C|Net has an excellent interview with Ernie Ball’s CEO, Sterling Ball. Ernie Ball is known as the world’s leading manufacturer of guitar strings, but now they’re becoming known as prime examples of the tremendous benefits that a business can realize from moving from Microsoft Windows to Linux. Three years ago, the BSA raided Ernie Ball’s …
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In the soft white underbelly of the beast.
I bought Microsoft Office today. I feel so dirty.
DSLd.
Aaaahhhhhh….bandwidth. The friendly neighborhood Ntelos just set up my DSL. It is such a relief to be able to get connected from home. And now to Charlottesville, to pick up my servers.
Eye-bleeding speed.
I feel a little silly spending my afternoon sitting in this empty student lounge in Squires here at Virginia Tech, but I have got the bandwidth of the gods. DSL Reports‘ test indicates that I have 4Mbps download and 3Mbps upload. This is in no small part because the campus is devoid of students until …
iBook fixed.
In Apple’s usual two-day turn-around, I got my iBook back today. The screen works perfectly. It’s so clean, in fact, that I think that they may have just replaced the whole LCD assembly. I’m definitely going to have to spring for AppleCare on this in a few months. Maybe somebody will get it for me …
Website designer for hire.
Scott Herman needs a job. This man is a un-freaking-believably good website developer, notably in aspects of design and writing, although his code is pretty mean, too. It is a great disappointment to me that I’ve never been in a position to hire him. Though he’s in Charlottesville now, he’s happy to relocate. Hire him …
Too much spam.
I get way too much spam — 90-100 on most days, plus another 60-70 to my business address. I’m a faithful user of SpamAssassin, with heavy scoring of blacklists and Bayesian filtering in Mail.app on top of that. Consequently, only 1-3 messages get to my inbox each day. Here’s a graph of the rise of …
Blogging very wirelessly.
I was excited a couple of months ago when I got wireless set up in my apartment, but I’ve discovered something just about as cool: connecting over my cell phone. I have a Motorola v60i, a pretty basic CDMA/AMPS PCS, and I recently got a cable that allows me to connect it to my computers. …
Free rider.
One of my neighbors in my building set up a wireless base station last week. They have an Adelphia cable modem that is obscenely fast — I’m accustomed to 38kbps downloads, and this connection is closer to 380kbps. The signal is excellent, so they’re plainly within an apartment or two of me. I’m torn — …
Destroy Hatch
Sen. Orrin Hatch proposed yesterday that anybody suspected of copyright infringement should have their computer automatically destroyed. This is insane for all of the obvious reasons. This because Hatch is a loon. This afternoon, blogger Lawrence Simon discovered that Hatch is guilty of this exact crime, having stolen the JavaScript that runs his site‘s menus …