Reviews, speculation, and other idle thoughts on hardware, software, firmware…
Fuck industrial secrets … just get that thing outta my face! “Once you’re in a wireless privacy zone, there is the opportunity to look at other functionality that may be disabled or controlled, but that is not our focus at the moment,” [Snow] said.
Santa Clara, California-based Intel has said the PC market is not yet ready for 64-bit computing and lacks applications that will run on the chips. Which strikes my as funny, b/c the article focuses solely on Intel and AMD chips, not bothing to mention that Apple’s new G5 is a 64-bith processor and that Adobe […]
Could the timing by *any* better!? Terribly interesting piece on open source in Africa shows up on Boing Boing right as this thread was starting to get somewhere… Open source is the only affordable, reliable option for the long term, he says. A spreadsheet supports his contention — installation of servers, workstations, networks and, crucially, […]
To pick up where we left off… Firstly: Paolillo’s research was done as a refutation to the idea that the net, in and of itself, is democratic and diverse because of its global reach and will hence foster those principles by its very nature. w00t! I couldn’t agree more. The assumption that the net (in […]
“…regions with the greatest linguistic diversity (e.g. Africa) lag significantly in Internet host and user growth, suggesting a widening of the digital divide at least for minority language groups.” Extremely hesitant to agree. And just as hesitant to disagree. While it’s true that regions of comparably high linguistic diversity frequently and consistently lag in technological […]
BigChampagne. Here comes the self-conscious, defensive, and more-than-slightly dodgy press releases from the RIAA-member states … er … labels. Who the hell else is really going to be flexing dollars on this service? (Thanks Wired!) Always interesting how these things come together: “The record industry’s lawsuits against file-sharing companies hang on their assertion that the […]
One of the things that is truly rockin’ about OS X is that it is (for all intents and purposes) FreeBSD 4.4. So it has been nice to switch to Mac and w/o having to fret over the kind of memory management woes that used to be so stymie’ing when “preferring” to use them at […]
Makes me giggle: HP and Toshiba are now pumping out these gargantua? The chuckle comes in when you consider that all these PC manufacturers are trying to play catch-up w/ Apple. Not only were they the first with ANY widescreen aspect ratio notebook on the market — they were the first w/ 17″ widescreen notebook. […]
Getting this ol’ Canon BJC-250 to make itself visible to my iBook has been a challenge. Thanks to William White I’m one step closer. Print jobs go to the printer thru the PC its connected to … but the output looks like it’s all postscript code. Working on that one still…
You know, I feel like I just got caught up on Flash MX and then Macromedia throws this stunt. Bastards. I thought DevNet was supposed to make upgrading obsolete…? Boy, was I naive…