Category Archives: Computers
Funny
March 15, 2006 – 6:11 pm
I went to register for the LinuxWorld Expo coming to town next month, and I can’t see most of their site. I can’t see it because it’s Flash-based, and there’s no Flash for my computer’s operating system and architecture: Linux 64-bit.
Your First Computer
February 13, 2006 – 11:50 am
CNET asked a number of computer professionals what their first computer was. Jean Bartik’s was an ENIAC—now that’s cool. As I recall my parents got mine—a Texas Instruments TI-99/4A—for me when I was in grade school, after I had pestered them to get a computer (my dad had let me play with the new Macintoshes […]
Wikipedia Fares Well Against Britannica
December 14, 2005 – 5:30 pm
Wikipedia fared better than I thought it would when Nature asked scientists to evaluate articles from both Wikipedia and the Encyclopedia Britannica. (HT: digg) Nature took stories from Wikipedia and Britannica on 42 science-related topics and submitted them to experts for review. The experts were not told which encyclopedia the stories were from. “The exercise […]
TurboDBAdmin
November 10, 2005 – 3:50 pm
I don’t necessary start salivating just because someone says “Ajax,” but I’ve installed a handy database tool featured on digg.com called TurboDbAdmin. True, it doesn’t have the features of PHPMyAdmin, but for manipulating data, it’s much more convenient.
Opera’s Now Free
September 20, 2005 – 9:42 am
A few weeks ago Opera offered free license codes, but the company recently decided to make its browser free with no advertising banners. Now Opera is in a better spot to help Firefox eat into Internet Explorer’s market share, a good thing for everybody: web developers and users. HT: digg.com