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10 types of programmers you'll encounter in the field

Programmers enjoy a reputation for being peculiar people. In fact, even within the development community, there are certain programmer archetypes that other programmers find strange. Here are 10 types of programmers you are likely to run across. Can you think of any more? Note: This information is...

Tags: Team, Problem, Programmer, Programming, Martyr, Fanboy, Vince, Ninja, Theoretician, Code Cowboy, Paratrooper, Evangelist, Development Tools, Team Management, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Management, Justin James

Blog posts 2007-11-05

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John Scalzi has read my blog!

!Engage fanboy mode! John Scalzi has read my blog! Cherie Priest has commented on the blog that talks about my blog! They both think I'm a flippin' idiot which I am, but published writers know...

Tags: Blog, John Scalzi, Blogging, Internet, Jay Garmon

Blog posts 2005-10-17

John Scalzi has read my blog!

Engage fanboy mode--> John Scalzi has read my blog! Cherie Priest has commented on the blog that talks about my blog! They both think I'm a flippin' idiot which I am, but published writers know I exist! ...

Tags: Blog, John Scalzi, Blogging, Internet, Jay Garmon

Blog posts 2005-10-17

Fanboy moment - Superman Returns

The first Superman Returns teaser trailer is now online. I literally got chills. They've used a variation on John Williams' Krypton Theme for background music, and some vintage Marlon Brando voice-overs from the 1978 film. I'm a total Superman fanboy. I have an Alex Ross poster...

Tags: Superman Returns Teaser Trailer, Jay Garmon

Blog posts 2005-11-18

Animation (Taking a look at IBM Lotus Symphony Presentations)

KeynoteI'm a Mac "Fanboy" so I use Keynote.Symphony looks really creaky to me.

Tags: robertmro, animation, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-11-07

David Berlind has not used Windows Home Server

David Berlind has posted a response to my post on Windows Home Server over on ZDNet. He also responded to me directly via e-mail on Friday. Unfortunately, in both cases, he failed to answer my question of whether or not he had used Windows Home Server. Finally,...

Tags: David Berlind, Microsoft Windows Home Server, Server, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Shawn Morton

Blog posts 2007-10-20

My new e-mail signature...

Ever watchful Beth Blakely sent me this link from the fanboy blog TeeVee.org, which led me immediately to consider this quote as my new personal e-mail signature: "Then again, I’ve also been enjoying the new Battlestar Galactica, with its refreshing balance of theology, politics,...

Tags: E-mail, Online Communications, Jay Garmon

Blog posts 2005-08-24

Pic: Functional 'Aliens' powerloader exosuit halloween costume

All hail the ultimate Aliens fanboy. This is an actual wearable powerloader costume, and it's not his first. This guy has also built an APU battlesuit from The Matrix trilogy (those absurdly impractical exosuits that 'protected' Zion, but left their pilots exposed from the chest up) and a classic...

Tags: Blogging, Internet, Jay Garmon

Blog posts 2007-10-25

Video: Learn physics by watching Spider-Man fail

Physicist-slash-fanboy Dr. Jim Kakalios explains how the death of Gwen Stacy, one of the seminal events in the Spider-Man comic book mythos, demonstrates the laws of Newtonian physics. These scientific principles bear little to no resemblance to the end sequence of the first Spider-Man film, which was an homage to...

Tags: Physics, Video, Death, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Jay Garmon

Blog posts 2007-05-02

How to make a Green Lantern ring

From MAKE blog via BoingBoing: How to make a Green Lantern ringNow, when I came across this headline, I almost blew my warp core, because any comics fanboy worth his salt knows that the Green Lantern power ring is THE ultimate wish-fulfilment power-tool. Whatever you can imagine and will into...

Tags: Blogging, Internet, Jay Garmon

Blog posts 2006-10-11

Leopard to ship on the 26th October

Are you among the fans waiting for Leopard?One WordYesIt's pure eye candy. But unlike Vista, it actually works. The features are amazing, and they've taken Microsoft concepts a million times further. Time Machine compared to System Restore for example. Recover a single file from Time Machine...

