Friday April 01, 2005 
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Friday April 01, 2005 Why is it so hard to be original?
I can understand the huge number of spin off accessories from smaller companies riding off the back of Apple success with the iPod...cases, speakers, fm transmitters, underwear...
I can understand the huge number of spin off accessories from smaller companies riding off the back of Apple success with the iPod...cases, speakers, fm transmitters, underwear...
This is really desperate for HP to seek a larger role in iPod mania where they offer a plastic mould to fit around your ipod dock with an 'HP' logo on it.
I like my HP printer. Please make more but I don't need an ipod dock on it...
Friday February 04, 2005 If you haven't heard, Solaris is now Free so dust off that old pc in the closet and bring it back to life with Solaris 10 for x86.
I just rebuilt an old pentium III server running RedHat Fedora Core 3 and it flies. Boot time was cut in half and shut down in 5 seconds.
I just rebuilt an old pentium III server running RedHat Fedora Core 3 and it flies. Boot time was cut in half and shut down in 5 seconds.
The most awesome developer platform out there. True resource virtualization with zones and DTrace for hardcore performance tuning. Performance programming isn't what it used to be cheap memory and the availability of rapid application development tools. For those of us old enough to remember how to optimize memory allocation and read a stack trace DTrace is a huge step forward in program traceability.