Nobody runs the Internet !!! and Winners of 'open-source Oscars'

Do you want to know who does it? Do you know it? Well... If not, a simple answer and some extra information about IETF here:

Who Runs the Internet

SourceForge unveils the winners... I am happy to see 7 Zip as the winner of the top award. I just start using it a couple of weeks ago and it is simply fantastic, forget about Winzip or Winrar.

SourceForge unveils winners of 'open-source Oscars'

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Acer: PC industry 'disappointed' with Vista

Again... somebody else (besides me and probably you) is attacking Vista, why? because there is not any real reason to move to Vista unless you want a nice interface and a lot of problems with your printer, camera, web cam, sound card, nvidia board, etc, etc, etc...

Acer: PC industry 'disappointed' with Vista

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More NEWS from chris.pirillo.com

Today, I checked chris.pirillo.com web page to see if there was something interesting there, and I found the following ones... really, it is scary to see how much control "corporate america" has over the people not only in America but also their influence around the globe.

• "... I will not argue against the benefits of talking about ones feelings and discovering why we may behave in certain ways, but I’ll go on record by stating that psychiatry is a bunch of hoo-ha (and yes, that’s a very scientific term)..." Psychiatry: No Science, No Cures

• "... I can’t get Verizon FIOS in my area because it’s serviced by Qwest. WTF!? Do we really want the wireless Internet spectrum to run into the same problem? “No, I’m sorry - you can’t get online here. You don’t have a ClearSprint account. You’ll have to sign up for a rate that we set for you... " They Want to Pwn the Wireless Internet

• "... Geeks have been discussing this for good reason - it’s a game changer, and wireless oppressors networks are NOT HAPPY about it..." Wireless Broadband Industry Changes?
  

Don't be a robot, think for yourself!

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The 7 Most Exciting Moments in Science

7. Otto Loewi --> chemical transmissions of nerve impulses
6. Rene Descartes --> first attempt of Cartesian coordinates
5. Nikola Tesla --> idea for an alternating current motor
4. Edwin Hubble --> prove the existence of galaxies
3. Robert Hooke --> discovered biological cells
2. Henri Becquerel --> with Marie and Pierre Curie, they discovered radioactivity
1. Alexander Fleming --> discovered penicillin kills bacteria

Do you want to know why they are considered the most exciting moments in science? Just follow the link to read the stories behind each entry on the list.

http://discovermagazine.com/2007/jul/the-7-most-exciting-moments-in-science

Once again... thanks for reading.

Swedish woman gets superfast Internet

"STOCKHOLM, Sweden - She is a latecomer to the information superhighway, but 75-year-old Sigbritt Lothberg is now cruising the Internet with a dizzying speed. Lothberg's 40 gigabits-per-second fiber-optic connection in Karlstad is believed to be the fastest residential uplink in the world, Karlstad city officials said."

Original source here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070719/ap_on_hi_te/sweden_high_speed_internet

But seriously, who really needs that speed? Don't you have more than enough with 6, 4 or even 1.5 Mbps? What do you really do that justifies this amount of speed? Do you still watch TV via cable? Did you know that you only need 1.5 Mbps to download IPTV? So, unless you have 4 computers downloading streams for IPTV at the same time (meaning you, your wife and your 2 kids are watching TV shows on 4 different computers at the same time... mmm...) then, just then you might need 6+ Mbps.

Well, more speed then more charges then more profit for the company providing this service.

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Windows Vista... frustrating

According to Chris Pirillo (chris.pirillo.com):

"… why I am spending more time in Windows Vista just to get a prettier window dressing and some nicer windows features… this things mean nothing if I can't get my work done!"

A 52 minutes video about Vista: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HELrxLdP85c

And an interesting article about it:
"Vista's 6 Month Report Card: High Marks on User Irritation" http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/58332.html

I hope IT at my work place will never install Vista… keep dreaming :-(

Book review: Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer

It looks like this book is pretty good, at least the review might sound pretty interesting. I hope you like it, and if you read it, please let me know.
For the people out there who ever thought (maybe still think) that returning to a simple life might be not that crazy, this book and its coming movie will be very touching.

Once again... thanks for reading.

Book Jacket Summary & Media Reviews for "Into The Wild"

... " In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter. How McCandless came to die is the unforgettable story of Into the Wild.

Immediately after graduating from college in 1991, McCandless had roamed through the West and Southwest on a vision quest like those made by his heroes Jack London and John Muir. In the Mojave Desert he abandoned his car, stripped it of its license plates, and burned all of his cash. He would give himself a new name, Alexander Supertramp, and , unencumbered by money and belongings, he would be free to wallow in the raw, unfiltered experiences that nature presented. Craving a blank spot on the map, McCandless simply threw the maps away. Leaving behind his desperate parents and sister, he vanished into the wild.

Jon Krakauer constructs a clarifying prism through which he reassembles the disquieting facts of McCandless's short life. Admitting an interest that borders on obsession, he searches for the clues to the dries and desires that propelled McCandless. Digging deeply, he takes an inherently compelling mystery and unravels the larger riddles it holds: the profound pull of the American wilderness on our imagination; the allure of high-risk activities to young men of a certain cast of mind; the complex, charged bond between fathers and sons.

When McCandless's innocent mistakes turn out to be irreversible and fatal, he becomes the stuff of tabloid headlines and is dismissed for his naiveté, pretensions, and hubris. He is said to have had a death wish but wanting to die is a very different thing from being compelled to look over the edge. Krakauer brings McCandless's uncompromising pilgrimage out of the shadows, and the peril, adversity , and renunciation sought by this enigmatic young man are illuminated with a rare understanding--and not an ounce of sentimentality. Mesmerizing, heartbreaking, Into the Wild is a tour de force. The power and luminosity of Jon Krakauer's storytelling blaze through every page." ...

The movie trailer here: http://www.ifilm.com/video/2870015