Tags: Cyberthreats, SECURITY, paulmah@..., Time Machine, Leopard

Discussion threads 2007-10-05

Video: Real life X-wing fighter explodes on takeoff

Back in February, I took a lot of crap from Star Wars fans when I questioned the usefulness of X-wing fighters' x-wings. Well, if the travails of the Polecat Aerospace club--and the video of their grand scale x-wing flight experiment--are any reliable indication, my lack of confidence has been vindicated....

Tags: Video, X-wing, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Jay Garmon

Blog posts 2007-10-08

IE7 - so help me, I think I like it

ANYTHING but ieIm gather from your posts that your an MS fanboy. That by itself isnt bad. heck even i like ms hardware. However, I think your fandom is overshadowing your common sense. ie6 was bug riddled incompatible crap... not seeing an update in YEARS.... ...

Tags: jenueheightz, Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, software, spamneeded@...

Discussion threads 2007-02-06

Windows Script program (may be?)

Hello Gurus,I have a requirement to make copies of a file from A folder to multiple folders in the same server. What is the best way of doing this? Windows Script???? this program needs to be scheduled for every 10 minutes on the server. And also...

Tags: hp1968@..., SyncToy, Robocopy, Microsoft Windows, server

Discussion threads 2007-11-07

My first comic book: What got you hooked?

Further evidence that the geek revolution is upon us, Entertainment Weekly asks 15 of the topic comic book creators working today what classic funnybook got them hooked on the medium. Fantastic Four #1 makes a couple of appearances on the list--which dates some of the creators, as it came out...

Tags: Tv & Home Theater, TVs, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Jay Garmon

Blog posts 2008-04-10

Build a real Bender robot that brews beer, talks

Truly it is a momentous occasion when a beloved television show wrongfully canceled by the notorious morons at FOX is resurrected, as is the case with this week's release of Futurama: Bender's Big Score. This direct-to-video feature-length movie is a vanguard for a revived Futurama TV...

Tags: Robot, Replica, Episode, Bender, Robots, Quality, Processors, Emerging Technologies, Business Operations, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Jay Garmon

Blog posts 2007-11-28

TrekEnhanced.com - What Star Trek 2.0 should have been

Let the record show, your honor, that The Trivia Geek was behind the idea of G4's Star Trek 2.0 as originally described: A fan-friendly enhancement of the original Trek series, with lots of cool widgets at the edge of the screen, displaying Pop Up Video-style tidbits of information...

Tags: Product, Star Trek, Jay Garmon

Blog posts 2006-07-18

[i]ALWAYS[/i] use an AMD CPU when you build your PCs [i]*** UPDATED ***[/i]

.[i][[b]UPDATED 4/10/2007[/b] -- Since I originally posted this on 2/26/2007 (7), a lot has changed. AMD has very significantly lowered prices on its highest speed CPU line while Intel has not. This suggests that customers are no longer willing to buy an AMD CPU that performs the same as an...

Tags: Processors, PC, TechExec2, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., CPU, Intel Corp., Intel Core 2 Duo

Discussion threads 2007-04-10

Apple puts out a new OS, but will Leopard pounce on the market?

Apple has put out a new incremental release of its OS X operating system. The upgrade took longer, at 30 months, to hit the market than Apple's target of 12-18 months between OS releases, but most of that delay is due to the push to finish the iPhone. ...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Operating System, Upgrade, Apple Inc., Apple Mac OS X, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Hardware, Andy Moon

Blog posts 2007-10-26

The Browncoats are coming!

Me, I'm a Browncoat. That means I was and am a fan of the late, lamented science fiction TV show Firefly. (I'm also on the global frequency, a refugee from Caprica, always carry a towel, and proudly call myself a smeghead, to say nothing of...

Tags: Web, TV, TVs, Sales Strategy, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sales, Jay Garmon

Blog posts 2005-06-27