Storing stuff in “The Cloud” just means you are relying on someone else to exercise best practices. You still need to backup in 3 places.
On cloud outages
October 15, 2009
Windows 7: Lower upgrade pricing
June 26, 2009
Remember that the lower upgrade pricing for Windows 7 Home Premium and Professional is active today for a limited time.
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade
Microsoft Windows 7 Professional Upgrade
The former is US$49.99 and the latter is US$99.99 now, and will be $US119.99 and $US199.99 after this short-term deal. (Those are Amazon affiliate links.)
March of the Emperor, Tesla style
March 18, 2009
New AEBS active
March 8, 2009
I’ve set up the new Airport Extreme Base Station and tied my existing Time Capsule to the network. As posted in my earlier post, the dual antenna to support 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz networks allows me to name the 802.11b and 802.11n networks with the same SSID. The newer Macbook and Macbook Pro line will failover from the 5Ghz to the 2.4.Ghz when the network signal degrades.
No real surprises. A match of Left4Dead did not reveal any loss of quality due to the loss of QoS from removing the Dlink 4300. I will test the MobileMe “Back to my Mac” functionality tomorrow.
On Chrome,Gears, and WordPress
September 4, 2008
On using Google’s Chrome browser to make the last post, I noticed a “Turbo” mode referenced in the Dashboard banner in WordPress. I had missed that WordPress 2.6 now supports Google gears. If you want to work offline and don’t use something like MarsEdit, this is a great solution.
“People don’t play games online.”
September 4, 2008
Looks like I am not the only one that heard this line from AOL management.
Google Chrome Browser
September 1, 2008
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/fresh-take-on-browser.html
I have not read through the whole comic book (!) yet, so unsure if it uses any Gecko code.
Edit: It’s based on Webkit – which you may recognize as the engine behind Safari and newer Symbian-based phones.
Ubiquity: game-changing Firefox plugin
August 27, 2008
Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.
Firefox 3 and ICC support
June 20, 2008
Tzvi informed me today that Firefox 3 supported ICC v2 and v4. For someone who dabbles in photography, this is good news – photos should look the same across browsers and platforms. When checking the color.org site on ICC and browser support, however, I found that the images still did not display correctly. It turns out that ICC is off by default. To turn ICC support on, go to about:config, set gfx.color_management.enabled to true, and restart Firefox.
There, now photos will look as good in Firefox as they have in Safari/OmniWeb.
LFM Techies, then GTG
June 10, 2008
We’re looking to hire a slew of people for the following roles. Drop me a line if you or someone you know is interested and wants more details.
- Unix SysAdmins
- Oracle DBAs
- Perl/PHP/Web developers
- Windows/Exchange admins
- Unix/DNS admins
- Unix/Weblogic admins