Archive for January, 2006
Posted: Friday, January 27th, 2006 @ 9:36 pm in Uncategorized | No Comments »
First, a word about the Adobe Blogs. Adobe has really set the bar for corporate blogging. They have people evangalizing their tech, while simultaniously having a very free, personable posting style that absolutely never feels corporate. Kudos to Adobe for adopting such a great policy surrounding their blogs. But, on to more important matters:
Last night […]
Posted: Wednesday, January 25th, 2006 @ 8:45 am in Uncategorized | No Comments »
I really like debian. Mostly because the system is stable, no, not in the it never crashes sense, but in the sense that things are well taken care of and the system can run autonomously for a long time with little or no attention. Install a debian system, do what you need with it, and […]
Posted: Wednesday, January 25th, 2006 @ 8:44 am in Uncategorized, Apple, Pixar | No Comments »
Yes, the headline is one from back when Apple bought NeXT for 400m dollars. It was said that, in reality, NeXT had bought Apple for -400m dollars because, since the NeXT acquisition the technologies that NeXT brought to Apple revolutionzied Apple’s core buisness and have, in fact, returned Apple to be a global player in […]
Posted: Sunday, January 22nd, 2006 @ 11:23 pm in Uncategorized | No Comments »
If all you really want is anonymous usage statistics why not just go get them yourself? See, this is why we don’t believe you when you say “anonymous”. We hear anonymous and we think: they are going to follow up this request with a request to divulge the identies of users who searched for individual […]
Posted: Sunday, January 22nd, 2006 @ 1:15 pm in Uncategorized | No Comments »
U.S. adult film maker Digital Playground on Thursday said it will throw its support behind Sony Corp.’s high definition Blu-ray format, adding spice to the multibillion-dollar standards war raging in Hollywood.
That’s it. HD-DVD can pack up and go home now. We knew one of you was going to win, and I knew how this little […]
Posted: Wednesday, January 18th, 2006 @ 9:24 pm in Uncategorized | No Comments »
To sum up, the “photocasting” feature centers around a single
undocumented extension element in a namespace that doesn’t need to be
declared. iPhoto 6 doesn’t understand the first thing about HTTP, the
first thing about XML, or the first thing about RSS. It ignores
features of HTTP that Netscape 4 supported in 1996, and mis-implements
features of XML […]
Posted: Monday, January 16th, 2006 @ 12:44 am in Uncategorized, Apple | No Comments »
Yes, I was prompted write this post because of his blog entry but, really, the truth is that Writers Block Live is a pretty cool site. Mike Evangelist is doing something that has probably never been done before, he’s writing a book, live, on the internet, right before our eyes (hence the title of the […]
Posted: Wednesday, January 11th, 2006 @ 11:53 pm in Uncategorized | No Comments »
of these. Supposedly should be coming from T-Mobile sometime in the future.
Posted: Wednesday, January 11th, 2006 @ 4:24 am in Uncategorized | No Comments »
I’m pretty sure that this new MacBook is a pretty nice machine, in fact, i’m sure that in some ways it would blow away even my brand new 15″ powerbook (November 2005 revision). But, for starters, i’m very happy with this machine and the new PowerBook, excuse me MacBook, (also, I agree with John Gruber […]
Posted: Sunday, January 8th, 2006 @ 4:23 am in Uncategorized, Linux | No Comments »
I recently upgraded my machine, replaced 4×60gb drives with 4×320GB drives, the 60gb drives were RAID’ed together using the onboard HPT370 chipset, while it was a rather nice arrangement with the 60gb drives, they were slow, old, small and two of them were predicting SMART failure.
setting up the new drives was non-trivial. The HPT370 bios […]