It’s out! The reason why I uninstalled every single Microsoft SQL Server tools I had lying around. The reason why I left IT! There were other reasons why, but this one was definitely cooler. The reason for living under a rock for the past 5 months! The reason for sleeping like a baby for most [...]

Apparently, after the initial scepticism, the OLPC project is gaining momentum. The USD 100 laptop is said to be rolling out of the factories and will soon start being distributed in the participating countries. The laptop will run a customized Red Hat/Fedora linux distro and I’ve found some pointers regarding how to run the OLPC [...]

If you remember “Mind Hacks: Tips & Tricks for Using Your Brain” (previously mentioned here, which helped you understand how the brain works under certain conditions and why does it behave like that), here’s the perfect sequel, also from O’Reilly: “Mind Performance Hacks: Tips & Tools for Overclocking Your Brain“. Focusing on performance, it’s bundled [...]

Interesting marketing stunt: First, we had logos written on top of physical structures which aren’t really there (here’s an example), now Disney is using Google Earth to promote its blockbuster Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (PotC2). How? One of the official sites has a .KMZ overlay for download which adds the pirates islands, [...]

Wow. Sysinternals has been acquired by Microsoft There was a time where Microsoft was known for buying small startups that looked like some kind of threat or offered software pieces tightly binded to Windows (and most of all, popular) so that these could slowly be bundled with their software. Most of these software solutions ended [...]