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Reviews, speculation, and other idle thoughts on hardware, software, firmware…

telling.

by Rob Friesel

I’ve come to this recent realization that my company is undergoing a sort of 99 Theses in Reverse. A technological anti-Reformation, if you will. At first it seemed like kind of a good idea. Get specialized teams. Have those teams focus on specific missions. Makes sense, right? But instead of create more nimble teams with […]

round-up/catch-up.

by Rob Friesel

Adding Sterling’s blog to the link-up. Also throwing Cult of Mac on the blogroll. And doesn’t it seem like there have been a lot of Mac-to-Windows crossovers (of sorts) lately? The PowerPC/OS X emulator, for one. And lots not forget all that OS X/P skinning in the house. And one more time… To share neat […]

Dewey hacks.

by Rob Friesel

For Pete & Sarah: Hacker librarians are not afraid to configure and install software. They do not shrink from writing a program in whatever flavor of ‘P’ language they favor, from Perl to Python, with the hardiest even tackling Java and C++. Beyond enjoying the hunt for the right solution, they like to create solutions […]

the hacks so far.

by Rob Friesel

O! KetelOne how thou art full of surprises! First we had all those fun experiments with VNC. Using osxvnc to talk to KetelOne from Detonator-3 (using win2vnc to do the talking. Or was that after we had osx2x up and to pass command to Detonator-3 (runnng winvnc to accept connections…) And there’s always vncViewer to […]

lesson.

by Rob Friesel

Combing through my Amazon wishlist this evening while looking for something else, I came to a particular realization. Well, not that particular… I stumbled across my entry for Moock’s Actionscript MX definitive guide and it dawned on me that I don’t really work with Flash. Not in any sense that seems worth writing home about. […]

pop quiz.

by Rob Friesel

A question posed particularly for the Mac-using folks but as this is a (sort of) public forum, consider it answer solicitation from all: What email client are you using? How satisfied with it are you? fine print: I’m using Mail.app lately … not sure if I’m digging it all that much or not. A recent […]

a9.

by Rob Friesel

So… Amazon has released the A9 search engine… And I’m wondering if anyone has played with it yet. And what anyone thought of it. I’ve checked out the 7 cools things but am still not totally sold. We’ll see how this one plays out I guess. Thoughts…? Now we just need for the release of […]