July 2009
13 posts
Ballmer Admits Microsoft Ship Crap
We don’t believe in coming to market like Apple - high margin, high quality, high price. We believe in high volume and low price,” Ballmer
via techradar.com
At least he’s being upfront about it now.
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Personal Technology: Move to Windows 7 - WSJ.com
And the pain doesn’t end there. If you’re an XP user, moving to Windows 7 on your current computer means you will also have to re-install all your programs and restore all the software drivers for your printers and other add-on hardware. That could require locating the original program disks, or downloaded program installers, and then re-downloading and re-installing the numerous updates that...
Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule
For someone on the maker’s schedule, having a meeting is like throwing an exception. It doesn’t merely cause you to switch from one task to another; it changes the mode in which you work.
via paulgraham.com
I have been trying to articulate the phenomenon that I’ve experienced where I get frustrated by having an hour or two to work on a programming project. It’s...
William Shatner Makes Palin's Speech Into Poetry...
via huffingtonpost.com
Personally, I cannot wait for the 2012 presidential campaign to heat up.
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buyolympia.com: Le Cool
Check out this website I found at buyolympia.com
Le Cool make travel guides by locals the way you would show a friend around your city. If I ever find myself headed to Barcelona, Lisbon, London, or Amsterdam, I’ll definitely be picking one of these up.
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Getting Old Sucks
First of all, if you see my top artists of all time, you’ll see that most of the bands that I listen to are old. Many of them don’t even exist any more and the ones that do are now my age or older. I’m turning into one of those people that only listens to the music they listened to during high school, college, or .
So, tonight I went to Dallas to see what is probably my third...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-7-19) →
From this paper
Unfortunately, these recommendations appear somewhat out of date. If we enumerate the principal threats to a user’s credentials they would appear to be:
1. Phishing
2. Keylogging
3. A brute-force attack on the user’s account (i.e. an attacker knows the userID and tries to guess the password)
4. A bulk guessing attack on all accounts at the in- stitution
5. Special...
Starbucks is not a place for babies
147xxxx:
If you have a crying baby you should not come into starbucks and sit in our lobby while you attempt to feed your small pterodactyl sounding creature cheerios.
I’m just not a baby person (its like c’mon grow up already), but even the baby fans were mad annoyed. The screaming and crying went on for THIRTY MINUTES, and emptied out our lobby of customers enjoying coffee &...
Dear Co-Worker,
janeyouignorantslut:
Please start sniffing your lunch instead of your own ass.
Good day.
This is simply priceless.
Waiting for the new Apple TV
Waiting for the new Apple TV:
There are a lot of rumors and expectations about new Apple TV last time in the Web. Although Apple has never said a word that they’re going to release new device, it seems like people are very impatiently waiting for the new ’shiny box of joy’.
A few days ago Michael Wolf from GigaOM asked on his blog: what’s next for Apple’s living room strategy? “Some have...
Microsoft's strange new ads for Internet Explorer:... →
Watch every one of these commercials. Did you see a single screenshot of IE8?