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Honda's Answer To the Segway

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:50:13 -0600

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

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:24:09 -0600

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

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:27:15 -0600

“We should petition God to open source the universe.” via @harleypig

Safely and socially share a wireless network

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:42:39 -0600

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 Brown

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:56:09 -0600

Alan Turing Gets an Apology From Prime Minister Brown:

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

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:52:05 -0600

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…

Apple Store Theft: Steal 23 MacBook Pros 14 iPhones 9 ipods

Sat, 05 Sep 2009 06:42:36 -0600

Apple Store Theft: Steal 23 MacBook Pros 14 iPhones 9 ipods:

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…

Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage

Sat, 05 Sep 2009 06:42:36 -0600

Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage:

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 on Apache

Sat, 05 Sep 2009 06:42:36 -0600

Hey, I was just notified that my proposal to speak on Apache:

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…

Suspicion

Sat, 05 Sep 2009 06:42:36 -0600

Suspicion:

Apple Store Theft: Steal 23 MacBook Pros 14 iPhones 9 ipods

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:24:14 -0600

Apple Store Theft: Steal 23 MacBook Pros 14 iPhones 9 ipods:

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

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:24:13 -0600

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

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:54:10 -0600

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...

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 22:45:37 -0600

#AT&T, I need a refund on my plan for all the months I was paying for #MMS and wasn’t getting the service.

Interesting chart of historical effective tax rates http://bit.ly/16wXmQ

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 22:45:36 -0600

Interesting chart of historical effective tax rates http://bit.ly/16wXmQ

Tax rates are much lower than they were in the ’80s

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 22:45:36 -0600

Tax rates are much lower than they were in the ’80s

10.6: Easily switch sound inputs and/or outputs

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:56:32 -0600

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

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:56:32 -0600

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…

The rock of redundancy: Ars reviews Guitar Hero 5

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:56:31 -0600

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 review

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:56:30 -0600

Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard: the Ars Technica review:

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…