WTF?
Friday the 13th
Saturday, April 14th, 2007My Friday the 13th certainly fit the stereotype. It was the day after I completed the majority of a massive office and datacenter relocation project in New Jersey. 30-something Windows, Linux and Solaris servers, two Cisco 6509 switches, a 4.5Mbit MPLS link, Internet and voice circuits, and around 20TB in four filers had to move […]
Aaah…THERE’s Where Leopard Went: The iPhone
Thursday, April 12th, 2007I fucking KNEW it. TUAW’s broke it earlier today. Leopard’s delayed. But not because they’re trying to squeegee it into the iPhone. Because they’re just trying to get the iPhone out as soon as possible. Means they did what MS did when they had that glitch during Vista development. Move a bunch of programmers from […]
Ummm…Where the fuck is Leopard?
Friday, April 6th, 2007Those Clearasil-needing Orchard geeks said ’spring 2007′. It may be snowing up here in the great nerd north, but it’s still spring. But total silence from Apple’s much-to-desired PR department on Leopard’s arrival. In between I’m-God’s-gift sound bytes at Macworld Expo, we all expected to hear something about the new feline’s arrival from Mr. Stevie. […]
Senator Clinton introduces the Rural Broadband Initiatives Act.
Thursday, April 5th, 2007Don’t you just love it when politicians try and get creative? So this is what you think it is: A government-sponsored ‘guarantee’ to make sure that all the folks in the mid-west and other apparently remote and Internet-hungry areas have ‘affordable’ broadband access. And Clinton gets to take credit because she’s the one championing this […]
Nerd News Today; 4/5
Thursday, April 5th, 2007Kiss that VGA port buh-bye. The VESA org just gave official blessing to the DisplayPort 1.1 spec. Gonna replace VGA and DVI ports for flat panel displays. Faster, supports all those hi-def bits, and has a smaller physical plug, too. Also integrates that Blu-Ray DRM stuff, unfortunately. (Source: BetaNews)
Wikipedia founder dissing…Wikipedia? One of the co-founders […]
Rant on MOAB
Monday, March 26th, 2007Sorry, 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 […]
$38bn fund data lost in AK
Tuesday, March 20th, 2007There’d better be a whole lot more to this story. The short version is that a tech in Alaska managed to format a hard drive, then the backup hard drive that contained records for Alaska’s oil-funded resident account worth $38bn. Of course the backup tapes were unreadable.
But waitaminute. This data was kept on a single hard […]
DISCUSSION: What Happens To Your Data When You Die?
Friday, March 16th, 2007Sasquatch brought this up during a whiskey-inspired side discussion at the editorial retreat. Got me thinking because…well, I’ve never thought about it. What DOES happen to your data when you die?
I actually found a few articles & posts on the subject:
Slashdot May 03, 2004
Chronoscape May 16, 2004
How To Web June 1, 2005
Lifehacker Sept 26, 2006
Turns […]
Microsoft releases a FireFox plugin?
Monday, March 12th, 2007Apparently so. What’s next? Honesty in politics? The death of reality TV? The triumphant return of Bea Arthur?
I hope this is just the first salvo in Microsoft actually acknowledging that FireFox exists. It would be really nice to hit their site with FireFox to download patches and do basic navigation without jumping through hoops and […]