Let me know if you have any questions about this deal, it is by far the best way to get a copy of this software.
Friday, August 29, 2008
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Re: Ed Bott on what's new in IE8
Ooops, that should have been:
Sorry!
On 8/28/08, Sam Posten <sposten@gmail.com> wrote:
Welcome new fall students, if you get this please reply to posten@monmouth.edu and let me know the list is working! You can see the archives at http://infotechbuzz.blogger.com
Ed Bott on what's new in IE8
Welcome new fall students, if you get this please reply to posten@monmouth.edu and let me know the list is working! You can see the archives at http://infotechbuzz.blogger.com
Just saw MU FINALLY got IE7 installed so at least we have tabbed browsing by default. Which figures since IE8 is now just a few weeks away from being final and delivered =)
Ed Bott runs down the changes to IE8 Beta 2 and it looks like EVERYTHING has changed.
Monday, August 11, 2008
Friday, July 25, 2008
Spam kills (and more stories)
Sorry for the gruesome double entendre headline, but it's true:
A horrifically sad ending to a sad point in the history of the computer in general and for his family in particular.
While this doesn't have anything to do with computers except having been on Gizmodo, it's a must see:
iPhone 2.0 is a mess:
So is Mobile .Me
Be careful with iPhone game Aurora Feint, it gives away all your contacts!
Monday, May 19, 2008
FW: [IP] China's All-Seeing Eye
spooky. From Dr. Farbers IP list via the EE Kid.
-----Original Message-----
From: David Farber
To: ip
Sent: 5/19/2008 5:39 AM
Subject: [IP] China's All-Seeing Eye
"Over the past two years, some 200,000 surveillance cameras have been
installed throughout the city. Many are in public spaces, disguised as
lampposts. The closed-circuit TV cameras will soon be connected to a
single, nationwide network, an all-seeing system that will be capable of
tracking and identifying anyone who comes within its range — a project
driven in part by U.S. technology and investment. Over the next three
years, Chinese security executives predict they will install as many as
2 million CCTVs in Shenzhen, which would make it the most watched city
in the world."
"The end goal is to use the latest people-tracking technology —
thoughtfully supplied by American giants like IBM, Honeywell and General
Electric... " "...to identify and counteract dissent before it explodes
into a mass movement like the one that grabbed the world's attention at
Tiananmen Square."
"The mergers made L-1 a one-stop shop for biometrics. Thanks to board
members like former CIA director George Tenet, the company rapidly
became a homeland-security heavy hitter." "L-1 can legally supply its
facial-recognition software for use by the Chinese government."
"I get to the customs line at JFK, watching hundreds of visitors line up
to have their pictures taken and fingers scanned. In the terminal,
someone hands me a brochure for "Fly Clear." All I need to do is have my
fingerprints and irises scanned, and I can get a Clear card with a
biometric chip that will let me sail through security. Later, I look it
up: The company providing the technology is L-1."
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/20797485/chinas_allseeing_eye
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Monday, April 28, 2008
FW: [IP] : Vint Cerf, on things he's learned. (Al Gore was right)
-----Original Message-----
From: David Farber
To: ip
Sent: 4/26/2008 4:23 PM
Subject: [IP] : Vint Cerf, on things he's learned. (Al Gore was right)
In the interest of peace, Vint was one of a very small set of people who
were validly a "creator" djf
________________________________________
From: Randall Webmail [rvh40@insightbb.com]
Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2008 1:23 PM
To: David Farber; dewayne@warpspeed.com; johnmacsgroup@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Vint Cerf, on things he's learned. (Al Gore was right)
What I've Learned: Vint Cerf
Creator of the Internet, 64, McLean, Virginia
[http://www.esquire.com/cm/esquire/images/zw/vint-cerf-0508-lg.jpg]
"Surf the Web" is a happy coincidence.
You don't have to be young to learn about technology. You have to feel
young.
There was no one "Ah-ha!" moment. Not in the sense that many people want
to hear. They see the Internet now and think, Well, thirty-six years ago
someone imagined what it would look like in 2008, and that is what drove
the process. It wasn't like that at all.
When I first joined Google in October of 2005, I was warned that I
shouldn't be offended if people were doing their e-mails while a meeting
was going on.
