Archive for September, 2006
Friday, September 29th, 2006
Computerworld article: Why Microsoft's Zune scares Apple to the core
OK, it's no secret (at least around here) that I am not a fan of Apple, or the iPod. Apple just has a really clever marketing department, and they design the exterior of Apple products, and clearly have a large role ...
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Friday, September 29th, 2006
In case it wasn't already obvious, Sun is Done... McNeally left because he didn't want to see it get any worse (well, he didn't actually leave -- but he's pretty much out).Today, a friend of mine asked me how to get Red Hat Linux running on a SunFire X2100. ...
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Monday, September 18th, 2006
OK, this may seem like ranting, but... Well, hell, I'm ranting... Isn't that what bloG's are for?
First, a quick history lesson...
In the beginning, there were two cellular carriers in every market, and one of them was usually the local phone company. Cellular was very expensive, costing a regular consumer $1 ...
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Friday, September 15th, 2006
Great -- another TLD (top-level domain) with stupid restrictions on how and where it may be used. Basically, the .MOBI domain is intended to be for mobile devices (ie WAP, ie your cell phone), and they intend to enforce rules that say sites must be compliant...dotMobi Switch On! Web ...
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Friday, September 15th, 2006
Nice to see the FDA doing something useful.FDA Issues E. coli consumer alert - The Emergency Email & Wirless Network .......... www. EmergencyEmail.ORG ........If only the crazy health wackjobs would let us irradiate veggies -- this wouldn't happen. Of course, they would argue this happens because our food today ...
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Wednesday, September 13th, 2006
OK, so a while ago I was looking into do this... I even set one up, but as it turned out, I ended up with more spam than comments, and posts were few and far between. Actually that might happen on this one too, but at least the ...
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