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My ETCON talk, in the Public Domain

My ETCON talk, in the Public Domain 02/12/2004 06:13 PM
I have just given a talk at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Confernece called Eb ooks: Neither E, Nor Books, which is something of an anomaly for me in three ways:

1. I wrote out this talk, word for word, in advance of the presentation
2. I am releasing that written text as a free, public domain file, right now, moments before I get off the stage

So here's the text of that talk, dedicated to the Public Domain, for you to do with what you will.

This isn't to say that copyright is bad, but that there's such a thing as good copyright and bad copyright, and that sometimes, too much good copyright is a bad thing. It's like chilis in soup: a little goes a long way, and too much spoils the broth.

From the Luther Bible to the first phonorecords, from radio to the pulps, from cable to MP3, the world has shown that its first preference for new media is its "democratic-ness" -- the ease with which it can reproduced.

(And please, before we get any farther, forget all that business about how the Internet's copying model is more disruptive than the technologies that proceeded it. For Christ's sake, the Vaudeville performers who sued Marconi for inventing the radio had to go from a regime where they had *one hundred percent* control over who could get into the theater and hear them perform to a regime where they had *zero* percent control over who could build or acquire a radio and tune into a recording of them performing. For that matter, look at the difference between a monkish Bible and a Luther Bible -- next to that phase-change, Napster is peanuts)

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Leveraging RSS at Disney ETCON talk

Leveraging RSS at Disney ETCON talk 02/10/2004 06:36 PM
Here're my running notes from Le veraging RSS at Disney: from Collaboration to Massive Content Delivery at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego.

Modern computers can handle large files, video, media, etc.

Want to provide experiences above the effective bitrate of our users, and bits are expensive to ship.

Example: Added a high-quality video clip to the front page of ESPN.com.

Came to think about the enclosure tag in RSS -- the idea of asynchronously d/ling content behind the scenes. You can download the experience prior to hitting the page.

Built a client-side technology -- espn.com, disney.com, etc -- an RSS aggregator that d/ls and pre-caches video on the machine, and communicates with the mothership to tell them who's got what in the cache.

We wanted 500k users in 1 year -- in three weeks we hit a million. Over 2 million now. Sustainign 2GB of bandwidth, TBs/day.

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Transcendant Interactions ETCON talk

Transcendant Interactions ETCON talk 02/10/2004 09:27 PM
Here're my running notes from Tr anscendant Interactions at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego.

Manifesto: Don't build applications. Build contexts for interactions.

The architecture of entertainment has been shaped by the idea of immersion.

We try to design places for people to play, but play is about people, not places.

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boyd's social networks talk from ETCON

boyd's social networks talk from ETCON 02/11/2004 06:56 PM
danah boyd has posted the text of her ETCON talk, Re venge of the User: Lessons from Creator/User Battles.

Asking favors is fundamentally different than offering them. People gain by being bridges. Thus, to be able to tell you about a job gives me whuffie in our relationship. Feeling pressured to connect you to an open job makes me uncomfortable. In all of the networks described above, the bridge got to control the information flow. In Milgram's "Small Worlds," if you didn't know that i knew the target person, you may not have tried to pass it on to me. If you don't know that i am dating someone who has something that you want, you won't try to pressure me into giving you access to it. Thus, i can choose when to reveal my connections in a situation where i can come across as being helpful, rather than being put in a position to feel cornered. Revealing the network shifts the power.

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Eric Bonabeau's Evolving the Bad Guy
ETCON talk

Eric Bonabeau's Evolving the Bad Guy
ETCON talk 02/10/2004 04:10 PM
Here're my running notes from Er ic Bonabeau's Evolving the Bad Guy at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego.

Bad guys co-evolve with your defenses -- tax code, software and NBA rules all need to constantly evolve, as does Google

Evolutionary computation: represent individuals as genetic strings, i.e. 110100101

Test individuals for fitness -- how good they are at finding and exploiting loopholes

Mutate and crossover to get individuals who are better and better at solving your problem -- at finding loopholes.

