experiences

Wrapup of FrOSCon 2008 - Ibuildings Blog

Planet PHP  Mon, 09/01/2008 - 07:29

I had the privilege of speaking at this years FrOSCon (23rd - 24th August) and this being the first time I speak there and indeed the first time I venture into Germany, I was very excited about the whole thing.



 

What Google Does (and needs to keep doing)

Linux Journal - The Original Magazine of the Linux Community  Mon, 07/28/2008 - 13:40

Jeff Jarvis is working on a book called What Would Google Do? Since Google just did something good for me — and for a market that needs help desperately — I thought I'd share my experience with Jeff and the rest of you.

What Google Did for me was radically improve one of the most annoying experiences in the Webbed world: registering a domain name.



 

No happy ending for founder of prostitute review website

Digg / Tech Industry News  Wed, 06/18/2008 - 09:08

TheEroticReview.com has come to dominate the country’s prostitution scene, which is increasingly migrating from the street corner to the Internet.

The Web site, which is still in operation, allows visitors to rank their experiences with prostitutes on a scale of 1 to 10, as well as to leave comments.



 

Three UK 3G modem in Ubuntu Linux

Linux Today  Thu, 06/12/2008 - 13:00

Polish Linux: "I have recently bought a Huawei E220 HSDPA access device (or a so-called "3G modem") from Three UK.

In this article I'll share with you my experiences of using Three 3G modem in Ubuntu Linux distribution.

And don't worry, it works just fine."



 

Psystar Open Computer notes, benchmarks and video

Digg / Tech Industry News  Thu, 05/01/2008 - 12:10

Okay, so we've been playing with the Psystar Open Computer for a few hours now, and we've formed some early impressions and put together a short video of it in action.

We haven't really tried to stress the system yet, but based on our other experiences with OSx86 machines, we're expecting things to generally go smoothly.