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- What are the best FictionScience Fiction books Related to Technology and Computers!!!!Let's do a top 25Well...I started a couple of threads requesting good sci-fi and fantasy a year or two ago and the results ran to a few hundred good posts. while mostly fantasy came my way I did get...
- Tags: Endymion, computers, technology, hackers, reading, science fiction, Earlier Heinlein, Neal Stephenson, geeksquad, off-topic, Snow Crash
- Discussion threads 2006-08-16
- Geek Trivia: Thinking outside the Xbox
- Snow Crash An Outstanding TitleSnow Crash may well be the best science fiction title I've ever read (and I've read a lot of them in addition to actually earning three credit hours in college with a sci-fi course). If you haven't read it, you need to give it a go.Article...
- Tags: Bill Gates, career, Erik Eckel, Microsoft Xbox, neal stephenson, PC, PC Builder, snow crash, staff, techproguild, TechRepublic Pro, unitb782
- Discussion threads 2005-11-16
- Making metaphor with Neal Stephenson
- The first time you saw the title "In the Beginning...Was the Command Line" on TechProGuild, it was a review through the eyes of a Windows zealot. Now see what a Linux evangelist has to say!My colleague, Erik Eckel, recently reviewed Neal Stephenson's book titled In the Beginning…Was the Command Line....
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Jack Wallen, Jr., Neal Stephenson, metaphor, Linux
- Technical articles 2001-04-30
- Is UNIX really the "hole hawg" of OSs?
- Is command-line computing best? Neal Stephenson, author of In the Beginning...Was the Command Line, thinks it is. Erik Eckel says maybe it's not. Read this TechCetera to learn how you can enter the fray.There must be something in the northern Pacific air. Maybe it’s in the water. The seeds of...
- Tags: Desktops, Linux, Operating systems, operating system, Erik Eckel Network+, MCP+I, MCSE, Unix, Apple Macintosh, Neal Stephenson, Beginning, Command Line
- Technical articles 2001-04-02
- Weekend Reading: In the Beginning...Was the Command Line
- Neil Stephenson, a.k.a. the "hacker Hemmingway," offers a thoughtful and hilarious take on the state of our cyber-culture. To find out what Disney and Microsoft among others have in common, read In the Beginning...Was the Command Line.In the Beginning...Was the Command LineBy Neal StephensonAvon Books, 1999151 pp., softcoverISBN: 0-380-81593-1Price: $8.00...
- Tags: Operating systems, Thomas Pack, Neal Stephenson, Disney Corp., Command Line
- Technical articles 2000-02-05
Additional Resources
- Neal Stephenson book to be made into a movie
- You may be familiar with Neal Stephenson as a cyberpunk author Snow Crash was my first introduction to his work. You may also know of him because of his lengthy, amusing, and informative essay In The Beginning Was The Command Line (you should go download it now if you haven't...
- Tags: Movie, RSS, Internet, Chad Perrin
- Blog posts 2007-01-17
- Schoold Encryption Project
- Hello,Im designing a program for programing principles(c++). It is an Encryption Program based on the Solitaire Algorithm (The one of the book "Criptonomicon" by Neal Stephenson). I have almost finished, the thing is I want a good KG with a random function much more interesting than just rand .I heard...
- Tags: C/C++, Programming languages, Encryption
- Discussion threads 2006-05-03
- Vacation reading...
- Being the Machiavellian genius that we all know I truly am, I've reckoned on taking a week's vacation right after Labor day, so I only burn four paid days of off time. Okay, so it was my wife's idea, but I'm still a genius. Ask anyone who...
- Tags: Vacation, Genius, E-mail, Online Communications, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2005-09-02
- iPhone to go 3G in 2008
- AT&T CEO Randell Stephenson has spilled the beans and confirmed that the 3G iPhone will be available next year. Excerpt from InformationWeek: At a meeting in California, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson told reporters that a 3G version will be available next year. He also said that...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-11-29
- Vinge Rainbow's End - Book burning writ large? Or Big Brother meets the Web?
- for my moneyyou can't beat the classics like neuromancer and snow crash. gibson, stephenson, sterling, these guys have vision.
