Archive for February, 2007
Best Tech Videos
It has been a busy few weeks and I haven’t had time to post. My workload should be back to a reasonable level now.I came across the Best Tech Videos website.As the name suggests it is a collection of technology related videos.
GeoKit Ruby Plugin
GeoKit is a Ruby / Ruby on Rails plugin that provides easy to use powerful API for building location based applications with Ruby.
Geokit is a Rails plugin for building location-based apps. It provides geocoding, location finders, and distance calculation in one cohesive package. If you have any tables with latitude/longitude oolumns in your database, or if you every wanted to easily query for “all the stores within a 50 mile radius,” then GeoKit is for you.
For more information, visit: http://geokit.rubyforge.org/
Stress at work…
I was going to write an article about stress, work and poor family balance… but then I came across this advertisement for http://www.fatherhood.org/ and it says it all.
Bill Gates on Vista and uproar over his statements
Newsweek has published an interview with Microsoft chairman Bill Gates. The interview discusses new Microsoft Windows Vista release and the future of OS development at Microsoft.Newsweek: Finally, Vista Makes Its Debut. Now What?
Bill Gates explains why you should buy his new operating system, what heÂ’s doing next and why John Hodgman bugs him.
The interview has caused an uproar, especially from Mac OSX users and community over statements made by Bill Gates regarding OSX security.
I mean, itÂ’s fascinating, maybe we shouldn’t have showed so publicly the stuff we were doing, because we knew how long the new security base was going to take us to get done. Nowadays, security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally. I dare anybody to do that once a month on the Windows machine.
The article entry on digg has attracted more then 500 comments, most of them angry over the statements made by Bill Gates.Digg: Bill Gates on Vista and Apple’s ‘Lying’ AdsJust as a side-note, check out the video below, Windows Vista features compared to OSX features:YouTube: The Real Windows Vista
