Mark Hinkles Blog: Linux, Open Source, Free Culture, and more @ VIRTUALIZATION JOURNAL

SELECTED INDUSTRY BLOGS

Stitcher Launches Personalized Radio iPhone App In Private Beta

Stitcher, the personalized streaming radio service, is releasing its native iPhone application in a limited private beta. The first 100 TechCrunch readers to submit their email addresses here will be eligible to participate. Note that you’ll have to submit your iPhone’s serial number, which is required by Apple’s Ad Hoc beta program (as is the 100 user limit). Stitcher can best be described as Pandora for everything but music, allowing users to compile a playlist of audio fe

Aug. 8, 2008 04:06 PM

Edah Haredit Promotes Anti-Organ-Donor Card

Edah Haredit promotes ‘anti-donor’ card | Israel | Jerusalem Post — This group of ultra-Orthodox anti-social Jews will not pay taxes to Israel, will not vote, will not fight. They actually hate Israel from what I can tell although they live there. There is a decent run-down here. In the coming days, the Edah Haredit, [...]

Aug. 8, 2008 03:49 PM

Enabling an Unlocked iPhone to work on the O2 Network

If you have an unlocked iPhone (and there are plenty kicking about on EBay) then you are probably still locked into the O2 network in the UK as I have not seen an unlocker that actually unlocks the carrier for the UK phone yet. If you buy and O2 pay and go card you are going to be disappointed when you find that you still cannot access the internet. An ordinary Pay and Go will not work alone - you need the specific O2 Iphone Web and Wi Fi add-on. This costs £

Aug. 8, 2008 12:12 PM

Could Vista fail?

I was thinking about Vista yesterday when I was working on my Asus Eee PC, getting it ready to be my media workstation during the Democratic Convention later this month. I was having a bunch of problems with XP, one of which was related to the fact that it came of age before wifi did. The helptext and troubleshooting guide that's built into the system make no mention of wireless configuration, beyond a confusing wizard that creates a wireless network that emanates from my computer (I think that

Aug. 8, 2008 09:49 AM

Slow motion lightning

Slow motion lightning This explanation comes from Lenski the comments section of the Huffington Post where I found the video: The search for a path proceeds through the treelike process that shows early in the video, finding the thin trails that are of somewhat lower resistance than clear air. Basically, a slightly higher density dust particles or raindrops allows enough current to flow to keep looking for more path. These tendrils of ionization last a little while, long enough to present a tem

Aug. 8, 2008 09:19 AM

New Version of flump (Flickr Image Downloader)

About a year ago, Lee Brimelow and I released a simple application named flump that would download all of the images from a flickr account. We made this so we could download all of the webcam images from the bus tour, and put together a time lapsed video (you can view some of that video here). The original version worked on the beta 1 release of Adobe AIR, and did not work on the release version. I have just uploaded a new version which works on AIR 1.1 and adds a couple of new features and fix

Aug. 7, 2008 07:05 PM

More on Persuasiveness

This is a great analysis of how a rug merchant in Turkey applied the principles of Robert Cialdini. Do you think he read Influence or Yes!? You must read this story if you're into persuasiveness.

Aug. 7, 2008 07:03 PM

From deep within the bowels of SUN

Last week I had the pleasure of visiting the SUN campus, where I was given a tour of a lab that makes James Bond's Q lab look like a childs room. We've forgotton what SUN actually do. Maybe they have too.Leave CommentRelated Entries:Windows 3.1 on a Nokia N810Speaking at CloudCamp LondonA simple Java API class for Amazon SimpleDBjava.lang.InternalError at sun.misc.URLClassPath$JarLoader.getResource()Google Web Toolkit Applications (Book Review)Google's GWT continues to amaze and delightOpen So

Aug. 7, 2008 07:50 AM

PB 11.5 Launch

Sybase as announced that the latest version of their RAD .Net development tool known as PowerBuilder will be released on September 12, 2008. ...

Aug. 6, 2008 08:53 PM

The OpenJDK mistery (probably) solved

If you have read comments to my previous posts, you should have understood what happened. For people not reading them, I'm posting a recap. For details, please refer to previous posts.In a few words, I've discovered that running my application...

Aug. 6, 2008 06:47 PM

Tuesday - Education Session

Mine was EDU206 - Performance and Tuning for PowerBuilder: Advanced Tips and Techniques - Hands OnOriginal Entry

Aug. 6, 2008 06:47 PM

Nailguns and my 9-year old

My wife has allowed me to let my 9-year old daughter use a nailgun.

Aug. 6, 2008 10:26 AM

An anthropological introduction to YouTube

Michael Wesch is one of my personal heroes. Beginning with “The Machine Is Us/Ing Us,” he’s brought a fresh, thoughtful perspective to the social media that are (re)shaping our lives. His “A Vision of Students Today” is the strongest critique of the educational system you’ll ever see in under 5 minutes. I had the fortune of meeting Michael when he spoke at IDEA 2007. He’s a warm, smart, passionate guy, and was readily able to contribute to the discussion

Aug. 5, 2008 10:45 AM

Overcoming the “If Onlies” of Application Development

Forrester's Carey Schwaber recently wrote a nice post on the typical obstacles that application developers face, The "If Onlies" of App Dev. For example, if only “requirements were complete” or “there were enough time to test at the end of the life cycle" or "we weren’t constrained by legacy" among others. Using a transportation metaphor, Carey then suggests that changing the vehicle through approaches such as SOA and Agile processes can negate the problems

Aug. 5, 2008 07:35 AM

Intelligent Business Process Platform?

