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Here’s an interesting read. Data Mining 101: Finding Subversives with Amazon Wishlists takes a look at just how much information we can extract from publicly available data such as Amazon.com’s Wish List service. The wish list allows a user to bookmark items they would like either by coming back and purchase at a later date [...]

There is now a ext2 driver for Windows which allows you to use your Linux Ext2/3 partitions as if they were any other drive. This is especially handy for people who use dual boot Win/Linux setups and a huge improvement over the old explore2fs program as you can now write as well as read on [...]

Dont forget to read the other KDnuggets interviews with Usama Fayyad: Part 2: his Data Mining work at Yahoo! Part 3: his interests, hobbies and outlook for the future, including this gem: “Any smart young (and good) data miners out there: I think I can keep you very busy indeed!”

These are strange times we live in. First Alex Tew, a student in the UK, started the Million Dollar Homepage with the aim of selling 1,000,000 pixels as advertising space for $1 ea, thereby making US$1,000,000. Now with $999,000 sold Alex has resorted to auctioning off the last 1000 pixels to the highest bidder on [...]

Since my initial investigations into the firmware best solution for the Linksys WRT54G, I have been testing DD-WRT. I think it is probably the best of both worlds: it has a great web-GUI, like the Linksys and Sveasoft firmwares, but also has the power and flexibility of comand line access and the ipkg package management [...]