From the monthly archives:

October 2006

It’s been a really stressful week and I’m glad to finally see it end. Today was my last day at a job I’ve had for over 17 years.

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37signals Video

by Earl on October 20, 2006

in Apple Mac, Observations, Software

Interesting post and video on 37Signals .37signals on Why Mac – The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW):37signals is the company that brought the world Ruby on Rails, Basecamp, and a raft of other Web 2.0 goodies.¬† They did it all on Macs, and Apple has posted a video profiling them and their Mac usage.

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I did a post a while back about trying to load Ubuntu Linux on an older PC I had but wasn’t using.�� It was a P3 1.4GHz machine with 1gb of RAM.

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Rumors continue about Apple Phone(s)

by Earl on October 17, 2006

in Observations

Rumors to Apple developing a cell phone(s) continue.  Cell phones are such a highly competitive market area.

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The Distributed Internet

by Earl on October 16, 2006

in Observations, Software

Very few people could arque the the distributed effect of the Internet is changing computing as we know it.

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Relaxing…

by Earl on October 10, 2006

in Observations

The place we rented at the beach advertises that it has high-speed Internet access. These days this term “high-speed” Internet is used to mean anything faster then a dial-up line. They even say in their documentation that it is up to 50 times as fast as a 56k dial-up line. So I guess a [...]

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To the beach…

by Earl on October 8, 2006

in Observations

My wife and I are heading to the beach (Myrtle, SC) for a few days. I’ll probably have access to the Internet but I don’t know if posting will be a priority for me or not. I hope to get some pictures I can share.

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Not impulsive?

by Earl on October 4, 2006

in Observations

Have you ever had what at the time of occurrence appeared to be a random event or impulsive decision turn out a short time later to be purposeful and timely?  I have!
I wrote this past weekend about a personal impulsively decision that may be developing into an extremely timely event.¬† I can’t go into details [...]

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Now we all know that Vista will be pirated even if Microsoft has all intentions of preventing it (see reference below). You can’t lock down a product to the point that it “can’t” be pirated without also making it too difficult and inconvenient for legal users to use.

Microsoft said Wednesday that it plans to [...]

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OS vanishing point

by Earl on October 4, 2006

in Apple Mac, MS Windows, Observations

There’s been many reports on how much more stable Microsoft’s Vista RC1 has been compared to earlier releases. Vista RC2 should be out possibly by the end of this week and will be near ready for release. Congratulations to Microsoft for the progress they have made recently with Vista.

Now that Vista is stable and can [...]

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Zune, the other side

by Earl on October 3, 2006

in Observations

I’ve done a couple of post now on Microsoft’s Zune device and how it might fare against Apple’s iPod. I own an iPod and use it almost every weekday for listening to audiobooks and/or podcasts as I commute to and from work. I consider the iPod to be an extremely well designed and functional [...]

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