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Friday, March 31, 2000
The FreeBSD Diary computers have been seized
Sorry folks, but the freebsddiary.org computers have been seized by the cops and the website is off the air. I've been served with legal papers which are obviously a mistake, but the cops don't see it that way. Apparently I've been running an S M site which contains "explicit and offensive material" from my domain and someone has taken offence and gone to court to get a "cease and desist" order.
that sucks...
posted 11:13:36 PM
Webvan Tempts Fate, Goes National
Webvan (stock: WBVN) is building state of the art distribution centers nationwide to support its expansion to 14 more cities. That expansion kicks off in April with service in Atlanta. Webvan is incorporating warehouse-management software from Optum Software in the new centers.
posted 5:44:56 PM
Handspring files to go public
Despite the tough competition from Palm, analysts expressed cautious optimism about the company's chances for IPO success. Although Handspring enjoys a strong management team in Dubinsky, Hawkins and former Palm marketing director Ed Colligan, the IPO market is somewhat rocky. The company must prove to investors that its has its e-commerce problems under control, according to Jeff Hirschkorn of IPO.com.
posted 11:16:51 AM
Microsoft antitrust primer
Computerworld reporter Patrick Thibodeau explains the possible outcomes in either a settlement or verdict.
posted 11:13:52 AM
Thursday, March 30, 2000
Geeks Freak Over School-Violence Hotline
A pilot program in North Carolina wants students to report suspicious behavior by teachers or classmates.
posted 4:07:52 PM
The Fiber-Optics Challenge (Will It Make Cable and DSL Obsolete?)
Optical networks transform data into beams of light that can travel at extraordinary speeds -- 10 Gbps and beyond. Promising to shatter Internet bottlenecks. But don't hold your breath. For most of us, fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) -- enticing as it sounds -- remains on the horizon. I'll explain.
posted 10:07:44 AM
Wednesday, March 29, 2000
Stephen King e-book pirated
Hackers give e-book publishers the horrors -- cracking encryption key for PDF version of King novella and distributing it free online.
posted 2:50:30 PM
Handheld product scanner assists Web shopping
The online drugstore today launched ScanCart Shopping--a program for time-pressed shoppers who are looking to refill necessities through the Web. The shopping service hinges on consumers buying and using the CS 2000 Consumer Memory Scanner, which is made by Symbol Technologies and sells on PlanetRx for $159. Once at home, shoppers point the palm-sized scanner at an almost-empty shampoo bottle, deodorant or detergent, and it reads the bar codes, much like how checkout technology works at grocery stores.
posted 2:16:13 PM
Patent Office Changing Net Rules
Patent commissioner Todd Dickinson said second reviews of applications would become standard and he outlined efforts to make better searches of previous inventions and industry practices.
posted 12:33:26 PM
Many Web sites will pay high price for children's data
The phones at Surfmonkey.com ring nonstop with thousands of parents calling each week to give the online playground permission to collect personal information from their young children.
posted 12:16:00 PM
Webvan Sponsors San Francisco Giants New Ballpark
In a deal that puts its logo on homeplate, in right field, and on rotating signs, online grocery player Webvan Group on Wednesday agreed to sponsor the San Francisco Giants' new stadium, Pacific Bell Park.
posted 10:55:15 AM
Tuesday, March 28, 2000
BeOS 5.0 Available for Free - But Not Yet
free.be.com isn't working
i got a copy from download.com
posted 12:19:37 PM
Monday, March 27, 2000
Yahoo to unveil online photo album service
Shutterfly.com, a digital photo start-up backed by Internet entrepreneur Jim Clark, plans to announce a deal with Yahoo tomorrow, according to a Shutterfly representative.
posted 4:25:56 PM
O'Neal sinks free throws, Sacramento 90-89
O'Neal responded by calmly swishing a free throw to complete a three-point play, giving the Los Angeles Lakers a 90-89 victory over the Sacramento Kings on Sunday in what could be a preview of a first-round playoff series.