In 2002, Sussex researchers tried to design an osscilator using evolutionary computation, but found it ended up weird because of unintentional RFI emission from a nearby PC

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Google is Harder Than it Looks ETCON
talk notes

Google is Harder Than it Looks ETCON
talk notes 02/11/2004 06:56 PM
Here're my running notes from Nelson Minar's Go ogle is Harder Than it Looks talk at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego.

Query comes into custom httpd, Google Web Server ("gwis")

Sent in parallel to several places:

* Index server, "every page with the word 'apple' in it -- a cluster that manages "shards" or "partitions" (everything starting with the letter "a") and then load-balancing replications for each. Have to calculate intersections for multiple-term queries

* Doc server, copies of webpages -- whence page-snippets are served in results. Sharded and replicated for scaleability and redundancy

* Misc servers: QuickLinks, spell-checkers, Ad server (first two are small servers, ad server is humongous)

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Emotional Design: The Principles ETCON
talk notes

Emotional Design: The Principles ETCON
talk notes 02/12/2004 12:43 PM
Here're my running notes from Donald A. Norman's Em otional Design: The Principles talk at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego.

I no longer tell you why everything is crappy -- now I'm the guy who tells you how nice and pretty things can be.

The orange juicer on the cover of my new book, Emotional Design, evokes strong emotion.

I'm here to talk about consumer products, not computers.

Getting the tech right is only part of the problem: the big part is the hearts and minds, so your customers enjoy it.

There's something about physical design that really turns people on. The tech has to be flaawlessly, but no one cares about it -- it's just infrastructure.

See the Mini Cooper -- the NYT said, "It has many flaws, but boy is it fun."

I used to buy stuff that I knew was b0rked, but I wanted to own them anyway.

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Elizabeth Lawley's Breaking Into the
Boys' Club ETCON talk

Elizabeth Lawley's Breaking Into the
Boys' Club ETCON talk 02/10/2004 04:10 PM
Here're my running notes from El izabeth Lawley's Breaking Into the Boys' Club: How Diversifying Your Team Can Expand Your Market at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego.

RIT is struggling with enrolment, but the enrolment is overwhelmingly male. Why not bring in more women? It's an untapped field and it makes men happier.

People say that women don't want want to be there, why are your forcing them to go? But this is what people said about math 30 years ago.

Today there's gender parity in math classes, but subtle pressures steered them away.

We design products for men -- women get killed by airbags. If you include women in the devleopment of product, you diversify the view. Women aren't the only viewpoint you need to include, but it's half the potential market.

Anil Dash: It's no coincidence that the two popular blogging packages (Blogger and MT) were co-developmed by women (Meg Hourihan and Mena Trott).

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Life Hacks: Tech Secrets of Overprolific
Alpha Geeks ETCON talk notes

Life Hacks: Tech Secrets of Overprolific
Alpha Geeks ETCON talk notes 02/11/2004 03:01 PM
Here're my running notes from Li fe Hacks: Tech Secrets of Overprolific Alpha Geeks at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego.

It's the 10-second rule: if you can't file something in 10 seconds, you won't do it. Todo.txt involves cut-and-paste, the simplest interface we can imagine.

It's also the simplest way to find intercomation. EMACS, Moz and Panther have incremental search: when you type a "t" it goes to the first mention of "t", add "to" and you jump to the first instance of "to", etc.

This is being added to Longhorn (Unix geeks, we've had this since Jan 1 1900, and it will go away in 2038).

Power-users don't trust complicated apps. Every time power-geeks has had a crash, s/he moves away from it. You can't trust software unless you've written it -- and then you're just more forgiiving.

Text files are portable (except for CRLF issues) between mac and win and *nix.

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Revenge of the User: Lessons from
Creator/User Battles ETCON talk notes

Revenge of the User: Lessons from
Creator/User Battles ETCON talk notes 02/11/2004 04:31 PM
Here're my running notes from danah boyd's Re venge of the User: Lessons from Creator/User Battles at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego.

