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On the theme of migration, I thought I'd
post abou ...

On the theme of migration, I thought I'd
post abou ... 10/31/2003 07:24 PM

On the theme of migration, I thought I'd post about an unexpected, probably temporary, migration I made this afternoon -- I'm posting this from the Konqueror web browser, on a machine running KDE on FreeBSD on Intel hardware.

My first-gen PowerBook G4 (500MHz) has served me incredibly well, but it is nearing the end of its service life, with vertical lines on the display and freezes galore. Yes, I should have bought AppleCare :P Today I just couldn't take one more freeze. I dragged the FreeBSD machine, which had been a headless development box, over here to my desk and plugged it into my monitor.

I know this probably isn't going to last. For one thing, I hate desktops, and love laptops. If I made this a longer-term adventure I'd be looking to get me a nice sub-4-pound wintel laptop on eBay. But for now (i.e. while I deal with selling my old PowerBook and buying its replacement), I'm enthused and I think it's going to be very interesting.

I in terms of bang for the buck my "new" machine is quite tremendous. Apple can't touch that. The OS, desktop environment, and all the apps I'm using are free -- and quite current -- and the 333MHz/128M/10GB/CD-R Pentium II tower cost me $60 at a yard sale.

One irony that strikes me is that I never would have done this if I hadn't been using OS X for the past 2+ years. Apple did a tremendous job of making the OS perfectly usable and tidy while leaving the Unix clockwork there for inquisitive souls to play with. So now I know enough to really be dangerous. I've been using FreeBSD on web servers for years, but this is my first foray into the non-OS X Unix desktop world.

Random notes: There is a mind-blowing selection of software out there. The ports system is fantastic. I'm using mostly stock KDE apps right now because that's what I have installed, but plan to move to Firebird for browsing and Thunderbird for mail. Being a web developer, I'm very intrigued by the Quanta Plus development environment, which looks like BBEdit on [insert drug of emphasis here]. My Kensington Expert Mouse Pro USB is plug-n-playing just fine, in left-handed mode no less. I like this old-style tactile feedback keyboard. I like the "Klipper" multiple clipboard. I miss Quartz, especially the text. I miss the Keychain, imperfect though it may be. I miss Launchbar bad. Really bad.

Finally, while the feel of the UI is of course not as nice as Apple's in most respects, the mood is very fine -- and by that I mean that nothing on this machine is trying to sell me something else. I like that. A lot. I'm not being endlessly pestered to upgrade to Quicktime 17, or get a .mac account, or open my MSN Wallet, or pay my shareware fees. I'm free, baby, and it feels good. Discuss

2:46 PM | Paul Bissex

PSP Stopped Charging

PSP Stopped Charging 04/03/2005 05:57 PM
My PSP has stopped charging the battery or otherwise acknowledging that it's plugged in. There's no LED on the charger...

Charging for Groups

Charging for Groups 09/21/2004 10:14 AM

We discovered an intersting thing at 1UP.com - companies are willing to pay to get into the social networking space.

Whenever they hear about lots of people congragating - their ears perk up.

So Tony Perkins - and his AlwaysOn Network has decided to monetize that - and charge for Groups in it's Zaibatsu social network. The first one was announced yesterday - with Audi.

Here's the details:

We are pleased to announce that Audi of America is the first AlwaysOn Media Partner to launch its own Keiretsu on the AO network. AlwaysOn is the first media site to offer its partners a community building service that combines both blogging and social networking capabilities.

All AO members can join the Audi of America Keiretsu for FREE. It’s easy, so check it out!

http://audiamerica.alwayson-network.com

AO members who join the Audi of America’s Keiretsu will enjoy future special offers and privileges exclusive to members.

“Our new group social network and blog site on AlwaysOn provides Audi the unique opportunity to identify smart executives and entrepreneurs in the global Silicon Valley arena and gain their feedback and create a dialogue on technology trends in our industry,” said Jim McGough, Director of Audi America.

