Archive for July, 2008...
Filed under VideosFiled under Peer2Peer
During the last three years, not many new BitTorrent clients have surfaced. Together, the likes of uTorrent, Azureus and BitComet have a 90% market share, with uTorrent being the most popular client. For a new client it is nearly impossible to catch up with these giants, but Halite might just stand a chance.
Filed under News
Google’s on and off negotiations with Digg
have been back on in a big way for the last six weeks, we’ve heard from
multiple sources inside of Google, and the two companies are close to a
deal that will bring Digg under the Google News property. The
acquisition price is in the $200 million range, says one source.
We first wrote about the Google-Digg negotiations in March. Despite a vigorous denial
by Digg CEO Jay Adelson the negotiations continued, although Google’s
Marissa Mayer reportedly cooled on the company for a period of time.
The companies are now in final negotiations
according to our sources, although it could be a couple of weeks before
it closes. And while the major deal points have been agreed on, the
acquisition could still fall apart. Microsoft, which was previously
interested in the company, may be willing to step back in at a much
lower price.
Most of Digg’s revenue comes from a three year ad deal with Microsoft, which will be terminated on a sale to Google. Digg has raised $11.3 million
in venture capital.
Meanwhile, Google’s fascination with the Digg voting concept continues.
Filed under Images
1. The BSOD T-shirt
The BSOD T-shirt is just a classic. Works out best on blue t-shirts (Doh!)

2. C++ Lover T-shirt
This t-shirt is very nicely done and I liked the idea. I’ve been a
fan of C++ throughout the high-school because of my hot tight-ass
teacher ;) The creator is a friend of mine, that specializes in
drawings. You may want to check his additional work here.

3. The DiggNation T-shirt (MUST be worn by a hot chick)
Ahh, but of course. No t-shirt says “I’m a tech person” more than a digg-like t-shirt. Digg this, Kevin Rose :)
4. Digg this t-shirt
The simple digg t-shirt, containing the Digg widget and digg button. I have one on the row right now.
5. Feed Me t-shirt
I’m hungry, so feed me. Or should I say RSS Feed me?
6. Localhost t-shirt
Ahhh, there’s no place like home…
7. Nice tags t-shirt
Hey, nice tags, wanna #*&$?
8. No image t-shirt
This t-shirt requires additional plugins to display images. Manual install?
9. Systems theory t-shirt
Systems theory is an interdisciplinary field of science and the
study of the nature of complex systems in nature, society, and science.
More specificially, it is a framework [...] ah screw it!
10. Wi-Fi detector t-shirt
This is the most interactive of them all. It has a built in wi-fi
receiver that measures the quality of the signal and displays it on the
t-shirt accordingly. A must-have.
Filed under Linux, Software
It seems like everybody uses the free PuTTY client for accessing SSH
from Windows, but the lack of a tabbed interface has kept me using the
commercial SecureCRT application for years… until now.
With the PuTTY Connection Manager you can not only use tabs, but
also wrap PuTTY in a slick interface. The underlying client is still
the same putty.exe that you are used to… in fact the application
doesn’t even come bundled with it.
The first time you launch the application you’ll be asked to enter the location to your copy of PuTTY.
And finally, a tabbed version of PuTTY!