The response is an attempt to "configure the users" -- constrain behavior to acceptable behavior with messaaging, kicking people off, etc.

This won't work: you can't tell a hacker not to hack. These kids are social hackers. You can stop some bad behavior, but you chase off your best users, too.

Dating doesn't happen because you're in a dating context. Dating arises out of real contexts.

Taking away fakesters didn't make Frienster more real. Friendster is unreal because people never remove their friends, even if they never see them (the exception is when you break up, ironic, because ex-lovers are strong ties!).

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Joe Trippi's next big thing

Joe Trippi's next big thing 07/26/2004 07:41 PM
Howard Dean's campaign wizard is now a consultant without a candidate, but he's giving John Kerry free advice: Reject public financing and turn to your base to neutralize the Bush money juggernaut.

Trippi's bet on Net will pay off far
into the future

Trippi's bet on Net will pay off far
into the future 02/10/2004 07:30 AM
SiliconValley.com Feb 10 2004 11:44AM GMT

joe trippi's got a bl0g

joe trippi's got a bl0g 02/15/2004 09:16 AM
Joe Trippi has started a blog. He of course gave the world "blogforamerica" which for a while seemed destined to change America. Now he's launched ChangeForAmerica.Com. The revolution simmers.

Joe Trippi's "Revolution Will Not Be
Televised"

Joe Trippi's "Revolution Will Not Be
Televised" 08/03/2004 06:59 AM
I got a review copy of Joe Trippi's new book, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised in the mail yesterday and I ended up staying up until 2AM reading it, and I'm paying for it with yawns and scratchy eyes today. But I'm glad I did it.

For starters, Trippi can write -- he's put together a campaign narrative that's a cross between the Fellowship of the Ring and Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail. This was an exciting adventure, half tech startup and half presidential bid, and after all, Trippi's professional career has been devoted to producing snappy written and verbal materials for candidates, and it shows. He's really, really good.

What's more, Trippi is a genuine, fire-breathing, rip-roaring Internet evangelist who makes me want to jump up and shout hallelujah. I mean, halfway through this book, I was starting to daydream about moving back to the US to help use the Internet to sway elections and change the world -- and that's ALREADY what I do for a living.

Finally, this is a flat-out inspirational story, a story about how the future arrived in politics, about how the transformation in politics has been downplayed by the entrenched interests who stand to lose from it, about how we've only just seen the beginning of a new form of civic engagement in the US and all over the world.

I grew up on narratives of civil rights organizers, Yippies, revolutionaries and great scientists, and I've always had a firm belief that we can change the world by applying our shoulders to it and pushing. Trippi's book affirms that belief for me, and gives me renewed hope for the future.

The Dean for America campaign arrived at just the right moment--a pivotal point in our political history, when forty years of a corrupt system had reduced politics to its basest elements--the race to raise money from one-quarter of one percent of the wealthiest Americans and corporate donors in exchange for dictating the policy of the country. Then, the side with the most money simply bought the most television ads to manipulate the most people--while instant polling, focus groups, and message testing ref ined the struggle to a few swing voters in a few key districts in a few key states, blurring any significant differences between the monolithic parties and destroying honest debate about issues like health care and the war in Iraq. Until every candidate sounded exactly the same, and a member of either party could proudly stand up and proclaim that his party had passed a Patients' Bill of Rights--an utterly meaningless bill that, incidentally, *didn't provide health care for one single American.*

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Compare And Contrast Blogs And Reuters
On Joe Trippi's Speech

