Pinboard: bookmarks for sogrady tagged 'apple'

"If the tablet is - as expected - based on an ARM cores, the perhaps Apple may be able to spring a surprise or two, and steal a march on the rest. Engineering researched by the APT group in Manchester usually finds its way into ARM chips within a few years. Apple - if it choose - would have the money to accelerate the process of converting academic research into commercial products. I don't know whether they have or not but speculation is fun. So, let's take a look at some interesting research projects at Manchester." - this would be interesting

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january 2010 by sogrady

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Killer Apps | Fast Company

there are legitimate, not too mention important, questions to be asked about the lock-in model. but i think Manjoo significantly underestimates both the appeal and the benefits of centralized account access.the paradox of choice still applies.

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january 2010 by sogrady

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Steve Jobs hates the App Store | FactoryCity

i've heard stranger theories

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november 2009 by sogrady

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Exclusive: Google to Crash Android Party | Technology | Financial Articles & Investing News | TheStreet.com

Google entering the market would be interesting but a potentially problematic move on their part

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october 2009 by sogrady

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Apple kicks ZFS in the butt

an interesting - and dare i say questionable - decision on Apple's part. what's their next generation file system story going to be? and couldn't have ZFS have helped with Time Machine?

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august 2009 by sogrady

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Feeling much different about Apple these days; Time to take the blue pill? on Dion Almaer's Blog

i think a lot of folks are in this position these days

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august 2009 by sogrady

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The app economy

interesting look at the economics of the ecosystem

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july 2009 by sogrady

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Apple’s Management Obsessed With Secrecy - NYTimes.com

"Apple’s decision to severely limit communication with the news media, shareholders and the public is at odds with the approach taken by many other companies, which are embracing online outlets like blogs and Twitter and generally trying to be more open with shareholders and more responsive to customers."

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june 2009 by sogrady

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iPhone Dev Spends $500k on Development, Still Not Approved by Apple | MacBlogz - One Stop Apple News

while i'm not sure how you invest > $500,000 without any guaranteed path to market, this story is yet another indictment of the App Store approval process.

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december 2008 by sogrady

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Apple Forgets to Add Google iPhone App to the Store | Gadget Lab from Wired.com

"Still, Apple needs to sort out the App Store, and quick. It's clearly a broken model, and the only person hurt is the iPhone user."

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november 2008 by sogrady

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[Phoronix] Mac OS X 10.5 vs. Ubuntu 8.10 Benchmarks

"With this being our first time comparing the performance of Mac OS X to Ubuntu Linux, we were not sure going into this which one would emerge as the leader. After looking at these results from the Phoronix Test Suite, it's almost a toss-up as to which operating system is faster."

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november 2008 by sogrady

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Apple now has more cash than Microsoft

that is sort of incredible

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october 2008 by sogrady

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App Store bringing in strong revenue for some iPhone devs

"Block has been earning almost $2,000 per day on the application, quite a bit more than she was expecting to make." - while i doubt this is the norm, and it'll get tougher as the library gets more crowded, 2K per day is 2K per day.

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august 2008 by sogrady

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Slipstream - On a Small Screen, Just the Salient Stuff - NYTimes.com

don't agree with much here at all. the iPhone is a remarkable web interface, without question, but i would never choose it over a full size display.

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july 2008 by sogrady

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Mark Shuttleworth on Ubuntu and the Linux Desktop

Mark on Ubuntu and the Apple challenges

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july 2008 by sogrady

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Seven iPhone Disappointments - Forbes.com

"There are some things dirt-cheap phones...can do that the vaunted iPhone cannot...Want to open an image sent to you via MMS by a friend from her (dirt-cheap) mobile phone? No dice." - really don't get this, unless image size is the problem

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july 2008 by sogrady

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AppleInsider | Apple's open secret: SproutCore is Cocoa for the Web

count me as interested, then

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june 2008 by sogrady

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Surfin’ Safari - Blog Archive » Announcing SquirrelFish

"SquirrelFish is a register-based, direct-threaded, high-level bytecode engine, with a sliding register window calling convention. It lazily generates bytecodes from a syntax tree, using a simple one-pass compiler with built-in copy propagation."

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june 2008 by sogrady

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AT&T Confirms High Speed Rollout in Time for iPhone 2.0 | Gadget Lab from Wired.com

mmmmmmmmmmm

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may 2008 by sogrady

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Daring Fireball: Why Apple Won't Buy Adobe

interesting. i think some of these objections are questionable and less than tangible, but the point is well taken. still, think what Apple could do with unfettered access to Adobe's dev/designer community.

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may 2008 by sogrady

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The day the music died [dive into mark]

yup. but according to the RIAA, DRM isn't dead, it's just resting.