There was a first "Oh, no!" moment. That was the first time I saw spam
pop up. It could have been as early as '79. A digital-equipment
corporation sent a note around announcing a job opening, and we all blew
up, saying, This is not for advertising! This is for serious work!
I was disappointed that pornography got to the Net. But I've come to
learn that pornographers are almost always the first ones to adopt new
technology. If there is a new way of distributing their product, they'll
find it.
Will we shoot virtually at each other over the Internet? Probably not.
On the other hand, there may be wars fought about the Internet.
Instant messaging and chat rooms have basically created a level playing
field for deaf people.
When I was a teenager, I used to wear a sport coat and tie to high
school. Mostly so I didn't look like anyone else. Instead of nose rings
or whatever it is kids do these days, I was carrying a briefcase.
The three-piece suit has become sort of my trademark. You don't see them
much anymore. It has several benefits: You may be overdressed on some
occasions, but you can manage to fit into a huge range of circumstances.
I wouldn't go on a safari in a three-piece suit.
One of my favorite books is The Swiss Family Robinson. The reason is,
I'm fascinated by the postapocalyptic recovery. What do we do in a
disaster? How do we make do?
It may seem like sort of a waste of time to play World of Warcraft with
your son. But you're actually interacting with each other. You're
solving problems. They may seem like simple problems, but you're solving
them. You're posed with challenges that you have to overcome. You're on
a quest to gain certain capabilities. I haven't spent a lot of time
playing World of Warcraft, because my impression is that it takes a
serious amount of time to play it well.
Humor is the only thing that allows you to survive every pressure and
crisis.
I find classical music a very beautiful way to focus my thoughts.
Al Gore had seen what happened with the National Interstate and Defense
Highways Act of 1956, which his father introduced as a military bill. It
was very powerful. Housing went up, suburban boom happened, everybody
became mobile. Al was attuned to the power of networking much more than
any of his elective colleagues. His initiatives led directly to the
commercialization of the Internet. So he really does deserve credit.
People on foot, donkeys, the standard sedan, lorries, bicycles, people
on skates. You don't see too many elephants, but you do see a lot of
cattle. The horn is not used there in the way Americans use horns. The
way I get around India is someone else drives.
In Silicon Valley, failure is experience. Now, if you fail at
everything, that's different. But a failure is a mark of experience more
than anything else.
The joke is that there are four words you have to remember in a
successful marriage: "You're absolutely right, dear."
My wife and I look at our kids and say, They're not ready for marriage.
Then we look at each other and say, Why did we think we were?
People are inventing not only virtual places but new economic
principles. We have economists in the Second Life environment studying
what people are doing, because these are real people making decisions.
Maybe you want to have a different hairdo or different clothing or a
boob job -- whatever it is. People will pay to enhance their avatar.
Reproducing isn't nearly as much fun in Second Life.
At the roots, people are still people. That's why Shakespeare is so
popular no matter what the language.
The closer you look at something, the more complex it seems to be.
Over a period of a hundred or a thousand years, the probability of
maintaining continuity of the software to interpret the old stuff is
probably close to zero. Where would you find a projector for an 8mm film
these days? If the new software can't understand, we've lost the
information. I call this bit rot. It's a serious problem.
I'd like to know what the Internet is going to look like in 2050.
Thinking about it makes me wish I were eight years old.
Find this article at:
http://www.esquire.com/features/what-ive-learned/vint-cerf-0508
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Library request, Microsoft Live Mesh, Free magazines, more
VERY Important:
"All:
Power armor cant be far behind:
Please do the following as soon as possible:
1. Open ecampus.
2. Open our class, IT 102.
3. On the horizontal menu, select Quizzes.
4. Open the posttest1. Be careful to answer the questions to the best of your ability.
5. Go back to the horizontal menu and select Survey. It is to the far right.
6. Complete the library evaluation survey.
Thank you so much. I would like to see this completed as soon as possible as the data is important to our outcomes assessment committee personnel who will be meeting this week."
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Microsoft went live with their new Live Mesh technology, computing in the cloud could be huge but it it has inherent risks that I'm not sure we are prepared to deal with yet:
DRM Sucks, here is why:
Rolling Stones on the iPod:
Technology and South Park:
PDF Magazines:
You too can own a camera that takes hundreds of frames a second, it's pretty damn cool even if it's made by Casio!
