Byte Into It - 28 Nov 07

Digg - Is this the most newbie-friendly/easy distro so far? Linux Mint 4.0 Daryna
Linux Mint 4.0 is a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon that has lots of packages in its repositories (like multimedia codecs, Adobe Flash, Adobe Reader, Skype, Google Earth, etc.) that are relatively hard to install on other [...]

Byte Into It - 21 Nov 07

Social Television Links

operator11.com
justin.tv
kyte.tv

ABC mobile phone application for election results

abc.net.au/mobile

Twine: The First Mainstream Semantic Web App?
described as a “knowledge networking” application. It has aspects of social networking, wikis, blogging, knowledge management systems - but its defining feature is that it’s built with Semantic Web technologies.The aim of Twine is to enable people to share knowledge and [...]

Byte Into It - 14 Nov 07

Filesystem In Userspace (FUSE)
Examples
* ElasticDrive: Amazon S3 backed Virtual storage system
* SSHFS: Provides access to a remote filesystem through SSH
* GmailFS: Filesystem which stores data as mail in Gmail
* EncFS: Encrypted virtual filesystem
* NTFS-3G and Captive NTFS, allowing access to NTFS filesystems
* WikipediaFS : View and edit Wikipedia articles as if they were real [...]

Byte Into It - 7 Nov 07

US tops “dirty dozen” of spam-relaying countries by a landslide
Critics of the inadequacy of antispam legislation like the 2003 CAN-SPAM Act have more tinder for the fire this week, thanks to a new report from security firm Sophos. The report, which ranks the top twelve countries by the sheer amount of spam they [...]