Gaming consoles these days are down right powerful machines. I’ve read stories about people running Playstation3 Cluster Farms and other fun projects. This is a funny story I came across about a University using an X-Box for a web server.
Can across the story today, thought it was kind of funny. This Linux user was convicted of doing some bad things on the Internet and is now being told that if he doesn’t start using Windows he will not be allowed to use a computer.
Linux felon forced to install Windows | CNET News.com
A Linux user who was jailed for uploading a film onto a peer-to-peer service has been told he will have to switch to Windows if he wants to use a computer again.
Looks like those guys at Google have done it again and have released Google Desktop for Mac Now I look into this a little, haven’t actually installed it, but it looks like it comes up very short to the Windows counterpart Google Desktop for Windows.
At this stage Google Desktop for Mac looks more like a Quicklsilver replacement. I am a huge Quicklsilver fan but am also a big fan of Google and everything they do for Macs and Linux so I might find myself giving this a try. If I do give it a try I will let you know how it goes.
OK, this one is going to be strictly for my geek friends, I doubt anyone else will appreciate this. This is some geek rap. This guy is rapping about Unix commands.
As reported on c|net News.com
Microsoft hit with $1.5 billion patent verdict
A federal jury in San Diego has ordered Microsoft to pay $1.5 billion to Alcatel-Lucent in a patent dispute over MP3 audio technology used in Windows.
I thought this was kind of weird. Pulled up Digg.com as I normally do about 100 times a day only this time I was presented with an empty Popular page. Talk about your slow news days.
side note: It seemed to have corrected itself shortly there after.
Cool article on ZFS and what it is.
If you are curious why this is geek news, ZFS (Zettabyte file system) is a file system developed by Sun Microsystems. In theory, ZFS has no theoretical limit for a single file, but the whole filesystem can be as big as one zettabyte (a zettabyte is one million terabytes) unlike some of the current file systems out there like NTFS (the filesystem that Windows XP uses) and HFS+ (the current OS X filesystem) which have file limits of 16TiB. Plus it has other cool features like storage pools and intelligent drive mirroring.
The idea is this could be the direction the computer file system is headed.
So I think it qualifies as Geek News.
Ah, Geek humor, you’ve got to love it. Some crazy Unix Admins sat down and composed a list of goofy Unix commands and their funny responses.
WARNING: This is Super Geeky humor. You need to be at least a level 3 geek to enjoy this.
OK you think you are Geek enough, go check it out on ~sagar Blog
Apple’s yearly Expo over the last couple of years has turned into a week long rock concert type of atmosphere and this year is no exception.
Macworld Expo is up and running and already in a full sprint with some great announcements. The iPhone (that’s right after much speculation and Cisco’s own release of an “iPhone” Apple opted to go with what works and kept the name) was released and AppleTV (formally iTV)
My last post I talked about Google’s New Patent Search, well it looks like someone took the time to compile a list of patients filed by celebrities. Check it out at Ironic Sans. It’s a pretty interesting read with patients such as Michael Jacksons “Method and means for creating anti-gravity illusion” and Eddie Van Halen’s “Musical instrument support”.
http://www.ironicsans.com/2007/01/celebrity_patents.html
