So, I’m totally stoked about attending the RSA conference this year. The theme this year is a celebration of Alan Turing. Many people consider Turing the be the father of Computer Science.
My exposure to Turing Machines and Alan Turing started in university. I vividly recall myself - half dazed holding my tattered copy of Neuromancer [...]
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RSA - 04/07/08
March 31st, 2008 · No Comments
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Vista Sucks…
February 19th, 2008 · No Comments
Ok, ok. I know. I don’t post anything for months then I go ahead and make a bunch at at time but this one’s too darn funny to miss. This pretty much sums up the reason why I switched to Apple. You know, the secret of success isn’t re-inventing the wheel every single time but [...]
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WTF - Leopard on a PC??!!
October 27th, 2007 · No Comments
Ok, so this sounds too good to be true and driver support probably sucks but what a brilliant hack indeed. Follow these 3 steps to turn your crappy old PC into a Mac Wannabe and be the envy of your colleagues.
Just so you know, Apple will NEVER let their OS be sold for general PC [...]
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Unlocking My iPhone - Several Hours Later…
September 17th, 2007 · No Comments
Ok, so unlocking my iPhone wasn’t as simple as the folks at anySIM claim it to be. I tried using the stupid gui twice and got errors like ‘you might want to check the baseband manually using minicom’ and another that was even more depressing like “can’t locate bytes to patch”. Each time I had [...]
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Plone 3.0 Released
August 21st, 2007 · No Comments
Plone is a ready-to-run open source content management system that is built on the powerful and free Zope application server. Plone is easy to set up, extremely flexible, and provides you with a system for managing web content that is ideal for project groups, communities, web sites, extranets and intranets.
Read more on the features [...]
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SUN Homepage Goes Down - Doh!
July 25th, 2007 · No Comments
Below was the news report from ONN on the outage.
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It was in fact, a power outage. Pacific Gas and Electric Co. attributed Tuesday’s power outage to failed transmission line breakers at the company’s Martin substation on Bayshore Boulevard.The SUN pages were not spared. Ouch!
We all know the loss is probably in the millions (for being [...]
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iPhone First Impression
July 16th, 2007 · No Comments
I had a chance to look at the highly anticipated iPhone at the Apple Store recently. I was very impressed with the screen quality. It’s just stunning to look at. I can’t say as much for the matte silver backing. I assume it’s for heat dissipation but it just looks cheap compared to the front.
It’s [...]
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