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- Star Trek XI officially scheduled--Brace for impact!
- Retro TrekStar Trek isn't about going backward. Its about moving forward. I would have thought that woudl have been evident by Enterprise's lack of success. I may not have been a fan of Voyager and Deep Space Nine, but at least they moved forward. Now the new Trek movie is...
- Tags: becky.cashdollar@..., movie, Star Trek, TNG
- Discussion threads 2007-11-16
- Space, the final frontier
- Space, the final frontierOk, this is a very serious post. Remember Star Trek with Scotty, Bones, Capt. Kirk and the gang? This post is all about what the best episode was. What geekier thing could one think of other than Star Trek? I personally have many favorites but I think...
- Tags: TNG, Captain Kirk, Star Trek
- Discussion threads 2006-01-28
- The Prince of Dorkness
- The Prince of Dorknessblog rootAnd so it begins...Until today, I had actively resisted the overwhelming peer pressure to join the blog phenomenon (hey, I'm a geek, and geeks don't flow with the monoculture gestalt). I never really saw the appeal of keeping a running journal of my offhand thoughts or...
- Tags: Blogging, Jay Garmon, Star Trek, TNG, blog
- Discussion threads 2005-05-16
- TechProGuild does the Samba
- Samba is an application that lets you share resources across your intranet or across the Internet. It will operate on a variety of operating systems and it's freeware! Join Jacob Wilkins as he shows you how to "do the Samba."TechProGuild held an online chat on October 17, 2000, in which...
- Tags: IT Management, Jacob Wilkins, Samba, Moderator, Argent Software
- Technical articles 2001-01-31
Additional Resources
- Modeling cellular automaton with StarLogo
- When Justin James learned that StarLogo TNG 1.0 was released, it brought back fond memories of a project in college. He recounts how he used StarLogo software to model a scientific theory. by Justin James
- Tags: Ant, Theory, Agent, Modeling, StarLogo, Real Estate, Research & Development, Business Operations, Justin James
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- No, I didn't watch the "Enterprise" finale
- I realize it comes as a shock to many of you that the guy who actually posed for his author photo *IN A STAR TREK UNIFORM* didn't watch the last episode of a Star Trek series for the foreseeable future. It shouldn't. Interpret this as a...
- Tags: Star Trek, Science Fiction, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2005-05-17
- Mr. Spock Turns 75
- Leonard Nimoy, Actor / Filmmaker Born: 26 March 1931 Birthplace: Boston, Massachusetts Best Known As: Mr. Spock on the original Star TrekNot so old.That's just early middle age for a Vulcan. He was able to play a major role in one story line of TNG precisely because as a hundred-some-odd-year-old...
- Tags: Spock Turns 75, Star Trek
- Discussion threads 2006-03-26
- Geek Trivia: A star of all Treks
- what about Jeffrey Combs ?I think he at least deserves an honorable mentionAnd Majel Still rocks!I was fortunate enough to meet Majel at a Star Trek Convention in L/A back in the early 90s. I sincerely hope I still have her signed pics. She was quite the stunner back then!Majel...
- Tags: Geek Trivia, rix@...
- Discussion threads 2007-02-21
- StorageTek Enables Efficient, Consolidated Data Storage at HDFC Bank
- As HDFC Bank expanded into multiple market segments and opened new delivery channels to its customers, processing and storing the voluminous information generated at every transactional stage made it increasingly difficult for the bank's IT team to continue with the legacy storage solution. To meet HDFC Bank's backup requirements, Sun...
- Tags: Data Storage, Sun Microsystems Inc., StorageTek, Backups, Storage, Hardware
- Case studies
- Sci-fi rant: When did Star Trek jump the shark?
- nailed it as always...The franchise, in attempting to 'dumb down' to be of interest to the 'unwashed masses' lost what made it of interest to anyone at all.In addition to destroying the concept of the Borg, the concept of Q was also gutted.Q, through the franchise was the archetypical trickster...
- Tags: Locrian_Lyric, DS9, Voyager, Star Trek, franchise
- Discussion threads 2007-11-14
- Norman Spinrad: Bad education is dooming science fiction
- Too true!Look at all these "sci-fi" programs, most of which being remakes which is sick enough, that are being heralded as "supreme" when not "original" when it's obvious they're remakes and therefore not "original" in the slightest. Battlestar GalacticaAlmost anything Trek once TNG ended though Voyager has its momentsThe...