The costs of obsolesence:
Trenton Computer Festival is this weekend:
Power armor cant be far behind:
Solar powered roasted chickens:
If you are going to get a GPS and fly with baloons, know how to use the GPS.
Tech behind the first supersonic vertical lift airplane:
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Library Pretest, SAM and weekly articles
A. about a half dozen of you havent done the library pretest, you need to have this complete before class tonight. Log in to ecampus and select quizzes and please get this done.
B. a LOT of you have been slacking on the weekly articles. The surest way to not get a good grade in IT102 is to give up the 20% of your grade that comes from these and other class participation points!
C. Make sure you have registered for SAM and are doing the training along with our class. If you have any problems getting to SAM I need to know about it!
Sam
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Reminder, we are meeting AT the library tonight
Please meet at the Guggenheim library on campus at our normal meeting time, be in the basement and ready to start at 6:00.
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Friday, April 11, 2008
Googlegangers???
I do google searches on my own name from time to time, most of the stuff that comes up is about the Finnish Postal Service Posten.Fi and there's also quite a bit about the mohammad cartoons that freaked out europe a few years ago due to a scandinavian newspaper with the same name.
I have a coworker who has a MUCH weirder experience. His name is John Tucker. Imagine his surprise when a movie came out called "John Tucker must die". Spooky especially since he has been technically dead once already during a heart attack which he survived.
Tuesday, April 08, 2008
FW: [IP] This Internet THing - It IS just a passing fad, right?
-----Original Message-----
From: David Farber
To: ip
Sent: 4/7/2008 10:58 PM
Subject: [IP] This Internet THing - It IS just a passing fad, right?
________________________________________
From: Randall Webmail [rvh40@insightbb.com]
Sent: Monday, April 07, 2008 6:13 PM
To: David Farber; dewayne@warpspeed.com; johnmacsgroup@yahoogroups.com
Subject: This Internet THing - It IS just a passing fad, right?
Why Professors Ought to Teach Blogging and Podcasting
The Chronicle of Higher Education Information Technology
http://chronicle.com/weekly/v54/i31/31a02202.htm
From the issue dated April 11, 2008
LINKED IN WITH...
Howard Rheingold, who studies the impact of the Internet on society and
argues that more professors need to teach blogging and podcasting to
students.
By JEFFREY R. YOUNG
Mr. Rheingold is teaching a course at the University of California at
Berkeley on virtual communities and social media. He contends that
students need to use various Web 2.0 tools to be good citizens because
those modes of communication are increasingly the way political
discourse
and activism take place.
Q. Are professors using Web 2.0 tools in their classrooms?
A. Universities are knowledge factories. You're rewarded for creating
knowledge. But there's no incentive or reward for innovation in
teaching,
at least at research universities. People are there to publish or
perish.
… There's a real gap between what students need to know and the way
they're learning in school.
Q. What is an example of a way you're using these technologies in your
classes?
A. I have a wiki I'm maintaining on participatory media and education
(http://www.socialtext.net/medialiteracy).<http://www.socialtext.net/med
ialiteracy%29.>
Q. Your students are also learning to use Twitter, the microblogging
service, right?
A. There are huge possibilities for Twitter. I'm trying to get students
to
use it.
Q. Why do students need to know about things like Twitter or wikis?
A. The feeling of a citizen who only passively consumes what's sold to
them by broadcast media is very different from someone who has posted a
blog item, or who has posted a YouTube video, or who has commented on a
newspaper article online. That's central to the public sphere today. In
the 21st century, civic education is participatory media-literacy
education.
Q. Don't students already know how to use all these Web 2.0
technologies?
A. There's a bit of a myth about the "digital natives." Yes, kids know
how
to learn any kind of software without reading the manual and just
clicking
around. But that does not mean they can sort through that information in
useful ways.
If we can get them to start using these tools for issues that they care
about — such as knowing how to use a wiki to advocate for a cause — I
think that would be a huge boost in civic engagement.
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
This is why we shouldnt have Google Toolbar on ALL of monmouth's desktops by default
And there should have been significant debate before putting it there. MU doesnt even get the benefit of having free Gmail (which I obviously CHOOSE to use, knowing the drawbacks), they just give to Google and get nothing in return.
Sam
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