• Oral History of Silicon Valley

    Posted on September 20, 2005

    I listened to John Markoff’s talk from the SDForum while I was wandering around, and decided that it was too good of a collection of references about Silicon Valley not to have my own pointers online. I’ll have to pick up the book also, sounds like it’ll be great. Meantime,... [Read More]

  • Firefox Security

    Posted on September 17, 2005

    Slashdot has a post pointing to a ZDnet article comparing number of published expoits between Internet Explorer and Firefox. Numbers like this don’t really mean anything though. Comparing the number of PUBLISHED expoits found in an open source project to those found in a like proptietary project is like comparing... [Read More]

  • Despamming

    Posted on September 16, 2005

    I had a spam comment that I just had to approve so that everyone could see it. I have no idea what to make of it. It’s either funny, or sad, or scary…. Maybe all three. Is the person really tired of their job and just fooling around? Is this... [Read More]

  • Audio Commentary

    Posted on September 15, 2005

    Russ pasted a link t o a description of watching The Simpsons with audio descriptions on. I really really wish those videos were retrievable right now. Apparently the person who uploaded them ran out of bandwidth. If someone can get a hold of them and create some torrents that would... [Read More]

  • Search SIG

    Posted on September 15, 2005

    The first meeting of the Search SIG from SDForum was last night. The new forum is run by Dave McClure and Jeff Clavier. They did a great job on this first event, and I’m really looking forward to our combined Search SIG and Mobile Monday event happening next month. I... [Read More]

  • Power Outage

    Posted on September 12, 2005

    I was going to post earlier, but apparently a lot of Los Angeles was without power today and my hosting provider was in an affected area. I realized my mail client was complaining about dropped connections, so I checked and my site was down, so then I went to file... [Read More]

  • Sound with Linux 2.6.13 on Thinkpad X32

    Posted on September 7, 2005

    I had a problem with the X32 running Linux 2.6.13 where the audio device was there, but I couldn’t always hear the output. I found this post mentioning that the headphone sensor and line jack sensor both need to be muted, which worked for me. Here’s the card info from... [Read More]

  • Innovation Disconnect

    Posted on September 7, 2005

    I see stories like this one about 4G cell phone services being worked on with gigabit data rates and this one with doubts about consumers really wanting digital homes and overall I’m left wondering about the ability of the market to deliver innovation. Would I like gigabit data rates to... [Read More]