- The Geek Stuff: Turbocharge PuTTY with 12 Powerful Add-Ons – “ have provided list of 12 powerful PuTTY add-ons with screenshots, that will solve few shortcomings of the original PuTTY. Play around with these add-ons and choose the one that suites your need.“
- Igvita.com: Custom PuTTY Color Schemes – “I can’t help myself, I seem to spend inordinate amounts of my time working inside a remote SSH tunnel on a daily basis. And nothing is worse than trying to decipher the default dark-blue/green/red colors against a black background in PuTTY. “
- SourceForge: mRemote – “mRemote is a full-featured, open source, multi-tab remote connections manager. It allows you to store all your remote connections in a simple yet powerful interface.“
- DadTalk: Quotes Against the Bailout – “We are being lied to, ladies and gentlemen, and ripped off, once again. The beast is being starved, in a final, dramatic ploy. The rest of the world is laughing at our gullibility to snake oil salesmen.“
- Mish’s Global Economic Trend Analysis: Take Back America – “It is not often a Fed governor tells the Fed chairman to go to hell. But that is what happened just tonight.“
Monthly Archives: September 2008
Links for Sunday, September 21, 2008
- Karl Denninger: The Mother of All Frauds – “If Paulson and his successor decide to, they could literally cycle all $5.3 trillion of Fannie and Freddie’s debt through this scheme, potentially sticking the taxpayer for 20% or more of the total, plus as much private debt on various bank balance sheets as they can manage to nationalize until (and possibly beyond) the point where the bond market tells him to go to hell.“
- Naked Capitalism: Why You Should Hate the Treasury Bailout – “This is a financial coup d’etat, with the only limitation the $700 billion balance sheet figure.“
- Harvard School of Public Health: Clear and to the Point: Guidelines for Using Plain Language at NIH – “More importantly, communicating clearly is its own reward-it saves time and money, and it improves reader response to your message. Using plain language avoids creating barriers that set us apart from the people with whom we are communicating.“
Links for Saturday, September 20, 2008
- William Greider: Paulson Bailout Plan a Historic Swindle – “If Wall Street gets away with this, it will represent an historic swindle of the American public–all sugar for the villains, lasting pain and damage for the victims. “
- Steve Fraser: Wall St. And Washington – “The government must figure out how to deploy its power to shift the flow of investment capital out of the minefields of speculative paper transactions and back into productive channels that will help meet the material needs of American society. Real value must be created in place of chimeras. “
- Mitch Wagner: Second Life Tries For A Second Act – “Second Life stuck around too. It’s profitable, and it’s hanging on to a core of dedicated users. The internal economy of Second Life users exchanging virtual goods and services is growing. And, perhaps most important of all, the unquantifiable creative soup of Second Life continues at a rolling boil, with new businesses and activities and art popping up every day. “
- Wall Street Journal: Shock Forced Paulson’s Hand – “When government officials surveyed the flailing American financial system this week, they didn’t see only a collapsed investment bank or the surrender of a giant insurance firm. They saw the circulatory system of the U.S. economy — credit markets — starting to fail.“
Links for Wednesday, September 17, 2008
- Bluff: Beautiful graphs in JavaScript – “To draw a graph, you create a new Bluff graph object using the id of a canvas element on the page, set some options, add the data and labels, then tell the graph to draw. “
- Box: The Figure Description Language – “Box is a vector graphics language developed to make graphics as easy as possible.“
Links for Monday, September 15, 2008
- 5 Min Life Videopedia: Don McMillan: How Not to Use PowerPoint – “Number one. People tend to put every word they are going to use on their PowerPoint slides.“
Links for Wednesday, September 10, 2008
- Greg Verdino: Social Media to the Power of 7 Squared – “Before you do anything, you need to listen tothe blogosphere. You need to understand who is talking about your clients’sbrands, what they’re saying and what the impacts of those conversations are. But this principle runs deeper than that.” – Be sure to click through to the PDF with the slides and the text track. This presentation contains some really, really good advice.
- Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories: 70 Bits of Gaming Goodness – “The Mignonette is a minimalist handheld gaming platform that we helped to design in a collaboration with Rolf van Widenfelt and Mitch Altman.“
- Google: A Proposal for Shared DictionaryCompression over HTTP – “In this proposal, a dictionary is a file downloaded by the user agent from the server that contains strings which are likely to appear in subsequent HTTP responses.“
- UgoTrade: Open Source And Interoperability Will Take Virtual Worlds Mainstream – “In conjunction with the open source Second Life viewer OpenSim is the virtual world test kit supreme. The modular open source architecture allows for components to be disaggregated and reaggregated into new formations easily and rapidly.“
Links for Monday, September 8, 2008
- Peter Laird: Visual Map of the Cloud Computing/SaaS/PaaS Markets: September 2008 Update – “Below is the visual map as promised. An explanation of each category and a full clickable URL list of the solutions is offered below the map.“
- Chris Brogan: Free eBook on Personal Branding – “personal branding ebook I’ve compiled a free ebook on personal branding called Personal Branding for the Business Professional (pdf format). It runs just about 15 pages (including the cover) and contains everything from strategy advice to some considerations to over 100 tactics and ideas on what to do next.“
Links for Saturday, September 6, 2008
- Engineering Rapleaf: Goodbye MapReduce, Hello Cascading – “Internally, Cascading translates the pipe assembly into a series of MapReduce jobs. The taps specify the input and output formats along with the input and output paths. Cascading manages all the intermediate data necessary to get a sequence of MapReduce jobs to communicate.“
- Cascading – “Cascading is a feature rich API for defining and executing complex and fault tolerant data processing workflows on a Hadoop cluster.“
- Virtual Worlds News: Video: IBM Takes Lotus Sametime into 3D with OpenSim – “The goal is to reduce the barrier to entry to virtual worlds while also making them more relevant to business needs, both working with existing technologies and practices while offering alternatives as well.“
Links for Friday, September 5, 2008
- Meetup: Using Second Life For Business Collaboration – “his meet-up will be in-world. If you are using Second Life in your work environment or you see ways you could use it at work, but are facing obstacles for success come and discuss them with the group.“