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The General-Purpose Storage Revolution. It happened so slowly, most people didn't notice until it was over. I'm speaking, of course, of the rise of general-purpose computing during the 1990s. It was not so long ago that you could choose from a truly bewildering variety of machines. Symbolics, for example, made hardware specifically designed to run… Continue reading The General-Purpose Storage Revolution

Indeed. Easter Sunday. The ancient affirmation “The Lord is risen indeed!” (given in response to the primary Resurrection declaration, “The Lord is risen!”) used to puzzle me a little, but in looking back, I suspect that I was just thinking too small. Anyone who has ever looked at the center of our galaxy through even… Continue reading Indeed

What Highrise has meant to Rails. Highrise is coming up on its 1-month anniversary. It was a fantastic relief to finally get it out and it has been a wonderful experience to see it become the fastest selling product we've ever launched. We had been working on/off on this application for more than a year.… Continue reading What Highrise has meant to Rails

An S O S for 911 Systems in Age of High-Tech. The 911 system has not kept pace with the nation’s rapidly changing communication habits. By SHAILA DEWAN. [NYT > Technology]

VBootkit Bypasses Vista's Code Signing Mechanisms. Interesting work: Experts say that the fundamental problem that this highlights is that every stage in Vista's booting process works on blind faith that everything prior to it ran cleanly. The boot kit is therefore able to copy itself into the memory image even before Vista has booted and… Continue reading VBootkit Bypasses Vista's Code Signing Mechanisms

Wishing Kathy well. We were mortified by the news of Kathy’s death threats. Our Campfire was flush with wtf’s and holy sh*ts. Kathy Sierra is probably the most universally liked blogger among the 37 crew. To see her subjected to this kind of vile, despicable, criminal behavior is heartbreaking Hopefully the guilty will be duly… Continue reading Wishing Kathy well

New release of Hobo: The rapid Web application builder for Rails. Just over two months ago I posted about a new rapid Web application development framework for Rails called Hobo. The team have now let me know they've got a brand new, redesigned site, and that Hobo has a major, new release. Hobo makes it… Continue reading New release of Hobo: The rapid Web application builder for Rails

Joyent Slingshot. For a while now, Magnetk has been engaged in developing ‘Slingshot‘ with Joyent. Slingshot is a platform which allows Rails developers to easily create hybrid web/desktop apps with ease and flexibility. There are some great office 2.0 applications out there, but you must admit there is but there is only so much you… Continue reading Joyent Slingshot

re: Vista – I’m downgrading. After about 3 weeks of using Vista RTM as my primary windows development environment, I’m officially downgrading to XP. The reasons for this are many: Driver issues; Mouse, firewire controller, power management, to name a few. Nothing works without about 10 extra installation steps. VMWare Workstation and Visual Studio are… Continue reading re: Vista – I’m downgrading

Johnny: New features in iFolder 3.6. Eric from virtualomni.com has written a post on New Features in iFolder 3.6 . Check it out !!  [Planet iFolder]