Compare And Contrast Blogs And Reuters
On Joe Trippi's Speech 02/10/2004 02:41 AM
Want to see an example of spin? No matter what your politics are, it's interesting to note the vastly different takes the established media and some bloggers have on this morning's talk by Joe Trippi at O'Reilly's Emerging Technologies Conference. This morning I read the detailed notes from both Howard Rheingold and Ross Mayfield on Trippi's speech - which sounded interesting, if a bit unfocused. However, both sets of notes show that he clearly talked up the power of the internet while trashing the established "broadcast" media. So, when Reuters - a member of the broadcast media - writes up their own article on the talk, they spin it 180 degrees, and say that Trippi blamed the internet for the campaign's problems. The notes from the blogging attendees say Trippi called the campaign a "dot com miracle", and yet Reuters claims Trippi said the internet "hobbled" the campaign. These differing accounts of the same exact speech don't match at all - and it certainly looks like Reuters is the one doing the spinning here, taking a few quotes here and there out of context to make their point. With the bloggers' notes, you can see the context of what's being spoken about, and the Reuters report gives none of that. I'm not one who believes that bloggers are a "threat" to journalism, but the contrast here shows a perfect (if a bit scary) example of just how easy it is for the press to spin things to make their point.

Techdirt:Compare And Contrast Blogs And
Reuters On Joe Trippi's Speech

Techdirt:Compare And Contrast Blogs And
Reuters On Joe Trippi's Speech 02/11/2004 03:48 AM
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Lets Talk Computers: Chris Repetto from
Intuit and Luke Chung from FMS featured
on this week's Let's Talk Comp

Lets Talk Computers: Chris Repetto from
Intuit and Luke Chung from FMS featured
on this week's Let's Talk Comp 08/28/2004 02:46 PM
Investors Business Daily Aug 28 2004 6:33PM GMT

You say Etech, we say Etcon, Etech,
Etcon. Etcon, Etech.

You say Etech, we say Etcon, Etech,
Etcon. Etcon, Etech. 02/01/2005 09:56 PM
The Early Bird discounts for the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference run out on Monday. So hurry hurry hurry, and I'll get the first round in come March 14-17. There's a considerable amount of coolness on the program, and to balance...

Great ETCON pic

Great ETCON pic 02/11/2004 04:31 PM
I love this pic from ETCON. Link

Are there gay people at ETCON?

Are there gay people at ETCON? 01/16/2004 11:30 AM

So first things first, after considerable soul-searching and fiddling around with finances I've found a way to go to Emerging Tech this year to cheer on my BBC other half's paper: Gl ancing: I'm OK, You're OK. Last year the conference completely blew me away and acted as fuel for one of the most creative periods in my working life to date (although unfortunately not all of that creativity ended up being expressed coherently or in the public domain). Hopefully this year's conference will be just as good...

One thing that I found last year that I wasn't expecting was how many like-minded people I met - or if not like-minded, how many people there I felt comfortable around. I felt that I understood their world-view even if I didn't understand anything else that came out of their mouths. That got me thinking about what particular elements or lifestyle attributes we had in common - and that in turn made me thing about all the things things that we might not have in common - and that in turn led me to think about whether or not these events are bastions of heterosexual maleness and whether many of the people present might be gay. So as a result of that, I'm putting a kind-of poll into the field to see if there are going to be any gay people at ETCon this year that would like to get together at some point for a drink and a chat.

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ETCON: !Echo Wiki

ETCON: !Echo Wiki 10/28/2003 11:06 PM

At the 2004 O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, Ken Macleod (a.k.a. bitsko) and myself will be presenting our thoughts on the usage of the Wiki and alternative technologies in the development of Pie Echo Atom.

This should be a highly interactive session, with lots of audience participation.

Network troubles at ETCon...

Network troubles at ETCon... 02/10/2004 01:21 PM

Day Two of ETCon and the network horror starts. Rendezvous isn't working for me, so I can't see or connect to any other SubEthaEdit documents. I can't IM anyone, I'm trying to download IRC but the network is collapsing. All very frustrating. It's like being mindblind.

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Put your ETCON notes on the Wiki

Put your ETCON notes on the Wiki 02/11/2004 03:01 PM
Justin Hall is trying to get everyone to add links to their ETCON conference notes to the wiki: Link< /a>

Some pictures from the periphery of
ETCon...

