TechMount

I’ve just been asked by a colleague about changing files date on a Linux system.
The command to change the date/time stamp of the file is: touch.
There are three date/time values associated with every file on an ext2 filesystem:
- The time of last access to the file (atime)
-
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Busy days call for less outside friction, too many things are waiting for me around the house, aside from a terrible back ache, now I need to go lay down. Enjoy

Software

Here’s a slick AJAX spell checker. Looks like a nifty implementation.

Hardware

In case you lived in a cave in the last few weeks, Nokia
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Yahoo is testing an e-mail service that will let people share digital photos by sending thumbnails instead of full sized attachments that hog storage space and bandwidth.
Thumbnails of up to 300 photos can be inserted into a single e-mail that can be sent to hundreds of recipients. Even if it contains 300 photos, an e-mail
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Will Firewire live through the USB 2.0 onslaught? Who’s helping you’re wireless router to get ready for IPv6? Which Firefox toolbar will help you protect your computer? and who is the cutest kitten on the internet? It’s all here…

Software

There are only so many toolbars you can have on a browser. A new interesting toolbar for
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Another day is out the door with some interesting finds.
Ever wondered what’s inside the Xbox360? Ever wondered how’s Darth Vader’s day-to-day life is? It’s the time to find out.

Software

Using Open Source For Portals is an article discussing the use of the open source Metadot software for managing portal, intranet and extranet sites.

Information

Hosted source control is
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The latest excitement stems from the already high profile BitTorrent is the entry into the search space. BitTorrent will now offer search of media and other files over the web..
This is coming after the a MPAA’s press release blaming the BitTorrent protocol for the leak of Star Wars episode III.
On unrelated
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This is the 10th anniversiry of Daily Friction… No parties just the same old friction…
Software

It’s been almost two years since Simon Willison’s last release of IXR, a PHP XML-RPC library. Now is the time for a new version. IXR version 1.7 (beta).
WP Cache makes WordPress perform as well as a completely static-file site, able to
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It is expected that some GreaseMonkey scripts might interfere with JavaScript or other DHTML elements on websites. In this case web site owners will want to disable GreaseMonkey. Dean Edwards has a little writeup and code on that.

There is a lot of clamor around the blogsphere about Apple moving to use Intel chips soon. The newswire from Reuters is here.
This move seems very unlikely. Let’s not forget Intel makes many other chips beside processors, any of those other chips might be the subject of discussions. I’ll keep an eye on that
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Take your Firefox with you anywhere you go, manage your Torrent via a PHP client, guess the google search or learn how to add Google Maps to your site - It’s all here today and much more.

Software

Newsforge has a review of WordPress 1.5, very thorough and covers a lot of the resources at the Codex.
Linspire
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The big different between Google and Yahoo or MSN was that it was a search service and not a portal. But what can you do when your users want to have some additional information on their favorite search engine homepage? You give it to them.
Now,you can you own personalized Google homepage. All you need is
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So, all three next generation game consoles are here. It’s nice to finally see the real design the three companies went for. Very different than the various fakes we’ve seen in the last few months.

The three new designs are intriguing, especially if you read about how much time and money the competing companies Sony, Nintendo,
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Nokia announced their plans to support N-Gage Games across their smart phones starting next year, essentially turning “N-Gage” into a brand rather than a device.
Nokia quoted the 25 million existing Series 60 phones and the potential for an order of magnitude more being sold over the next three years as reasons for the move.
After
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The Nintenco Revolution was the highlight of Nintendo’s presentation at E3 but Nintendo revealed another new device at the show. The new device is a new edition of its Game Boy Advance handheld. The Game Boy Micro shrinks the GBA down further and still retains the functions of the GBA SP. The unit is slightly
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Nintendo is the last of the three leading game-console makers to reveal its next generation console. The Revolution is the successor to the Nintendo GameCube that finished a distant third in a field of three in the current generation of game consoles. Since the release of its first home video game system in
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Sony announced today its next-generation gaming platform, the PlayStation 3. At its pre-E3 press conference, Sony Computer Entertainment gave the world its first look at the PlayStation 3, as it is now officially called.

