Reviews, speculation, and other idle thoughts on hardware, software, firmware…
Broadband: Pick Cheap or Speedy, Blogged similar points before re: this debate. DSL’s main advantage over cable is that it’s a dedicated line. Again though, DSL remains an option really only if you’re in a relatively urban area and just down the block from the central switch. Cable still beats it on speed. Unfortunately, the […]
ICANN wins. ‘Nuff said. VeriSign to Shut Down Site Finder.
Jobs beats Gates as most important man in tech. No surprise there. Go Apple. But tell me, silicon.com, why “agenda setter”…? You make it sound so dirty.
Bruce Sterling takes on 10 techs that need some rapid de-cap. “Until we bioengineer ourselves to enjoy cosmic rays, or until we’ve got rockets that can lift a Winnebago made of solid lead, this technology belongs on the museum shelf.”
I’m such a sucker for this stuff… Viva la 64-bit revolution! Yes, even more on the G5. Yes, even more on Apple. Yes, this graphic design stuff is my business and so I can’t help but get excited even if I’m fully aware of how crassly commercial it can so easily be… The Power Mac […]
At least 1,000 automobile shoppers who submitted online credit applications to any of 150 different automotive dealerships around the U.S. had their personal and financial details exposed on a publicly-accessible website, according to a computer security consultant who stumbled across the privacy gaffe. Dumb arses.
http://detonator-3.dnsalias.net:8080 How about that? Hit it from work today. But only on port 8080. Curiously, not on port 8000 or 2600, which should also have been available options. I half-expected port 80 to not work — be blocked at the gateway level or some other ISP shenanigans… (This doesn’t bode well for the next project […]
still no end of irritation with this apache/dynamic-dns experiment. got the server visible for a few minutes today when i bypassed the router. so it works. but that doesn’t do me a whole lot of good considering that the router is (well) necessary for the setup here. so we still can’t see detonator-3 from behind […]
Dan Kaminsky, a packet-obsessed crypto guy, has been monkeying with volumetric ways of visualizing the randomness — the entropy — in sets, and along the way, he’s started visualizing other kinds of information. Neat stuff, this “time as third dimension” stuff. “…we’re going to abuse the technology a bit in the name of art…”
Maybe I’m following this story too closely … but it does intrigue me. Especially: Varadarajan said all the code he wrote for Virginia Tech’s Linux-based clusters was moved over to the Mac OS X computers with relative ease. Which makes me raise an eyebrow because porting the terminal apps shouldn’t be that rough and w/ […]