“Our new AO Keiretsu also allows Audi enthusiasts within the AlwaysOn
community to find and interact with each other. This kind of community building tool offers Audi an opportunity to target a market of smart executives in a way that has never been possible before.,” said Mr. McGough.

In the next couple of weeks, AlwaysOn is planning to roll-out additional Keiretsus on behalf of many of our other Media Partners including Sun Microsystems, KPMG, Quova, Porter Novelli and SupportSoft.

Commercial brands interested in launching their own AlwaysOn Keiretsu and learning more about our Media Partner Program should contact my partner Mike Sly at sly@alwayson-network.com.

AlwaysOn also offers related non-profits and trade associations the Keiretsu service for at no charge. To see if your group qualifies for the AO Keiretsu program, contact Brennan Igoe at brennan@alwayson-network.com.

As always, we look forward to any feedback on our new Keiretsu offering or any other service we provide. If you would like to make your comments public to other Ao members, check out my new post at:

http://www.alwayson-network.com/comments.php?id=6012_0_2_0_C

Best/tp

Tony Perkins
Founder/Editor
www.alwayson-network.com

Next one up - Sun.

Charging For Silk

Charging For Silk 03/13/2003 10:21 AM
What are people's issues with companies charging for new versions of previously free software if the software is a significant...

Wireless Charging your Handhelds?

Wireless Charging your Handhelds? 03/21/2003 10:17 AM

And To Your Left is a Charging
Elephant....

And To Your Left is a Charging
Elephant.... 01/08/2003 08:11 PM
I love/hate Apple's Safari program. It's a decent browser that'll be a great replacement for the MacIE that now ships as default on OS X,

craigslist starts charging in NY and LA

craigslist starts charging in NY and LA 08/04/2004 03:21 PM
real estate's probably more lucrative than employment ads, but it's an important step

Orange says sorry for charging for phone
spam

Orange says sorry for charging for phone
spam 12/02/2003 10:00 AM
Won't do it again, here's your money back etc.

Get online today for 50% less than the
big guys are charging!

Get online today for 50% less than the
big guys are charging! 09/07/2004 03:10 AM
Here we offer quality discounted web hosting, domain name registration services and other useful web service. Create or move a web site over to the pros, for about for 50% less than the 'big guys' are charging, without any headache or hassle. You'll be glad you did. [PRWEB Sep 7, 2004]

Stop Spam by charging to email?

Stop Spam by charging to email? 12/12/2003 12:52 PM

Court debates over charging Sharon's son

Court debates over charging Sharon's son 06/09/2004 02:03 PM

USB cell phone charging cables

USB cell phone charging cables 12/30/2003 01:33 AM
MacMinute: Keyspan ships retractable USB cell phone charging cables -- what a great idea! One less wall-wart recharger to carry in your bag on trips....

Charging ATMs 'must be labelled'

Charging ATMs 'must be labelled' 03/30/2005 09:10 PM
Cash machines should be labelled to show from a distance whether they charge for withdrawals, MPs say.

Folly of Charging for Viral Features

Folly of Charging for Viral Features 05/21/2004 09:49 PM

Dave Winer wrote:

It's lame to charge for weblog software based on how many weblogs you make and how many authors there are. A weblog isn't that big a deal.

To me, it's not whether a weblog is a big deal or not.  Importance of a feature is subjective and, in the end, nothing is a big deal.  Besides, making a big deal out of nothing is what marketing is all about.  Remember Seinfeld?

This comment over at Joi Ito's blog regarding the impact of Six Apart's new license hit me hard:

6A essentially fired its old Sales and Marketing staff...

The key lesson here is that you shouldn't be messing with the viral aspect of your product.

Road charging gets MPs' backing

Road charging gets MPs' backing 03/24/2005 02:02 PM
Gridlocked roads or paying by the mile is the stark choice facing British motorists, say MPs.

Zip-Linq cables: device charging without
bricks

Zip-Linq cables: device charging without
bricks 12/22/2003 10:11 AM
It used to be that I shlepped a power-strip (sometimes two!) with me when I went on the road, because they haven't built the hotel-room yet that has enough plugs to charge my entire device array, not least because everything that fits in my pocket comes with a charger whose transformer brick eats two or three outlets.

