Month: June 2005

Airport insecurity. Slate continues its reasoned look at the current state of airport security, this time in a piece penned by Christopher Hitchens. The pullquote that sets the tone of the piece: The time elapsed between Sept. 11, 2001, and today's writing (1,364 days) is only slightly less than the time between Pearl Harbor and… Continue reading Airport insecurity

Exchange 2003 Standard 16GB Limit: Good Riddance. Possibly the biggest improvement introduced with the upcoming service pack 2 for Exchange Server 2003 is the lifting of the 16BG store limit for the Standard version. SP2 adds a 75GB limit. This is great news for those of us… [MS Exchange Blog]

FCGI-powered Rails on Windows 2003. Just because you’re forced to run Windows at work shouldn’t preclude you from getting jiggy with Ruby on Rails. The Windows crowd on the Rails mailing list have been working over time putting the pieces of the puzzle together and Boris have made a very nice write-up of how to… Continue reading FCGI-powered Rails on Windows 2003

Apple has no choice but to switch to Intel. In June 04 I reported that Apple notebook technology was being stymied by IBM's inability or unwillingness to create a mobile PowerPC chip with better thermal requirements. The current chips just run too hot. With the simple confirmation from Apple last year that the 2.5GHz, G5… Continue reading Apple has no choice but to switch to Intel

Government may adopt EU constitution without vote. PARTS of the European Union constitution could still be implemented, even though there will be no British referendum on the treaty, the government conceded yesterday. [The Scotsman]

Apple+Intel Post Annoucement Second Thoughts. OK, so with the planned leak, the keynote wasn't a blow but a confirmation. What is everyone watching this really missing? The lack of surprise by developers. Not in the switch to Intel, the lack of surprise that Apple has been planning this for some time. Most competent developers would… Continue reading Apple+Intel Post Annoucement Second Thoughts

Laptops are mobile devices, too. Something I've been wondering about is why laptops aren't really treated as mobile devices, in any interesting way. Laptop manufacturers tend to treat them as portable desktops, and people interested in “mobile device design” focus on PDAs, cell phones, and the like. Now that laptops outsell desktops, it's worth treating… Continue reading Laptops are mobile devices, too

Small is the new big. Big used to matter. Big meant economies of scale. (You never hear about “economies of tiny” do you?) People, usually guys, often ex-Marines, wanted to be CEO of a big company. The Fortune 500 is where people went to make… a fortune. There was a good reason for this. Value… Continue reading Small is the new big

Macintosh to Intel?. John Gruber of the Daring Fireball has, as usual, the best analysis of the latest super-heated Apple-to-Intel rumors. He wrote about this about a week ago when the rumor was more rumorish than it is currently. It might be at bona-fide leak stage now.This O'Reilly Radar post on the topic has some… Continue reading Macintosh to Intel?

A 30,15, or 5 minute read (you choose!). What a neat little inventory over here. What can you add to the list?   [Jason Womack]