- Tags: geekend, off-topic, mindilator@..., Web
- Discussion threads 2006-12-23
- Independent tests find AMD's Opterons more power efficient than Intel's Xeons in 36 out of 57 cases
- Independent tests conducted by Neal Nelson & Associates, an independent computer performance consulting firm, have found that AMD's Opteron-based servers deliver better power efficiency than Intel Xeon-based counterparts. A quote from the laboratory test report reads: The tests were performed on servers...
- Tags: AMD Opteron, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Xeon, Intel Corp., Processors, Servers, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Arun Radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2007-09-01
- Finished 'Snow Crash' yesterday
- After several weeks of erratic reading schedules, I finally finished Snow Crash. For the uninitiated, Snow Crash is Neal Stephenson's take on cyberpunk, and has been compared both to Thomas Pynchon's Vineland and William Gibson's Neuromancer which effectively invented cyberpunk as a genre. I've not read Vineland or Neuromancer ...
- Tags: Second Life, Google Earth, Novel, Real Estate, Productivity, Strategy, Business Operations, Management, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2005-09-26
- Mini Cooper Screensaver (zip)
- Mini is the name of a Cowley, England-based subsidiary of BMW as well as that of a car produced by that subsidiary since April 2001. The car, designed by Frank Stephenson, is marketed as a retro redesign of the original Mini. The Mini Cooper Screensaver 1 contains over 20 high...
- Tags: Car, Screensaver, Cooper, Subsidiary, Mini, Mini Cooper Screensaver 1
- Software downloads 2008-01-09
- Is there any all-ages "gateway" science-fiction out there?
- Member JoetheJet asked this question in the discussion thread of one of my Geek Trivia columns: "I think my 14 year old son would like these science fiction types of books, but I don't think he's ever read one. Do you have a recommendation of the 'best' one to start...
- Tags: Science Fiction, Scalzi, Quality, Business Operations, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2006-11-14
- Microsoft to show off ID federation
- Stay on top of the latest tech news with our free IT News Digest e-newsletter, delivered each weekday. Automatically sign up today! By ...
- Tags: Channel management, Web services, Tools & Techniques, Web technology, Web Services Framework, Web, Michael Stephenson, Liberty Alliance, Microsoft Corp., software, software giant, Web Services Security
- Technical articles 2004-05-25
- Back to the future: Are software development methods trending backwards, and is that a good thing?
- Discover the treasure buried in the early history of software development in this sample chapter from No Fluff, Just Stuff 2006 Anthology. Programmer Glenn Vandenburg reflects on trends from the earliest days of software development to the present, and argues that the field is gradually but inexorably going...
- Tags: Software, Software Development, Development Tools, Tools & Techniques, Software/Web Development, Management
- Book chapters 2007-01-30
- Setting up a VPN
- My company needs to set up a VPN to a client of ours to run one of their applications off of. We are a call center, and will be setting up appointments for them, so we'll also be accessing their client database. The client already has a VPN...
- Tags: firewall, networking, stangguykc@..., VPN
- Discussion threads 2004-11-10
- Keeping your iterative projects on track
- Frequent software releases bring in more customer feedback, but more feedback also means more ways to derail your project. This gantthead article shows how to make sure your first iterative project isn't your last.By Geoff ChooThe iterative approach to delivering software releases makes a very convincing value proposition: delivering hard...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, gantthead , Thaddeus Neal, dashboard, iterative project
- Technical articles 2002-08-07
- Share your top IT and career book picks for 2000
- We'd like to know your choices for 2000's top technology and career books. To get you started, we're listing the top cyberculture/technology books from Fatbrain and Amazon.com.What were the best computer/Internet books of 2000?Depends on whom you ask. At TechRepublic, we’re asking you, the community. What technology or career books...
- Tags: Professional development, INTERNET, B2B, Innovator, Loraine Lawson, Fatbrain, career book, career, Amazon.com Inc.
- Technical articles 2000-12-22
- Lost Microsoft
- Comments: Dear Sirs, Several weeks ago my computer crashed, I beleieve as a result of a nasty virus. (I am a nurse--when people crash and have symptoms I know how to treat them!!!!) Anyway the computer---a Compaq w/AMD---crashed. (It did this about 1 yr...
- Tags: comp, Compaq Computer Corp., computer, disk, Microsoft Corp., networking, rtbiz93@..., Tina, Tina Neal
- Discussion threads 2005-03-26
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