Some pictures from the periphery of
ETCon... 03/06/2004 01:55 AM

Very late - here are a selection of pictures from the periphery of ETCon, pictures about arriving, seeing things unfold, being repacked and then finally departing. There are no pictures of the events themselves. They are in roughly chronological order:

Slashdot bans ETCON

Slashdot bans ETCON 02/11/2004 08:33 PM
Slashdot has a script that bans your IP address if you pull their RSS too often. I'm at ETCON, where I'm sharing a public-facing IP with hundreds of Slashdot readers who are all pulling /.'s RSS. So I have been banned, along with all of them, for 72 hours. Link

Last chance for ETCON EarlyBird!

Last chance for ETCON EarlyBird! 01/09/2004 09:56 PM
Today is your last chance to get a pass for the O'Reilly Emerging Tech conference -- coming up in February in San Diego -- at the earlybird rate. Be there or be oblong! Link

GI Joe Meets the Ubergeeks ETCON panel

GI Joe Meets the Ubergeeks ETCON panel 02/10/2004 06:36 PM
Here're my running notes from GI Joe Meets the Ubergeeks: Many-to-Many Technologies in the Defense Department at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego.

Military logistics are unstructured. We're trying to build a neural-network like fluid resposne systems that is complex and adaptive to get stuff to the right place.

Everyone under 30 gets this, everyone else is too old.

We are moral, legal and unconstrained.

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Tim O'Reilly's ETCON keynote per Quinn

Tim O'Reilly's ETCON keynote per Quinn 02/10/2004 09:27 PM
Quinn's written a damned good summary of Tim O'Reilly's opening keynote from the Emerging Technology Conference.

having seen a few of tim o'reilly's keynotes i get the feeling that he throws conferences to get thousands of people working on the technologies he really wants. if tim really wanted a jet car, he'd throw a conference, invite some jet car enthusiasts and talk about how great it would be to have a jet car and then sit back and wait for someone to build him a jet car. it's like the peter lynch investing philosophy in reverse: instead of investing in the things you use everyday, get other people to invest in the things you wish you had everyday.

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Flickr for image-sharing launches at
ETCON

Flickr for image-sharing launches at
ETCON 02/10/2004 09:27 PM
Ludicorp (disclosure: I'm an advisor to Ludicorp), whose Game Neverending was one of the most interesting social software projects of the last two years, has just launched a new product, called Flickr, live on-stage at ETCON.

Flikr is a social image-sharing application: it's a mechanism for creating ad-hoc chats, using a drag-and-drop GUI interface that lives inside your browser, and share images from peer-to-peer and within conversational groups.

I've beta-tested this at various points and at each time I've been struck by Ludicorp's amazing combination of utilitarian, usable interface aesthetic and genuinely witty whimsy. As Ben Ceivgny, a developer on the project, said:

We collect images with cameraphones and so forth, but we have no good mechanism for advancing them out into the world. Here's a mechanism for batching them into a locked-and-loaded tool for firing them into the world.

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ETCON call for proposals closes in a
week!

ETCON call for proposals closes in a
week! 09/21/2004 08:37 AM
Cory Doctorow: The O'Reilly Emerging Technology Confernece call for participation closes on Sept 27 -- just under a week from now. ETCON, held annually in San Diego (this year's dates are March 14-17, 2005) is the best tech conference on the planet. I've averaged more mind-blowing experiences per ETCON than at any other event I've ever attended. I'm proud and honoured to sit on the conference jury, and we're now gearing up for the selection process -- looking forward to seeing your proposal on the list!

The theme for this year's ETech is "Remix," encompassing those nexus points of iterative hacking and large ideas that have a way of transforming technology:

* The phone has become a platform, moving beyond mere voice to smart mobile sensor—and back to phone again, by way of voice-over-IP.