Then I discovered USB and FireWire charging -- and more specifically, Zip-Linq retractable cables. Instead of plugging everything into the wall, you attach your device to a little bon-bon-sized retractable wire that goes into one of your computer's ports and plug your computer into the wall. This is especially handy if you're travelling overseas, since it's just not practical to buy enough Euro-220 adapters to get your devices to talk to the local alternating current. Your laptop probably has an international power-supply requiring only a plug adapter, and once that's attached to the wall, you've got know-quantity/know-interface power for all your gizmos.

Before I leave on my next trip overseas tomorrow, I will slip into my pocket a Firewire cable (for my little backup harddrive, which I yanked out of an old PowerBook and put into a tiny enclosure, so that I can back up every day on the road), a cellphone charger (one for my US Motorola iDen phone, one for my European Nokia phone -- and cables are available for most manufacturers: Motorola, Sony-Ericsson, Samsung, Kyocera, Sanyo) and a PDA charger (Palm, iPaq).

Rael crashed on my sofa this weekend and pointed out that Zip-Linq is now shipping a wall-adapter, so that if your laptop is unavailable, you can plug this into the socket and still charge up.

The best part is that at $10-20 these wires are actually cheaper than the manufacturers' chargers for the most part. Link

Google May Experiment With Charging for
News Searches

Google May Experiment With Charging for
News Searches 10/08/2002 07:08 AM
A new story on the web quotes a senior Google VP as saying they may experiment with charging for news searches.

this is not fare on dealers part if the
govt is charging kst

this is not fare on dealers part if the
govt is charging kst 08/18/2004 01:32 AM
TechTree Aug 18 2004 5:47AM GMT

The results are in: what the carriers
are charging each month for portability

The results are in: what the carriers
are charging each month for portability 11/06/2003 01:33 PM
As promised, here's what we could find about what each of the different carriers' monthly fee for cellphone number portability, which they're charging even for customers who aren't planning to switch carriers. Sprint PCS: Collects $1.10 a month for "Federal Wireless Number Pooling And Portability." T-Mobile: Not charging a cent, and some readers report receiving bonus "loyalty minutes" as well. Nextel: Some readers wrote in that there were no portability charges on their bill, but others reported seeing a charge of either $1.55 or $2.83 for "Federal Programs Cost Recovery," which covers number portability. Verizon: Most readers reported no portability charge, but it seems to vary by state, with some reporting being charged $0.55 for portability. Cingular: Collects a fee of up to $1.25 for "Regulatory Cost Recovery," which likely includes number portability. Most Cingular subscribers who wrote in said that they were being charged $0.32 for this, but others...

Charging For Silk Part Two: Deus Ex
Machina

Charging For Silk Part Two: Deus Ex
Machina 03/13/2003 10:21 AM
There seems to be nothing I can do about Cocoa's "Unique Font Handling" I've tried and tried and tried. The...

Microsoft CETS aids in charging child
sex offenders

Microsoft CETS aids in charging child
sex offenders 04/08/2005 05:55 PM
TechSpot Apr 8 2005 9:47PM GMT

