September 2009
22 posts
Honda's Answer To the Segway →
lcreech writes with an excerpt from the Daily Mail’s description of a new Segway-style one-person vehicle being shown off by Honda: “The vehicle looks like a very modern unicycle and to ride it you…
Corey Edwards: Drug Policy →
Lately I’ve put a bit of thought into the state of drug policy in our nation. It’s really not in dispute that illegal drugs are a major problem which doesn’t seem to be on the road to solution. It’s…
“We should petition God to open source the universe.” via @harleypig
Safely and socially share a wireless network →
This is not really Mac-specific, but still a good idea. I like two things: sharing and encryption. But you can’t have both with wi-fi. Either you share it or you encrypt the OTA transmissions with…
Alan Turing Gets an Apology From Prime Minister... →
99luftballon writes “The British government has officially apologized for the treatment of Alan Turing in the post war era. An online petition got more than enough signatures to force an official…
Windows 7 Reintroduces Remote BSoD →
David Gerard writes “Remember the good old days of the 1990s, when you could teardrop attack any Windows user who’d annoyed you and bluescreen them? Microsoft reintroduces this popular feature in…
Suspicion →
Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud... →
At Backblaze, we provide unlimited storage to our customers for only $5 per month, so we had to figure out how to store hundreds of petabytes of customer data. After looking at several overpriced…
Hey, I was just notified that my proposal to speak... →
Hey, I was just notified that my proposal to speak on Apache Lucene at the Utah Open Source Conference was accepted. The conference is October 8 - 10. I will also give a short discussion on Hibernate…
Apple Store Theft: Steal 23 MacBook Pros 14... →
Quick: How can you get 23 MacBook Pros, 14 iPhones, and 9 iPods in 31 seconds, for free? Tip: According to this security video, you need four friends, a brick, and a visit to the Apple Store in…
Apple Store Theft: Steal 23 MacBook Pros 14... →
Quick: How can you get 23 MacBook Pros, 14 iPhones, and 9 iPods in 31 seconds, for free? Tip: According to this security video, you need four friends, a brick, and a visit to the Apple Store in…
AT&T rolling out MMS to iPhone on September 25 →
AT&T has just announced that MMS — a much-ballyhooed feature of iPhone OS 3.0 — will finally be hitting AT&T on September 25.
Metadata Performance of Four Linux File Systems →
Using the principles of good benchmarking, we explore the metadata performance of four Linux file systems using a simple benchmark, fdtree.
#AT&T, I need a refund on my plan for all the months I was paying for #MMS and wasn’t getting the service.
Tax rates are much lower than they were in the ’80s
Interesting chart of historical effective tax rates http://bit.ly/16wXmQ
10.6: Easily switch sound inputs and/or outputs →
Upgrading to Snow Leopard made me disappointed to see that Sound Source no longer works as a menu extra. However, this left me disappointed for only a few seconds, as I figured out that by…
EMC Co-Founder Commits Suicide →
The Register is reporting that EMC co-founder Richard Egan has committed suicide. The article has an interesting look back at some of his accomplishments. “Egan had an amazing life, encompassing…
SnapManager for Virtual Infrastructure 2.0 →
As some of you may have seen NetApp, yesterday, announced, an enhanced version of SnapManager for VI (SMVI 2.0) which among other things provides support for Single File Restores from within a…
The rock of redundancy: Ars reviews Guitar Hero 5 →
The first Guitar Hero title was released in November of 2005—that’s almost four years of Guitar Hero. We’re on the fifth sequel, if you count World Tour as the fourth title, which…
Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard: the Ars Technica... →
Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger: 150+ new features
In June of 2004, during the WWDC keynote address, Steve Jobs revealed Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger to developers and the public for the…
eek, annoying, pretentious flash intro warning #CAT09 ! http://catalystconference.com