Category: Geekdom

It’s taken 25 years, but they shipped their billionth processor in April.

…you need to have this site bookmarked. It’s a Yahoo!-like directory, but with links for Web geeks, from site promotion, business issues, and even health issues. A great resource!

I might as well jump on the bandwagon. Adam Kalsey started what he calls “A distributed anthology of early computing experience.” He calls it Newly Digital. The idea is to create an anthology of early computer experiences. Since damn near everyone and their dog, and all their other friends, have written something and contributed, I might as well throw something in, too. Click on more to read the rest of this, and leave a comment with your experiences.

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From the site: dotproject is a PHP+MySQL beta level web based project management tool that dotmarketing started in Dec. 2000. While dotproject was specifically designed for dotmarketing’s needs, it could probably be extremely useful for any sort of service agency that requires the ability to track a project to completion. The current version of dotproject is 0.2, which reflects that it’s still early days. Still, we feel that there is a lot there that is much nicer than other “project management” systems, which seem to have the feel of “programmer only” projects.

Why am I listing this here? Because at one point I needed a tool just like this that I didn’t want to pay for, and I don’t want to lose this bookmark 🙂

I scored a 31.55819% (Total Geek). What did you score? Chris scored a 33.72781%, just barely better than me.

This nifty article from news.com discusses how researchers hooked up 70 PS2 game consoles, installed Linux, and made a supercomputer capable of a half trillion operations a second.

Turns out it’s the emotion engine (their fancy graphics processor) that does a good portion of the magic.

Apparently it takes a rocket scientist to install Linux on the Xbox, which is partially why PS2’s were chosen.

(oh yeah, and they have 30 more PS2’s they want to link up for an amazing video display from the 70 box supercomputer)

I’ve been looking for a more MT-specific tool to replace w.bloggar, and I have now found it: SharpMT (or #MT). #MT is an off-line composition tool similar to w.bloggar, but it has more tools specific to MT: Extended entry, Exerpts, Drafts, Keywords, etc… . Basically, it takes the advanced MT interface, and put it into a Windows program. It’s a great tool, and is now in my start-up menu (and the author is in the process of adding Spell Checking — the only other feature I’d really like to see).

“Wondir, a unique and powerful new search service, needs your help during a concentrated beta test of its system.

What’s so different about Wondir? For starters, it’s a search service built and run by a (truly) non-profit organization. The mission of the foundation is to provide free, high quality information to anyone who asks. Unlike virtually all other major search engines, Wondir is also ad-free.”

I think this could be very cool: Free search data that you can use on your site (ala the Open Directory Project). There are already a ton of sites using ODP data, so I wonder if sites will start using this data instead?

Full Story from Search Engine Watch.

“Daniele Procida could not bear to see a dead Mac thrown away – so he reconstructed it using Lego bricks pinched from his sons. Rather than bin the Powerbook laptop, he refurbished it using hundreds of colourful pieces, set on mottled artificial green grass.” Full Story

And it’s even for sale on eBay.

Full Story. I don’t know what’s more freaky: That this 8-year-old passed the MCP exam or that Bill Gates is his idol. Link from Neowin. Granted, the MCP test isn’t insanely difficult, but I know many 8-year-olds who can’t even figure out how to use a mouse (for that matter, I know many grown adults that can’t, either, but that’s another story entirely).