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Public Group active 1 week, 6 days agoYou know us. We’re the type that regularly references the w3c CSS standards, knows what command line switches fsck accepts, have written their own 8085 assemblers, and can instantly tell you what the ASCII code for a quotation mark is. (Decimal 34, hex 22, incidentally.)
We are the Nerds.
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Paul Hastings posted an update in the group True Nerds: 1 week, 6 days ago · updated 1 week, 5 days ago · View
See that picture above? You’re looking at 300,000 favicons of the most popular websites in the world. For more fun you can play with the interactive picture.
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Admin posted an update in the group True Nerds: 1 week, 6 days ago · View
What’s this? Google won’t let people search beyond 1000 results?
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Paul Hastings posted an update in the group True Nerds: 3 weeks, 1 day ago · updated 2 weeks, 4 days ago · View
Has anyone played Gmail’s HTML5 game?
I did!
Kinda cool
….Although it was rather easy to beat…..
But HTML 5 man… it’s the joy of it all.
Aye- Good point
HTML 5 is scary powerful… DIE FLASH! (LOL!)
It was fun, I also went on to the flash stuff and through the android man around.
threw not through
This was way to easy. LOL! #games
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Paul Hastings posted an update in the group True Nerds: 3 weeks, 6 days ago · updated 2 weeks, 5 days ago · View
The latest tech rumor on the web is that Google might be buying Jambool, another social media website, for $75 million. Basically Jambool provides online money in the form of ”Social Gold” for some big name online games including ”Mafia Wars”.
I’m telling you, there’s a #GoogleMe social network on the way.
#google #SocialNetworks
Google is a global monster.
GO GOOGLE!!
:woot:
Google is taking over the world. I’m very OK with that though…
Oddly enough… I am too. Which I think is untypical of both of us.
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Paul Hastings posted an update in the group True Nerds: 2 weeks, 6 days ago · View
Fascinating explanation of where computer symbols come from: http://www.popsci.com/node/47836
@missrodgers it even explains a little about the Mac symbol.
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Тобй Армстронг joined the group True Nerds 3 weeks ago · View
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Paul Hastings posted an update in the group True Nerds: 4 weeks ago · View
Google just acquired a social media company. Is it possible that ”Google Me” (the rumored Google social network) really is in the works?
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Admin posted an update in the group True Nerds: 1 month ago · updated 4 weeks, 1 day ago · View
Google is officially discontinuing Google Wave.
@brianfactor @alexmacdonald @randomboy96 @rocketjon @alexb @thebenster #google #GoogleWave
I have never used it
Neither I. What was it?
Basically Google’s 1st attempt at a social network… I think Google Buzz has done a much better job.
Wow. Never heard of it.
I tried to use it…. really.
I don’t like it.
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Paul Hastings posted an update in the group True Nerds: 1 month ago · updated 1 month ago · View
I just mapped a network drive! Booyah!
is this something new? I do this several time a day when I’m having network problems
:embarrassed:
Well, I’ve never done it before… so it’s still cool at least for me.
Ok, in that case Yay!
WHAT?!?!! A techy like you has never mapped a network drive?!?!?!?!
Hey- don’t be to hard on the man…..
::Flushes:: I’ve never mapped a network drive either…..
LOL!!
I’m not an amazing comp. techy like Paul is, and I’ve mapped a network drive.;)
What? Techy like Paul??
LOL. Um… not quite. I’m more of a wannabe-techy. Kudos to the Linux crew out there. Those guys have done some amazing things.
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Nathanael Crawford posted an update in the group True Nerds: 1 month ago · View
What????
”Charlie Miller and Kim Jong-Il could pwn the Internet with two years, $100 million”
http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/charlie-miller-and-kim-jong-il-could-pwn-the-internet-with-two-y/
Excuse me?
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Paul Hastings posted an update in the group True Nerds: 1 month, 1 week ago · View
I\’m going to WordCamp Houston on August 7th! Yeah!
This is basically a dream come true. So cool!
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Paul Hastings posted an update in the group True Nerds: 1 month, 1 week ago · updated 1 month, 1 week ago · View
@nathanmalone @brianfactor @danielgaskell @nathanaelc (and @missrodgers for extra kicks)
The GPL debate between Thesis and WordPress has been resolved for the time being:
http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2010/07/26/thesis-adopts-a-split-gpl-license/
#GPL #WordPressWell, I’m glad to hear that it is sorted out….
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Paul Hastings posted an update in the group True Nerds: 1 month, 2 weeks ago · updated 1 month, 1 week ago · View
No kidding!!
Makes me nervous….
Yeah, it could seriously disrupt a lot of things if the world ran out of IP addresses. The sooner the world switches the better. The good thing is that Google has enough clout that it’ll be able to get things rolling. (all hail the ever-reaching arm of Google)
Google rules
WHAT?!!? Google is a global corporate monster!!!!!!
Yeah it is. But as @scottishclaymore and I would agree, their kool-aid sure tastes good.
Yes indeed.
Delicious!
They stole it. Everyone knows that Kool-aid was invented in Nebraska.
LOL!!
Hey, it was. It was invented in Hastings, if I recall.. I think..
Yes. I long ago drank the Google kool-aid.
The only problem that I see, is that IPv6 is harder to work with because of its longer length and complexity. I will never be able remember fe80::a942:3c9d:94f5:3941%11 , on the other hand anyone can remember 10.10.22.101, or 192.168.1.135, or whatever it is set to on your network.
