tags: geeks
keeping a geek dude. And I’m not just talking vintage-era Captain Kirk and Spock
either. You’ve got to be up on your The Next Generation, your
Deep Space Nine, your Babylon 5. Armed with your own
knowledge of Federation policies, you can better gauge when and how to act. The
sexual politics of Star Trek are pretty blunt: the men run the
technology and the ship, and the women are caretakers (a doctor and a
counselor). Note the sexual tensions on the bridge of the
Enterprise: the women, in skin tight uniforms, and with luxuriant,
flowing hair. The men, often balding, and sporting some sort of permanently
attached computer auxiliary. This world metaphorizes the fantasies of the geek
dude, who sees himself in the geeky-but-heroic male officers and who secretly
desires a sexy, smart, Deanna or Bev to come along and deferentially accept him
for who he is. If you are willing to accept that this is his starting point for
reality, you are ready for a geek relationship.
Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures
tags: architecture, design, programming, software
Business English Pod :: The Business English Podcast for Professionals
tags: business, english, podcast
Hacking Knowledge: 77 Ways to Learn Faster, Deeper, and Better | OEDb Annotated
tags: education, knowledge, learning, productivity
fact, it’s been said that the average adult only uses 10% of his/her brain.
Imagine what we may be capable of with more advanced learning techniques. Here
are 77 tips related to knowledge and learning to help you on your quest. A few
are specifically for students in traditional learning institutions; the rest for
self-starters, or those learning on their own. Happy learning.
your mind more receptive to recognizing brilliant ideas.
Usability and Interface Design Books | Know-How | Smashing Magazine
tags: books, design, interaction, usability
UNIX tips: Learn 10 good UNIX usage habits
tags: unix
tags: no_tag
systems using the keyboard/mouse attached to one computer. It is designed for
folks who have two (or more) computers set up at home and find themselves
regularly sliding from one system to the other (and wearing out the carpet in
the process!). With Input Director, you can share a single keyboard/mouse across
a set of systems. You switch which system receives the input either by hotkey or
by moving the cursor so that it transitions from one screen to the other (in a
very similar fashion to a multi-monitor setup). The idea being that you can
position the monitors from two or more systems in a row and use a shared
keyboard/mouse to control all of them.
Chris Harrison’s Projects Page
tags: project
How Do Users Really Feel About Your Design? :: UXmatters
tags: design
The user experience field has been trying to move beyond mere usability and utility for years. So far, no one seems to have developed easy-to-implement, non-retrospective, valid, and reliable measures for gauging users’ emotional reactions to a system, application, or Web site.
Simple Home File Server (Based On Ubuntu) | HowtoForge – Linux Howtos and Tutorials Annotated
The server is built with Ubuntu Server 7.10 & Samba. Do not use Ubuntu Server 5.04 LTS because this version does not support the latest SATA Controllers (in an Pentium II or III you likely want to use a PCI SATA RAID controller to attach SATA hard disks).
complex authorization or access procedure. Freenas (www.freenas.org) does have too many
features for home users and more important it does not support the NTFS
format.
