Archive for the 'Misc.' Category
Cedrick Collomb has a handy utility called Unlocker which will tell you which processes are preventing you from deleting a file or folder.
If a delete fails, you get the generic access denied error message from Windows; however, if you have Unlocker installed, then it will popup and display the processes which have a lock on [...]
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Moore’s Law Update from IDF 2007
Intel co-founder, Gordon Moore says “It’s not the end of the road,” when it comes to Moore’s Law.
From the BBC Watch: (approx. 1 min 50 sec)
From the Intel Developers Forum 2007, take a look at the last ten years of silicon chips: (approx 4 min 30 secs):
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Securing GMail
Lid pointed me to an article by Mark Pilgrim, the author of GreaseMonkey Hacks for Firefox, about forcing Firefox to use https, so that you know that your email is secure from any person of ill intent who wants to read your email by monitoring the data being exchange between your machine and Google.
It got me thinking [...]
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The Case Against Unix
One thing which will keep Unix desktops from the masses is the fact the Unix file systems are case sensitive.
Why would anyone need readme.htm, Readme.htm, README.htm, ReadMe.htm, ReAdMe.htm, readme.HTM etc to be unique files within the same folder?
And if a Web site is hosted on a UNIX box, you get a whole lot of contradictions.
For [...]
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100 oldest domain names
Came across this interesting post by “some dude from Orlando” which lists the 100 oldest domain names.
Notable omission is microsoft.com, which wasn’t registered until 1991. It wasn’t until 1995 that Microsoft acknowledged that the Internet was not just a passing fad, and scrapped the soon to be released “Microsoft Network”, its very own version of [...]
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Cool a Warm Drink in 3 Minutes
This is BRILLIANT. Jonah and I tried it with a can of Sunkist – and it works!!!
BTW – If you want to know the second law of thermodynamics…
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There are very few people who could have pulled off the greatest rendezvous in the history of technology, so huge hat tip to Walt Mossberg, Kara Swisher, and D: All Things Digital.
For the first time in more than 20 years, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, and Apple CEO Steve Jobs sat down for a public chat [...]
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Every time I look at this picture of The Gold Digger, from the April 2007 edition of Popular Science, I am reminded of the Googlebot sketch I saw on Philipp Lenssen’s Google Blogoscoped months ago…
Is it just me?
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Over the past few days, I’ve received over one dozen e-mails from friends and family, asking me to add my name to a list of people fighting against the miscarriage of justice in the Jamie Bulger case of 1993.
The e-mail is entitled “Remember February 1993”
What blows me away is that within the e-mail it clearly [...]
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