NY Times Discusses NY Times' Thoughts On
Charging For Access

NY Times Discusses NY Times' Thoughts On
Charging For Access 03/14/2005 05:27 PM
A few months back, the folks at the NY Times admitted they were think ing about charging for access to their website. This is a bad idea for a ton of reasons -- including the decrea sing relevance the publication will have on future news readers. Amusingly, though, a NY Times reporter is now weighing in with a story about whether newspapers should charge for access to online content. What's unfortunate is how clear it is that publishers simply don't get what's happening around them -- and how they're hastening their own obsolescence in the name of "protecting existing business models." The reporter quotes an analyst saying "Newspapers are cannibalizing themselves," as if that's a bad thing. The fact is, if they don't cannibalize themselves, someone else will -- and then they've got absolutely nothing. In a discussion about another (smaller) newspaper, the editor claims that they decided to charge "to save the print newspaper." That's backwards thinking. It's like saying a buggy maker refused to build automobiles to "save the buggy business." It doesn't work that way. As if to prove that, the article notes that paper subscriptions are still decreasing -- though, this is hidden quietly at the end of that section. Meanwhile, the article includes other misunderstandings about other newspapers. For example, the Washington Post claims that the current registration process is great because "you're getting information from your users and you can target ads to your users, which is more efficient for advertisers." Except that's not true. Plenty of studies have shown that newspaper registration files are fille d with dirty data, often doing much more damage then good while also opening them up to legal liability by presenting data to advertisers which is likely filled with false information. The problem with newspapers these days is that they're missing two very important cultural changes. First, is that there no longer is a captive audience. If you don't make it easy to work with you, then people go elsewhere quickly. That means registration or charging drives people away for good. Second, is that many people no longer view the news from solely the consumer perspective -- but also from the ability to share the news with others -- and registration and charging makes that more difficult as well. For example, the link above to the NY Times article is actually to a reprint of that article at CNET, because there's no registration requirements there, meaning we're more comfortable linking there than to the original piece at the NY Times itself.

Toshiba Introduces Fast-Charging
Lithium-Ion Battery

Toshiba Introduces Fast-Charging
Lithium-Ion Battery 03/29/2005 08:03 PM
Today, Toshiba announced a "breakthrough" in lithium-ion battery technology. The new technology reportedly allows a battery to recharge to 80% of the...

Toshiba develops fast-charging battery
techology

Toshiba develops fast-charging battery
techology 03/30/2005 09:23 AM
Toshiba�has developed prototype batteries that can be recharged about 60 times faster than conventional lithium ion batteries, and the technology could be commercialized for portable electronics products in about three years, company executives said at a news conference on Tuesday.

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Why Charging For Newspaper Content
Online Doesn't Make Sense

Why Charging For Newspaper Content
Online Doesn't Make Sense 11/07/2003 04:16 AM
One of the arguments that shows up here repeatedly is on the backwardness of local newspapers charging for online content. There are a number of reasons why it's a bad idea - from the level of taking yourself out of the online discussion and believing that walled garden content can survive to misunderstanding the very basic economics of the internet. Still, many newspapers are trying to do so, and some even believe that it's going well. Along comes Vin Crosbie, who knows both the newspaper business and the online content world, to smack a little sense into them. The Albuquerque Journal explained why they thought they were brilliant for creating a "successful" operation charging for their online content, and Crosbie picks apart the argument, bit by bit, and explains how they're actually losing money on this plan - and how all their other examples of newspapers charging for online content are bad (or irrelevant) examples. If you're interested in the economics of online content, it's worth a read.

Scottish Executive consults on
regulations for congestion charging

Scottish Executive consults on
regulations for congestion charging 09/20/2004 04:34 AM
PublicTechnology.net Sep 20 2004 7:43AM GMT

TheStar.com - Girls expelled for
charging boys to watch them kiss

TheStar.com - Girls expelled for
charging boys to watch them kiss 01/10/2004 07:58 PM
'expelled' for charging other students $5 to watch them kiss each other

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RealNetworks Sues Microsoft, Charging
Monopoly of Digital Media

RealNetworks Sues Microsoft, Charging
Monopoly of Digital Media 12/18/2003 09:45 PM
RealNetworks filed an antitrust suit against Microsoft on Thursday, alleging that its competitor has illegally monopolized the growing field of digital media by requiring every Windows user to take Microsoft's media player, whether they want it or not.

