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I'm Michael Koby, and I love technology. I'm also a programmer, currently doing Ruby on Rails development for a small Houston startup. Here I talk about technology, programming, politics, movies, music, and anything else I feel I need to talk about. If you would like to know more, you can check out the About page.Popular Series
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links for 2009-06-26
How to: Jailbreak/Unlock iPhone 3.0 – Windows PC redsn0w Edition | The iPhone Blog (tags: iphone jailbreak) Let's make the web faster – Google Code (tags: google optimization programming tutorial web performance)
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Will Crowdsourcing News Online Kill The Newspapers?
So if I can subscribe to the RSS feeds of these aggregaters main pages, I can essentially only see news items that a large number of people deem important. I’ve cut out the newspaper, CNN, BBC, almost completely (one would assume that links to these things would pop up on these aggregaters). This means that I get real news and avoid the fluff. Continue reading
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links for 2009-06-23
Video: Implementing Model View Presenter Using ASP.NET: ASP Alliance (tags: .net video)
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Physical Media is Dead (Again)
And while this is most definitely the case, that geeks are streaming/downloading movies more than buying them, the rest of the non-geek population is not. We as geeks live in our own little world and regularly forget that the rest of the world doesn’t think like us. They also do not (for the most part) act like us either. Continue reading
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Trying to Use FriendFeed More
And that’s where FriendFeed’s shining gem lies. As people get on the service and begin marking “Like” on different articles and share various findings from the web you can find a lot of interesting articles on a lot of topics. Everything from information on the latest Iran election riots to iPhone news. Continue reading
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State of Wireless in Linux Distros
There in lies the problem. Wireless is now an important part of computing. While my main concern is my desktop, none of the CDs I tried had my wireless working without major hoops on my work provided laptop either (Dell Latitude D830). And wireless is pretty much standard on laptops these days. Wireless has to work and it has to be painless. Continue reading →