last year, he would not have hit it
posted 12:43:05 PM
Johnson breaks 300-meter world record
Showing sensational early-season form, Michael Johnson smashed more than a half-second off the world record in the rarely run 300 meters Friday night.
posted 12:22:30 PM
Sunday, March 26, 2000
Kevin Spacey Wins Best Actor Oscar
Kevin Spacey won the Oscar for best actor at the Academy Awards on Sunday for portraying the out-of-work father of a dysfunctional suburban family in ''American Beauty.''
posted 9:37:05 PM
Gripes against @Home cable-modem service rising
From January 1999 to March, 138 people contacted the city's Office of Cable Communications to lodge 164 complaints, with more than 80 percent of them logged since October. Knowledgeable city officials believe the number represents less than 10 percent of the true depth of dissatisfaction.
posted 10:06:54 AM
Friday, March 24, 2000
Consumers fight corporations on Web, but protests costly
A California woman won a bittersweet legal victory this week against an extermination service that pestered her for years after she placed complaints against the company online.
posted 6:17:17 PM
Why Startups Lure Big Company Workers
Judy Meleliat is a great example of why big companies should fear startups. Two months ago she was the top marketing person at Starbucks. Today she's working at a startup called EmployeeSavings.com and says she has few intentions of ever going back to a big company. Sure, you say, all these execs at big-time companies are jumping ship for Internet startups because they can collect options that will perhaps lead to financial nirvana. But that's only one part of it.
posted 4:40:11 PM
Emachines fizzles on first day of trading
The stock actually opened at $8.38 a share. It dipped as low as $7.75 and went as high as $10 a share before finishing the regular trading day at $8.25, on volume just short of 17 million shares.
posted 4:01:31 PM
JS Online: Surfing like pros
High-priced Webmeisters may have shivers shooting down their spines when they learn that two computer-savvy high school sophomores persuaded Brookfield to log off a $53,000 Internet contract by offering to do the job for half the cost.
posted 1:38:58 PM
Report: Microsoft Ready to Settle
Microsoft is expected to make a far-reaching offer to settle the government's antitrust case against it as prosecutors step back from demands that the software giant be broken up, USA Today reported Friday.
posted 12:05:02 PM
Registry Glitch Derails Domain Offer
He said that more than 100,000 people accessed the RegisterFREE.com site during the promotion, but because of problems with NSI's (NSOL) registry, only a few thousand were able to register domains for free.
posted 11:57:40 AM
Thursday, March 23, 2000
Free domain registration, but hurry - March 23, 2000
Want to register a domain name but cringe at the fees? One company will offer registration for an entire year, no cost, no strings. But Web address wannabes better hurry. RegisterFree.com is waiving its fee for only one hour Thursday evening.
posted 2:36:16 PM
Cisco briefly passes Microsoft as most valuable firm
The two companies are now locked in a dead heat for maintaining that title on an ongoing basis, but the trend is clearly in place. Shares of Microsoft are little changed from their August levels while shares of Cisco have surged.
posted 11:59:35 AM
Netpliance ambivalence
While Netpliance is opening the collaboration door, it's slamming shut the hacking door. The company said Wednesday that i-openers shipped after March 20 can't be reconfigured. The company website also warns prospective buyers that "modification of the i-opener in any way is in violation of our terms and conditions."
posted 11:51:53 AM
Install your own DSL
Telocity has built an appliance that combines a DSL and analog modem. A user can plug it into a computer and install an always-on DSL service automatically via a download from the company's back office.
posted 10:40:45 AM
Offered Old Computers, Some School Officials Decline
"The core of our concern is that businesses will think they are helping schools, when in fact they are giving away equipment that isn't usable, that, in fact, imposes costs that are administrative and financial," said Keith R. Krueger, executive director of the Consortium for School Networking, a nonprofit Washington group that promotes the use of technology in schools.
posted 10:36:43 AM
Gates shows off prototype wireless device
Like Pocket PC, MiPad include address book, email and calendar functions. But MiPad adds a high-speed wireless connection and voice recognition, allowing the device to recognize verbal instructions to call contacts from the address book and allowing users to speak to callers directly through the device.
