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Archive of entries posted on 21st July 2008

“…due to unforeseen circumstances…”

GoddessJ pointed this one out to me: We regret to announce that due to unforeseen circumstances beyond our control, the publication of The Astrological Magazine will cease with the December 2007 issue. So the stars didn’t say anything about that, eh?

Dell Motherboard Troubles, Part II

It seems that the replacement motherboard that I got last month, for my Dell XPS m1210 laptop, had some problems… the system just died tonight, and Dell’s support line says that it looks like the motherboard again, with a different problem. I was an electronics technician for the USPS for many years before I turned [...]

“Copyright enforcers should learn lessons from the war on spam”

Two of my favorite targets in a single (and pretty good) article — bonus!

“How the Psystar lawsuit might go very, very wrong… for Apple”

I’ve been saying since April or so that Apple really wanted to avoid going to court over Psystar (the Hackintosh maker) because it would open up a huge can of legal worms for Apple, but apparently most legal people think that Apple will win the case without even trying. This post gives some good reasons [...]