SB.com: –Engage! After all this, I realized that MS made a really powerful tool for really expert users. It seems that after all is said and done that it is a tool not for interaction designers, but for interactive designers and thus its real promise is lost because interactive designers don’t design or engineer applications [...]
I haven’t really posted about this because datacenters haven’t been my thing for a while, but I have been following the discussion with a sort of geeky fascination. I’d heard the google rumour for a while, then came the Sun announcement, then the Rackable Systems product. The idea is great, no need to scale out [...]
Nope, didn’t buy one… yet. Not sure if I shouldn’t just get a Mac Mini instead. Turns out that it is a mac super-mini (from The Forums at Something Awful): bash-2.05b# system_profiler Hardware: Hardware Overview: Machine Name: Mac Machine Model: AppleTV1,1 Processor Speed: 1 GHz Number Of Processors: 1 Total Number Of Cores: 1 Memory: [...]
Slashdot | Linked List Patented in 2006 Looks like that peer review of patent applications thing happened a bit too late. So who is LSI gonna sue first? Then, who is going to invalidate the patent?
Unsanity.org: Shock and Awe: How Installing Apple’s Updates can Render Your Mac Unbootable and How You Can Prevent it When you see the “Optimizing System Performance” phase of a software update, Mac OS X is really updating prebinding. Updating prebinding has a very, very nasty bug in it (look at _dyld_update_prebinding). If multiple processes are [...]
will run on light and daydreams. They will be omnipotent and will catapult Apple into the stratosphere as most profitable company… EVER. Steve Jobs will be canonized by the Catholic Church and all wars and famine will end so that all people can bask in the radiant glow of their Apple devices. I mean, I’m [...]
Apple Store UK leaks 8-core Mac Pro – Engadget 8 cores! woowee!
Google’s Buses Help Its Workers Beat the Rush – New York Times This is the kind of thing that makes me love/hate google. About 15 years ago, I used to commute from San Francisco to Mountain View (at SGI, whose ex-campus now houses google). I’d sold my car, so I didn’t commute on the 101, [...]
Yeah, turns out iTunes doesn’t like symlinks. So having some folders in my iTunes library symlinked to another drive worked as long as I wasn’t adding new files into that folder (like podcasts). Podcasts would never leave the download directory and get moved into the symlinked root. So I just got a bigger drive, which [...]
In an earlier post, I was complaining about how Entourage would just go away for 15-20 minutes at a time. I’d searched the net for info on how to stop it in vain. I’d cleared out gigabytes of messages without a noticable difference, but then looky what came across my RSS feed yesterday! Macworld: Mac [...]
