All geeks should read this. All non geeks should read this

This article describes most geeks broadly, but accurately. This is great for geeks/IT people to read to get an idea of how others can see them. But more importantly, everyone who knows a geek needs to read this. It is long, but it is so well thought out. It uses analogies that are both very funny and completely true.

Case in point:
"I think every good IT pro on the planet idolizes Dr. House (minus the addictions)."

Just read it.

"Opinion: The unspoken truth about managing geeks"
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9137708/Opinion_The_unspoken_truth_about_managing_geeks?taxonomyId=14&pageNumber=1


Now I have to go send this to my fiance and every member of my family :P

Greenpeace - How electronics companies line up

Very interesting read. I am going to need to use this next time I am unsure of what company to go with for a product (when talking about two or more comparable products).

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/toxics/electronics/how-the-companies-line-up

Old freeware should be open sourced

If you make freeware, you could open it up for others to help or build on. Clearly this opens you up to more bugs, but it also opens you to innovation and others fixing all the bugs.

What about when someone no longer wants to/cannot develop their application any more? Examples:
StrokeIt
DVDShrink
All the tools by AnalogX

I SourceForge a good location for these types of applications?

Is there a better place where developers can put their applications' source code so it will be opened up to the public if development stops on it?

I don't know the answers to these questions. I have not used SourceForge for anything but downloading applications. I hope to get more time to look into this in the future. If you have any thoughts, please feel free to leave comments.

A quick google search and I found these sites for 'open source software management': http://dotproject.net/
http://gforge.org/gf/
http://dcl.sourceforge.net/
http://www.taskjuggler.org/
None seem to have the feature I mentioned, but they sound useful none the less.

What happens to the Big Three's intellectual property

*If *the 'Big Three' go out of business, what will happen to their patents, parts stock, research and development information, market research, ect?

I wonder who will buy their patents, like battery and electric motor technology, research and development information, ect.

Will their properties be bought up by Oil/gas companies (the only people with money to buy things and never use them, just to kill competition)
Perhaps another auto maker will but the whole Volt project, for example (and then make it look better too :P).

Just some food for thought.
Feel free to post some thoughts in the comments.

Chrysler Blog - ‘thank you america'

Read the comments :)

http://blog.chryslerllc.com/blog.do?id=564&p=entry

BlackBerry Storm shortcut keys

Hold the Phone/Make Call button
- Opens the Phone and goes directly to Address Book in the phone

Press the Phone/Make Call button (while not on a call)
- Opens the Phone applicationPress the End Call button (while not on a call) - Goes to the Home Screen

Hold the End Call button
- Shut down the device

Hold the Menu button
- Opens Application Switcher (like ALT+Tab)

Hold the Back button (in Browser)
- Closes Browser

In Messages or Address Book, hold down the Scroll Up button.
- This will take you to the top of the messages list.

In Messages or Address Book, hold down the Scroll Down button.
- This will take you to the bottom of the messages list.

Show keyboard:
To show the keyboard - On screen a with bottom button bar, hover over the bar, and swipe up.
To hide the keyboard - On screen a with bottom button bar, hover over middle of the keyboard, and swipe down.


SureType keyboard:
Show Keyboard, Hold ALT key till it locks, press
Lock ALT, then type ",5,5"
- Bring up the Event Log.
- "ALT + LGLG" on other BlackBerry devices.

Lock ALT, then type "889,,"
- Show signal strength on Home Screen in numbers/bars
- "ALT + NMLL" on other BlackBerry devices.


QWERTY Keyboard:
Lock ALT, "/"/
- Bring up the Event Log.
- "ALT + LGLG" on other BlackBerry devices.

Lock ALT, then type "!,""" (Yes, there are 2 quotes in the keyboard shortcut)
- Show signal strength on Home Screen in numbers/bars
- "ALT + NMLL" on other BlackBerry devices.

Zombie Killing theme music

With 'Left 4 Dead' out, a friend and I got talking about killing zombies to the theme of some great songs. I found lots of web sites that already talked about this topic for other zombie killing games. I thought I would make myself a playlist, and share it with everyone.
Note: In no specific order and feel free to remove the Richard Cheese covers.
Enjoy!

1. Jimi Hendrix - Fire (9:49) -(song title corrected)
2. Metallica - Devil's Dance (5:25)
3. Queen - Don't Stop Me Now (3:31)
4. Slipknot - Wait And Bleed (3:04)
5. George Thorogood - Bad To The Bone (4:50)
6. KoRn - Dead Bodies Everywhere (4:44)
7. Queen - We Are the Champions (2:57)
8. Motley Crue - Shout At The Devil (3:14)
9. Killswitch Engage - Breathe Life (3:18)
10. My Chemical Romance - I'm Not Okay (3:08)
11. Cake - Sheep Go To Heaven (4:44)
12. Queen - We Will Rock You (2:00)
13. Sia - Breathe Me (3:09)
14. Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear The Reaper (5:07)
15. Black Sabbath - Paranoid (2:52)
16. Theme Song - Benny Hill Show (1:04)
17. Richard Cheese - More Human Than Human (White Zombie) (3:02)
18. Disturbed - Down With The Sickness (4:38)
19. Andy Taylor - Sympathy For The Devil (5:20)
20. Ministry - Breathe (5:40)
21. Audioslave - Cochise (3:42)
22. ZZ Top - La Grange (3:52)
23. AC/DC - Highway to Hell (2:21)
24. System of A Down - Ddevil (1:43)
25. Nonpoint - Alive And Kicking (4:01)
26. The Ramones - Blitzkrieg Bop (2:13)
27. Queens Of The Stone Age - No One Knows (4:38)
28. Rammstein - Du Hast (3:55)
29. The Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil (6:27)
30. Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirt (5:01)
31. Nine Inch Nails - Big Man With A Gun (1:36)
32. Michael Jackson - Thriller
33. Sublime - Sunday Bloody Sunday (U2 cover live) (3:49)
34. Kernkraft 400 - Zombie nation (3:30)
35. Queen - All Dead, All Dead (3:06)
36. Van Halen - Runnin' With The Devil (3:33)
37. Creedance Clearwater Revival - Bad Moon Rising (2:19)
38. Richard Cheese - Down With The Sickness (Disturbed) (2:21)
39. Nazareth - This Flight Tonight (3:21)
40. White Zombie - Thunderkiss '65 (4:18)
41. Nazereth - Hair of a dog (4:07)
42. Rob Zombie - Dragula (3:42)
43. Children Of Bodom - Living Dead Beat (4:51)
44. Weird Al Yankovic - Polkarama! (4:17)
45. Nine Inch Nails - Mr Self Destruct (4:30)
46. Motorhead - Ace of spades (2:49)
47. White Zombie - More Human Than Human (4:28)
48. Theme Song - Monster Mash (3:48)
49. Richard Cheese - Sunday Bloody Sunday (U2 Cover) (1:37)
50. U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday (4:41)
51. NOFX - Happy Guy (1:58)

51 tracks in playlist, average track length: 3:46
Playlist length: 3 hours 12 minutes 29 seconds


Update:
I missed some really good ones. I found them on more forums. They are:
Slipknot - Left Behind
Soulfly - Bleed
Dropkick Murphys - Never Alone
Sublime - Devil Went Down To Georgia
Afi - Miss Murder
Machinehead - Block
Ozzy Osbourne - Bark At The Moon