If the Blackberry management had been a good one, they would have had enough “A” players to bring to the attention of the former Co-Chief Executives (Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie) of BlackBerry that they need to do something.
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February 10th, 2012 | Tags: blackberry, Jim Balsillie, Mike Lazaridis | Category: General, Technology | Leave a comment
In what universe could the uploading of your entire address book to an online social –sharing network without a users consent be labeled helpful?
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February 8th, 2012 | Tags: facebook, mypermissions.org, PATH | Category: General, Technology | Leave a comment
I always thought of book sellers like Barnes & Noble as plain ordinary book sellers, they were just an outlet for content.
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February 8th, 2012 | Tags: amazon, barnes and noble, border | Category: General | Leave a comment
I was watching an old Stooge short from 1937 called the Sitter Downers. the basic premise was to get the fathers permission to marry his daughters, the Stooges were going to stay in his house and never leave, until the father gives in.
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February 7th, 2012 | Tags: Honeywell, the nest, thermostat | Category: General, Technology | Leave a comment
It isn’t always easy to know when a critical network element at a remote equipment site has malfunctioned or crashed. When a router or switch in a distant network equipment rack locks up and refuses to respond, a good IT administrator shouldn’t just wait until a user complains before taking action; an effective IT administrator should be able to detect equipment problems and deal with unresponsive devices before they cause problems for network users.
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February 2nd, 2012 | Tags: ping response monitor, ping watchdog, power fallback, power redundancy, remote console port access, Remote Reboot, RSM-8R8, wti | Category: power + console hybrid | Leave a comment
My fifth grade son left for science camp today. Every year the entire fifth grade class leaves of the busses for a five day trip to the San Bernardino Mountains near Lake Arrowhead in California.
At the camp they hike, climb, rope walk, dissect, rocket testing and other science type of things.
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January 30th, 2012 | Tags: Pali, science camp | Category: General | Leave a comment
I mentioned this before, but AT&T blows 4 billion dollars on the failed T-Mobile merger.
At the time of the announce that AT&T was not pursuing the merger, AT&T said the the 4 billion dollars was going to be a write off and not affect the company.
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January 27th, 2012 | Tags: AT&T, breakup, merger, T-Mobile | Category: General, Technology | Leave a comment
Since 1927 the Pitch Drop Experiment about the viscosity of pitch has been been running at the University of Queensland. Now it has a web cam to monitor its progress. Eight drops of water have come out of it since 1927.
Talk about watching the grass grow.
January 27th, 2012 | Tags: Pitch Drop Experiment | Category: General | Leave a comment
I didn’t realize that the Commodore 64 was 30 years old this year. I started with the VIC 20 but traded up to the CBM 64.
Built by the old school business man Jack Tramiel who almost bought Apple when it was in its infancy, since Apple was using the Commodore 6502 low cost microprocessor in the Apple I/II.
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January 26th, 2012 | Tags: Commodore 64, PET, VIC 20 | Category: General, Technology | Leave a comment
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January 26th, 2012 | Tags: Google History | Category: General, Technology | Leave a comment