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July 25th, 2005
Geek stuff

Knoppix

For over a year now, I’ve been running Knoppix as my primary computer operating system… after my anti-virus program went crazy and ate my Windows XP installation, I just couldn’t face reconstructing it. So I burnt a copy of Knoppix to CD, and off I went. Never looked back - never even bothered installing to […]

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July 24th, 2005
Geek stuff

Requiem for a fictional Scotsman

Posted to Dave Farber’s “Interesting People” list. www.interesting-people.org (i think)
i share these sentiments
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From: David Farber
Subject: Requiem for a fictional Scotsman
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 08:40:48 -0400
Begin forwarded message:
From: “Kevin G. Barkes”
Date: July 24, 2005 7:41:03 AM EDT
To: dave@farber.net
Subject: Requiem for a fictional Scotsman
Reply-To: “Kevin G. Barkes”
Other kids worshipped baseball players. My hero […]

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July 17th, 2005
Geek stuff

Ball Chair

This is a cool looking office chair (cool as in just plain weird)… although I have to admit, I somehow the mental image of walking into a hip San Francisco dot.com built in a former warehouse filled with people sitting on these things just doesn’t seem likely to happen in real life — it […]

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July 9th, 2005
Geek stuff

Signposts in Cyberspace — An NRC Report on the DNS and Internet Navigation

From: David Farber
Subject: Signposts in Cyberspace — An NRC Report on the DNS and Internet Navigation
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 20:10:09 -0400
Begin forwarded message:
From: RLevien@aol.com
Date: July 7, 2005 5:02:26 PM EDT
To: dave@farber.net
Subject: Signposts in Cyberspace — An NRC Report on the DNS and
Internet Navigation
Dave,
In light of the recent decision by the United States government […]

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June 10th, 2005
Geek stuff, Tidbits

Automatic Number Plate Recognition

Automatic Number Plate Recognition (detailed information about how these things work, mostly Brit/Euro oriented, but goes into the technical nitty gritty and outlines possible applications, back end issues, etc. - very educational).

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June 1st, 2005
Geek stuff

Spam Discussion/Analysis

Declan,
Saw this (anonymized) exchange on an org’s internal IT list, thought the commentary was interesting and informational and opinionated, and touches upon a (unfounded, in my opinion) suspicion (ISPs selling email addresses) that I think a lot of people share.
Thomas
>I don’t know if you can do anything about it more than you already are,
>but I […]

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April 21st, 2005
Geek stuff

Darth Tater

Hasbro has a Darth Vader Mr. Potato Head kit out.
Somehow, it just doesn’t strike me as credibly threatening. :)

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April 4th, 2005
Geek stuff

Enhancements to vi

As someone who got into Unix and Perl programming by running through the entire “vilearn” tutorial on a ancient VAX running some variant of BSD, I’m a confirmed “vi” fan… emacs has never been my editor.
http://www.calweb.com/~macklinr/goodies/vi.gif
Also see http://vigor.sourceforge.net/ and the associated User Friendly comic strips… had me laughing out loud.
Thomas

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January 1st, 2005
Geek stuff

This is just fucking cool… The Graphing Calculator Story

http://www.pacifict.com/Story/
Nowdays, of course, you just start an open-source project and try and get it included in a major Linux distribution. :)
–Thomas

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August 21st, 2004
Geek stuff

Great license plate…

http://www.stud.ntnu.no/~shane/stasj/pics/humor/div/339.html

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July 25th, 2004
Work, Geek stuff

Sources for Internet History.

-Janet Abbate, Inventing the Internet (MIT Press, 1999) (recommended by
several IP’ers)
-Peter Salus’s little 1995 book, “Casting the Net” (recommended by
several IP’ers)
-”Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet” by Katie
Hafner (recommended by several IP’ers)
-FCC working papers that discuss Internet/Policy issues, beginning with
Kevin Werbach’s Digital Tornado paper and Jaxon Oxman’s.
-CSTB’s _Internet’s Coming of Age_ […]

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July 15th, 2004
Geek stuff

A fitting epilogue to the dot.com era: DotComGuy goes bust.

Dot.com guy goes bust and changes name
- - - - - - - - - - - -
July 14, 2004 | DALLAS (AP) —
Call it the DotComGuy bust.
The man who legally changed his name to DotComGuy changed it back Tuesday — to Mitch Maddox.
In 2000, Maddox spent one year at home […]

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July 7th, 2004
Geek stuff

My comments re: IRS idea to impose 3% excise tax on VOIP

Agency : INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE
Title : Excise Taxes; Communications Services
Subject Category : Excise taxes: Communication services; information request
Docket ID : REG-137076-02
CFR Citation : 26 CFR 49
Published : July 02, 2004
Comments Due : September 30, 2004
Phase : PROPOSED RULES
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Your comment has been sent. To verify that this […]

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July 6th, 2004
Geek stuff

Interesting site… mapping Google.

[Interesting way of visualizing where a web site sits in relation to other sites… if I understood the algorithm better, I’d probably understand the results better. For a simple site, like www.polygreens.org, for instance, they make total sense. For more complex sites, I’m unclear on how connections are made, since some of them seem really […]

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