On Stage offers iPod
charging-syncing-sound system

On Stage offers iPod
charging-syncing-sound system 07/13/2004 02:02 PM
In addition to the On Tour personal audio system, Harmon Multimedia has also announced the On Stage, a "sound station for all iPods."...

iPod charging, up-to-date browsers,
Graphic Converter, Internet Cleanup

iPod charging, up-to-date browsers,
Graphic Converter, Internet Cleanup 06/17/2004 08:09 AM
Mac User Jun 17 2004 12:28PM GMT

countersued the big record labels,
charging them with extortion and
violations of the federal
antiracketeering act

countersued the big record labels,
charging them with extortion and
violations of the federal
antiracketeering act 02/19/2004 11:25 AM
RIAA sued under gang laws .. counter-sue the RIAA

news.com.com/2100-1027_3-5161209.html
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Pay By The Hour

Pay By The Hour 06/05/2005 10:46 PM
I talk to a lot of consultants, freelancers, and small businesses who do web work, and I used to be a freelancer myself, so sometimes I get asked for advice on how to price one's goods and services. I think I came up with my best suggestion today, and it...

30-Hour Famine

30-Hour Famine 03/30/2005 09:15 PM
Darren Barefoot writes: Hi folks, I’m doing the 30-Hour Famine. The 30-Hour Famine is a program run by World Vision Canada, an NGO that fights hunger in the developing world. For 30 hours on April 1st and 2nd, I won’t eat, as a kind of symbolic gesture of support for the 800 million malnourished and starving people in the developing world. At the same time, of course, I’m raising money….

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This Last Hour In iMac

This Last Hour In iMac 08/16/2004 12:41 PM

So how about that new iMac, huh? There has been plenty of talk around Internet about the new machine - set to be announced August 31 at the Apple Expo in Paris, according to most rumors - including this speculative design by fantasy Mac render man Isamu Sanada. All signs are pointing to a pizza box-style unit, like the Sony VAIO W700G all-in-one unit, but thought differently, natch. Sometimes-useful Mac rumor site Think Secret has a long list of specs, including information that the new G5-powered units will come in 17- and 20-inch flavors, with the entry-level "Education" model coming in at $1,300 and without optical drive (so those pesky kids can't steal music or install software, sources say). It all looks sort of interesting, I suppose, but in my heart of hearts I wish that the new iMac were just a plain white box, sans monitor, that could bring the power of G5 into homes and schools for $1,000 a pop. I know this isn't going to happen, but I can dream.

More details and links, including an Apple "colored chameleon case" patent application, after the jump.

24 Hour Comics dot com

24 Hour Comics dot com 04/25/2004 09:41 AM
24-Hour Comics Day, April 24, 2004

24hourcomics.com
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24 Hour Dotcom

24 Hour Dotcom 06/12/2004 04:49 AM

24 Hour Dotcom

Creating a Dotcom in 24 Hours

Right now we are at the Wizards of OS conference in Berlin to make a performance art/business project. The mission is to create a dotcom business from scratch in 24 hours. That means designing and programming a complete and useful web application, recruiting people, doing marketing, creating investment programs and much more. After 24 hours, the complete business will be sold on an eBay auction, and everyone involved will be rich!

Funny real-time project going on right now. ;-)

BBC - Radio 1 - Ten Hour Take Over

BBC - Radio 1 - Ten Hour Take Over 04/14/2004 02:27 AM
They've put the whole playlist online .. The full Ten Hour Takeover playlist .. tracks played in the first hour .. on the Radio One site

bbc.co.uk/radio1/djs/tenhour/10-11.shtml
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Earning $58,000 an hour

Earning $58,000 an hour 06/06/2005 12:00 AM
Poker site PartyGaming is set to go public and potentially make billions for the former porn entrepreneur and computer wiz who started it.

Wireless vs. Rush Hour

Wireless vs. Rush Hour 05/20/2004 02:19 PM
My latest article for TheFeature.com is online:

"Each year, Los Angeles drivers spend a combined total of 9,000 years stuck in traffic. Cell phones make it much easier to suffer through the brutal traffic jams that are the bane of city life around the world. Fortunately, wireless technology can also shorten the waiting game of freeway commuting.

From Los Angeles and Seattle to Berlin and Tokyo, city planners and researchers are deploying a slew of wireless sensors, smart street signs, and real-time data services for mobile devices to help manage traffic flow and inform drivers about what they'll face on the road ahead."

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