Shanzhai Archeology: defying our standardized technological imagination – We Make Money Not Art http://we-make-money-not-art.com/shanzhai-archeology-defying-our-standardized-technological-imagination/
We can teach women to code, but that just creates another problem | Technology | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/14/tech-women-code-workshops-developer-jobs
AI’s Language Problem - MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602094/ais-language-problem/
technological singularity but in a circling-the-drain sort of way, event horizon as the point of no return
Technology now not only supports viruses, but fungi: The bitrot chews up all your data, the more specialized maildew grows on forgotten spam
I think we sometimes forget that even with all the advanced web technologies, you can still share your ideas with a simple text file.
MCITP - Enterprise Server Administrator
The last two weeks were very busy ones. I went through a Boot Camp and obtained the Microsoft Certified Information Technology Professional certification, as an Enterprise Server 2008 Administrator. Much more to do with the product, but migration is on my close horizon.
As a side note, and totally unrelated, I will change the way this weblog look soon. I will probably start over as well, all the old content gone. Not sure yet about that last part, but … ⌘ Read more
Within ten days!
Thank you for submitting your registration to Microsoft Heroes Happen Here: 2008 Launch Events.
You can print this page for your records using the “Print” button at right. Please expect to receive a confirmation email from [long email] within ten business days.
The key words here are “within ten business days”. Ten “business” days. A confirmation email! Do you find that as crazy as I do? What in the world!? If there are using Exchange, and Microsoft web technologies to … ⌘ Read more
SCO Receives Nasdaq Notice Letter
This doesn’t surprise me. What surprises me is that they are still on business.
SCO Receives Nasdaq Notice Letter — Yahoo! Finance
The SCO Group, Inc. (“SCO”) (Nasdaq: SCOX - News), a leading provider of UNIX™ software technology and mobile services, today announced that it received a Nasdaq Staff Determination letter on December 21, 2007 indicating that as a result of having filed for … ⌘ Read more
When you thought you hear it all
BBC NEWS: Toilet conference opens in Delhi
A World Toilet Summit has opened in the Indian capital, Delhi, with more than 40 countries taking part.
The four-day meeting will examine solutions and technologies that can be used to provide a basic need for nearly half the worlds population.
According to estimates, 2.6bn people around the world lack access to a hygienic toilet. The United Nations h … ⌘ Read more
Dabbling with OpenID
I have implemented OpenID commenting here, and I have gone one step further, by allowing commenting only after logged in, while using OpenID. This isn’t to avoid comment spam, which I think it will happen regardless. I am encouraging the use of the technology, which others might consider flawed (the CardInfo lovers, etc).
All OpenID providers are accepted, of course. I have even setup a small OpenID server of my own as well. Lets see how it goes. ⌘ Read more
New build farm hardware at TUD
To quote
Eelco Visser: new
hardware for buildfarm at Delft University of Technology has
arrived.
Here’s what we have: 5 Intel Core 2 Duo DualCore machines
with 1GB RAM, 2 Mac minis with 1,83-GHz Intel Core
Duo-processor, another Core 2 Duo a UPS to deal with spikes in
power supp … ⌘ Read more
Blue Security has gone down
Blue Security has announced it has ceased their anti-spam operations. From their website (which could be down as I type this):
As we cannot build the Blue Security business on the foundation we originally envisioned, we are discontinuing all of our anti-spam activities on your behalf and are exploring other, non spam-related avenues for our technological developments. As much as it saddens us, we … ⌘ Read more
You can’t do that!
Technology, Technology news, Times Online
“I can’t believe that your company would allow people to make money from something that you allow people to have free access to. Is this really the case?” she asked.
“If Mozilla permit the sale of copied versions of its software, it makes it virtually impossible for us, from a practical point of view, to enforce UK anti-piracy legislation, as it is difficult for us … ⌘ Read more
BBC and WoW
From one article on today’s BBC Online news:
Occasionally gryphons and hippogriffs swept majestically overhead taking their riders to elsewhere in Azeroth or, as it is also known, the World of Warcraft (WoW).
At the edge of the computer screen chatter constantly scrolled past as other WoW players sought members forguilds, buyers for magical items, help with quests or engaged in idle banter.
Go and read: [A Walk in the World of Warcraft](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4294122.stm “ … ⌘ Read more
Dropping BellSouth
Our VoIP gateway shipped yesterday and it should reach us around August 3rd (Tuesday). We are going to try Voice over IP technology and service, from Lingo. The reason why? Save money. Lingo VoIP service is $20 for unlimited long distance for US, Canada and Western Europe. Very –very– competitive fees to the rest of the world. And you get all the other goodies (caller ID, call waiting, return call, *69, voicemail, etc. [See more](https://www.lingo.com/guWeb/ … ⌘ Read more
Bob Muglia on Longhorn
Dreaming of Longhorn.
“When I think of Linux, I don’t think about it as our competitor. I think about Linux as a technology that is used by our competitors to build competitive offerings.” Very different from what Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates have been saying but Muglia says “he’s trying to teach them a thing or two.” ⌘ Read more
Redesign on the horizon
Pretty soon I will be redesigning. I am not sure what I will do yet, but the main site will change. Additionally, I will be adding an extra blog using MT (Movable Type).
On the main site I am not sure whether to go simplistic or zeldmanian, but changes are due, since I am also changing the way I have been writing lately. The domain Collantes.US will become the echo of my thoughts on technology, science, religion, politics and everything else in between. Stay tuned, if you want. Or … ⌘ Read more