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The Also Rans – an mp3

Hey, Every now and then I go searching for music. While I didn’t find what I wanted (an old Archers of Loaf song), I did discover this band. Check out this mp3: Conversation Piece The guy who runs the site … Continue reading

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Expect a boatload of posts…

I’m clearing out my queue. Expect a bunch of posts after lunch.

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Dell Displays

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Steve Job’s Keynote

So last night I was looking at a Quicktime short. I was having some problems so I started Quicktime by itself (rather than as a browser plug-in). The app had an ad for the Steve Job’s Keynote at the recent … Continue reading

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No Open Firmware and 64 bit

Now that the word on Open Firmware going away is out, it makes me wonder about this decision. Frankly, I like Open Firmware a lot. Why wouldn’t they port it? Maybe this has to do with DRM. In the future, … Continue reading

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Mac OS X is a not a server OS

Mac OS X doesn’t do well against Linux according to this article. The MySQL performance is pretty bad. I kind of felt this might be the case, but I am surprised that the kernel developers still haven’t addressed this. Hopefully … Continue reading

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Jeri Ellsworth’s talk at Stanford

Steve told me about this, but we couldn’t go see it due to work. They do have a video of it up, and it is worth watching. Video of Talk Since Jeri is a she, that makes what she has … Continue reading

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Apple’s x86, interesting data

More news is coming out on the Apple OS release. Apparently, they are dropping Open Firmware for the x86 line. This is interesting news. I thought that porting Open Firmware was going to be a significant task that might cost … Continue reading

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