Archive for April, 2005
Saturday, April 23rd, 2005
Packrat Payoff
Via Eric, it turns out Intel was offering a $10,000 reward for an original issue of the magazine where Moore’s Law was first published. They found one.
The guy who had it reminds me of me, though I have become more aggressive about throwing things out. One exception is I still have [...]
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Friday, April 22nd, 2005
Software Patents
How software patents really work. Heh.
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Thursday, April 21st, 2005
Hard Drive Quality
I’m curious whether anyone else has opinions or a body of experience indicating the quality over time of different hard drive brands.
I’ve had the worst experience with Seagates dying or becoming unusable. In fairness, a large part of the sample size was a case of 4.3 GB drives used for upgrading some Dell Pentiums [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Computers by Marshall
Thursday, April 21st, 2005
Giving “Ship Date” New Meaning
Here’s a whole new concept in offshoring. Instead of farming out work to programming groups in different countries, bring developers from different countries to a cruise ship just far enough offshore to be in international waters. Sort of a floating skunkworks for hire.
Via Glenn
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Thursday, April 21st, 2005
Bomb Me To The Moon
Via Transterrestrial Musings, there’s an interesting article revisiting Project Orion, what happened to it, how it might differ if done now, and what are the tradeoffs.
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Thursday, April 21st, 2005
How About “May Apple Linux”
Ian’s Linux adventures continue, which is interesting in itself. However, this reminded me of an item I saw yesterday on Hearst having threatened the Mandrake Linux folks into changing to Mandriva.
Who the hell cares about an obsolete, obscure cartoon character that happens to share the dictionary word for a plant with a [...]
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Thursday, April 21st, 2005
Keystrokes, Part 1
Have you ever noticed how many keystroke combinations are common across multiple programs? There’s something to be said for Microsoft taking the lead in setting standards. Here are some I use. They are written in the form of key hyphen key (and so forth if more than two keys are involved). [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in User Tips by Marshall
Thursday, April 21st, 2005
April 11 Carnival of the Capitalists
The April 11 edition of Carnival of the Capitalists is up at TJ’s Weblog, featuring a specially selected set of twenty links.
Here are the entries that were not included:
DAtum
WOLves
Fresh Politics
Blog Business World
The Unrepentant Individual
Political Calculations
Random Thoughts From A CTO
Steve Pavlina’s Blog
Spooky Action
Conservative Cat
BPWrap - A Different Point Of View
The Other Bloke’s Blog
voluntaryXchange
The BUFFALOg
Roth & Company [...]
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Thursday, April 7th, 2005
Timeouts, OWA, RPC, Exchange 5.5, NT4 proxy,Win2k homed mailbox
I just sent the following e-mail to two mailing lists of former employees of a company I once worked at doing support, many of whom were supporting Exchange or NT. Figured it couldn’t hurt to cross-post it here as well.
Once upon a time, I couldn’t install NT4 on a new mail server, so I [...]
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Sunday, April 3rd, 2005
What About .US?
You want something that makes absolutely no sense? An agency I never heard of has abruptly and without explanation has disallowed private registration of .US domains.
They have this authority how?
They did this unceremoniously why?
Let’s see… for government we have .GOV, so .US can’t be needed for that.
.COM, .NET and .ORG are worldwide and give [...]
