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28 Feb 2009
Community Over Code: 18 Days; 18 Posts; ApacheCon Europe 2009
That’s right: I’ll be posting once a day in the 18 days leading up to ApacheCon Europe 2009, this March 23rd thru 27th in Amsterdam. Erm, what? ApacheCon isn’t that soon you say? Hmm. Ah - I see.Linux ISVs gain tool to uncover lost license revenue
Software piracy is a big deal. Maybe, you can reason, Microsoft and Adobe and the like can suck it up because they still make huge profits. Yet, for small independent...Remember When You Couldn’t Get A Wii
So I was cruising around town this evening because the missus had the day off from work.Free.Tv iTunes App: 5 Reasons why You Better not Try it as Yet
CBS Mobile has introduced a new free app into the iTunes App store that streams a selection of its TV.com content onto the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch.Cooler Master’s 5-CPU monstrosity has your craptop cowering in a corner
Yeah, your PC sucks. That video card you "borrowed" from your brother two years ago makes an exasperated sigh every time you fire up The Sims 2, and you're pretty sure your power supply is one Cheeto ...Red Staters Consume the Most Porn
Study: Conservative states tend to consume more online porn than liberal ones.Andy Grover: RDS queued for Linux kernel inclusion!
RDS is queued to be included in Linux 2.6.30.RDS is a protocol initially designed to enable Oracle RAC clustered database nodes to exchange datagrams rapidly and reliably.Amazon agrees to cripple Kindle 2
Filed under: Text, HardwareIn a victory for neo-Luddites the Author's Guild, Amazon has announced its intention to disable the speech to text function its new Kindle 2 ebook reader.Isn’t It Ironic?
A Canadian professor of business and financial journalism–and that's a discipline U.S.New way to save? Dial back to dial-up
Cost-cutters return to slow-speed Internet W ith his work hours cut and an investment portfolio in the tank, Arnold Zimmerman is ...Putting a Bolder Face on Google (Laura M. Holson/New York Times)
Laura M. Holson / New York Times:
Putting a Bolder Face on Google — IN late December, Marissa Mayer was vacationing in Africa when her boss, Jonathan Rosenberg, e-mailed her asking if she was leaving Google. — It wasn't a routine query. As the gatekeeper of Google's home page, and one of the company's most ubiquitous …
Rights-Holders to Control Kindle Feature
Amazon.com said it would modify the new version of its Kindle to allow authors and publishers to decide whether they want the text-to-speech function used for a particular title.J. Chris Anderson: Moving (Blog) House
The little Rails app that powers this blog has served me well over the years.Why Piracy Is Not Actually A Problem For The Music Industry
TorrentFreak is running a great guest post from someone responding to the IFPI's laughable claim that unauthorized file sharing is the root cause of the recording industry's problems these days.