How to get bought by Google (or IBM, or Oracle)

From: http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/04/30/moes-googlebuy_1.html

May is a month of rebirth and new beginnings. It's a time when flowers are blooming, trees are flowering, and young bucks lock horns in battle over the privilege of choosing a mate. Those kinds of biological imperatives are a bit masked in the super-refined atmosphere of Silicon Valley, but it's safe to say that betrothal is on the minds of many a young company these days. They're complex emotions, to be sure, but they find their truest expression in a question that flits across the mind of many a traveler on Route 101 or, if articulated, is done so only in whispers: "How do we get bought by Google?" ...

Creating .Net Applications on Linux and Mac OS X

From: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=operating_systems&articleId=9016832&taxonomyId=89&intsrc=kc_feat

April 17, 2007 -- This article is excerpted from Windows Developer Power Tools, by James Avery and Jim Holmes, with permission of O'Reilly Media Inc. All rights reserved.
Mono is an open source implementation of the .NET Framework built to run on Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X, Windows, and Unix. If you are developing on Windows, you can build Mono applications using Visual Studio as well as SharpDevelop, but neither of those IDEs runs on Linux or Mac OS X. MonoDevelop started out as a port of the SharpDevelop IDE but has since evolved independently into the only Mono IDE available for GNOME-based Linux desktops.
Getting Started
MonoDevelop requires a version of Linux running the GNOME desktop. (Red Hat Fedora Core 5 is used for the examples in this section.) The easiest way to get MonoDevelop up and running is to use the Mono 1.1.15_2 installer available from...

How to install Ubuntu (Feisty Fawn) in OS X using Parallels - a complete walkthrough

From: http://www.simplehelp.net/2007/04/27/how-to-install-ubuntu-feisty-fawn-in-os-x-using-parallels-a-complete-walkthrough/

This tutorial is for anyone with an Intel based Mac who is curious about Linux - specifically Ubuntu, and has about an hour to kill (not including the time it takes to download Ubuntu).
The steps and screenshots used for this tutorial are specific to Parallels Build 3188 running on a MacBook Pro w/ OS X (10.4.9). With that said, they will be nearly identical if you have a Mac Pro, Mac Mini, MacBook or any other Intel based Apple Mac...

New Toys Read Brain Waves

From: http://www.winbeta.org/comments.php?id=7105&catid=1

A convincing twin of Darth Vader stalks the beige cubicles of a Silicon Valley office, complete with ominous black mask, cape and light saber.But this is no chintzy Halloween costume. It’s a prototype, years in the making, of a toy that incorporates brain wave-reading technology.Behind the mask is a...

Dinosaur Sightings: A visual history of Internet Explorer from 1 to 7

From: http://content.zdnet.com/2346-9595_22-63758-1.html

It's a safe bet that most Windows users have used multiple versions of Internet Explorer. After all, it has been around for 12 years now!As each new version comes along, we move right into the new user interface and new features and promptly forget what it was like to use the previous version. As such, after moving to Version 7, it is quite a trip down memory lane to take a look back at the earlier versions...