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Libraries and the Internet. Kudos to Google and its new university allies — including my alma mater, the University of Michigan, as well as Harvard, Stanford, and Oxford — for their exciting project to open the stacks (Wall Street Journal, via Paul Kedrosky). It's a great day for the dissemination of knowledge! Bloggers from these… Continue reading Libraries and the Internet

Symantec Said to Be in Talks for Veritas. Symantec, which produces the Norton line of computer products, is in talks to acquire Veritas Software, a maker of data backup programs. By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN. [NYT > Technology]

Court Upholds Patent Ruling Against Maker of BlackBerry. A United States appeals court upheld a finding of patent infringement against Research In Motion Ltd., which makes the BlackBerry data device. By REUTERS. [NYT > Technology]

Google Is Adding Major Libraries to Its Database. Google plans to begin converting the holdings of leading research libraries into digital files that would be searchable online. By JOHN MARKOFF and EDWARD WYATT. [NYT > Technology]

Linux: Fewer Bugs Than Rivals. An analysis of the 5.7 million lines of Linux source code shows that it contains fewer bugs per thousand lines of code than commercial counterparts. By Michelle Delio. [Wired News]

How to handle and interpret BSODs on Windows. Today I read a post by Susan in which she makes some good recommendations on how to get a dump when a system crashes. I found a few of her points could be expanded upon and slightly modified, and started to comment on her blog. Then I… Continue reading How to handle and interpret BSODs on Windows

Linksysinfo.org. LinksysInfo.org is a wonderful website mentioned in an Inquirer article. The website collates information on modifying your Linksys. The site is also the primary support site for WiFi-Box, HyperWRT and HyperWAP Firmware. Underneath the hood of the WRT54G is a 200MHz MIPS processor running Linux and anywhere from 16 to 32MB of RAM and… Continue reading Linksysinfo.org

MarsEdit report. In the spirit of Gus Mueller’s after-development report on VoodooPad 2.0, here’s mine on MarsEdit 1.0… (Note: I may ramble a bit. And: this is mostly about programming.) Mitosis The genesis of MarsEdit was the idea of mitosis, that we could remove NetNewsWire’s weblog editor and create a new, separate weblog editor—and thereby… Continue reading MarsEdit report

Practical wisdom. In their new book “Deep Smarts”, Dorothy Leonard and Walter Swap explore the cognitive and competency practices that enable swift decisions, explain master level experience and examine ways to transfer these exceptional skills. * Deep smarts take time to mature – 10 years * Transfer is best facilitated by self-selected mentoring, practice and… Continue reading Practical wisdom

Looks like they ARE useless!. Remember my issues with the Linksys wireless range extender? By the looks of the discount table inside my local computer store, I'm not alone — there were easily between one and two dozen of them arrayed in a stack, all with labels saying that they were returns that were being… Continue reading Looks like they ARE useless!