After a trial that was a sensation in certain circles, Hans Reiser, the creator of the ReiserFS filesystem, was convicted of murdering his wife. It is uncertain what will happen to the felon’s filesystem, which is an open-source project with a devoted fanbase, but there are hopes that others will continue its development. Meanwhile, IBM’s [...]

continue reading.....

Using CSS to create next-generation ASCII art is tremendously neat. There’s a sequel too. View the CSS and imagine the effort involved. It’s even cross-browser compatible! Now, watch it in action, thanks to the magic of jQuery. See Also: Turn Yourself Into a Simpsons Character New Generator Tool Makes Blueprint CSS More Flexible

continue reading.....

Google is adding offline access to a variety of its services — Google Reader and some of Google Apps are available offline — but what about support? You can download your feeds and read them offline, but suppose you have a question about how to use a feature in Google Reader? As it turns out [...]

continue reading.....

It’s here. It’s not here. We don’t know where it is. Microsoft is having some trouble getting the third service pack release of XP out the door. Despite announcing its availability earlier this week, the company quickly pulled the update due to a last-minute glitch in Microsoft’s Dynamic Retail Management System application (RMS). Although most [...]

continue reading.....

Here on the Internet, we’ve been using the IPv4 network protocol for quite a while. Its successor, IPv6, is waiting patiently in the wings, but it’s a hard leap to make. IPv4 addresses look like 192.168.50.66. IPv6 addresses are longer: 2001:0f68:0000:0000:0000:0000:1986:69af. IPv4 only provides 232 possible addresses, which we’re plowing through rapidly; IPv6 provides 2128, [...]

continue reading.....