posted 10:33:29 AM
Cobalt Adds ASP Solutions--March 23, 2000
Cobalt Networks Inc. took steps Thursday to bridge the gap between Linux and Unix and Active Server Pages with the acquisition of Chili!Soft Inc. for $14.9 million in stock.
posted 10:28:51 AM
Wednesday, March 22, 2000
Giants Warn Fans Parking Is Scarce/Transit or hoof it to Pac Bell
posted 10:40:26 PM
BlueLight.com signs on 1 million customers
posted 5:19:41 PM
Linux Supercomputer Howls
The University of New Mexico and IBM are teaming up to build the world's fastest Linux-based supercomputer.
Named "Los Lobos", the new supercomputer is scheduled to be fully operational by the summer.
posted 9:38:15 AM
Dot-commers party on
posted 9:35:07 AM
Tuesday, March 21, 2000
BART & Webvan Deliver!
BART in conjunction with Webvan, "the world's first full-service online grocery and drugstore" will sell BART tickets online at Webvan.
posted 9:48:07 PM
Net Speed Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
Scientists at leading research labs are starting to push the data-transmission capabilities of fiber-optic cable into the realm of the mind-boggling.
Setting a new record, researchers at Lucent's Bell Labs have for the first time managed to push an astonishing 3.28 terabits per second of data over a long stretch of fiber-optic cable.
posted 4:27:23 PM
Can Movie Theaters Cut the Cord on Moviefone?
posted 12:07:38 PM
Kozmo files for $150 million IPO
posted 11:24:58 AM
Peapod shares fall further; online grocer's shareholders sue
Two New York law firms - Abbey, Gardy & Squitieri and Faruqi & Faruqi - filed a class-action complaint in federal district court in Chicago on behalf of shareholder Lila Gold, charging Peapod and its top executives with misrepresenting its cash funding needs.
The action says the company "artificially inflated" the stock price in violation of federal regulations, most notably with a Nov. 8 statement that it had sufficient funds to operate into the third quarter of 2000. More investors are expected to sign onto the lawsuit.
posted 11:23:51 AM
TÉA LEONI HITS THE X-FILES
David Duchovny announced over the weekend that wife Téa Leoni will be featured in an April episode of The X-Files. The premise of the episode is that Skinner sells a story to Hollywood based on one of Mulder and Scully's cases; Leoni and Garry Shandling play Scully and Mulder in the "Hollywood" version.
posted 10:02:39 AM
Monday, March 20, 2000
Be sheds more light on OS update
Be Inc. will ship on March 28 the next version of its BeOS operating system, which is capable of manipulating audio and video on a desktop PC.
posted 11:23:36 AM
Don't shoot that iMac!
catchy title
posted 9:41:55 AM
Friday, March 17, 2000
Dictator News from Tired
hehehe
posted 11:01:06 PM
Netpliance raises $144 million in IPO
posted 12:56:44 PM
HOW TO MARRY AN IRRESISTABLE .COM GEEK MILLIONAIRE
"These guys' idea of a come-on is like, 'Hey, wanna see my new PalmPilot?' "
posted 10:46:00 AM
Thursday, March 16, 2000
An I-Opening Hack: $200 PC
posted 6:26:16 PM
Cell phone video start-up files for IPO
start-up called PacketVideo, which produces software allowing two-way video conversations or Internet video content to be delivered over mobile telephones and other wireless handheld devices. The company filed to go public this week.
Hold the phone
original article which peaked my interest
posted 3:15:31 PM
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire in Jail?
A local man who hoped to strike it rich on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire instead went to jail the day after his appearance because his sudden fame led police to arrest him on a warrant for skipping a court hearing.
posted 10:41:50 AM
Wednesday, March 15, 2000
Hard Drives Hit 75 GB
IBM said in a statement its 7,200 rpm Deskstar 75GXP drive for desktop computers held 75 gigabytes of data, more than 10 times the capacity of drives found in the average home personal computer.
posted 2:37:58 PM
Open-Source 'Napster' Shut Down
"The Gnutella software was an unauthorized freelance project and the Web site that allowed access to the software has been taken down," said Josh Felser, general manager for AOL's Spinner and Winamp projects.
posted 2:36:06 PM
FleetKids
via yahoo! picks. some cool games for my son
posted 1:28:34 PM
An MIT Prof Who Could Level the Cyber Playing Field
Pattie Maes wants her ratings system to give worthy startups a chance against brand-heavy giants
posted 12:20:05 PM
Yahoo, eBay end talks?
