Date: 04/07/05 (Java Web)    Keywords: technology

I have been reading on and on in different feeds how they have discovered that ancient Mayan's made salt. What's the big deal about it? We make salt too. Any two year old can make salt if he is near the sea. There isn't much technology involved and it isn't rocket science to guess. The problem [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/mayans-made-salt-are-you-surprised/

Date: 04/14/05 (Web Technology)    Keywords: technology

Multimedia chipmaker ESS Technology agrees not to sell products to movie-copying device makers.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Studios+settle+lawsuit+on+DVD-copying+chips/2100-9588_22-5671173.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 04/15/05 (Web Technology)    Keywords: technology

Lawmakers who define VoIP as phone technology will paint themselves "into a pretty big corner," Vint Cerf says.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/ICANN+bosses+slam+Net+phone+regulation/2100-9588_22-5672814.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 04/15/05 (Web Technology)    Keywords: technology

Co-creator of TCP/IP says several movie producers have talked to him about using the file-swapping technology to distribute content.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Cerf%3A+Hollywood+interested+in+BitTorrent/2100-9588_22-5672216.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 04/15/05 (Web Technology)    Keywords: technology

Lawmakers who define VoIP as phone technology will paint themselves "into a pretty big corner," Vint Cerf says.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/ICANN+bosses+slam+Net-phone+regulation/2100-9588_22-5672814.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 04/18/05 (Microsoft Windows)    Keywords: programming, technology, microsoft

I'm trying to install Direct X 9.0 SDK. I'm running WinXP Pro with Visual Studio .NET 2003. I have the exe to install on a CD that came with a book I recently bought (Jim Adams, Programming Role Playing Games with Direct X, 2nd edition, Course Technology). When I tried to install that version, I got an error from the WinZip Self-Extractor when it was extracting in %Installation Path%/Samples/C#/(Something, I forget). I figured that I wouldn't worry about it and download the latest version from Microsoft (April 2005).

I've tried several times to install the April 2005 version and I always receive this error: Could not create "C:\RPG Programming Stuff\Direct X 9\Samples\C++\DirectSound\SoundFX" - unzip operation cancelled.

Can someone please help me? By the way, if anyone else has installed the Direct X SDK, would they know what it puts in your computer? I already have the folders Documentation, Extras, Include, Lib and Redist installed under %Installation Path% also created with a whole bunch of subdirectries and files. I'd like to know if I'm only missing some samples and not part of the actual Direct X code needed to make programs!

--X posted--

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/ms_windows/29338.html

Date: 04/22/05 (Web Technology)    Keywords: software, technology

Forgent claims software behemoth infringed on patent for technology behind JPEG, one week after Redmond filed its own suit.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Graphics+patent+suit+fires+back+at+Microsoft/2100-9588_22-5681112.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 04/22/05 (Security)    Keywords: technology, virus, antivirus

Deal plugs CA's antivirus technology into Forum Systems' firewall, tackling an emerging threat that's predicted to rise.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Firewall+to+zap+XML+viruses/2100-1009_22-5681424.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 04/26/05 (Microsoft Windows)    Keywords: technology

All right, so I'm in eighth grade, and I have the option to get out of one of my technology classes, Computer Applications for next year in high school. To do this, I need to take a test...the test will cover Word, Powerpoint, and Excel. Now, I know Word and Powerpoint both fairly well (though any help with those would be appreciated, also) but I've never used Excel in my life - and that's what the test is mostly based on. If anyone could give me major help with learning this program (I don't even know what it's for) it would be appreciated like you have no idea. The test is May fourteenth, by the way. Thank you so much!

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/ms_windows/31191.html

Date: 04/27/05 (Web Technology)    Keywords: technology, web, google

Company launches beta of individualized archives of Web searches, following launch of similar technology by Google last week.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Yahoo+debuts+personalized+search/2100-9588_22-5686585.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 04/28/05 (Java Web)    Keywords: technology

Scientists have developed the world’s tiniest refrigerator – and it’s pretty cold too. Even smaller than a college dorm fridge, the microchip sized fridge can cool objects down to -459 degrees Fahrenheit. The National Institute of Standards and Technology-designed refrigerators, each 25 by 15 micrometers, are sandwiches of a normal metal, an insulator and a superconducting [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/worlds-smallest-refrigerator/

Date: 04/29/05 (Java Web)    Keywords: technology

A new dawn for Sun Microsystem or the end of Sun as we know it? CEO Scott McNealy is considering taking Sun private with the help of Silver Lake Partners, says a hedge-fund manager close to McNealy and the private equity fund. Silver Lake has done LBOs for Seagate Technology (STX ) and SunGard Data Systems [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/sun-going-private/

Date: 05/02/05 (Web Technology)    Keywords: technology

Search king files patent for technology that ranks news stories based on quality, not just date and relevance.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Google+seeks+all+the+news+that%27s+fit+to+search/2100-9588_22-5692423.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 05/04/05 (WebDesign)    Keywords: technology

So... I wrote some stuff about virtual communities and the information technology they exist on. Instead of trying to create a list of virtual communities, I started to create a list of types of virtual communities and what tech they're based on.

I listed usenet, forums, irc, blogs, social networks, mmorpgs, and AGMs. Not the best list... granted... but I think it shows where I was headed with the concept. There's more detail in the original post.

So.. I post this here cause I'm interested in trying to create a much longer list... and though maybe you might have something to add.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/867499.html

Date: 05/12/05 (Security)    Keywords: technology

Problem in a popular encryption technology could let hackers intercept communications between remote workers and a company network.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Flaw+found+in+VPN+crypto+security/2100-1009_22-5705185.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 05/13/05 (Java Web)    Keywords: technology

Finding the GNU General Public License (GPL) too restrictive with regard to derived works, a professor at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Mumbai is working on an alternative license that will allow people to take commercial benefit from work derived from an open-source program. Finally someone has taken the lead to break from the [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/iit-mumbai-professor-proposes-alternative-to-open-source-license/

Date: 05/19/05 (Web Technology)    Keywords: technology

Chief Executive Eric Schmidt says the company's technology doesn't violate its founding motto, "Don't be evil."

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Google+CEO+defends+privacy+policies/2100-9588_22-5713639.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 05/22/05 (Java Web)    Keywords: software, technology, java

Simple Thoughts is an aggregation of several member blogs like The Diabetes Blog, The Java Software Blog etc. Each of the blogs are unique in focus and content, except aggregation blogs like The Health Blog or The Technology Blog. Today I will describe the idea and hope behind The Diabetes Blog. Millions of people worldwide suffer from [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/on-the-diabetes-blog-marching-towards-a-cure/

Date: 05/23/05 (Java Web)    Keywords: technology, web

Web editors are critical to website success. They have a combination of communications, marketing and technology skills. Most of all, they know their readers inside out....

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/web-editors-have-a-great-future/

Date: 05/23/05 (Application Development)    Keywords: technology

CopperEye CEO Kate Mitchell says conventional wisdom governing this technology no longer applies.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Rethinking+the+relational+database/2100-9593_22-5716678.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn