008 — and what will change yours in 2009 and beyond.
More @ Wired.com
7. My Software Is Being Pirated
If you're at all familiar with computer history, you might have heard of Bill Gates' famous 1976 letter to the Homebrew Computer Club. The letter was written to address rampant piracy of Bill's earliest product, Altair BASIC, which was being passed around quite freely by hobbyists in paper tape form, without any sort of payment to Microsoft (or, as it was then called, Micro-Soft).
More @ CodingHorror
What do Google, WalMart, and MyBarackObama.com have in common, besides their extraordinary success? They are organizations that are infused with IT in such a way that it leads to a qualitative change in their entire business.
More @ OreillyRadar
6. Top Technology Breakthroughs of 2008
Here's our countdown of what rocked our world in 2008 — and what will change yours in 2009 and beyond.
More @ Wired.com
7. My Software Is Being Pirated
If you're at all familiar with computer history, you might have heard of Bill Gates' famous 1976 letter to the Homebrew Computer Club. The letter was written to address rampant piracy of Bill's earliest product, Altair BASIC, which was being passed around quite freely by hobbyists in paper tape form, without any sort of payment to Microsoft (or, as it was then called, Micro-Soft).
More @ CodingHorror
8. Nintendo Sixtyfree Lite-R elegantly crams N64 into a luscious handheld
9. Cuil Fail: Traffic Nearly Hits Rock Bottom
Remember the ill-fated Google-killer Cuil? Named ‘Cuill’ and very much in stealth mode for the first part of the year, they finally emerged end of July 2008 with a ‘massive’ search engine that would rival the most popular search engines of our time with an enormous index, an innovative interface and some nifty features.
More @ TechCrunch
10. 10 Habits To A Healthy Body
I’m ready to die anytime—right this minute if necessary. (I hope my wife isn’t reading this, because she hates it when I start talking this way.) My soul is prepared to go home to God at any moment.
More @ BoSanchez
Remember the ill-fated Google-killer Cuil? Named ‘Cuill’ and very much in stealth mode for the first part of the year, they finally emerged end of July 2008 with a ‘massive’ search engine that would rival the most popular search engines of our time with an enormous index, an innovative interface and some nifty features.
More @ TechCrunch
10. 10 Habits To A Healthy Body
I’m ready to die anytime—right this minute if necessary. (I hope my wife isn’t reading this, because she hates it when I start talking this way.) My soul is prepared to go home to God at any moment.
More @ BoSanchez
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