Discussions on merger or alliance broke down last week, paper reports
posted 11:04:31 AM
google web directory
via email. Dear Google-Friends, We're very excited to let you know about a new search feature at Google: our new directory at http://directory.google.com .
posted 10:41:18 AM
Tuesday, March 14, 2000
U.S. Census 2000 Home Page - See if your (census) paper form can be filled out on the Internet
so, i'm eligible to fill out the internet form but i keep getting an error. oh well
posted 10:40:55 PM
DSL subscribers see privacy disappear
After subscribing to a digital subscriber line service, a systems administrator found his wife's name, his home address and their computer's Web address all publicly listed online.
posted 9:18:18 PM
Yahoo to Buy EBay?
A source close to the talks said there was a 50-50 chance of a "deep partnership" between eBay and Yahoo, with a "significantly" smaller chance that Yahoo would buy eBay outright, CNBC said.
posted 4:39:46 PM
Web whiz, 15, already a Millionaire
The 10th grader made a quick $1.6 million or so in the age of the Internet.
posted 4:36:19 PM
THS thanks alumnus for $155,000 gift 03/10/00
via mrbarrett. The gift furnished a lab of 32 400 megahertz Macintosh G4 computers each outfitted with multimedia software plus a 35 gigabyte server that can write onto CDs.
posted 3:46:59 PM
AOL's Nullsoft creates software for swapping MP3s
"Napster is a centralized site for content, and the shortcoming of Napster is it's very easy to block access to universities," Pepper added. "What Gnutella does that's different is you connect to each other. You form a web of servers. Four people can connect to each other, they can connect to four others, and it spreads out to a huge tree."
posted 2:47:47 PM
Parents Leave Kids to Attend Mardi Gras
The parents of five children were charged on Monday with leaving the children at home alone while they spent a week in New Orleans at the Mardi Gras celebrations, police said.
posted 12:55:39 PM
Redherring.com - Idealab raises $1 billion in lead-up to IPO
posted 11:29:04 AM
Monday, March 13, 2000
I-opener and Linux
or http://iopener.scizzors.net/
posted 3:56:42 PM
Hello! and Welcome to Movie Passes
Six big theater chains are joining forces to create an Internet company that will let customers print tickets at home.
last week, but i just got to it now
posted 2:30:06 PM
Grand Theft Pokemon: Case Cracked
OAKLEY, Calif. (Reuters) - Relieved sheriff's officials announced Friday they had cracked a case of "grand theft Pokemon" -- tracking down 161 trading cards that had been confiscated, and then lost, by a local school.
The owner of the cards, 11-year-old Rudy Donithan-Treat, was awarded $1,500 by small claims court last week after a judge determined that the school bore responsibility for the lost cards.
posted 9:58:03 AM
Open Source Opens Education
For the past three years, Nelson has led the Linux in Schools Project. Once a month, the group holds a clinic in which teachers and students can learn how to use and install Linux.
posted 8:49:15 AM
E*Trade deal gives traders access to ATMs
E*Trade Group said it will buy automatic teller machine operator Card Capture Services for an undisclosed amount, as the online broker seeks to create a physical presence for its brokerage and banking services.
posted 8:45:54 AM
Sunday, March 12, 2000
Forecast for French Fraud
A security-code busting formula is posted on the Net that would make it easy to produce fake cards for buying train tickets and paying parking meters. Apparently the country's bank accounts are safe.
posted 10:01:02 AM
blogger redesign
Finally, after hours and hours of tweaking, voilà: our new site!
i like it. those guys are really cool!
