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Saturday, June 07, 2003

Notebook flirts with $699 price tag. WinBook will attempt to turn consumer heads next week when it releases a laptop priced at $799--before a $100 rebate--that includes a 2GHz Intel Celeron chip and a 14.1-inch display. [CNET News.com - Personal Technology]
8:14:00 AM

Friday, June 06, 2003

Physics Guys Say New Distro Better Linux

My exposure to Linux has been predicated on what my son's physics department has been getting into. We first started off with Red Hat, then switched to SUSE, then back to Red Hat.

Now the guys in his physics department have found what they believe is a better Linux.

I you would like to check it out, I have downloaded the description from the home page at:

http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/stories/2003/06/06/gentooLinuxDistroDescription.html

10:31:13 PM

Be creative -- or die. A new study says cities must attract the new "creative class" with hip neighborhoods, an arts scene and a gay-friendly atmosphere -- or they'll go the way of Detroit. [Salon Headlines]
8:48:31 PM

Thursday, June 05, 2003

New wireless mini computers from Zupera.

A couple of new wireless mini computers with built-in keyboards and integrated GPRS from Zupera that look similar on the outside, but are radically different on the inside. The Smartbook-7c (pictured at right) is more like a large PDA, and has a 7-inch touchscreen, a slot for CompactFlash memory cards, runs Windows CE.NET, and comes pre-installed with Microsoft's Pocket versions of Outlook, Excel, and Word. The Smartbook-8XP is more like a small laptop, and has an 8.9-inch touchscreen, a 20GB hard drive, and runs Windows XP.
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[Gizmodo]
6:59:58 PM

Wednesday, June 04, 2003

Haystack: A More Compelling View Of Your Data. Peristaltic writes "MIT's Haystack project has released the source for it's "Universal Information Client", Haystack. In their words: 'Haystack looks into the ... [Slashdot]
7:05:32 PM

Tuesday, June 03, 2003

Mozilla on the move. Joel Spolsky's endorsement of Mozilla Firebird -- he says "it has finally caught up with Internet Explorer" -- has attracted lots of notice. It is, indeed, a sweet piece of work. I love how the extensions work. The first one I picked up was LiveHTTPHeaders which seems to instantly obselete Proxomitron for purposes of HTTP protocol sniffing and website reverse-engineering. I was also delighted to see that there's a build which includes the DOM Inspector -- and, no soner was that available, an extension that added DOM Inspector to my existing Firebird installation. Extremely cool! ... [Jon's Radio]
7:42:25 AM