Monday, February 11, 2002

The role of the command line in the modern GUI. Not a particularly new innovation, in the last ten to twenty years the command line has seen its role steadily decrease -- losing in a big way to the modern graphical user interface (GUI). While few have been sad to see it go, or more to the point, sad to see it's functionality replicated in fancy 3-D depressible widgets with context menus and sub-dialogs, those who were and are familiar with the command line interface (CLI) and it's vast power often continue to favor it over it's flashy but often clunky nephew. [kuro5hin.org] 7:04:04 PM

Serious Lego. Paisleys Cool Sites Feb 10 2002 11:19PM ET [Moreover - Cool sites] 7:04:00 PM

Swedish: The Open Source language?. mpawlo writes, "As reported by Gnuheter, it seems like Swedish is becoming the official open source language. Here are some recent developments on this matter. One Gnome 2.0 desktop alpha was called Mr Nilsson Sheds a tear (sw: Mr Nilsson was a character (a monkey) in the Pippi children book series written by recently deceased Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren), another Gnome 2.0 desktop alpha was called Rolig Liten Hattgubbe ... [NewsForge: Open Source News] 7:03:53 PM

Top-Ten viruses detected by Panda ActiveScan in January. Badtrans.B, Sircam and Nimda head the list of viruses eliminated by Panda Software’s free, online antivirus [PRWEB 2002-02-10] [PR Web - Computers] 7:03:44 PM

InfoHQ Unveils 10 Computer Maintenance Tips for Home Computer Users. You may have received a new computer for Christmas, but you didn’t receive instructions on how to take care of it. Our 10 tips will help you keep your computer running fast and trouble free. [PRWEB 2002-02-10] [PR Web - Computers] 7:03:35 PM

Foveon's revolutionary X3 sensor. Pre-PMA 2002: 00:01 EST: Foveon has today announced a new, revolutionary image sensor called the X3. A traditional digital camera sensor works by capturing just one colour (red, green or blue) at each pixel... [Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)] 7:03:29 PM

Lab Develops Artificial Womb [Slashdot] 7:03:23 PM

Rediscover the Joy of Coloring. I'm not talking about coloring your outfit, makeup, or anything fashion-related. This is color as in those coloring books you had as a kid. a day late and a ::... [meryl's notes] 7:03:16 PM

Microsoft pushes users to Office XP. IDGNet New Zealand Feb 11 2002 6:01PM ET [Moreover - Windows 2000 news] 7:03:11 PM

SOFTWARE REVIEW: Internet security software from Symantec. Nando Times Feb 11 2002 2:15PM ET [Moreover - PC software news] 7:03:06 PM

Intel unveils processors for handheld gadgets. digitalMASS Feb 11 2002 3:48PM ET [Moreover - Handhelds news] 7:02:58 PM

DaveNet: Google is decentralizing.  [Scripting News] 7:02:53 PM

Episode II Character Details [TheForce.net] 7:02:48 PM

What Now for Rambus?. Could the computer memory technology company still be an attractive investment? [The Motley Fool] 7:02:41 PM

Laptops keep PC sales afloat. Interactive Week Feb 11 2002 7:45PM ET [Moreover - PC industry news] 7:02:37 PM

Battling Bush's digital divide. Three prominent civil rights organizations will hold an emergency meeting to combat a proposal to eliminate two programs they say are "crucial" to reducing the digital divide. [CNET News.com] 7:02:31 PM

Best Nerd College Experience. I've been researching engineering schools over the previous year and was wondering what the k5 consensus was on the best nerd college experience. I'm planning on majoring in electrical engineering but opinions on other similar majors (CS, CE, etc) are more than welcome. [kuro5hin.org] 7:02:25 PM

Google in a Box. The number one search engine is now offering a corporate search product in a Linux-based machine. [Product News] 7:02:13 PM

Space: The Final Tourist Trap. CNN Feb 11 2002 9:46AM ET [Moreover - Space science news] 7:02:07 PM

QuickHelp - Linux application help. Excel Software writes: "Excel Software today announced the availability of QuickHelp for Linux. QuickHelp is a development tool for quickly creating and distributing online help for Linux applications. Help information for Linux has traditionally been delivered as ReadMe files, man pages or a loose collection of html files. These approaches are awkward and inadequate for new GUI programs arriving on Linux as it moves to the ... [NewsForge: Open Source News] 7:01:51 PM

Critical Internet Explorer 6.0 Update Finally Available [ActiveWin] 7:01:35 PM

Robocops fall from grace. Electronic Telegraph Feb 11 2002 3:32PM ET [Moreover - Robotics news] 7:01:28 PM

AOL blocks users from forwarding accounts [MacNN] 7:01:23 PM

Am I annoying or not?. Chris Evans leads celebrity slapdown [The Register] 7:01:18 PM

Dot.comeuppance. Media Guardian Feb 11 2002 3:53AM ET [Moreover - Cyberculture news] 7:01:11 PM

Thin Mints in Cyberspace. E-mail is playing a bigger role than ever in the annual U.S. Girl Scout cookie-selling season. But scout leaders remain opposed to pitching their sugary fare on the Web. By Joanna Glasner. [Wired News] 7:00:05 PM

Flavor of the Week. We watch Call for Help and we love Chris Pirillo and I'm not just saying that because he has a popular blog and someone I like is friendly with him. We really do love him. Like family. Oh god, we are so pathetic. We are just pathetic geeks. 6:17:19 PM

TechTV's for Geeks. Now I'm not ashamed to admit it (clearly), but these shows are for nerds only. The main hosts of each show, Chris Pirillo and Leo Laporte are themselves uber-dorks. 6:16:13 PM

Chris Pirillo, Look Out. I started thinking "TechTV needs a kids show!" Then I realized that kids pick up this stuff faster then adults, and after watching the Call for Help episode from earlier this week about the wireless networks he already understands how ours works. 6:15:17 PM

Free Comic Book Day. On Saturday, May 4th – the day after the premiere of the Spider-Man movie! – the comic book industry will sponsor Free Comic Book Day at participating comic book shops. Publishers such as Dark Horse, DC, Image, Marvel, and many more are preparing giveaway editions of some of their best titles for this special day. 6:14:29 PM