According to this announcement, a Linux client for Dropbox should be coming out in a week or so:
http://forums.getdropbox.com/topic.php?id=2371&replies=1
I’ve been using Dropbox for several months, and it’s really, really great.
What is it? Watch this video:
http://www.getdropbox.com/screencast
It’s backup and auto-syncing done REALLY well. Best of all, you can sync between more than one computer, even if one is [...]
Posted on September 1st, 2008 by Scott Granneman
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From Fake Steve Jobs’ “Why Dell will not bounce back” (11 May 2008):
On the manufacturing side, Dell figured out faster than the others in its space how to squeeze component suppliers and play them off each other. They brought in loads of former Wal-Mart people to refine this practice. One example: If you want to [...]
Posted on May 11th, 2008 by Scott Granneman
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From AAP’s “Computers ‘glued’ to protect data” (News.com.au: 4 July 2006):
A rise in the level of corporate data theft has spurred some companies to take measures to stop rogue employees sneaking corporate data out of the workplace on memory sticks, iPods and mobile phones, The Australian Financial Review reported.
Rising data theft has prompted a number [...]
Posted on July 18th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Spare me the details (The Economist: 28 October 2004):
LISA HOOK, an executive at AOL, one of the biggest providers of traditional (“dial-upâ€Â) internet access, has learned amazing things by listening in on the calls to AOL’s help desk. Usually, the problem is that users cannot get online. The help desk’s first question is: “Do [...]
Posted on June 16th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Samuel T. King, Peter M. Chen, Yi-Min Wang, Chad Verbowski, Helen J. Wang, & Jacob R. Lorch’s “SubVirt: Implementing malware with virtual machines
” [PDF] (: ):
A virtual-machine monitor (VMM) manages the resources of the underlying hardware and provides an abstraction of one or more virtual machines [20]. Each virtual machine can run a complete [...]
Posted on June 13th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Technology Review’s “Taming the Web“:
Nonetheless, the claim that the Internet is ungovernable by its nature is more of a hope than a fact. It rests on three widely accepted beliefs, each of which has become dogma to webheads. First, the Net is said to be too international to oversee: there will always be some [...]
Posted on April 18th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Technology Review’s “The Fading Memory of the State“:
Tom Hawk, general manager for enterprise storage at IBM, says that in the next three years, humanity will generate more data–from websites to digital photos and video–than it generated in the previous 1,000 years. … In 1996, companies spent 11 percent of their IT budgets on storage, [...]
Posted on April 18th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Harvard Business School Working Knowledge’s “Lessons from the Browser Wars“:
At the same time, the growing usefulness of the Internet drove sales of personal computers off the chartâ€â€the installed base of PCs doubled to 213 million computers between 1995 and 1999.
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Posted on April 18th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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Big wheel keep on Turing
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Posted on April 8th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From FORTUNE’s “Lessons in Leadership: The Education of Andy Grove“:
[Intel CEO Andy] Grove had never been one to rely on others’ interpretations of reality. … At Intel he fostered a culture in which “knowledge power” would trump “position power.” Anyone could challenge anyone else’s idea, so long as it was about the idea and not [...]
Posted on April 3rd, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From FORTUNE’s “Lessons in Leadership: The Education of Andy Grove“:
By 1983, when Grove distilled much of his thinking in his book High Output Management (still a worthwhile read), he was president of a fast-growing $1.1-billion-a-year corporation, a leading maker of memory chips, whose CEO was Gordon Moore. … What Moore’s Law did not and could [...]
Posted on April 3rd, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Bruce Schneier’s “Trusted Computing Best Practices“:
The language [in the Trusted Computing Group's best practices document] has too much wiggle room for companies to break interoperability under the guise of security: “Furthermore, implementations and deployments of TCG specifications should not introduce any new interoperability obstacles that are not for the purpose of security.”
That sounds good, [...]
Posted on April 2nd, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From “Relativity, Uncertainty, Incompleteness and Undecidability“:
In this article four fundamental principles are presented: relativity, uncertainty, incompleteness and undecidability. They were studied by, respectively, Albert Einstein, Werner Heisenberg, Kurt Gödel and Alan Turing. …
Relativity says that there is no privileged, “objective” viewpoint for certain observations. … Now, if things move relative to each other, then obviously [...]
Posted on March 29th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From “Cartridge Expiration Date Workarounds“:
In light of the lawsuit against Hewlett-Packard over the expiration date of their cartridges, two ways to fix the problem:
1) Remove and reinsert the battery of the printer’s memory chip
2) Preemptive: Change the parameters of the printer driver
Search for hp*.ini … In it there is a parameter something like pencheck. It [...]
Posted on March 3rd, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Computerworld’s “Q&A: A lost interview with ENIAC co-inventor J. Presper Eckert“:
What’s the zaniest thing you did while developing ENIAC?
The mouse cage was pretty funny. We knew mice would eat the insulation off the wires, so we got samples of all the wires that were available and put them in a cage with a [...]
Posted on February 15th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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Ode to the 90s
Found on FuckedCompany.com
I part-time telecommuted
as a Webmaster
for a dot com
in Y2K consulting.
They said it was
temp-to-perm.
it didn’t pay
but there were options.
I swung by the office to make trades.
(Not that there’s anything
wrong with that.)
cause we had a T1 Line
and there was a bull market
with a strong,
virile President.
and you never knew
when it could
crash.
I was a [...]
Posted on November 22nd, 2005 by Scott Granneman
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From “Andreessen singles out consumers as key to Web future“, in InfoWorld (26 May 1999):
[Mark Andreessen] then switched gears and talked about the “serial killer apps” on the Internet. A serial killer app, as opposed to a killer app, just keeps getting more useful and more killer as people keep coming online, according to Andreessen.
Andreessen [...]
Posted on November 14th, 2005 by Scott Granneman
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From St. Petersburg Times (22 September 1997):
The average home PC owner has about 48 software programs installed, but uses only about 6.3 a month, according to surveys conducted by Media Metrix Inc.
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Posted on November 13th, 2005 by Scott Granneman
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From Computerworld (13 October 1997), page 76:
A computer glitch at a New York brokerage causes a half-million customer accounts to be credited with $19 million each for a brief period. At $9.975 trillion ($19 million times 525,000 accounts), it’s a record for a computer error.
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Posted on November 13th, 2005 by Scott Granneman
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