Jeber Jabber

Geeky Christmas gift

I don't generally celebrate Christmas, but that never seems to stop others from giving me gifts (and vice versa, I must admit).  And you can always tell a true geek by the gifts they appreciate the most.

My best geeky gift wasn't "opened" until the 26th, when I happened to check the stats for my website.  First of all, the monthly stats were staggering:

Monthly Avg.:	9659
Last Month:	63484
This Month:	70304

Those numbers simply blew me away.  I am so grateful to everyone who stopped by.  I was especially surprised that the fourth busiest day this month was the 25th.  Either a lot of people were looking for an excuse to get away from the dinners and football game and get back on line for a while, or it was a chance to break-in the new computer.  Whatever the reason, I'm glad to see so many visitors.  I hope many of those 70,000 were folks here in the San Diego area that are interested in using the services of Jeber's Help Desk.  There's a lot more news to come about the rollout of the service, so stay tuned to the site news for information.
Meanwhile, I have to wonder if I'll break 71,000 by the end of the month.  Wow, I never expected this.

Beware, Chris and Scot!

My secret plans for Web domination have finally been revealed here. Be afraid, be very afraid.

Where's WMP in Mandrake?

OK, so I have a few too many bookmarks for Linux sites to which I'm a registered member. And I'll confess I don't get to them all as often as I'd like. But it still unnerves me when a site undergoes a major facelift between my visits.
Such is the case with the former Open Source Developer's Network (OSDN), now known as the Open Source Technology Group (OSTG). The site no longer has registration, and appears to be just a linking page for many of the sites I visit anyway, like SourceForge, Slashdot and Freshmeat. It seems that the content that once set the site apart has largely disappeared. And most bizarre, a video by Jeff "Hemos" Bates, VP of Editorial Operations, explaining the name and content change, is offered in Microsoft Media Player format. For some strange reason, I can't seem to find that app in my menu under multimedia. And here I thought Mandrake and Linux had every app I might ever need.

Link not

I think most web savvy people realize that hyperlinks are what revolutionized the internet. Before hyperlinks, the internet consisted of cached pages on servers all over the globe, and the only way anyone could access them was to have the exact IP address (255.255.255.255 for a bad example) to enter into your text browser. With the advent of hyperlinks, you could go from page one to two to three with links that would resolve the next IP address for you. You could even go to another document on another server if the current document linked to it. Thus was born the internet.
So here's a blog that lists sites that either prohibit or strictly limit your ability to link to them. This is like bringing the ball to a dodgeball game, but refusing to let anyone else touch it. I'm glad this blogger is exposing these sites' anti-community attitudes. The internet is all about sharing. We bloggers know that better than anyone. What's more appropriate than one of us exposing the unsocial behavior of sites that just don't "get it"?

Attention Penguinheads

All of you who share my interest in Linux, and especially those of you who have been using Texstar's PCLinuxOS, here's a great new resource page with info, downloads and more. They've had a few rough days staying on-line, so you might want to add the bookmark today, before their server burps again. When the site gets stable, it should be very popular. I know it will be with me.