What is acceptable and what is not? Does a facebook status differ from a twitter tweet?

I starting thinking about this when I thought of a humorous little comment, that I was going to post as a facebook status. When I then thought “wow, I have coworkers on here. While they may be friends also, is this something I wanted them to see me doing while within the 8-5 [...]

A response to Jason Calacanis

Just a few days ago, Jason Calacanis wrote an article called The Case Against Apple-in Five Parts, in which he laid out his reasons for disliking Apple. Now, I don’t begrudge anyone hating any company just because, but when you start making up bull-shit to support your feelings, I get a little perturbed. [...]

A beautiful confidentiality notice

I just received an ad, and this was the included Confidentiality Notice. While it contains the usual violations of common sense and legal theory, I really love the last line. Go ahead and read it.

Confidentiality Notice: The information contained in this e-mail transmission is intended only for use of the individual or entity [...]

Pound, SSL, and real Certificates

Recently, I have been working with setting up some web servers, using Pound as the front-end. The idea is that there are multiple back-end servers, and the single front-end that controls which server requests go to. One of the problems is using SSL for HTTPS pages. All of the documentation I can [...]

My SAN, let me show it to you…

I HAVE A SAN! Wait, I have 2 SANs, 3 Data servers, 2 Metadata servers, and 2 load balancers! BWAH HAH HAH!

Hasn’t Microsoft Learned Anything?

Sometimes, it is pretty difficult to figure out what versions of Vista there are. At it’s release, there was no less than 5 versions.

Home Basic

Home Premium

Professional

Enterprise

Ultimate

Now, you couldn’t buy the Enterprise, unless you were a high end “enterprise customer,” in which the only version you could buy was Enterprise.
As time went by, this plethora [...]

Windows 7 UAC is already broke

If you haven’t read it yet, go over and read Long Zheng’s article about the security flaw in UAC for Windows 7.
Wow, just wow.

Windows 7 boots faster

Well, another Windows 7 beta build is out [really alpha], and ZDNet had the great idea of benchmarking it.
Do they pull out the time-demos for games? No.
Do they try iterations of common tasks in programs like Excel, Photoshop, or even MP3 encoders? No.
Do they even try the basic “copy a bunch of files and [...]

Is Windows 7 just VistaSE?

Back in the day, OK, back in 1998… there was Windows 98. Windows 98 was a step up from Windows 95, but it did have significant problems. First off, it did not support DVD drives properly, and while it was supposed to help usher in the USB era for PC’s, USB support was [...]