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Category Archives: tech
New Media Expo August 14-16
I’ve just registered for the New Media Expo in Las Vegas. It’s being held at the convention center from August 14 – 16. Should be tons of fun; some very well known podcasters and new-media luminaries are presenting. Only downside: as it’s the middle of August in Vegas it will probably be about 145 degrees [...]
New Sonicwall TZ150 = better/faster Team Fortress 2!
I just replaced the Linux firewall I was using with a small Sonicwall TZ150. It’s their low-end SOHO model but has a nice management interface and offers some of the features of the more expensive models. A very nice surprise: latency (i.e. ping time) in Team Fortress 2 is substantially less than it was before. [...]
Macbook Pro update
So after a few weeks with the new MBP here are some thoughts: Pros: It’s nice to have a machine that will run OS X, various flavors of Windows, and has a Unix core. This is particularly attractive to me as a tech consultant, although I’d hazard a guess that a very large percentage of [...]
New MacBook Pro has arrived
I’m the proud owner of a new MacBook Pro. I went for the more portable 15″ version and so far it has been great. Leopard’s underpinnings are very familiar to anyone who is coming from a Linux or Unix background and as usual the Apple build quality is exceptional. Although I have to say I’m [...]
Portable hard drive failures
Mike Elgan at Computerworld has a recent post discussing his experience with external USB drives – he’s lost 6 in the past 10 years. My experience with them is at least as bad, having lost that many in the past five years. None of mine were killed due to physical damage, and in each case [...]
New MacBooks and MacBook Pros from Apple
Apple just introduced updated models for the MacBook and MacBook Pro.
Microhoo update:
This should make things interesting (the quote is from WSJ’s email update this morning): “Yahoo Inc.’s board plans to reject Microsoft Corp.’s unsolicited $44.6 billion offer to acquire the Web giant, a person familiar with the situation says. After a series of meetings over the past week, Yahoo’s board determined that the $31 per share [...]
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