* Geolocation, once the provenance of government and geologist, provides a sense of "there" and facilitates ad hoc group forming with feet in both the virtual and physical worlds.

* Peer-to-peer brought us the concept of the average PC as "the dark matter of the Internet," even more applicable to the mobile devices in our pockets. These devices, networked in a mesh, are starting to behave more like colony creatures than stand-alone devices.

* The grand unimaginative vision of web services as B2B EDI replacement has given way to recombinant data services and syndicated e-commerce for the rest of us.

* Geeks with screwdrivers are risking "letting the magic out" of their computers, game consoles, and other assorted gadgets, discovering instead that there's even more magic to be had when you've taken the screws out.

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ETCON in five-minute chunks in San Fran
and London, Monday

ETCON in five-minute chunks in San Fran
and London, Monday 02/13/2004 01:18 PM
If you missed ETCON, it's not too late -- ConCons are planned for next Monday in San Francisco and London, at which many of the ETCON speakers and attendees will recapitulate their ETCON talks as five minute lightning talks, with beer, in bars.

If you saw some good stuff at etech and want to tell people - or spoke at etech and want to retell your work to a wider audience, sign up below. Then force other people you know to do the same. The more people we have, the less you'll have to do!

The format is a casual, five-minute lightning talk with a friendly audience, with the emphasis less on five minutes and more on questions and answers. We'll just go through names until we run out of time. Then we'll have fun.

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Eastern Standard Tribe for sale today at
ETCON

Eastern Standard Tribe for sale today at
ETCON 02/11/2004 04:30 PM
Came down to the ETCON conference space today to discover that even though my signing isn't scheduled until tomorrow, the bookseller has copies of Eastern Standard Tribe on sale today. A bunch of people have told me that they're not going to be able to make it tomorrow -- I'd be delighted to sign a copy anytime today! Link

Modern Day “Dr. Doolittle”, Joy Turner,
Debuts on Internet Talk Radio Network
VoiceAmerica Radio with Show Talk With
Your Animals

Modern Day “Dr. Doolittle”, Joy Turner,
Debuts on Internet Talk Radio Network
VoiceAmerica Radio with Show Talk With
Your Animals 01/04/2005 04:14 AM
The new radio show dedicated to helping people learn how to communicate effectively with their animals, airs at a new time starting on January 7, 2005 on VoiceAmerica. [PRWEB Jan 4, 2005]

To talk or not to talk - that is the
question

To talk or not to talk - that is the
question 08/09/2004 05:44 AM
What's the future of in-flight mobile comms?

Dynamically Typed: Walk the walk vs.
talk the talk

Dynamically Typed: Walk the walk vs.
talk the talk 09/10/2004 07:30 AM
About two years ago you may remember we were in the throes of the SOAP revolution. "Web services everywhere!" was the cry and have to confess I'm one of those guilty of having gone for it, for a while. There were going to be these giant UDDI servers that would aggregate everyone's web services and the Internet would never look the same again...

SOA Talk

SOA Talk 05/31/2004 02:05 PM
I’m listening to Steve Gillmor, Doc Searls, Jon Udell, Dana Gardner, and Dan Farber talk about SOA via “The Gillmor Gang” at ITConversat ions. Herewith some observations on the form and content...

Too much talk

Too much talk 06/21/2004 08:53 AM
So, it turned out that I ran really long last thursday, and didn't get to the talk I'd actually prepared for the night, which was a bit disappointing. Then my laptop died (again, dammit) so I've not been able to get an annotated version of the slides for the second presentation together for everyone to look at (since it's not like I'm going to be giving this presentation anywhere else anytime soon--not too many folks are that interested in some of the details of implementing a virtual machine). When I get the machine back, assuming it works this tine, I'll...

[H]ard Talk

[H]ard Talk 04/01/2005 02:15 PM
Computer Power User Apr 1 2005 6:40PM GMT

Can We Talk?

Can We Talk? 03/13/2003 10:23 AM
Andrew Barnett wants to talk to you.
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