It wasn’t too long ago that if you wanted to run a piece of Open Source software, you have to have an open source operating system to go along with it. As a large number of Open Source projects have been ported over to the Microsoft Windows Operating System, this is no longer true… [...]

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I was originally going to come up with a list of the top ten techy things that I am thankful for this year, but with the DMCA, my broken oh key and the makings of another exploding battery, I thought I’d go back and borrow from what other people in technology had been [...]

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Originally heard during Barrett Time and shamelssly ganked from the Geek Speak Blog here are the major events that occured over the 12 year life-span of Technology Bytes:
The First Year: 1995

Twelve years ago this month, Windows 95 hit store shelves. The day was August 24th.
Microsoft Internet Explorer is also launched as part of Windows [...]

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Tonight I’d like to give all the listeners who don’t want to hear about the iPhone the finger. Well, a finger primer, that is. We’ll get to why
it’s important in a moment…
For the purpose of this BarretTime, we’ll count the thumb as the first finger. Ours is opposable, though contrary to popular [...]

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The Houston ITEC show is happening next week at Reliant Park. On May 16th
and 17th, Houston’s biggest technology expo comes to town, this year
foucsing it’s sights on small and midsize businesses. This year’s show is
actually made of six seperate conferences with 24 sessions covering
technical topics such as networking, wireless technology, security and mobility
along [...]

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If you’re sporting any mac hardware running OS ten, you might want to fire
up the Software Update Utility to download and install the QuickTime
update that became available today. QuickTime 7.1.6 includes numerous bug
fixes, including a critical security issue with QuickTime for Java. The
download is a little over 45 megs, so if you’re not [...]

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Whether in the form of People, Camps, Casts, or Cast-ready devices, pods have entered out geek vernacular in a big way over the last two years. If you’re all about all things pod, you might want to consider heading out Peter’s way to attend Podcamp San Antonio on May 19th. This free event [...]

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For a number of years now, the likes of Google, Slashdot and ThinkGeek have fed users new products and rolled out ground-breaking services, all of which are announced on day one of the second quarter. If you weren’t out surfing the sites Sunday, you might have missed some of them. Never fear, as [...]

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Just some obligatory vacation highlights -
If you’ve ever made a mark in a dictionary when you learned a new word, then you have Dr. Samual Johnson to thank. He completed the first compendium of the English language in 1755, having done much of his work near the pub called Ye Old Cheshire Cheese. [...]

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While Benjamin Franklin may have been first to suggest saving daylight in
1784, he made no mention Daylight Saving Time (DST). It was William Willett
who first officially proposed DST to the British government, though he was
unable to convince Parliment to adopt it. Though often referred to as “summer
time” in British English, it was the Germans (during World War One, no less)
who first put DST into practice, choosing the initial dates of April 30th,
1916, through October 1st, 1916. Not to be outdone, the Brits followed suit,
first adopting it between May 21st and October 1st, 1916.

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