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The fists of God

Friday, March 30th, 2007

Earlier this evening — well before several Lagavulins with Jon Udell — I posted to my InfoWorld blog about two high-end workstations I’ve been using for the past month or so. I get a lot of “I could build that system for $20 from newegg.com” emails whenever I post about workstations, but honestly, that’s just […]

Nerd News Today; 3/28

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007

Virtual Worlds 2007 NYC today. The annual virtual online universe trade show is today in NYC–and yeah, I’ll be going. Covers online universes (like Makena, Second Life, etc.) and related technologies, business opportunties, etc. Expect some more postings on this. (Source: Virtual Worlds)

CTIA going on now as well. The CTIA wireless show is also mid-stream […]

Nerd News Today; 3/27

Tuesday, March 27th, 2007

EvDo RevB talks about 9Mbps down. See that SOUNDS like happy news for us EvDo users. But the new rev means a new Qualcomm chipset…in your phone. And that means new phones. So EvDo may be getting faster near the end of this year, but you’ll still have to pay extra for it. And knowing […]

Rant on MOAB

Monday, March 26th, 2007

Sorry, I have to do this.
The FUD surrounding security issues with the Mac has recently gone plaid. It was MOAB (Month of Apple Bugs) in January, followed by a seemingly constant stream of Windows folks pointing  at that site and screaming “SEE?!”.
Sorry. It’s mostly bullshit.
First, the MOAB project should have been named “Month of Bugs […]

Nerd News Today; 3/26

Sunday, March 25th, 2007

Albums on the way out? Interesting story following a new band, signed by Universal, who weren’t signed for an album, but just for two songs. Apparently a new approach to an iTunes world. (Source: New York Times)
DARPA funding T2 research. Remember that second Terminator–the mean skinny cop? Liquid metal so he could squeegee under doors […]

Why the iPhone Sucks

Sunday, March 25th, 2007

I’m not sorry. Stat after stat is coming out on this thing along with enough marketing to choke even a Microsoft exec and it all adds up…to a third-rate phone. $600 for a media player with 8GB of storage?! I know they have creative smokes in Cupertino, but geez! Honestly, Apple is making such a […]

Today in Tech; 3/23

Friday, March 23rd, 2007

Everyone’s reviewing the Apple TV. Why is is it that Apple can come out with a more limited version of something that Slingbox invented a couple of years ago, yet it still makes all the news feeds as tho it were a movie of Britney shaving? I just don’t get it. But at least this […]

Today in Tech; 3/22

Thursday, March 22nd, 2007

Why IT guys play Dungeons & Dragons. We play it because it’s the most intellectually-stimulating game you can play. As long as you’re playing it with smart people that is. However, this guy has another explanation of why IT geeks play D&D–as if we need one. Sasquatch has never played, so that tells you […]

Is it just me, or is FireFox suddenly stable?

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007

Awhile back, I lamented on the state of FireFox for OS X. It was a resource hog, had memory leaks, and was generally annoying on OS X. However, I just noticed this:

[pvenezia@mb17 pvenezia]$ ps auxww | grep Firefox.app
pvenezia 679 11.6 -29.2 760544 612956 ?? Ss 25Feb07 […]

Today in Tech; 3/21

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007

Did Apple organize a smear campaign against security researchers? According to George Ou of ZDNet, they did. He wrote part of it last year and has been sitting on the rest until now. He says that the much-ballyhooed Month of Apple Bugs was a direct result of the smear campaign. (Source: Slashdot)

Okay, here’s a reason […]

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