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The tribes of open source gather at OSCON

If every show is a trial, users are the jury. You make your decisions signing support contracts, ordering online, in stores, in what you tell your friends. Without you there's no show. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Geek, OSCON, Wannabes, Open Source, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-07-22

Geeks in the wild [cartoon]

Something to lighten your Saturday morning from Geek and Poke. If you don't get the joke...well, it probably means you have a life, so here's a hint. by Michael Krigsman

Tags: Hint, Geek, Cartoon, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-05-31

Photos: Taking apart the robot guitar

Self-professed "teardown geek" David Carey takes apart Gibson's self-tuning guitar to see what makes the instrument rock. by CNET News.com

Tags: Instrument, Photograph, Geek, Robots, Emerging Technologies, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2008-04-15

A geek's trip to Capitol Hill on Network Management

I appeared before congressional and government staffers on Capitol Hill for a panel on Network Management sponsored by iGrowthGlobal.  This was my first time in Washington DC and while it was a little cold for my Californian bones, it was a beautiful city and seeing the capitol of the nation...

Tags: BitTorrent, Japan, Network, Comcast Corp., P2P, Mr., Video, DOCSIS, Geek, Wireless Network, Presentation, Network Management, Richard Bennett, Cable, Peer To Peer (P2P), Networking, Internet, Corporate Communications, Broadband Internet, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Marketing, George Ou

Blog posts 2008-03-03

Are those Macs I see?

As I wander around the Worcester Polytech campus between classes (even sub-zero wind chills can't keep me inside after 90 minutes of stats lectures), I've noticed an interesting shift since I started my master's degree about a year and a half ago. I'm actually seeing Macs. ...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Geek, WPI, Linux, Desktops, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP, Notebooks, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Hardware, Microsoft Windows, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-01-23

You know what? Software's not sexy. Get used to it.

I see Robert Scoble has kicked up a storm over the weekend by wondering why the vast majority of people are more interested in Web widgets than enterprise software (see Techmeme discussion and Michael Krigsman's post with a list of responses from fellow Enterprise Irregulars). The scale of the storm...

Tags: Software, Web, Middleware, Fact, Geek, Tools & Techniques, Channel Management, Management, Marketing, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2007-12-10

Building PCs vs. buying: Flex those geek muscles

There are geeks. And then there are geek's geeks. George Ou falls in the latter category. For someone who just has worked himself up to the point where he isn't handy--up from ridiculously incompetent--I can't help but marvel at George's weekend projects. His latest build it yourself feature...

Tags: PC, Geek, George, Desktops, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-11-27

Vintage Computer Festival: The rare, historic, and bizarre

Blow off the dust and get ready to dig through boxes. News.com's Kara Tsuboi takes a tour of the biggest garage sale for antique computers, vintage video games, and discarded gadgets--the Vintage Computer Festival at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif. And for the first time in decades,...

Tags: Productivity, Games, Personal Technology, vintage, computer, geek, collector, hardware, linc, synthesizer, history, kara tsuboi

Videos 2007-11-06

A big untapped social network opportunity

Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk investigates the soft underbelly of Web culture. As Hillary Clinton and Michael Moore will tell you, there is no greater potential money-spinner in the US today than health. We all get sick. So there's always some sicko who wants to make a...

Tags: Network, Health Care, Geek, FatGeeks.com, Chris, Vertical Industries, Social Networking, Benefits, Healthcare, Channel Management, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Human Resources, Management, Chris Matyszczyk

Blog posts 2007-10-26

Photos: 10 ways to geek out this Halloween

There are lots of things you could do for a Halloween costume. But we've got some ideas for you?-as long as you're willing to look really dorky. by CNET News.com

Tags: Photograph, Geek, News.com, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2007-10-19

The Shard (exe)

eBook "The Shard"--read a free part, pay to read the rest. A school field trip to the ruins of Hawkstone Priory and the chance of discovery of a charmed fragment of medieval window glass starts a chain of events that will send a computer geek battling zombies, cursed monks Goths,...

Tags: Window, Geek, Construction, Productivity, E-books, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2007-10-18

Linux Multimedia Hacks: Watch Videos Within Firefox

If one chats with a group of geeks for any extended period of time, the conversation inevitably steers into talks of the "Good old days" of computing, when geeks were geeks and one edited the files with a magnet and a magnifying glass. In the case of QuickTime video (such...

Tags: Mozilla Firefox, O'Reilly Media Inc., Video, Geek, Corporate Communications, Linux, Marketing, Operating Systems, Software

Book chapters 2005-11-04

Additional Resources

Inside the mind - and config - of Terry Childs

Inside the mind - and config - of Terry ChildsGuilty of Incompetency in Office Politics, Being a JerkThe word is that Childs was the sole keeper of the passwords for months if not years, and management was aware of the situation during this period.The new director of security took a...

Tags: Workforce management, IT Field, Terry Childs

Discussion threads 2008-07-23

Citizen journalism and traditional news

I've been experimenting recently with CNN's site for "citizen journalism" named iReport.  I created a few video posts of myself in response to requests for questions targeted at future visitors to Wolf Blitzer's "The Situation Room" (you can see my iReport site here - http://www.ireport.com/people/JohnCarroll). There are a few kinks in...

Tags: Video Camera, Video, Camera, Corporate Communications, Marketing, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-07-21

Windows "Workstation" 2008 better than Vista? OK then, show me the money!

Windows "Workstation" 2008 better than Vista? OK then, show me the money!dre` typo, i think"...nothing I would lie better than to..."It's the cost, Adrianlook at the difference in price.if i paid that much for a "desktop" OS, you can bet that I'd convince myself it was faster ;)The other thing...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Desktops, workstation, Vista x64, Server 2008, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, desktop, server, Vist-___

Discussion threads 2008-07-18

MobileMe push is limited and subscribers get a 30-day extension

Apple's MobileMe service has been advertised as "Exchange for the rest of us" with support for push email and data. However, if you have MobileMe/.Mac account then you may have received an email this morning detailing a rocky transition from .Mac to MobileMe that clarifies not everything is pushed. Joel...

Tags: Apple iPhone, MobileMe, E-mail, Online Communications, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-07-16

Vizio VP422

Vizio has taken aggressive pricing to a new level of low. The company's VP422, a 42-inch flat-panel plasma HDTV, can be had for the extremely low price of $799. While this set doesn't have the picture quality to qualify as the centerpiece of a home theater, it certainly could be...

Tags: Monitors & displays, TVs, TV & Home Theater, color temperature, Vizio, Vizio VP422

Product reviews 2008-07-15

The Kübler-Ross of iPhone

The Kübler-Ross of iPhoneI think Kubler-Ross missed oneActually, there is one that should be added: Apathy. I guess it would start at the same stage as Denial, but never progresses beyond the simple "who cares" level.I won't ever buy an iPhone...why not? Because I don't care about having...

Tags: Web browsers, Apple iPhone, Web browser, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-07-15

The 5 Stages of iPhone Acceptance

The Five Stages of the Kübler-Ross model The iPhone has become such a part of our collective consciousness that soon entire books are going to be written about the sociological impact of such a groundbreaking, Insanely Great device. Why, it's so dammed important,...

Tags: Apple iPhone, 3G, Linux, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Digital Music, Open Source, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-07-15

If you want SOA, fine... it's a 'SOA'

The birth of a "SOA": Geek & Poke's Oliver Widder picked up on the theme of one of my recent posts to demonstrate how some companies take the pain and hard work out of the "birthing" process for service oriented architecture. Hmmm... Just take JBOWS and declare it to be...

Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-07-13