ABC News reporter Nydia Han ignored facts about the Nintendo DS’s wireless capabilities in order to run a misleading report about the danger’s of the Nintendo DS’ Pictochat. What’s not in the story is anything explained by the GamerDad this reporter consulted before going to air. On Monday morning, I received a call from Nydia […]
Wonderful post and a great tile, HITS – How idiots track success: For those of you who have been around the web for more than a year or two, you have no excuse for continuing to equate success to number of HITS. Stop embarrassing yourself. If you really are new to the web or intranet
This week has been quite busy both at work and at home, I haven’t made time to blog as frequently as in recent weeks. One of the things that I finally tackled was upgrading apache on this server from 1.3 to 2.0. All hail debian. The process was really smooth, because it was simple to
“publications that see large chunks of their readership drop away due to an offense to a community might self-censor to avoid further damage to their balance sheet. I dont think this threat outweighs the need of citizens to have a way to express their own viewpoints in opposition.” There’s some evidence that one of the
Cafe Hayek rightly takes an AP reporter to task for not questioning a recent study that found “Rich-Poor Income Gap Growing“. So while it sounds that inflation adjusted wages increased across the board, ie the income distribution (if you can think of it as a bell-shaped normal distribution) moved to the right. Which is good,
DC united have launched Access United, a multimedia offering with behind-the-scenes goodies. It’s a window media video, so if you’re not using Windows, expect to jump through some hoops to get it to play, if you can at all.
The MPAA and RIAA are trying to get a variation of the broadcast flag passed again. This sneaks in a lot of control that would stifle innovation and give the content mill owners a veto over new devices. The full details and way to contact your representative are available on the EFF’s site: Stop the
Via PVR Wire, comes news that Galleon 2.1.0 is released. A couple new features including better shoutcast support and improved tivotogo funcitonality, see the full release notes. This is the java software I use to stream music, photos, and more to my tivo.
This is the second free Open Source/Free Software related magazine that I’ve run into recently. Free Software Magazine looks like its available free and its articles are not aimed squarely at the technical geek crowd. A sample from issue #10: Jump to Debian GNU/Linux: A guide to why the Debian distro is a good choice
Luckily the install is very painless and mostly automated (easier than the last windows install I did). Despite all the critiques of linux installs (and yes, it did cross my mind that a new Mac would be nice), I find myself hunting for drivers and driver CDs (especially for motherboard subsystems) than I have to