LinuTop. Linux-based diskless computer, offers a completely silent, low-power operation in an extremely small package.
Tech.Yahoo.com:
Disposable, Simple Email Address. Get a 10 Minute Mail e-mail address.
Michael Kinsley, WashingtonPost.com: on something about the Web and the ego monster.
solipsism: extreme preoccupation with and indulgence of one’s feelings, desires, etc.; egoistic self-absorption. The theory or view that the self is the only reality.
Gizmos for Geeks: News, Reviews, and How To’s. Catch the Gizmo of the Day.
10 Travel Tips for Geeks: Top travel tips for geeks.
BareTail is a real-time viewing tool for text files from Bare Metal Software. It is similar to the tail -f command on Unix systems, but it has many more features. In the follow tail mode BareTail is ideal for viewing logs, traces and other files which grow in real time. It runs with the same performance for files of any size, including those larger than 2GB.
Update: 04/28/08 - Shelley over at Burningbird is cha-cha-cha changing things again! Try starting at the top, or at Bb’s RealTech, and meandering for awhile.
In the excellent post and discussion category …
From a comment by Michael Bernstein to a post about Techmeme selectivity at Burningbird .
Still, the web continues to grow, to the point that not only can we not keep up with new stuff, but we can’t even keep up with the list of new sources of stuff.
What I would like to see is any approach for getting the ‘best’ stuff to float to the top of ever-growing sea of results that is completely different than the monkey-status proxy measures we are currently using.
There are years of content, content, content spilling over into the most interesting discussions at Shelley Powers’ sites:
Update: 06/06/07 - The Burningbird web site IS back, aha. Shelley Powers has been/is consolidating all her sites back to the Burningbird.net domain.
Many of the technology links redirect correctly, but please let her know if you encountered problems finding an article. Tracking Buringbird’s archived posts is a full-time job! Cheers, Shelley.
Mad Techie Woman, primarily related to tech. [think this one is closed].
Just Shelley, personal weblog.Update: 04/06/07 - the original link to Planet Powers is no longer valid.
Planet Powers, an aggregation of Shelley’s current sites.
MissouriGreen. Coming up? An online magazine about Missouri (photos and stories and histories, as well as current issues and events).
Straight shooting at The Bb Gun, static copy for story links?The final flight? Burningbird closed up shop this past summer. Still hoping for a restart of the Bird!
Photography, musings, technical information, women in tech, RSS, RDF, weblogging, meta data, and informative discussions.
Homework assignment:
Will the Burningbird take flight once again?
In a discussion about RDF, SemWeb and more, Mad Techie Woman points to a post by Sheila Lennon who writes about what she sees as the semantic web:
Real world: When restaurants are online in realtime (yet to happen), my computer could display Providence restaurants serving cordon bleu tonight at what prices, ask me to choose one (around when?) then make a reservation, reserve a portion of chicken cordon bleu for me, and notify the restaurant’s computer if I’m hung up in traffic.
Exactly! Beam me up Scottie, and keep my dinner warm.
WinMerge is an Open Source visual text file differencing and merging tool for Win32 platforms. It is highly useful for determining what has changed between project versions, and then merging changes between versions.
Features
* Visual differencing and merging of text files
* Flexible editor with syntax highlighting, line numbers and word-wrap
* Handles DOS, UNIX and MAC text file formats
Added a test OPML outline to Tom Morris’s new web site OpiumField. Graze on. Hee!
A pain-free solution for tracking and managing code defects using a friendly web front end. CodeTrack includes built-in strong authentication, and allows custom access control to individual projects.
If you’ve got a generic build of PHP and Apache, you can run CodeTrack. No database is needed. All bug and user data are stored natively as self-describing XML.
Export bug data into standard CSV, tab-separated, and even portable SQL script build files.
CodeTrack is released under the GPL.
grep |more of what I can do with OPML.
I installed and tested the OPML Reader extension for Firefox (supported in Firefox 1.x and 2.x).
With this add-on you can open a feed reader for any OPML auto-discovery enabled page with the option to view it with Optimal OPML Browser or Grazr. You can also download the OPML file.
After installing the extension restart Firefox. A small OPML icon is placed in the lower right corner of the browser. The icon is gray if no OPML file is found, blue if it discovers an enabled OPML file at the site you are browsing. Simply double-click on the blue icon to read OPML files in the Firefox browser. Very cool.
I enabled my site OPML outline file with the addition of the following auto-discovery tag to my header template:
<link rel=”outline” type=”text/xml+opml” title=”my OPML fileTitle” href=”http://mySite.com/myFile.opml” />
OPML, RSS, Grazr, Optimal Browser, Firefox sweetness!
The OPML Editor with a built-in weblog, NewsRiver, portableRivers, and the Wordpress tool is my kind of application. It feels very comfortable.
I experimented with the OPML Editor for 6 months this year and really like it, but (there’s always a but) I do have a wish or two.
I wish I could render post archives and outlines as static html on my local desktop for subsequent upload to my own web host. Oh, and I want to have html archive links and Next/Prev like Scripting News. I downloaded the Frontier open source and played a bit, but didn’t get very far.
Give them an inch and they want a yard. Give them an awesome open source application and still they ask for more. Yes, please!
Kent Newsome on the Joy of Not Blogging.
But blogging as a conversational medium is feeling extremely inefficient. Real conversations are conducted in real time. Blogging, on the other hand, often seems like a bunch of people independently throwing rocks into the air. Sometime those rocks collide and the resulting sparks look like conversation.
I do hope that Kent keeps throwing rocks into the air.
