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 …
Two of my favorite targets in a single (and pretty good) article — bonus! 🙂
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 …
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GoddessJ and I have been watching, with a mixture of horror and incredulity, a web dustup between an outspoken atheist and a large religious group recently. Read the link if you want the gory details, but the upshot of it is that the more zealous people on the religious side are threatening to do physical …
As mentioned previously, my company sold the rights to one of our previous Windows software products to a much larger company a few years ago. The much larger company keeps my company on retainer to advise them on the product’s continued development. The product (let’s call it Project Badger) was originally written more than ten …
There are two churches on a small stretch of a particular road we travel often. One of them usually has a Christian-oriented (but often humorous) saying on its sign. Recently it had a humorous saying that was somewhat… unexpected: Forgive your enemies, nothing annoys them more. Annoying people isn’t supposed to be a Christian attitude …
I like most of what Joss Whedon comes up with (the Buffy the Vampire Slayer series and Firefly, for instance), so when I heard that he was involved in this site, I had to check it out. I’m not sure who plays Dr. Horrible, though he looks very familiar (he might be one of the …
Maybe spammers don’t need to have even average intelligence to make money at it? I’ve gotten a large number of spams recently (all caught by SpamBayes with no real difficulty) that have one sensationalistic headline in the subject line, and a completely different one in the body of the message. Case in point: Subject: Facebook …
The collective tech sphere (which has been holding its breath wondering what lawsuit-happy Apple was waiting for) can now breathe again. The article says that this “pretty much spells the end for Psystar.” He’s probably right, because it’s not likely Psystar can afford to defend itself… but if it can take this all the way …
Impressive! (Sorry for the lack of posts recently, I’ve been extremely busy upgrading a large decade-old program to use the STL and Boost libraries. I should be done with the first stage in a couple more days.)