Posts from — January 2003

Timothy Appnel: The Next Generation of TrackBack. [Scripting News]

nifty, i'm still thinking about how to implement this myself.

Accidental web-archeology.

While searching for something completely different, I found this message from August 1993. What if Marc Andreessen had written ““”OK, we'll add an error indicator”''”.

[Sjoerd Visscher's weblog]

ahh history, isn't it fun…

I Needed a Good Laugh this Morning!.

Windows RG (Really Good edition) – make sure you click on everything! (Requires Flash.)

[The Shifted Librarian]

he he he, this is good

Apache and OS X. Apache Web-Serving with Mac OS X, Part 1 is the first in a three-part six-part series over at O'Reilly that will help you get started serving Web pages. Part 2 helps you configure CGI access, Part 3 takes a look at PHP, Part 4 is reader-asked questions, Part 5 is Apache and MySQL, and Part 6 is Apache modules. Wow, that's some good stuff. (Thanks Jason!) [megnut]

megnut always posts the most useful things

Run Linux over the Web — without having to install it on your own machine. What a neat idea — WorkSpot, a Linux machine (RedHat flavour) you can run through a browser, from anywhere. Cost: $9.95 a month. [Living Without Microsoft]

this is less than i pay now, but it is redhat…

Women offered taste of tech. A course to provide women with a basic understanding of computers is the latest scheme to try to lure more women to tech jobs. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]

this is good news, but does it address the real problem, or what might be the real problem…

College Loans Rise, Swamping Dreams. As college tuition has climbed, so has the number of students who borrow to help pay for it. By Greg Winter. [New York Times: Education]

I'm still climbing out of this hole, but mine is not anywhere near as bad as many people pursuing ph.d's

This Is Dave Barry's Brain on Blog.

Darn – Dave Barry is finally blogging, but there's no RSS feed because he's on Blogspot. 

[The Shifted Librarian]

I like Dave Barry.

Open and free global registry of doctoral dissertations in progress.

OLDaily:

PhdData. Still being developed, PhdData intends to be an open and free global registry of doctoral dissertations in progress. By Daniel Vainstub, January 26, 2003 [Refer][Research][Reflect]

[Mathemagenic]

this, i think is a bad thing, a very bad thing. this is because it operates on the principle that your research should be entirely novel, and really, it hardly ever it, the best part of the dissertation is the building on the prior knowledges, not that this is what they really mean, but if you go there and look before you choose your topic, you will feel entirely wrong. a dissertation should be constructed from either your positions and passions or from the situated necessities of your department and committee. You should not feel that if someone else is doing a similar things that this impinges on your research at all, even if you have contradictory theses, that's even better. I mean this is about knowledge, so the project you understake has to be understood as furthering knowledge, if it compliments, contradicts, parallels, etc. that accomplishes the goal.

The Ecology of Open Source Software. A new paper on Open Source Software development. [Kieran Healy's Weblog]
I have a paper flying around called the network ecology of open source software. I'll be reading this paper.