Swimming in the Pensieve

2006.01.14, Saturday

What price freedom?

Filed under: Technology — Allan @ 00:00:19

“Just like any other global company, Yahoo must ensure that its local country sites must operate within the laws, regulations and customs of the country in which they are based.”

“When we operate in markets around the world, we have to ensure that our service complies with global laws as well as local laws and norms.” (more…)

2006.01.13, Friday

Zero-Cost Extended Warranties

Filed under: Technology — Allan @ 23:59:27

“We’ve just gotten to a point that it’s so far beyond its warranty, every day is amazing.” (more…)

The Fox takes off like a house afire

Filed under: Technology, Linux — Allan @ 23:58:04

“Firefox went from 4.64 percent of the browser market at the beginning of 2005 to just shy of 10 percent by the end of the year, according to NetApplications. Over the same period Explorer fell from 90.31 percent to 85.05 percent.” (more…)

2006.01.12, Thursday

Wireless woes

Filed under: Technology, windoze — Allan @ 15:59:42
Sometime back–probably 2+ years ago–I bought a notebook computer from my brother, as a result of Xerox, Corp’s ‘end-of-life’ sale of field technician notebook computers to employees. Greg said that he didn’t want it, but offered it to me for the price Xerox wanted. I don’t remember what it ended-up costing us; but, it was a nominal price, and gave Annie something to use between home and work. (more…)

2006.01.09, Monday

SPiced hAM

Filed under: Technology — Allan @ 13:33:33

The kids have been hard at work on their lessons, so I gave them a bit of a break while I checked-up on server stats, script execution, and eMail. (more…)

2006.01.06, Friday

Playing “Catsup”

Filed under: Technology, Linux — Allan @ 11:51:04

One falls behind on a lot of current event-type stuff when one loses his bit-pipe to the wild, blue, ether. Irritating at the time, but the giggles one derives from catching-up on events in the technology sector certainly compensates for the pseudo-angst of the past month and a-half.

I ran across a fellow Linux user; situated, interestingly enough, in Austin, Texas; where I have a few relatives doing the 24/7 “oxygen-conversion-thing”. Take a gander at what he’s been confronted with, and how he chose to deal with the situation, at the two links below: (more…)

2005.11.01, Tuesday

Tux Magazine

Filed under: Technology, Linux — Allan @ 09:36:44

Just a reminder: The November issue of TuxMagazine just hit the wires. Grab yourself a copy and have a yourself laugh over Mango Parfait’s initial reply. (more…)

2005.09.23, Friday

OASIS -n- Massachusetts

Filed under: Technology — Allan @ 23:10:54

2005.09.28 - 23:10

For those following the OpenDocument Standards move by Massachusetts, you simply must read this work of art: (more…)

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