October 2005

It’s becoming more realist than pessimist to see that when Apple hitches its reigns to a chip company they suddenly underperform. Motorola, then IBM, now… Read More »Apple Death-Kisses Intel

You can use secure IMAP to read your Dartmouth Alumni e-mail, though the pages on the alumni website don’t tell you how to do it… Read More »Dartmouth Alumni E-Mail Secure IMAP

Doing a bunch of BIOS updates for a Dell PowerEdge 2650 today (it kicks the SCSI controller off-line under certain common conditions) I was pleased… Read More »Dell Updaters on Linux

Lots of Software Developers call themselves Software Engineers but legally that’s not kosher, even if some do approach the standards of an Engineer. <p>But that… Read More »Software Engineers?

Bob Cringely crunches some numbers to learn why Google is building a data center next to a hydroelectric plant. “It’s a UPS, Stupid” Very clever.

Not much media attention has been given to Google’s hire of GAIM software lead, Sean Egan, <blockquote><p>For now, he says he’s focusing on a protocol… Read More »Google Hires GAIM Lead

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has decoded the 2-D array of yellow dots added to white areas of pages by color laser printers: <blockquote><p>A research team… Read More »EFF Decodes Color Laser Printers’ Yellow Dots

Think of your typical PC Magazine-type interview. Now think of the exact opposite of that. Perl.com has an interview with the creator of the Perl… Read More »Pugs Interview – a Perl 6 Parser in Haskell

<p>Automatic updates are the only rational approach for most businesses in today’s world of 24/7 Internet connectivity, malware and 0-day vulnerabilities.</p> <p>If you happen to… Read More »The Way of The Yum [repost]

NeoOffice/J, the only usable version of OpenOffice for the Mac supports external datasources. JDBC, even. There’s JDBC support for PostgreSQL too, so hooking them togther… Read More »PostgreSQL with NeoOffice/J