Archive for April, 2003
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2003
Gamer Geeks vs. Jesus Freaks. I find it interesting that gamers can accept meta plots, but can’t accept (God) someone having a meta plot for their own realities. Am I the only one who finds this amusing? [Kingdom Come]
No Comments » - Posted in Uncategorized by jmiller
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2003
FoxPro On Linux, Drama Ensues. bltfast32 writes “I don’t know how many people have been following this, but this is definitely worth keeping an eye on. Whil Hentzen, prominent FoxPro and … [Slashdot]
No Comments » - Posted in .NET, Web Services, Open Source by jmiller
Monday, April 21st, 2003
dirdiff 1.6 [freshmeat.net]
No Comments » - Posted in Open Source, Tech Tips by jmiller
Monday, April 21st, 2003
Energy From Vibrations. JN writes “Now here’s a nifty invention. What started off as a Small Business Innovation Research grant from the Navy to a MIT professor has turned out to … [Slashdot]
Cool! This should help recapture some of the energy that is converted into another type during a process/reaction.
No Comments » - Posted in Brave New World by jmiller
Monday, April 21st, 2003
“Super-DMCA” Bills In Tennessee and Arkansas. David Turner writes “Tomorrow, Tennessee’s Senate Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing on two nearly identical DMCA-like bills. These bills threaten … [Slashdot]
No Comments » - Posted in Brave New World by jmiller
Monday, April 21st, 2003
CMS Adventure
Lots of code.
Jeez… I’ve written about 200 lines of code so far, just for the base class of my form processing thingy in my CMS. It has a good deal of comments, but still.
I think it’s going to rock though. Finally, it’ll be easy (at least easier) to write correct code to process web-forms. [...]
No Comments » - Posted in E-Publishing Explosion, Personal Software Integration, The Muse by jmiller
Monday, April 21st, 2003
Cisco Embedding Surveillance in Routers. Cnet’s Declan McCullagh interviews Cisco’s Fred Baker about the company’s plans to embed surveillance into routers. Baker says the “customers”… [Dan Gillmor's eJournal]
Goodbye privacy. I see you slowly slipping away. :-(.
No Comments » - Posted in Brave New World by jmiller
Monday, April 21st, 2003
Conquest FS: “The Disk Is Dead”. andfarm writes “A few days ago, I sat in at a presentation of a what seems to be a new file system concept: Conquest. Apparently they’ve developed a FS that … [Slashdot]
No Comments » - Posted in Brave New World by jmiller
Friday, April 18th, 2003
Installer Offerings
Bob at Wise Solutions emailed to remind me that the Wise Installation System has patching built in, and costs less than InstallShield plus vBuild.
He also pointed out that Wise for Windows Installer now has a ton of features for server setups: user account creation, IIS administration, and SQL Server administration… basically they implemented my entire [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Tech Tips by jmiller
Friday, April 18th, 2003
SharpReader
SharpReader is awesome.
Ok, SharpReader is freaking awesome. It supports categories, has multi-threaded updating of feeds, and the entry threading feature is amazing. It tells me when someone else I read refers to the post I’m currently reading. Really fantastic. Even more reason to include entire posts in your RSS feeds. People, you listening??
Hopefully I [...]
