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- MIT license - more liberal than the GNU Public License. Other developers are free to modify it. 1:13 PM Aug 17th from web
- Caffeine - the answer to everything, including search. Looks like Google is working on real-time search & you can help. 12:36 PM Aug 13th from web
- broadband over power line - even if electric companies don't become ISPs, the tech might work for smart grids. 8:06 AM Aug 4th from web
- ChaCha - Text a question to 242-242 (chacha). Get an answer. How's it work? It's not AI. It's human intelligence. 6:08 AM Jul 30th from web
- Cocktail - new Apple download format for packaging music, photos, lyric sheets, video clips & liner notes. AlbumsRback! 5:18 AM Jul 29th from web
- Mechanical Turk - Amazon's web service that crowdsources remote procedure calls. The human is hidden from view. 7:07 AM Jul 28th from web
- speedcabling - competitive sport where contestants race to unravel tangled CAT-5 Ethernet cables. Video: 10:45 AM Jul 23rd from web
- Foxconn-gate: Missing iPhone 4G prototype leads to tragedy. Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. 6:06 AM Jul 23rd from web
- JeOS - just enough operating system. Pronounced "juice." Used to build virtual appliances. 12:48 PM Jul 22nd from web
- social notworking - Facebook at work. Double whammy when "not working" includes both people and corporate lock downs. 10:03 AM Jul 21st from web
- the worst javascript error ever - discovered by Core Quality Assurance at Opera. Chuckle. RT@keemor 4:21 AM Jul 21st from web
- RT @ A server farm powered by a wind farm . What do you think the name will be? Wind grid? Chinook computing?3:43 PM Jul 20th from web
- @ Why wouldn't the analogy of uploading photos to FB be a good way to explain cloud computing to someone on the business side?1:07 PM Jul 20th from web in reply to PeterKretzman
- Ogg Theora - open-source video codec used by Wikipedia. It's something to keep an eye on. 11:55 AM Jul 20th from web
- illustrated hardware chart - This handy photo chart was created by Sonic84 to assist his customers at CompUSA. 10:28 AM Jul 20th from web
- GRRRid computing - Harnessing the power of distributed computing resources. Pirate Bay's new biz model? 9:53 AM Jul 19th from web
- Just added myself to the twitter directory under: 7:23 AM Jul 19th from WeFollow
- protection rings - virtualization hierarchy. Zero (most privileged) interacts directly with CPU and memory. 6:20 AM Jul 19th from web
- null pointer attack - memory corruption is new to Linux kernel but been around awhile. and 5:17 AM Jul 19th from web
- @ I'm glad we're here to help!11:15 AM Jul 18th from web in reply to LTank
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