• Lindows Uses Peer2Peer Distribution

    Posted on February 5, 2004

    Dan Gillmor has a post about Lindows using P2P distribution networks to get the Lindows Live CDs out to users. As he states in his article, this is a great example of the positive use of these networks. With music and movie companies spreading fear and doubt far and wide,... [Read More]

  • Technology Opportunities for Humanity

    Posted on February 5, 2004

    I’m walking home from a presentation about Technology Opportunities for Humanity, and it was really very good. I was afraid that it would be a whole bunch of talk about charity work and how we as Big Powerful Silicon Valley Residents can help out the poor slobs everywhere else. It... [Read More]

  • Bandwidth Reduction

    Posted on February 3, 2004

    Jon Udell has a post about the two techniques used to reduce bandwidth when downloading feeds. Those examples were pretty cool. I knew there was a header that could be used to check if a site had changed, but I never looked it up before. This is something I should... [Read More]

  • Free Software Based PDAs

    Posted on February 2, 2004

    An article from O’Reilly talks about some open source PDA projects. It does bring up some pretty cool points which I hadn’t previously given all that much thought to, such as being able to move binaries around to different systems. That is a pretty kick ass point if you’re trying... [Read More]

  • Open Source Economics

    Posted on February 2, 2004

    There’s an article at the BBC with some interesting comments in general about open source. There is one section in particular that I think helps to summarize the case for open source in developing countries quite well: [Read More]

  • Gordon Bell Speaking in Palo Alto

    Posted on February 1, 2004

    Gordon Bell is going to be speaking in Palo Alto on Feb 19th at 7PM. The topic seems to be a wonderfully geeky melange of old ideas with new implications and forward looking applications. I’m gonna have to watch Lain a few more times before I go to this one.... [Read More]

  • Prepping Vagablog 1.8 for Release

    Posted on February 1, 2004

    I spent a good part of the day today making some changes to Vagablog in an attempt to make it more usable. The primary change is the addition of the markup menu to allow for easily inserting markup into the document. There are menu items that allow for inserting the... [Read More]

  • Drama Queen

    Posted on January 31, 2004

    Check out this gem of an interview with Darl McBride. Talking about the quarter of a million dollar reward that he has put up for the capture of the MyDoom virus writer: [Read More]

  • Being a Self Employed Geek

    Posted on January 30, 2004

    A recent string of articles and conversations have left me considering the tension between running a business and being a techno weenie. It’s a topic that other people have discussed before, but it’s something that probably has more general applicability than it seems to be given credit for. The point... [Read More]

  • Open Source Mesh Networking

    Posted on January 29, 2004

    There’s an article over at O’Reilly about mesh networking. It covers the basics of what a mesh is, the kinds of networks which fall into that broad category, and then give instructions about using an existing open source project to form a mesh network using commodity parts and Linux. Very... [Read More]