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may 2008 by sogrady

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Daring Fireball: One App at a Time

more on the no-background-daemons iPhone SDK restriction

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march 2008 by sogrady

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Zac Bowling’s Blog » Blog Archive » iPhone developer program is a joke

one of the Mono guys is...less than fired up about the iPhone SDK

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march 2008 by sogrady

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iPhone SDK comparison chart - Engadget

very useful matrix comparing a few of the popular mobile platforms

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march 2008 by sogrady

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Ballmer on the hot seat at Mix | Beyond Binary - A blog by Ina Fried - CNET News.com

"Kawasaki was hard-hitting in his questions, touching on nearly all the software maker's sore spots--regulatory troubles, the resurgence of the Mac and its tough time competing with Google." - glad to hear that Ballmer was actually quizzed

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march 2008 by sogrady

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So, That’s Why Safari’s So Much Faster Than Firefox 3?

interesting look at the advantages of undocumented APIs

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february 2008 by sogrady

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MacBook Air: A Little Too Pretty?

"It didn't take long for Apple's new laptop, the MacBook Air, to set off an intense struggle between my heart and my head...But a computer is a tool, not an objet d'art, and there are a lot of practical shortcomings forced by Air's minimalist design."

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january 2008 by sogrady

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Apple - Support - Discussions - New wireless mouse and keyboard issues ...

looks my wireless keyboard and i are getting bit by this. unfortunate.

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january 2008 by sogrady

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Adding insult to injury: USB 3G modems won't fit in the MacBook Air - Engadget

what happens when form not only triumphs over function, but scorches the earth behind it

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january 2008 by sogrady

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Adam Leventhal's Weblog

DTrace has been modified to protect iTunes: count me as unsurprised

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january 2008 by sogrady

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Laptops: Ultralight Lenovo X300 Series Thinkpad Leaked

if even half of this is accurate, i'm going to be so happy i didn't settle for the MacBook Air or Dell x1330

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january 2008 by sogrady

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Of canaries and coal mines [dive into mark]

conversion i didn't expect, but neither did i anticipate the current resurgence

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january 2008 by sogrady

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Macworld.Ars: MacBook Air spec shootout

specs for the Air

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january 2008 by sogrady

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Twitter / Dion Almaer: I am looking forward to see...

benchmarking of HDD vs SSD. likewise

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january 2008 by sogrady

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The Untold Story: How the iPhone Blew Up the Wireless Industry

"In other words, the very development that wireless carriers feared for so long may prove to be exactly what they need. It took Steve Jobs to show them that." - a sad, but necessary observation of the state of mobile here in the US

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january 2008 by sogrady

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User denied iPhone warranty service for custom ringtone - iPhone Atlas

if this is true, it's ridiculous. if it happens to me, i'll go absolutely beserk. this is the kind of thing that kills my impression of Apple.

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january 2008 by sogrady

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YouTube - David Lynch on iPhone

not a fan, apparently

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january 2008 by sogrady

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2008 is the year of Linux on the desktop [dive into mark]

no one is to show this to my parents, the new owners of an iMac courtesy of my brother. so far, they're happy, but we'll see if that lasts considering that i couldn't get their Canon i850 printer working (worked flawlessly on Ubuntu)

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january 2008 by sogrady

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Mobile Opportunity: The war between Nokia and Apple

after a quick comparison of NOK and AAPL on Google Finance, i think he overstates the financial advantage of NOK, but it's solid. don't buy the idea that mobile operators squandered their relationship w/ customers: they never had it in the first place.

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january 2008 by sogrady

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Using an iPhone / iPod Touch with Ubuntu - Community Ubuntu Documentation

not sure i'm ready to jailbreak the device, particularly since folks who did this previously had their phones bricked (which is crap, obviously)

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december 2007 by sogrady

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An Apple fanboy's lament | Perspectives | CNET News.com

"I could buy and own songs and videos that I could use on any player...not just an iPod." - Tim Bray had the right of this eons ago: most consumers have yet to encounter DRM, and when they do they're going to hate it.

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december 2007 by sogrady

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Steve Gillmor’s GestureLab » Overnight Success

can't say that i successfully parsed this one

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december 2007 by sogrady

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AppleInsider | Ultra-portable Apple notebook to splash down at Macworld Expo

give me this, with two mouse buttons and a trackpoint and i'm in. except for the OS X part, of course. i can't get over how little laptop news there is running up to Christmas.

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december 2007 by sogrady

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stevenf.com: Android, With More Optimism

"And that's why, despite all my grumping and flailing about of hands, I wish Google the best of luck with Android, and I'm looking forward to seeing it run on some actual hardware, and what happens after that."

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november 2007 by sogrady

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The 15 Dumbest Apple Predictions Of All Time | Gadget Lab from Wired.com

yet another reason that grandiose predictions aren't usually my thing. Gibson's right, as is Drucker.

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november 2007 by sogrady

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Ted Leung on the Air » Blog Archive » Leopard, Java, and Open Source

very clear eyed take from Ted on the Leopard / Java flap. second the recommendation for Dalibor's comments as well

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october 2007 by sogrady

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The Observation Deck

Bryan's thoughts on the inclusion of DTrace into Leopard: worth reading, both for the technical perspective as well as the counter to the "shouldn't Sun be charging" arguments

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october 2007 by sogrady

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Apple Worth More Than IBM. Seriously. on Epicenter

we'll see how long it lasts, but this might help the next time IBMers tell me they're not interested in consumer markets. for fun, BTW, check our MSFT's market cap.

