AOL Seed Ready or not?
NOT
At 9:00 am, Friday March 12th, AOL was going to launch on the SXSW world it's crazy new lounge. From the pictures attached, you can see it did not happen. Is this telling of the product itself.
CRG @ SXSW 2010
And a l33t camera to boot
Looking forward to meeting those of you here. Those not, we'll meet you next year.
Open Flash Charts 2.0
Nexus One Desktop Dock - Impressions
The Nexus One Dock arrived via my friendly Fed Ex delivery person a short while ago, and after playing with device for an hour or so my initial impressions are positive.
Who's the failure now!
iPad? It has received criticism for everything from it's name, to it's phone based OS. Sure, it has a larger screen, but you can only do one thing at a time on it. Who wants to pay premium dollars for something like that!
Starbucks and IT
There is nothing more critical to stable servers and good code than caffeine. And over the years, nothing has been more "caffeine" than the venerable Starbucks. I take great interest when I hear that their brewing methods have changed again. This time, it seems, is all about instant coffee.
pfSense has alternatives?!
Sometimes I find a great idea, put it in writing, then realize that it isn't working. pfsense was one of those moments. To be fair to the project, I am still using pfsense in many places, and am perfectly pleased with it as a part of most solutions. But my corporate firewall had some issues that were causing me sleepless nights.
TOC - Linux, Apple, and TOC - Linux, Apple, and MS
We all know that Apple is by far the most expensive system to buy. Going near the local Apple store turns my wallet into an instant ATM, and that's before I even consider purchasing. But, having become an recent convert, I have to ask myself, is Apple really that expensive?
A cold day in hell
That's when I thought I would switch to Apple. Let's face it, all of the Apple hardware is way overpriced, and there just doesn't seem to be a way to be bleeding edge even if you could afford it. Sure, there are the brave souls who have managed to get OSX on "normal" hardware, but I have a family and $599 for a Mac mini was way cheaper than being one of them. So, yes, I am writing this on a mac, watching the silly little bar at the bottom for when my email comes in on a mac, all so that I could build software for the iPhone. But this article isn't about me switching to Mac, it's more a dairy entry, detailing my experiences upgrading to Snow Leopard.
It's official, I'm a traitor
No stolen state secrets here, so those who found us looking for a conspiracy, this is FAR worse.
I was a Windows user for - when did Windows 3.0 come out? You know, Windows 3.0, 3.1, 3.11, bleh for Workgroups. Basically since I was a child. Not only have I used Windows since pre-puberty, but I have on a number of occasions championed it's cause. This included a rather tense corporate battle replacing dumb terminals with Windows work stations, Novel with Windows Server, and a host of Sybase running on Aix machines with MS SQL. I have in deed lived the MS life.
A few years ago (10ish to be more correct), I started experimenting with Linux. Eventually using it extensively to replace Windows servers. I found a great love for PostgreSQL, Samba, and Apache in all of it's glory. Still, my desktops have always booted up to a familiar logo, good ol' Windows.
As of Friday, this has come to a sudden halt. My thick black plastic laptop case has been replaced with a thin aluminum shell with a silly little apple carved out of the back. I spent the next few days feeling as though I had just killed my brother's dog. I am a little different.