posted 12:41:02 AM
Saturday, March 11, 2000
Intel wins X-Box deal at 11th hour
posted 11:51:39 PM
PC World News: Kids Passport Controls Young Browsers
Microsoft's program helps sites comply with federal safety mandate, and allays parents' concerns.
posted 9:49:37 PM
Friday, March 10, 2000
Marino calling it quits after 17 seasons
posted 5:40:12 PM
Yahoo Takes the Plunge
Ever since America Online announced its plan to buy Time Warner, everyone's been waiting for the Web's No. 1 portal to react. Now it has.
posted 4:30:08 PM
High Fidelity
In a biting romantic comedy
posted 4:27:03 PM
The rise and fall of Netscape
via jimlog. Once synonymous with the Web itself, browser firm is now just an AOL ‘arm’
posted 4:18:11 PM
Bell Atlantic, SBC to test IBM Web devices
posted 9:41:43 AM
Thursday, March 09, 2000
Top 50 Sites of February 2000
PC Data Online gathers information on Web traffic and e-commerce through a proprietary tool that tracks unique visitors. Each visitor is counted only once, regardless of how many times the individual visits a site. The sample includes 100,000 home-based Internet users.
posted 5:48:49 PM
Montana boy survives having heart pierced by pencil
via wonko.com
posted 4:35:34 PM
PS2 Memory Card Recall Reports Are False
via slashdot. but the memory card bug is still a significant flaw that Sony has not yet addressed.
posted 4:14:26 PM
Hotmail Turns Up Heat on Spam
MSN is pushing Hotmail Inbox Protector as an environment where the user has total discretion. They decide which mail is routed to their inbox and which is assigned to spam hell.
like yahoo mail's bulk mail feature
posted 2:49:17 PM
Bradley Endorses Gore, McCain Quits Race
The two presidential insurgents, Democrat Bill Bradley and Republican John McCain, both gave up the struggle on Thursday, with Bradley endorsing Vice President Al Gore but McCain declining to do the same for Texas Gov. George W. Bush.
posted 11:14:53 AM
Sony's New Net Bank and You
If issued a licence, the bank will specialize in providing retail services over the Internet, such as deposit-taking and consumer lending, and will have no branches, the official said.
posted 11:09:54 AM
Idealab prepping new search engine
"Find.com is dedicated to creating many focused, topic-based search engines, rather than one broad-based search,"
posted 11:03:07 AM
Wednesday, March 08, 2000
Are workers cyber-moonlighting?
via e-connet. Think of it as cyber-moonlighting. An influx of Web sites that pay end users to surf, search and send e-mail are enticing employees to use their speedy Internet connections at work to earn a little extra cash while on the clock.
posted 4:34:21 PM
Crazy B**** Home Page
22. Gallons of paint, still wet, covered every single piece of Furniture, Floor, Walls, TVs, VCRs, Computer, Stove, Microwave, Lamp, and Bed and If that’s not enough there’s still more...
posted 4:05:45 PM
DevShed - The Soothingly Seamless Setup of Apache, SSL, MySQL, and PHP
via QubeQuorner
posted 1:24:31 PM
Picture This
i love this room. original article
posted 11:34:47 AM
Arizona Net primary draws record turnout, gets bugged by Y2K
Despite the problems, about 14,000 Arizona Democrats voted yesterday. That's more than in the entire 1996 primary
posted 11:31:08 AM
New My.UserLand.Com channel: The FreeBSD Diary
via Spicy Noodles
posted 8:51:29 AM
School Fundraising - Say Goodbye to Bake Sales
Schoolpop, an online shopping mall which donates a piece of the pie, is proving to be wildly popular with investors.
posted 8:44:31 AM
Tuesday, March 07, 2000
Dotcom millionaire shares the wealth
Anthony Parks hit the jackpot with his Webvan stock options -- then decided to share his good fortune with the people who helped him on the way up.
posted 12:20:30 PM
Final Fantasy the movie
via /usr/bin/girl.
posted 11:17:57 AM
Totally Useless Web Site - Weblogs are everywhere
via metajohn
posted 9:13:50 AM
Intel to give away 70,000 PCs to staff
the employee pc giveaway continues...
