Help me if I ever get Dugg. For the past 5 years this site has been running on the same server. The server hardware has changed very little, the OS has gone from Windows 2000 Server to Windows XP to Ubuntu Linux. The hardware specs are kind of humorous:
AMD Athlon 900mhz
1GB 133mhz SDRAM
250GB of mirrored [...]
I finally got a new laptop. This is the first computer that I have bought for myself in 7 or 8 years. The last computer I bought was full tower box that I built myself and is currently the server for this website. It is running Ubuntu after years of running Windows. It is much [...]
This post about why gas costs more in the summer is very interesting. All previous explanations that I have come across were to simplistic.
yep i now have a wii. in fact i am writing this post from my wii. yes it is insane to use the wiimote for so much typing. anyhow fry`s had poor communication but they came through in the end!
the wii rocks!
You would think by now that companies would have figured out this whole eCommerce thing, but apparently not. Here is a quote from the Wii tracking site that I linked to earlier:
Today Fry’s website was saying it had the Wii in stock, but actually their ordering server crashed yesterday. It was taking orders this morning, [...]
After 2 months of half-assed searching I am, hopefully, to soon be the proud owner of a Wii. Using this great site I saw that Fry’s today had a small Wii bundle in stock. That is a Wii plus three games. My order processed and is supposed to ship today via 2 day, so in [...]
Are you cool enough for DirecTV Titanium? More importantly do you feel the need to pay $7500 per annum for TV?
The Internet Explorer Team sent the Firefox Team a nice cake congratulating them on their release of Firefox 2.0. I guess this is really appropriate given that without Firefox there would probably be no IE team and we would all still be using IE6!
Ever since I saw my very first weather related internet site I have been dissapointed. I have been continually amazed at how poorly these sites were setup, how much advertising there was, how little information there was, etc… All this was true until I found Weather Underground. Weather Underground is the best weather site that [...]
Cory Doctorow has an excellent critique of the a user agreement for Amazon’s new downloadable video service Unbox. It is too bad this service is so poor. I was actually considering trying it out. I poked around with it the 1st day it was released and became frustrated by the fact that my purchased videos [...]