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This is very good news. I tried it though, and it didn't work for me on my Sprint HTC Touch Pro. :( Radio is working and I'm able to dial out/send SMS, but data is still broken for me. I'm confident there will be a kernel that works for me w/ data and all. - GeekLad

Finally! - GeekLad

It's about time Google started taking action on these guys. Not only are they scams, but they're infringing on Google trademark. - GeekLad

Pretty damn cool. I can't wait to get a CDMA Android kernel with data support for my Sprint HTC Touch Pro. I may never boot it to Windows Mobile again after that. - GeekLad

Pretty good overview on turning a computer into a wireless router. I wrote up essentially the same tutorial over a year ago. http://geeklad.com/laptop-... - GeekLad

"Are you receiving an error when you import the virtual machine?" - GeekLad

Very nice. Good to see some benchmark data on how much faster Google DNS is. As soon as I found out about it, I changed my DNS servers. It really beats the hell out of AT&T's crappy DNS. - GeekLad

I wish Google would add options data. It's great having financial data available for Google Docs spreadsheet. If they had options data too, it would be a really great way to perform options analysis with live data. - GeekLad

"lol No, I didn't see that. It still boggles me how and why it ever became such a popular service." - GeekLad

"Yeah, lack of notification is another issue as well. I wouldn't call Google Wave a "Twitter killer" though. Wave and Twitter serve different purposes. Twitter is a poor communication tool for the reasons you mentioned. If you want an open dialogue with someone, Twitter is not the medium to use. You would probably use email or instant messaging, or Wave. Twitter is really more for sharing small bits information than it is collaboration and communication. If Twitter ever dies, it won't be because Google Wave killed it." - GeekLad

LOL that picture is awesome. I have no idea what the rest of the article is about. Original pic is animated, and you can see it here: http://www.sportingnews.com/blog... - GeekLad

I haven't personally used YUI, but it's a pretty nifty-looking JavaScript library. - GeekLad

Pretty cool, but yellow or even white stones would have been more authentic. - GeekLad

Thank the maker! I've been wishing Google would add this feature forever. - GeekLad

It saddens me to see such a beautiful machine destroyed. :( - GeekLad

"There are a few clever sites where it doesn't work, MillieDrive being one of them. Hulu is another. I haven't been able to figure out a way to get the videos from such sites, but rest assured if I do, I'll post about it here." - GeekLad

I would venture to guess that there have probably been at least 20 billion zombies killed in L4D2. - GeekLad

"Your article is quite comprehensive indeed. My thoughts still remain very much the same on the topics I've discussed here. For one, I think that email needs to be better integrated than what you've described. You are proposing that someone could be invited via email to a wave. However, in order to participate in the conversation they still need to join the wave. If they don't have a wave account (somewhere, assuming we are talking about a federated environment) yet, this is a big hassle. It is a lot like if you get an email from someone sending you pictures posted on XYZ Picture Hosting service. However, if you want to see the pictures you need to sign up for an account. This is a major pain and a lot of people won't bother with it, so you will lose a lot of participants. I think your idea of creating a "tsunami" for containing other waves for use within a group will work. It is definitely better than using a single wave and continually overwriting it. It would still be better to have..." - GeekLad

"Your article is quite comprehensive indeed. My thoughts still remain very much the same on the topics I've discussed here. For one, I think that email needs to be better integrated than what you've described. You are proposing that someone could be invited via email to a wave. However, in order to participate in the conversation they still need to join the wave. If they don't have a wave account (somewhere, assuming we are talking about a federated environment) yet, this is a big hassle. It is a lot like if you get an email from someone sending you pictures posted on XYZ Picture Hosting service. However, if you want to see the pictures you need to sign up for an account. This is a major pain and a lot of people won't bother with it, so you will lose a lot of participants. I think your idea of creating a "tsunami" for containing other waves for use within a group will work. It is definitely better than using a single wave and continually overwriting it. The tsunami concept is a good..." - GeekLad

OH SNAP!!!! - GeekLad

Damn, I wish there was stuff like this back in the day when I was taking linear algebra and calculus. - GeekLad

Holy crap, isn't that The Architect from Matrix Revolutions??? - GeekLad

"Agreed it is still just alpha-level software, but I still maintain that undo is a rather fundamental function though. I'm sure they'll include it in future releases." - GeekLad

"Thanks for the mention Adam. Seems most folks commenting on the post at MakeUseOf been able to write the image to a USB drive and boot it, although some have run into snags here and there." - GeekLad

"Well, I'm not sure what the minimum memory requirements are for Chrome, but it may be that 450 MB isn't enough. You could try running it directly on your computer instead of through VirtualBox. This weekend, I found a nice tool for writing disk images and wrote up a tutorial on MakeUseOf on how to run Google Chrome on a real machine via a USB thumb drive. If you have a 4GB USB drive you can use to try it, you might want to check it out." - GeekLad

"Yeah, at this point it's not terribly fast. Since you need to run it on a machine that is capable of doing all the same things it can do (and do them much faster), I wouldn't imagine using it a whole lot other than just to try it out." - GeekLad

"Yep, as of right now it's pretty much just the web browser. Before go-live they will provide other applications and all the applications will actually work (calculator & notebook do not work right now, for instance). They have also said that the user interface is subject to change, so we'll have to wait and see what the first production release will actually look like." - GeekLad

"You could build a wave with the group and just continually modify it. However, if you're working in a collaborative group, it is unlikely you'll only ever work on a single topic. If the entire subject matter changes, or you're working on a new project with those folks, you would lose all the work on the previous project if you were to use the same wave and overwrite it with the new project/content." - GeekLad

"You should be able to use bridged or NAT. The OS does need to be set to Linux, and you do need more than 256MB of allocated memory. My ovf file takes care of all this when you import it, rather than just trying to use the disk image with your own new virtual machine." - GeekLad

"That is correct, you do need it set to Linux. I already have it set as Linux / Other in the ovf file, so if you import it, everything should be all set." - GeekLad