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october 2007 by sogrady

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Recording Artist: Don't be a ZFS Hater

James is right: an excellent piece on ZFS

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october 2007 by sogrady

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A Bruise or Two on Apple's Reputation

scaling is hard...for hardware, for service, for pretty much everything. been hearing more and more grumbling of late.

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october 2007 by sogrady

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Altered iPhones Freeze Up - New York Times

tight control is an intrinsic part of Apple's economic model, but rendering devices useless post modification seems like they've finally jumped the shark in that respect. wipe it? don't agree, but ok. but brick it? cutting the nose off to spite the face.

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september 2007 by sogrady

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Daring Fireball: The Ringtones Racket

"The reason these relationships are rocky is that the executives running these companies are stubborn fools who are only willing to consider ways to keep things the way they were, and who hold their own customers in utter contempt."

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september 2007 by sogrady

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Linux coders hash out support for new iPods | Underexposed - CNET News.com

would that Apple would just give this up, as the developers request. it's utterly pointless. i'll keep buying iPods if they work with Linux, i won't if they don't. pretty simple.

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september 2007 by sogrady

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New iPods reengineered to block synching with Linux - Boing Boing

"I guess my next player won't be an iPod after all." - <sigh> same here

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september 2007 by sogrady

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The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: A boring rant

"It's over now. Your business model was a historical anomaly built on scarcity of a valuable resource and the willingness of a small group of network operators to not slit each other's throats and to collaborate in exploiting the content producers." amen

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september 2007 by sogrady

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The Gphone is coming; how Google could rewrite the rules - Google phone, Gphone concept | last100

file this one under: i'll believe it when i see it

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august 2007 by sogrady

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Europe gets 3G iPhone Monday | tbites

"A new 3G version of the iPhone may be launched Monday in the UK in a joint promotion with Vodafone, T-Mobile, and UK phone retailer Carphone Warehouse as an MVNO." - the "reliable sources" makes this suspect, but man would it be funny

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july 2007 by sogrady

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Nerd Vittles » Your Choice: iPhone + AT&T or A New Car

"To lease a 2007 Ford Focus with air conditioning, you’re looking at less money per month although you’d make payments for additional years. But then, you may want to use your iPhone for more than two years as well" - hilarious comparison

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june 2007 by sogrady

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ZFS: Ten reasons to reformat your hard drives - Tech-Recipes.com

good summary of the benefits to ZFS

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june 2007 by sogrady

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Competing as Software Goes to Web « The Wayward Word Press

both open source and saas as threats to desktops everywhere; one of the reasons i find Big Board fascinating

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june 2007 by sogrady

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» Apple’s new kick-butt file system | Storage Bits | ZDNet.com

ZFS should be a very interesting addition to the Apple lineup, for many of the reasons mentioned here

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april 2007 by sogrady

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Open Sources | InfoWorld | Another Mac bites the dust (This is becoming routine) | March 15, 2007 11:38 AM | By Matt Asay

why do Apple's seem fail so horrifically at times? the melted power cord, the smoking computer?

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march 2007 by sogrady

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Daring Fireball: Command, Option, Control

a lot that i don't agree with in here, but Alex is right - the man does make some good points; you just need to remember that if Thurrott speaks for MSFT, so too does Gruber speak for AAPL

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february 2007 by sogrady

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ongoing · Music and DRM

"My feeling is that there’s a large number of people with no, or very few, iTMS tracks on their iPods, and a smaller number with a whole lot. I feel sorry for the latter group." - as i confessed to Tim in CA, i'm in the latter group, but i'm reformed -

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february 2007 by sogrady

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Open Sources | InfoWorld | Bill Gates: We were first, we were best, we are more secure | February 2, 2007 04:00 PM | By Matt Asay

"Upgrade a Linux machine? Not so easy for the average person." - couldn't disagree more; if you can click "ok" you can upgrade Ubuntu, and more importantly, all the applications in the Ubuntu repository

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february 2007 by sogrady

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retrospections: André's Weblog - Blog

the cultural differences are indeed significant; both sides have something to learn from each other, IMO

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january 2007 by sogrady

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In Which I Think About Java Again, But Only For A Moment — Thought Palace

this is interesting, considering the fact that i've actually begun using a couple of desktop Java applications again

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january 2007 by sogrady

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Why do geeks have lust for ZFS? at zamwi.com

"In the recent builds of Apple’s new operating system, Mac OS X Leopard, developers have started noticing that there is an option to format a partition using ZFS" - this is potentially very interesting; i'm hopeful we'll see ZFS on Linux someday

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january 2007 by sogrady

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Ego Food: Haters.

"If Apple picked any single carrier, they would have been treated equally as shabbily. All of the carriers have a core of people who hate them and their practices." - true. i hate Verizon. and i do blog.

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january 2007 by sogrady

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So sue me » Blog Archive » iHandcuffs

why i stopped by music from iTunes, exhibit A

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january 2007 by sogrady

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iPhone | alexking.org

looks like Alex isn't getting one either - that is a bit of a surprise

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january 2007 by sogrady

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