It’s been two months with my 12 inch powerbook and I’m still quite pleased with it. Unlike my AMD based machines which, by their nature, are confined to a room upstairs, the Powerbook stays plugged in in our living room. It’s been greatbeing able to have it on while we watch tv to quickly check […]
This is primarily for my father-in-law, a list of links to useful and free software for windows PCs: Viewing PDFs: Adobe Acrobat Reader, the Download page Opening Compressed Zip Files: 7Zip Jason Lefkowitz also has The Big List O’ Quality Software and I’ve also recommended software before Behold the Flash Drive of Wonder.
I’ve had my PowerBook G4 12-inch lapop for two weeks now. Here are some of my experiences so far with it. I hope this doesn’t come across as any sort of advertisement or rabid fanaticism. Up until now I’ve been a PC guy and my desktop machine is an Athlon based self-built PC running Debian
I finally broke down and bought myself a 12 inch Apple Powerbook laptop. I’m still in the honeymoon phase of my purchase so don’t expect this to be an entirely rational review of it. So far, I’m pretty impressed by how easy it was to get it setup, particularly the networking aspects of it. I
A Hilarious letter from the comuter industry to the entertainment industry: We lied to you Look at us: every year, we churn out more computer games than your entire industry is worth. You know how we do it? We like our customers. We don’t treat them like potential criminals, and try to make our products
HDTV, DVD, Hard Drives and the future – Blog Maverick – www.blogmaverick.com: Next on my reasons to love this approach to distribution is that it basically kills off the Piracy is going to kill us threats from the big movie companies. Hard Drive storage is expanding far more quickly than upload or download speeds to
From: SANS – Internet Storm Center – Cooperative Cyber Threat Monitor And Alert System – Current Infosec News and Analysis, a report that finds that an unpatched Windows XP box has on average 20 minutes before being infected by a port-scanning worm. They have an in-depth pdf showing how to connect a brand new Windows
One of my good friends, eventually to be known as Doctor Kuhl when he gets his Ph. D. from U. of Maryland, is in the market for a new laptop. He called me on Sunday to get my advice and I was a bit surprised in that he was already predisposed to getting an Apple
Lemmings was one of those addictive puzzle games available for the PC when I was in high school. The levels required you to use your variously skilled lemmings to lead them safely to the exit. However, if the level really had you stumped or you messed up, you enjoyed the gulty pleasure of commanding them
Dan Willis writes Are Useful Requirements Just A Fairy Tale? (and why an IA should care). The article resonates with a lot of themes that we programmers have been dealing with at work over the last year. Sandy has mostly lead the charge to get more complete requirements written early in the process. In some