Keeping it together

After years re-inventing document management, content management, and information management you’d think I’d get sick of it. Well, maybe I am, but I guess you could say it’s also a space I know pretty well.

BOSS logic is coming back (if you were around in the NEXTSTEP days you might remember the name). If I have [...]

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Has Sony just lost it?

I used to respect Sony for their superb video hardware. This year, I’ve completely backtracked and decided never to buy Sony equipment again. After making the mistake of buying a DCR-DVD301 DVD Handycam thinking that writing directly to mini-DVDs was a great idea. Well, it probably is, but Sony completely failed on the execution. The [...]

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Spreading our voice around

I just heard about Podcasting from two sources today: My wife mentioned it — it had apparently shown up in the news somewhere — and one of my favorite blogs, Tao of Mac made mention too. Apparently the upcoming iTunes 4.9 is going to let us all record and broadcast our thoughts to fellow iPod-mates. [...]

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ROTS

I managed to get outdoors this weekend — actually for the entire weekend, which is rare — and took the kids to Revenge Of The Sith. Honestly I wasn’t terribly eager to close the loop here, it’s been decades coming and it’s a pretty sure bet that Lucas isn’t going to fulfill his original fantasy [...]

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Are mainframes just high-performance PCs?

While doing some research on mainframe versus microcomputer performance, I ran across a reference to a running 40,000 Linux VMs on a G5. Apparently someone wanted to see exactly how many virtual machines you could boot on a dual-processor G5 with 256MB of RAM. Could it be that fast (and many) IO channels are all [...]

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Editing from Mars (of your blog)

MarsEdit is a pretty handy little blog editor, if you don’t want to use your typical web interface. What I like best about it is that I can write blog entries on the road, whether or not I’m connected. MarsEdit will upload and synchronize with my blog later.
Getting it to work with blojsom took a [...]

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Rejuvinating the technologist

There was a time when the seemingly insurmountable goals of the day actually seemed to be moving. I think we have to ask ourselves, “have we made any progress today?” Getting things done in our modern society is increasingly difficult, a problem that has spurred the creation of entire industries with the sole function of [...]

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Setting up OS/X Server

After years of watching Linux progress and, finally, getting to a point where I could say “hey, that wasn’t too bad,” after setting up a new server — I’ve had my entire metric reset.

Today my new Mac Mini arrived. I bought it with the intention of putting it to use as a small server for [...]

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Blogging from OS/X

Well, this is just amazing. I’ve been wanting to set up a whole lot of services for play time — a personal blog, a new web site (as my old one is, well, old), an improved mail server. I’ve just been putting it off for the past year or two. Do you realize how much [...]

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