- Tags: HypnoToad72, science fiction
- Discussion threads 2007-03-22
- Why is science fiction considered a "geek" genre?
- Our good friends at SFSignal must have run out of qualified candidates to to interview, because they asked Jay "The Trivia Geek" Garmon to answer the same question posed to Kevin J. Anderson, John Scalzi, Keith DeCandido, Carl V. from Stainless Steel Droppings, James from Big Dumb Object, and Angela...
- Tags: Money, Geek, Science Fiction, Productivity, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2008-02-20
- Save to My Workspace button.....
- Wahey!Smorty!I have one!!!!Just wanted to say thankyouverymuchly!(now, can you just remind me why I have it, please??? The "added value" of that is escaping me at the moment!)Thanks :DGGStay tunedAll will be revealed in short order.Now look, palwho are you calling a short order?Hmm?Who told you I was only...
- Tags: D Col, D GG, Dawg, feedback, gadgetgirl, Jay, new, workspace
- Discussion threads 2005-11-15
- Geek Trivia: Stationary perspective
- Your grasp of linear time is not offYo Geek:I thought that you would be interested to know that 'technically' you comment regarding Obi-Wan's famous quote is not off and therefore not subject to inquiry by the Department of Temporal Investigations.As you may recall, Star Wars begins by flashing their 'disclaimer'..."A...
- Tags: equalization, pressure equalization, valve, star wars, space station, temporal mechanics, gulmiguel, career, cabin, Soyuz
- Discussion threads 2006-04-19
- Distributed computing goes corporate
- Everyone knows what distributed computing is, but few realize how some enterprises are reharnessing this resource to power critical projects and applications, and why tech leaders should be paying attention.Distributed computing, with its recent high-profile successes in the scientific community, is enjoying a revival of corporate interest as businesses and...
- Tags: Network technology, Salvatore Salamone, distributed computing, processing power, computer
- Technical articles 2002-04-09
- Geek Trivia: The math behind the myth
- Which mathematician mistakenly solved an "impossible" problem as a homework assignment, inspiring a modern urban myth? In the long and storied history of uber-level mathematics, perhaps the holiest of Holy Grails was a proof for Fermat's Last Theorem, which holds that there are no positive integers x,...
- Tags: Fermat, Jay Garmon, Andrew Wiles, Last Theorem, Geek Trivia Newsletter, TechRepublic Inc., Proof, Mathematician
- Technical articles 2006-02-21
- Colleagues offer their own tool choices when it comes to disaster recovery
- TechRepublic members secrets in monitoring the health of hard disksTwo weeks ago, I experienced every Windows user's nightmare: a sudden, serious, data-destroying hard disk crash. It wasn't catastrophic—I was able to recover all my data from backup tapes—but I wonder whether I could have done a better job of anticipating...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Servers, disaster recovery, Ed Bott, hard drive, server, tool, RAID
- Technical articles 2000-11-09
- Testing
- Testingblog rootTerrorism goes unnoticed in BloomingtonOne thing conservative partisans like to complain about is the fact that newsfolk say "insurgent" and more neutral terms rather than the more damning "terrorist". So, I'm wondering if they will be angry at the Star for not labelling this as terrorism:Planned Parenthood office...
- Tags: Homeland security, Federal government, Web site development, gregbair@..., Bloomington, external Website, Mitch Hedberg, terrorism, Jane Pauley, FBI
- Discussion threads 2005-05-20
- Client-side data validation with XML
- One of my favorite parts of Web applications development is user interface design. My primary concern is with the flow of a page as opposed to how pretty it is. There is nothing more frustrating than having clients make their selections, click a button, and then wait for an entire...
- Tags: Edmond Woychowsky, XML-Data Islands, XML, data validation
- Technical articles 2004-03-01
- Favorite fictional Artificial Intelligence
- Favorite fictional Artificial IntelligenceHere’s something of a loaded question that will probably spawn some flames. What is your favorite A.I. from science fiction, either books or movies?I’ll go first, Obie, from Jack Chalker’s Well World series.Orac from Blake's SevenCult BBC space-going series from the late 1970s written by Terry...
- Tags: KRYTEN, Red Dwarf, Robbie, books, science fiction, movies, ai, Ed Woychowsky, off-topic, defensive shield, Artificial Intelligence, Scutter
- Discussion threads 2006-05-31
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