Well actually, I have trouble remembering my own IP address even how it is now.
But overall I think the advantages would outweigh the disadvantages.
yes they will, but it is going to be harder for us home network guru’s
Uhhh… No one needs to do that any more. Copy – paste.
Honestly, computers have gotten so fast that you can’t rely on your memory. A good sys network has enough abstraction that you don’t have to remember details like that.
I’m not sure I even have one set IP address. In the case that I don’t block my own visits, my StatCounter account picks up my pageloads on different IP addresses…maybe it depends on whichever signals the dongle picks up.
I know that AOL used to be that way. Every time a user logged on they were given a brand new IP address.
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Paul Hastings posted an update in the group True Nerds: 1 month, 3 weeks ago · updated 1 month, 2 weeks ago · View
Whooooaa, Matt Mullenweg (founder/creator/leader of Wordpress… the web software that runs JibeNow) and Chris Pearson (one of the main Wordpress theme developers) are having a serious disagreement about GPL licensing.
I listened to parts of the hour-long debate and around the 42 minute mark it gets intense. It sounds like a lawsuit is brewing…
http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2010/07/14/wordpress-and-thesis-go-to-battle-mullenweg-may-sue/
@brianfactor @danielgaskell this is extremely fascinating. Just fast-forward to the 40-minute mark and tell me what you think.
GPL licensing debate? ”Extremely fascinating”? Is that even grammatically correct to put those two phrases together in the same paragraph???
You bet kid. Right now their argument is hitting all kinds of media waves.
http://ma.tt/2010/07/syn-thesis-1/ (got to love his domain name)
Fascinating. I don’t quite understand what the argument is, though. It appears that Mullenweg is arguing that, because Thesis is a framework that requires Wordpress (which is GPLed) to run, licensing it under another license would violate section 2 of the GPL.
The pursuant section begins: ”2. You may modify your copy or copies of the Program or any portion of it, thus forming a work based on the Program, and copy and distribute such modifications or work under the terms of Section 1 above, provided that you also meet all of these conditions…”
Unless Thesis actually integrally incorporates code directly from Wordpress, I don’t see how this is an issue. If anything that requires GPLed code to run must be GPL, all Linux applications must be GPLed – which there is absolutely no legal precedent for.
I think part of the problem is that there is no legal precedent. As far as I know the GPL has never been taken to court… for anything. But this could be when it finally happens.
Ironically, one of the ex-Thesis developers has come out and stated that they actually ripped large chunks of WordPress code explicitly for usage in the Thesis comments system.
For anyone else reading this, remember that GPL doesn’t mean free as in beer, it means free in speech. So this isn’t an argument whether Thesis should be allowed to make money or not, it’s rather that the those who benefit from GPL should also be required to release their benefiting products as GPL as well (GPL would still allow them to charge and make money though).
Here’s a good article detailing all that’s at play: http://www.itworld.com/open-source/114247/wordpressthesis-conflict-highlights-gpl-nuances
Any thoughts @nathanmalone ?
Seems to me that WordPress (Matt) is totally in the right here. I have to doubt the qualifications of the writer of that article, though. I mean, check this out…
”Pearson could easily opt to release the Thesis source code but charge for the binaries (because honestly, how many WordPress users are going to want to compile code?)”
Binaries? Compile PHP code? Huh?
The guys sounds more like a Linux user. But yeah, I agree that I think Matt is right.
Maybe I’ll find out more in a few weeks from now, I’m attending Wordcamp Houston on August 7th.
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Paul Hastings posted an update in the group True Nerds: 2 months ago · updated 2 months ago · View
@brianfactor, @danielgaskell, @alexb
After reading this I started thinking ”National Treasure”. So let the inner nerd and conspiracy theorist wonder if there are other codes sitting around on similar Department seals.
http://science.dodlive.mil/2010/07/08/cybercom%E2%80%99s-secret-code-demystified/
wow that’s cool
BTW, knowledge is power. If you start cracking passwords then make sure to be responsible about it.
- I don’t think I’ll be doing any cracking anytime soon. But thanks for the reminder.
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Paul Hastings posted an update in the group True Nerds: 2 months, 1 week ago · updated 2 months, 1 week ago · View
My username got mentioned in the official BuddyPress blog!
CONGATUTLATIONS!!!! You deserve it!
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Joe Hootman joined the group True Nerds 2 months, 1 week ago · View
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Paul Hastings posted an update in the group True Nerds: 2 months, 2 weeks ago · View
@danieljmalone, @david, @michaellatham, and anyone else who I forgot that I talked to at @graceeinkauf\’s vocal recital:
Here\’s that group I was talking about working on a privacy-respecting alternative to FaceBook. The company that they used to get the public funding was http://www.kickstarter.com/
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Admin posted an update in the group True Nerds: 2 months, 2 weeks ago · View
A 15 minute clip describing the render farm on the Durian Project…
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Admin posted an update in the group True Nerds: 2 months, 2 weeks ago · updated 2 months, 2 weeks ago · View
…gearing up for a crazy night of site updates….
LOL!
I think I’m going to take an hour-long nap right now before I start my all-nighter. Everyone keep your fingers crossed that the site will still be running tomorrow.
Should I get off of it then??
Uh…. try to wrap up things before 1:10am.
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woah.
Whoa…. 300,000? Really? Dude, that’s a lot!!
So cool……
wow
Is Jibe on there?
lol. Wish it was. Give us another year or so.