For the Love of Geeks

Ads on Your Desktop from MSFT?

John Dvorak — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:44:52 +0000

NASA sees significant quantities of water on the moon. Let’s go swimming! Dell’s smart phone in the news. Google to release Chrome OS soon. Final Fantasy not final. Brazil to get rich doing nothing. Google cranks up Gizmo5. YouTube goes 1080p HD? Why? Palm to be bought by Nokia? Banned Xbox may get fixed by modders. Why is Qualcomm getting into the computer business. MSFT will put ads on the Win7 desktop! What!?!?

XP Bests Win7 for Battery Life.

John Dvorak — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:41:46 +0000

Intel and AMD become friends. Huh? Why? Mars Rover stuck in the sand. Call of Duty sells $310M in 24hours. Apple to open 40-50 new stores. Bugatti in the lake! Lenovo and ATT&T partner up for Netbooks. XP beats Win7 for battery life. MSFT executive in the doghouse. Xbox360 ban is permanent.

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HP Buys 3Com!

John Dvorak — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:37:34 +0000

HP Buys 3Com! Bing seen as challenger. Why? I’ll tell you why. Why does PCWorld slam Google? Microsoft catches and band Xbox live cheaters. Videophone about to actually catch on? I doubt it. Google latitude is creepy. We talk about the Motorola Droid on Cranky Geeks. New Firefox is fast they say. AMD and Intel making friends. Facebooks says it was not hijacked because of flaw. New Matrox card sounds great.

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Free Wi-Fi!

John Dvorak — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:31:40 +0000

Yahoo, Microsoft and Google going to put out free Wi-Fi hotspots for Christmas. Google’s doing it right. New Snow Leopard screws over some users. Kindle for the PC released by Amazon. LinkedIn to Tweet. Facebook groups hijacked. New OS from Samsung called Bada. Yahoo banned. Welcome to the club. Droid phones not that hot.

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Geeks On PHP : Episode 7 – Looping through while, for and foreach

Stephen — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:20:52 +0000

At the heart of every redundant thing you do, all day long every day, is an loop.

Even the greeks new it. When Sisyphus pissed off the gods, they stuck him in a while loop

while($gods == “pissed”) {

$sisyphus = “Roll rock up a hill”;

}

Granted the greek gods were a bit tempermental, but like the greeks, your application will execute these types of statements to output data, count, and do all sorts of things that are even, at times, incredibly futile and redundant. Also like gods, while loops can be tempermental, and when hastily constructed can leave Sisyphus pushing his rock for all of eternity.

Wondering who Sisyphus is ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisyphus

PHP Manual on Control Structures: http://us2.php.net/manual/en/language.control-structures.php

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iPhone Worm!!

John Dvorak — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:01:56 +0000

Google acquires Admob and Gizmo5. Nokia charger dangerous and being recalled. Firefox is five. I think it is bogus. Nook is in heavy demand. Droid phone having crappy battery life. iPhone worm floating around. Chipmakers doing well as predicted. Radio Shack to sell the iPhone. EU on the Oracle-Sun case.

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Is IPhone App Store Pro-Hitler?

John Dvorak — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:17:42 +0000

Verizon iPhone release coming in 2010. Fortune mag has a bunch of odd articles about Microsoft. I comment on them. Mein Kampf approved by App store. SSD’s now bricking up. Blamed on firmware. The Sun is in trouble with the EU now. Intuit-online killed. Flash once again under attack. Cell phone inventor does not like the current direction of the business. Software patents under attack.

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Windows 7 Hot in Japan!

John Dvorak — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:05:42 +0000

A new Verizon HTC Google phone just out. Space elevator still in the news? Why? Steve Jobs CEO of the decade! Sez who? Microsoft cuts more jobs. Pew Research

Geeks On Beer : Stone Brewing Co, Juxtaposition

Stephen — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:00:25 +0000

November 5 – Juxtaposition from New Brew Thursday on Vimeo.

Welcome to a new addition to the For The Love of Geeks blog. [ New Brew Thursday ] weekly beer show done by yours truly, and a couple of other beer geeks. We went on Hiatus for awhile and changed up the show a bit, but guess what? We’re Back and better then ever! Each week, NBT will be feeding content here and our own blog over at newbrewthursday.com.

This week we celebrate our triumphant return to the interwebs with an EPIC collaboration brew from Stone Brewing / Brew Dog and Cambridge Brewing called Juxtaposition.

We introduce our two new cast members [ John ] , and [ Brad ], and of course [ Stephen ] is still here. We give some love to [ Taylor Shaw ] , who so kindly graced us with the beer, and to [ Dr. Bill Sysak ] from Stone, who helped us with the pairing.

We also talk Pilsners versus lagers, Lovibonds, Dry Hopping, the Beer Wars movie, and Dogfish Head owner Sam Calagione’s Book “Brewing up a Business”.

So sit back, relax, grab your beer and enjoy the show!

See you next week, stay safe and drink beer!

nVidia doing the next X86 clone?

John Dvorak — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:12:34 +0000

Another MSN redesign comes along. It never ends. Verizon sued over “there’s a Map for that” ad. A Twitter-only phone. iPhone FAIL in China. Best Buy video downloads means the death of DVD, or not? Cable modem hacker indicted. nVidia doing a cpu? Sony-Ericsson doing an Android?

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