15 February 05 - 21:39MS Dying slowly?
I won't say too much, however this article is very well written by a
reporter with a lot of runs on the board for IT. He is not "MS
Bashing" however he does have some interesting insights.
I will temp you with a snippet from the intro to his artical which I think is right on the money:
"One of the tools I'm best known for is Folding Table Theory of
Start-Ups. It says that when you walk into a new entrepreneurial
company and you see a nice lobby and expensive office furniture, that
company has its priorities screwed up — either it is more interested in
comfort than success or it is over-capitalized and lazy — and it will
never make it.
By comparison, when you see the start-up team working at folding
tables or old army surplus desks, you know that it is properly focused
both on getting the job done and financial discipline — and has a good
chance of being a winner. That's what I saw at the beginning of eBay
(and Siebel, Tivo, Electronic Arts, Atari and a host of other great
companies) and it's telling that Jeff Skoll kept that table near him
during his entire tenure at the company."
This man has been crontrian and right before - worth reading.
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/SiliconInsider/story?id=88655&page=1
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15 February 05 - 07:15Another change @ Google and RHEL4
Google have definitely just made a change. For the first time
that I am aware of they have publicly asked for comments about the
update.
RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 has also just been released. This
includes the 2.6 kernel for the first time as standard from RH.
If you wait a week or so you might wish to get the Tao Linux version of
this...
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11 February 05 - 07:14Google a gone
The blog I posted of a brand new
google employee spilling the beans on confidential stuff is now gone. So is he... Wonder if he's asking MS for his old job back...
Also on the SE topic, seebook has a post about something called
Trust Rank. Quite an interesting idea - I wonder if it will / can / is implemented at some major search engines?
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09 February 05 - 21:03Bionic eyes
Firstly - I've been reading that the new IDN vulnerability seems not to
effect IE. This doesn't quite add up to me - something to think
about though.
Slashdot pointed me to a great article this morning on the Science Blog about an
implant for the eyes.
It was a in and out in one day operation to implant a chip (thinner
than a human hair) inside the eye to enable the subjects to see.
In essense it replaces the retina for peolple whos retina has stopped
functioning properly/at all.
To quote from the article "Improvement in visual function was variable and included the ability
to read letters, improvement in color vision, and expansion of their
visual field. Some patients gained new ability to recognize facial
features -- something that they were unable to do before"
Really cool stuff methinks. "We can rebuild him..."
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08 February 05 - 07:20Exploit to take over domains
Not sure how this one works - apparently we are all vulnerable (as in
the major web browsers are) You can find a commentry of it here
on
boing boing
What makes this more dire than usual is it allows the hacker to spoof
the domain AND the SSL. So now you can be on a web site that
looks like the real thing AND has the correct SSL certificate
information.
To work it uses IDN support.
What is really stupid, is that the attack method was first written
about in 2001 - before any browser had implemented the feature...
Depending on who you beleive, there is, or is not, a solution for Mozilla users...
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03 February 05 - 21:55DIY green Power
The folks at hackaday have just reminded me of something I've been meaning to do for ages now...
They have a link to
guerilla.net
rfor among other things, a grid connected solar system (it sells power
back to the grid) My ideal situation is totally off-grid, however
running your meter backwards is certainly cool.
Solar is a great idea - and cetainly applicable to people in Australia
(where I am) however there still is a reasonable up front cost - even
if you can claim a lot of the money back off the state and federal
governments.
I prefer the idea of a diy windmill of which there is a lot of info
online about. The best system in my opinion is based on the disk
brake assembly of a car. Rare earth magnets are attached to the
disk, and coulds are mouned either side of the rotating disk.
Some good resourdes include
Rainbow Power Company (based in Byron Bay) who have a mailing list I subscribe to and an extensive archive, and
otherpower.
I try to keep these blog posts short. If anybody is interested I
have a rather extensive list of bookmarks and PDFs on the topic.
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01 February 05 - 07:21Cheap Remote Control Plane
I've been into model planes since I was a kid. This fits the bill
as extremel cheap and pretty quick to build to. The plans even
allow you have proportional control.
Check out the
hackaday post here.
The web page referred to in the blog is
here - it has a stack of cool model plane (and helicopter) stuff on it. If that was interesting check out
this guy too
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