Archive for September, 2007
Tuesday, September 18th, 2007
I've posted the announcement from Apple on the release of the iPhone on the Mac-Sys blog. It's a mix of good news and bad.
Especially bad for those of us in Northern Ireland:
30% of O2's network will be EDGE by launch. Northern Ireland won't be until the last. (Based entirely on ...
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Monday, September 17th, 2007
Fraser Speirs, developer of FlickrExport writes short piece on "your value" in a company.
One of the most interesting things I find, when going between my various circles in Britain and America, is the differing values placed on the time and productivity of people. Google is, of course, famous for their ...
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Friday, September 14th, 2007
Let me start by saying that I've never really been a fan of the GPL based entirely on the zealotry of its proponents. I attended a conference and in a short period was both impressed and filled with admiration for Bruce Perens and, almost at the same time, bored and ...
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Wednesday, September 12th, 2007
I read this article recently which left me with this mantra:For common problems use Opensource.
For rare problems use Buy.
For unique problems use Build.
For our email and web hosting systems (for ourselves and for the companies we host applications and sites for), we use purely open source technologies all hosted on ...
Posted in Code, Commentary, Startup, infurious | 5 Comments »
Monday, September 10th, 2007
Microsoft's UK MD, Gordon Frazer, is quoted on the BBC news site as looking ahead to a time when computers do a better job of understanding what we want and when we want it.
He takes Ken Olsen to task for saying "There is no reason for any individual to ...
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Friday, September 7th, 2007
Jeff Zaslow writes on the Wall Street Journal:
Last month, I wrote about how our culture teaches children to fear men. Hundreds of men responded, many lamenting that they've now become fearful of children. They said they avert their eyes when kids are around, or think twice before holding even their ...
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Thursday, September 6th, 2007
Apple revamped the entire iPod line last night.
iPod shuffle. New colours. Nice.
iPod Nano. New shape. Now supports video. Nice.
IPod classic. The old iPod shape and supports up to 160 GB. Nice
iPod touch. Basically an iPhone with wifi but without the phone bit. Or Google Earth. Or, oddly, an email client.
We've ...
Posted in Commentary, iPhone | 5 Comments »
Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
Yup, that's what this articleB instructs you to do.
This is a major security flaw, but it is used nowadays by tech support if something happened and your computer crashed, or something got messed up with your password.
Major security flaw? Ever used a UNIX based system before?
Booting in single-user mode gives ...
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Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
Wade Williams wrote on the dotnetaddict blog:
One of the toughest hurdles I had to overcome when learning Cocoa coming from the procedural C world was learning to look for the easy way. It's been a long time so I don't remember the details, but I have a hazy memory ...
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Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
It's not to our advantage that NBC wants to change the way the iTunes Store works with regard to their content. And while it's true that this NBC/iTunes spat may hurt Apple more than it hurts NBC, it would behoove us as consumers to make our thoughts known here.
Both companies ...
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