posted 9:02:59 AM
Monday, March 06, 2000
Gates files to sell $28 million in stock
Company spokeswoman Caroline Boren said the sale was "part of a regular program where (Gates) periodically sells a small fraction of his holdings as part of his prudent portfolio diversification."
every year, they report this story and the spokeperson always gives the same answer
posted 10:02:17 PM
Streaming Video For the Real World
via jimlog. White is one of seven people living for free in the house on San Francisco's Lombard Street that MTV made famous with its Real World series. But this venture has nothing to do with MTV; it's a scheme by an Internet startup spending nearly $10,000 a month on rent alone to fund this Webcast copycat.
posted 9:36:12 PM
Fiddling With Human Behavior
Persuasive Technology Laboratory at Stanford University, where academics study technology designed to persuade people to alter their thoughts or behavior.
posted 9:21:05 PM
A New Face for GNOME
posted 2:36:08 PM
Home, sweet digi-home?
Mundie’s goal — like the goal of virtually every American homeowner — is to have just one remote control running the television, stereo, VCR and other devices. And while the Microsoft Home does feature a single remote control that can operate a network of TV and stereo devices, at least two additional remote controls were available in the carefully arranged living room area.
posted 11:07:54 AM
Sunday, March 05, 2000
Architectural Record
i was reading this magazine in a bookstore but i did not want to buy it. too bad the web site isn't as good as the magazine
posted 4:19:41 PM
Saturday, March 04, 2000
Jolie Digging Into "Tomb Raider"?
Thespian babe Angelina Jolie may be showing off her guns as cyberbabe Lara Croft in the live-action movie version of Tomb Raider.
posted 9:34:57 PM
How About A B.A. In Quake?
more info, sort of
posted 9:31:36 PM
Friday, March 03, 2000
Network Solutions Invests in MyComputer.com
posted 11:59:47 AM
12,150 cups of chocolate pudding = 1,215,000 miles
via mailing list. pretty amazing
posted 11:39:24 AM
Thursday, March 02, 2000
Yahoo! Companion
my new best friend. really, i just use the bookmarks and the mail. they must have cleaned it up because it was loading pretty slow a couple of months ago
posted 10:37:16 PM
Yahoo!'s History and Infrastructure
So what powers the world's most popular website? Apache and Perl scripts talking to an SQL database, running on top of FreeBSD, behind some server load balancing software... with a side of French fries.
posted 9:29:30 PM
Fiber Optics to the Home
100 to 200 megabits per second. pls
posted 5:43:29 PM
How does a B.A. in Quake sound?
what's your major?
posted 4:46:22 PM
Interviews Apple Co-founder Steve Wozniak
his personal site, woz.org
another interview
posted 1:58:46 PM
Where do you want to work today?
Microsoft goes for "station domination," and wallpapers a San Francisco metro station with recruiting ads.
if you've seen it, it's quite disturbing
posted 12:06:07 PM
Grandma Now Accepts Credit Cards
X.com, an online financial services startup offering banking products and person-to-person payments, has merged with privately held PayPal, which offers a competing service. The merger is expected to be announced Thursday, one day after Wells Fargo said it had teamed up with eBay (EBAY) to create Billpoint, a new company that offers the auction site's 10 million users a handy way to accept credit card payments.
why did it take ebay this long to accept credit card payments?
posted 11:37:17 AM
Palm IPO Up in Early Trading
Palm Inc. shares more than tripled during first-day trading, after hitting the market at a starting price that was already well-above expectations.
Shares of the handheld device maker, which were priced Wednesday night at $38, soared as high as $140 before dipping to $126 in midday trading. The 23 million-share offering was originally expected to sell for between $15 and $17 a share, but the company raised its offering price in response to high demand.
posted 11:25:28 AM
Wednesday, March 01, 2000
Simpsons Episodes
via re-run. in RealVideo format
posted 10:01:44 PM
Is AOL underplaying threat of free ISPs?
yes, they are
posted 10:48:31 AM