Well here’s an interesting post from someone at PWC consulting. http://www.pwc.com/extweb/home.nsf/docid/FB2EF3AC6E351ECC8525746B00676021 The way he’s presenting it, he appears to have seen to beginnings of an IT nirvana by linking business intelligence, rules and process management together to create a whole new “intelligent business process platform”, although it takes a “heroic effort” - no doubt through extensive services. He also says that “enterpri

Aug. 4, 2008 03:03 PM

A very warm Welcome to all at TechWave 2008

And I mean that quite literally as the temperature in Vegas since I arrived has been over 105F!

Aug. 4, 2008 01:17 PM

Budget Travel and Budget Cars

Haven’t been sleeping in a tent for four years. Last time it was several years ago in the Pocono mountains when we went fishing. They gave us a spot for setting up a tent, and I was pleasantly surprised finding a electric and

Aug. 4, 2008 07:47 AM

Pervasive computing with Sentilla on Ubuntu 8.04

Some tips about the first steps on using Sentilla Pervasive Computing Kit on Ubuntu 8.04, including drivers and firmware troubleshooting.

Aug. 3, 2008 01:21 PM

JLPT3のしけんが申し込みました

Yesterday I applied for the Japanese Language Proficiency Test, Level 3.

Aug. 2, 2008 11:40 AM

It really does work

(via Chris Dixon)

Aug. 1, 2008 12:05 PM

Follow up to ‘missing braces in If statements’

Earlier this week on Javalobby, I posted an extract from our monthly newsletter regarding our analysis of the ‘missing braces in If Statement’ rule firing and the potential bug involved. If you omit braces and use Static Analysis tools it is a problem actually finding these bugs. Why? Because you probably have the rule turned off! Having any tool tell you of violations in your code purely due to a stylistic preference will result in thousands of false positives and eventually demotivate the

Aug. 1, 2008 10:46 AM

Water on Mars

Breaking News: The NASA Phoenix lander reported via Twitter that they have a confirmed find of water on Mars. A soil sample containing ice was heated up in the internal TEGA oven and H2O vapors were confirmed. Newsmedia are starting to cover the find as we speak. More social media mentions can be found via TechMeme.

Aug. 1, 2008 08:30 AM

iPhone 2.0: most successful failure to date

The new iPhone 3G and the iPhone 2.0 software update can best be described as the most successful failure I can remember. Apple has sold an astounding number of phones and applications, and yet is failing in so many different ways: MobileMe: A terribly bungled deployment that is still suffering through issues of data integrity and push between the desktop and the iPhone is not what users expect. Lines and availability: Lines are long every day that phones are available, as a result of the terr

Jul. 31, 2008 05:32 PM

Whoever creates the language controls

Whoever creates the language controls the debate.

Jul. 31, 2008 02:20 AM

Randy Pausch’s Last Lecture

I finally listened to Randy Pausch’s last lecture linked from Stephen Walli’s blog. It was so good I clapped at the end of the lecture alone in my office. Randy passed away last week from pancreatic cancer and this is his last speech. Randy was a brilliant man who was a professor of computer [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Randy Pausch’s Last Lecture", url: "http://socializedsoftware.com/2008/07/30/randy-pauschs-last-lecture/" });

Jul. 30, 2008 09:19 PM

Mark Hinkles Blog: Linux, Open Source, Free Culture, and more

Randy Pausch’s Last Lecture

Posted: Jul. 30, 2008 09:19 PM

Zenoss, OpenNMS and Clouds on the IT Management

I am not a big podcast listener but one of the ones I listen to regularly is the IT Management podcast with Redmonk’s Coté and John M. Willis. Today Zenoss’ Matt Ray and Tarus Balog from OpenNMS were guests and I thought it was a particu

Posted: Jul. 17, 2008 11:59 PM

Zenoss, OpenNMS and Clouds on the IT Management

Posted: Jul. 17, 2008 11:59 PM

Open Source Links 7-16-2008

tecosystems » Earth Class Mail: Still Open for Business? - Stephen’s review of Earth Class Mail a snail mail handling service. Looks intriguing. Amazon.com: Intellectual Property and Open Source: A Practical Guide to Protecting Code: Van Lindb

Posted: Jul. 16, 2008 11:25 PM

Open Source Links 7-16-2008

Posted: Jul. 16, 2008 11:25 PM

NetDirector: Open Source Configuration Management Goes GPL

A few weeks ago I felt a little like a proud pappa, well maybe more like an uncle since I can’t claim to have been present for the conception. NetDirector, an open source configuration management tool that I helped get off the ground has finall

Posted: Jul. 14, 2008 11:55 AM

NetDirector: Open Source Configuration Management Goes GPL

Posted: Jul. 14, 2008 11:55 AM

Open Source Links 7-11-2008

SourceForge.net: ICEcore - ICEcore collaboration software is the July 2008 SF.net project of the month. GNOME hires Stormy Peters as Executive Director - Open Logic’s Stormy Peters leaves OpenLogic for the GNOME Foundation interesting job. (Via

Posted: Jul. 13, 2008 10:54 PM

Open Source Links 7-11-2008

Posted: Jul. 13, 2008 10:54 PM

Marketing Pilgrim SEM Scholarship Winners

This week Andy Beal announced the winners of the 3rd Annual SEM Scholarship I was honored to be one of five finalists out of 31 entries. I didn’t win but congratulations are in order for Linda Bustos whose article 8 Stupid Things Webmasters do

Posted: Jul. 12, 2008 11:24 PM