We use a Mac Mini with OS X 10.5 to serve our whole house with music, movies, television shows, and photographs. The Mini is perpetually out of disk space because it only has room for one 2.5″ internal hard drive (two if you remove the optical drive) and those notebook hard drives have smaller capacities, […]
There are many false rumors in the world, and I cannot address very many of them, but I have direct experience with two devices that people have all sorts of false conceptions about; and I can share my experience with each… iPhone 3G: mine is over a year old now (September or October 2008) and […]
A friend has struck out on his own and landed some contracting work, and needs some help. He is brilliant with network gear and security services; and he needs: web content manager web developer systems/network admins (can be new to the field, and willing to learn) project manager (PMP, Project Management Institute Body of Knowledge) […]
The contracting firm I am currently working for, Pivotal-IT has several Quality Assurance openings at all levels, and one (possibly more soon) Linux/Unix Systems Administrator openings. Check out the postings on Pivotal-IT/Careers. At least one of the work centers is in Sterling, VA near Cascades Parkway and Route 7. I like Pivotal a lot and […]
As the current regime in Iran tries to shutdown the internet and new media methods of communication, it has been very impressive just how difficult it is to silence the people. The internet, even in a centralized theocracy, is profoundly resilient and able to work around various specific links being cut. The people are being […]
Woke up with a really sore throat, and there is a spectacular storm hitting our area right now. Crash, rattle, flash, boom, rain, rain, rain. Hopped online for a few to catch up as I crashed early this evening, and as the thunder and lightning continues, and the broadband cable connection drops in and out […]
Tagged Computers, connectivity, electrical stormSaw a few new iPhone apps on the news this morning, and some are actually interesting (as opposed to fun sound-bites with zero value). I have no experience with the following applications, just found the concepts interesting… Free Applications: bump allows exchange of contact info with another iphone with bump by bumping iphones/hands – business […]
Tagged iPhone applicationsSGI being sold to Rackable for $25 million Silicon Graphics is being sold for $25 million; which is in some ways astonishing for a company that had $4 billion in revenue only 12 years ago – but in other ways no surprise at all. They leapt whole-sale onto the ill-fated Itanium bandwagon and ignored customer […]
Tagged SGI, Silicon GraphicsAs expected, Apple had their iPhone SDK event today where they announced version 3.0 for iPhone and iPod touches is coming this Summer (developers can get the beta SDK today). It will cost $9.95 for iPod touch owners, and it’s free for iPhone owners (probably subsidized by the subscription revenue from your phone plan). It […]
Tagged Apple, computer servers, iPhone, iPod, PDA