Month: August 2005

BartPE. Today's column by Fred Langa is the second recent reference I've seen to BartPE: Bart's PE Builder helps you build a “BartPE” (Bart Preinstalled Environment) bootable Windows CD-Rom or DVD from the original Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 installation/setup CD, very suitable for PC maintenance tasks. It will give you a complete Win32… Continue reading BartPE

Have a Cup of COFFEE. Since we started the redesign of our websites, we've begun to put together a core set of web development principles to guide us. This isn't a new methodology, but a way of looking at each project and each problem. What these principles allow us to do is take a hard… Continue reading Have a Cup of COFFEE

My PowerBook software portfolio. It's only been a month since I got the PowerBook and already I seem to have accumulated an awful lot of software. I thought it would be a good idea to go through /Applications and take stock. So here are a few lists, please leave me a comments and tell me… Continue reading My PowerBook software portfolio

Comcast travails. David has been documenting some problems with Comcast that we've had in the last few days. In the evenings, our pings to everything have been sky-high, with latency sometimes spiking up over a second. This is merely irritating when you're attempting to look something up on Google, but it becomes crippling when you're… Continue reading Comcast travails

The Republican dictatorship. Buzzflash interviews California Rep Pete Stark on how the Republicans have been dismantling hundreds of years of US government process.  [Ceejbot]

Micro-business series. David St. Lawrence, author of the blog Ripples and the book Danger Quicksand – Have a Nice Day, has posted the first entry in a series on starting a micro-business. I have been reading David’s work for quite some time and he always has something insightful and interesting to say. I’m looking forward… Continue reading Micro-business series

Business for Geeks. Sean Mountcastle has posted his notes from the recent Business for Geeks tutorial at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention. The talk was given by Marc Hedlund, O’Reilly’s entrepreneur in residence. Marc appeared to really push the microISV concept of starting small, keeping your day job, and bootstrapping but that only scratches the… Continue reading Business for Geeks

A Fourth Generation Warrior AP. Lt. Col. Bradley Becker, from Sacramento CA, commands the 2nd Battalion of the 8th Artillery Regiment. He is also a fourth generation warrior. His approach includes: Town Hall meetings: About six people showed up for the first meeting early this year – but the latest, on Tuesday, drew about 300.… Continue reading A Fourth Generation Warrior

NYT OP-ED #1. Tom Friedman started his op-ed piece in today's New York Times by suggesting that he'd run for office on a one-issue platform: He'd promise to make America's cell phone service as good as Ghana's. Friedman points out that our technological infrastructure is actually falling behind the rest of the world—in addition to… Continue reading NYT OP-ED #1

08/03 Symphony OS Alpha 4 [DistroWatch.com: Distributions]