November 2007
5 posts
google: do no evil, when it's convenient
Techcrunch has a post on Google’s recent disclosure of a blogger’s IP address to the authorities. What’s disturbing is that, at least according to TC, Google did not require a court order before tattling on the blogger. UPDATE: It seem TC and I may have spoke too soon. A couple of commenters on the TC post seem to indicate there was something lost in translation, and that there was indeed a...
why facebook needs to win
They need to win the social wars for _me_. That’s right, for me. I was on friendster. I was on orkut till the Brazillians took over. I’m on linkedin. And now, I’m on facebook. I’ve gone where my friends have gone, and I’m sick of it. I’m tired of creating all the connections to my friends. Tired of putting in my updated contact info. Tired of figuring out what the whiz bang features...
nginx for fink
I just submitted an nginx package to fink after waiting about a month to define which files were documentation. Hopefully, it’ll be validated and added quickly, but if you need it now head over to sourceforge to grab the .info and .patch. The packaging tutorial over at finkproject should have all the info you’d need to build it for yourself. As well as teach you how simple it is to get started...
And you thought Beowulf was epic
Peter Marklund has put together a mammoth 341 slide presentation to introduce you to Ruby and Rails. Get it here [pdf] or at his slideshare. I haven’t flipped through it all yet, but, so far, it looks like a great resource.
Google to bring Linux to the masses?
It seems that Walmart just started carrying a $200 computer from Everex that’s running Linux. And it just happened to be Google’s Ubuntu-based distribution. It’ll definitely be interesting to see how Walmart’s customers react to a very affordable computer, running an operating system they’ve never heard of.