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I made a posting onto facebook about this article:http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/09/microsoft-teaches-best-buy-employees-how-to-troll-linux-users.ars This posting is a response that was too long for facebook to comments on that posting, most people can skip over this unless they are interested.

The makers of the Opera web browser have released an Alpha of their new technology to change the landscape of the internet. They call it Opera unite and the basic idea is to decentralize the content of the internet so that every connected computer is a server providing content for its users. It is certainly an interesting concept, but I'm not sure it will revolutionize the web the way Opera is intending. Here is a video that explains a bit better:

I had never heard of the presentation, but while listening to a podcast the Opening Keynote presentation of OSCON 2005 given by Dick Hardt was mentioned and so I took the bait. Its a great presentation laying out some of the challenges that the web is starting to address. If you are interested in sign in technologies and how they are changing, this is a great place to start.

http://identity20.com/media/OSCON2005/

This is really cool technology, using image switching in a SUPER cool way to do some really neat things with a "surface" like display. Hopefully we will see this kind of innovation and technology in use pretty soon.

Badically a step by step on how to put together a PC cooled by mineral oil.

8 Ways to Maintain a Clean, Lean Ubuntu Machine - Make Tech Easier

Make Tech Easier gives a rundown of 8 things you can do to clean up some unused stuff on your ubuntu installation.