Hilarious small video about email communication @ http://www.zefrank.com/punc/

This was on sco.com today. Wonder if their server have been hacked or are they just finally telling true???

Wi-Fi world goes forward. The future 802.11n standard will be based on MIMO. MIMO stands for multiple in multiple out and describes a technology that can boost the capacity and coverage area of wireless networks. The 802.11n standard isn’t expected to be ratified for another two years, according to the Wi-Fi alliance.
An array of four receive and four transmit antennas in a MIMO configuration (4 x 4) would use 40 MHz of bandwidth, or about twice that used in current 802.11b and g, to achieve speeds up to 540 Mbps (raw throughput). But in countries in which those configurations weren’t allowed, the devices would fall back to 2 x 2 antennas and 20 MHz of spectrum. This would also allow backwards compatibility with 802.11b and g. The article says that in the 2 x 2 by 20 MHz configuration, speed would top out at 135 Mbps. More news and information about Wi-Fi can be found from Wi-Fi Networking News

I found very nice and cruel photos from 59th College Photographer of the Year like Sexual Tension Culture of Poverty Desert Vigilance

Firefox 2.0 Roadmap:
Top goals:
# Improvements to Bookmarks/History
# Per-Site Options
# Enhancements to the Extensions system, Find Toolbar, Software Update, Search and other areas.
# Accessibility compliance
# More … ?

Plans are for a 1.1 version towards March, with a 1.5 and 2.0 both released within 2005.

TNO has produced the largest digital panoramic photo in the world. The 2.5 gigapixel image is a composition of images rather than a single image if this photo were printed, it would measure 6.67 m by 2.67 m (300 dpi). See it your self.
It will take a while before digital-cameras that can do this?

I don’t understand what sense there is to make web based applications for specific browsers. Many web based apps works only on Internet Explorer on Windows machines. It would be much easier for developers just create special windows application to do that work instead trying to fork Internet Explorer to do that work. Just image a Content Management System that works only on IE on windows. Why not just create windows application with rich text editor or make customization into MS Word instead. I think Microsoft has a great API for writing nice windows applications but forking IE really sucks. This way perhaps there could be actually some use for Web Services as well.

I am not much of a football fan but yesterday I watch how F.C Barcelona kick some Real Madrid ass. It was a good match, felt like

I was watching how real football team shows to a metro-sexual and other superduperstars some football playing.
I think I am going to follow Barca games rest of the season I already have my favourite player. GO BARCA!

Debian developers have completely rewritten the Debian installer for the next version of the Linux distribution, code-named Sarge. The update, due around the New Year, is the first major release of Debian since July 2002 when the current version, Woody, was released.

The next major release of Debian distribution is finally making installation easier for non-technical users. This is good news for me because I don’t like systems where I have to think what should I do and I really like this mouse thing and GUI instead text based installation screens.

You can find more info about Sarge from Debian site

Google has been my number one resource for information ever since Altavista decided to change their search service to allinone web portal. Here are few of my favourite tweaks I use to get more out from Google Search.

Define: gives you description of word or phrase. I.e. define:Finland or define:semantic.

Intitle: at the beginning of a query word or phrase (intitle:”Jukka-Pekka Keisala”) restricts your search results to just the titles of Web pages.

Intext: does the opposite of intitle:, searching only the body text, ignoring titles, links, and so forth.

Link: lets you see which pages are linking to your Web page or to another page you’re interested in. For example, try typing in link:http://www.jpkeisala.com.

Site: which restricts results to top-level domains with intitle: to find certain types of pages. For example, get scholarly pages about Mark Twain by searching for intitle:”Mark Twain”site:edu.

Daterange: (start date?end date). You can restrict your searches to pages that were indexed within a certain time period.

Google has a fairly complete list of its syntax elements at www.google.com/help/operators.html.

Other intresting google tools like Google Alert (www.googlealert.com) monitors your search terms and e-mails you information about new additions to Google’s Web index. Intresting but I dont really use email anymore since spam has taken over pretty much my mail. But more intresting is Google on the telephone? Yup. Check out Google Voice Search

You can get a complete list of Google’s tools and services at www.google.com/options/index.html.