Monthly Archives: January, 2008
Important Tools for the Consultant Part Three: A mini update
In the discussion about backup, I touched on using some online services for backup, but I missed the other thing that has proven very useful – online storage. Even though I have VPN and backup mechanisms a plenty, I have felt the need to acquire some online storage. Now although the various freebies out there [...]
Important Tools for the Consultant Part Two
I have not posted on this subject for a while, largely because I have found other subjects to post on instead. This is a mini-return on the subject of backups for the consultant. Here is where you want to make use of a combination of tools, based on the single most important point – your [...]
Why you should never test on a live production system
Webhosting company Dreamhost discovered the hard way that you should not test on live systems. The overcharge of $7.5M to its customers will cause some loss of customers, some great annoyance and knowing the compensation culture in the US, a lawsuit of some sort.
Gizmodo's size comparison – Macbook Air and EeePC
Gizmodo are right about the feature set difference, but they have compared the Macbook Air and the Asus EeePC in terms of size. It comes off pretty well, because even though it is twice the thickness, it is way small in all the other dimensions. What does this mean? Well if you want a machine [...]
Death of the Optical Drive – Apple Macbook Air
Ten years ago, Apple released the iMAC without the floppy drive. It was controversial but now there is not a new computer that actually comes with a built in floppy. Apple has just driven the envelope forward by leaving the Optical drive out of the package for the Apple Macbook Air. When will standard laptops [...]
Ultraportable PCs – Macbook Air launch
Apple today announced the introduction of their Macbook Air – an ultraportable notebook that will excite the Mac fan boys over the coming days. It has everything that PC equivalents do not – cool design, a permanent fan base, and that little something extra. Most importantly, in direct disagreement of Devin Coldewey of Crunchgear, it [...]
Happy New Year 2008
A belated happy new year, although it is not that happy for some. HD-DVD has had the unhappy pullout of a major supporter of their format, and the luke warm denials of a second. This has been generally reported as a bad thing across the world, and suggested by some to be the first signs [...]