The first ever image of the Sony PlayStation 3 is now released to the public. It comes in white, silver or black.
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Today my MySQL server has gone away. hmmm….
Don’t you love some of the error messages you get sometimes? No one really loves when his kernel panics but funny error messages have become standard on many development environments. Among the obscure messages I got lately, today I received this one: “MySQL server has gone away”, Gone
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The new MSN Search Toolbar has been released. You can get it on the MSN toolbar site.
This version of the MSN Search Toolbar comes with Windows Desktop Search that adds a number of enhancements, including the ability to preview documents on users’ hard drives. Using this tool, people can search many file types including Outlook
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Google has acquired the social-networking service Dodgeball.
Dodgeball posted a notice on its site, saying it was acquired by Google. The note did not reveal financial details but did say that Dodgeball’s two co-founders are “Google superfans.”
Dodgeball’s service helps members link up with friends and acquaintances using text messages sent to phones.
The way Dodgeball service is
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It’s been a while since the last installment of Daily Friction. Here is a small list of information sources and Software. This is nothing compared to the information blowout planed for the future, (hint, hint).

Information

PCMag.com has a first look at Longhorn Build 5048, the pre-beta release which Microsoft is providing to its software and hardware
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I’ve been watching the HD-DVD vs. Blu-ray joust for some time now and it seems Toshiba managed to now to hit Blu-ray in the right spot, capacity. Toshiba developed a triple-layer HD DVD-ROM (read-only) disc with a 45-Gbyte data capacity, making it more competitive with the 50-Gbyte capacity developed for the Blu-ray Disc format. The
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Firefox 1.0.4 was just released, this is a security update that is part of Firefox’s ongoing program to provide a safe Internet surfing. It is recommend that all users upgrade to this latest version.
Basically this version fixes 3 critical vulnerabilities.

Internet Explorer’s share of the U.S. browser market has slipped below 90 percent as the Firefox browser continues to grow in popularity, according to independent tracking by WebSideStory.
Firefox, had a 6.8 percent share as of April 29, an increase from 3.0 percent since WebSideStory began tracking Firefox separately in October.
The figures are for all
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I’ve been pretty busy the last couple of weeks and my RSS aggregator show it. My “Tech” category which includes tech and tech related blogs, but does not include tech-zines (cnet, wired, the register, ZD, etc.), gadget or hardware publications and such has 5673 unread articles. My tech-zines category has 1986 unread articles, gadget and
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WordPress 1.5.1 was released yesterday. The new version includes an important security fix, a few improvements, a new API hooks and functionality, more than 170 bugs fixes. It is available for a free download.
Detailed upgrade instructions are available on the WordPress Codex.

Today my Yahoo mailbox turned 1Gb in size. A nice move by Yahoo, but still behind after Gmail moved to 2Gb, and it’s growing slowly on a daily basis. The ever growing mailbox by Google’s Gmail is still the best out there not only in terms of size.
Now that Gmail offers 2Gb (and growing) in
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While being the most well known and popular social bookmarking service Del.icio.us is missing some key features I’d like to see in that kind of service. The most important one is search. For now, you can only search your own bookmarks, but how great would it be to be able to search the entire
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Google released yet another application to improve user experience around the web. This is the Google Web Accelerator - A utility which suppose to increase your surfing speed.
This is no new concept, applications like this exist for a long time back when most web surfers were still using dial-up connections. Let’s see how this
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I’ve never been a big fan of Ask Jeeves, I’m still not completely convinced with what it has to offer, but it’s starting to turn.
Today I had to look up the cause of some pasty Perl error message. I didn’t use Perl for a long time so it was a challenge to find the
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