A recently published report says that social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and blogs are more popular than email. During December 2008, there were 242 million unique visitors to so-called member communities but only 236 million to email sites around the world. The figures are mirrored in Britain, with 25.6 million visitors to sites such […]
I just found this excellent video on YouTube. As a promotion for Samsung SSDs they put together a monster computer which runs FAST! The systems uses 24 256GB Samsung MLC SSD's in a RAID configuration. The computer uses: 24 x 256GB SSD drives (6TB in total) 2 x Quad Core QX9775 processors (with huge fans) […]
I read with interest this piece that Olympus has declared an end to the megapixel race. Megapixels like Megahertz can sometimes be a red herring. Olympus said "Increasing the number of megapixels on cameras is an easy selling point for camera makers, in part because it's a simple concept for people to understand." Which I […]
Matt Cutts, who works for Google – specializing in search engine optimization issues, has written about how to to link to a specific part of a video on YouTube… I didn't know this was possible… But it is!!! If you want to link to a specific part of a video on YouTube, you can. For […]
It was revealed yesterday that the Linux Foundation, a non-profit consortium chartered to foster the growth of Linux, has bought the Linux.com domain from SourceForge. I have worked with the Linux.com team for several years and they have published several of my artivles and even a video review of Picasa for Linux. At the moment […]
Romanian villagers, in Suceava, who build their own bridge because they were tired of of waiting for authorities to replace a bridge swept away last July by floods have been taken to court. The problem was that they didn’t have a permit. So now they are under criminal investigation. Prosecutor Viorel Damu said Friday that […]
Probably the Funniest Cat Video You’ll Ever See.. 7,000,000 views on YouTube… Enough said…
The UK government has said it will accelerate the use of open source software in public services. Tom Watson MP, minister for digital engagement, said open source software would be on a level playing field with proprietary software such as Windows. Steve Shine, European vice president of Ingres, an open source support vendor, said the […]
I have just launched thebigreference.com a video-podcast site with news and reviews about what is happening on the net. The first video is a review of the posterous.com blogging service: http://thebigreference.com/review-of-posterous-posterousc And the next video is about Apple’s Safari 4 web browser which was released as a beta yesterday. http://thebigreference.com/overview-of-apples-safari-4-we I hope you like it!
DistroWatch have picked up on my FreeNAS interview movie that I made with Xtranormal. It is mentioned in DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 291, 23 February 2009 about half way through the “Miscellaneous News” section. http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20090223 Many thanks DistroWatch… Here is a snippet: Still on the subject of BSDs, but switching to FreeNAS, a minimalist, FreeBSD-based operating […]