I got my new 100 GB Seagate 5200RPM drive Wednesday. Spent from about 6:00 PM – 2:00 AM trying to get it to work. IBM’s (normally) wonderful Product Recovery system left me with a 9 GB partition for Windows, immediately after the service partition, and a ton of wasted disk. Multiple attempts [...]
Archive for August, 2005
Milky Way Bar
According to scientists there is a bar in the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. Here’s a rendering of it:
AP Photo
Here’s what was already known about the topic:
Mars Company
All I can say is “yummy”.
Windows 2000 collectively crashes
From CNN 6:11 PM EST:
— A worm shut down computers running Windows 2000 software across the United States.
A preliminary article is here. Read this for starters:
A computer worm shut down computer systems running the Windows 2000 operating system across the United States on Tuesday, hitting computers at CNN, ABC and The New York [...]
Firefox Marketshare
I enjoy this topic a bit. Please don’t take this as science, or fact. This is purely speculation and discussion about market share. The topic itself is rather complex. You can view it from the mathematical/statistical point of view, or from the business/marketing point of view. Both have a very [...]
Google + Apple = iGoogle
Apprantly Apple and Google are talking. I’ve got an idea what it may be like, so here’s a little peak.
Speculating about the two mythical companies is always fun right .
FedEx Furniture
FedEx Furniture is pretty cool. Strong furniture made out of those really strong FedEx boxes (great packages BTW as they ensure your package arrives in 1 piece. Leave it to them to get really upset about this free advertising.
Typically, if your company gets good free advertising about how great your product/service is, and [...]
Mozilla Store
The store finally reopened. The Firefox Polo and Hat look rather tempting.
Now where is the Firefox underwear?
But seriously, some cool stuff. The T-Shirt I have is rather nice (I think that was still the old company). Asa claims it’s a million times better. The Firefox logo is rather good looking. [...]
Copyright Office Compatibility
According to the Copyright Office:
At this point in the process of developing the Copyright Office’s system for online preregistration, it is not entirely clear whether the system will be compatible with web browsers other than Microsoft Internet Explorer versions 5.1 and higher. Filers of preregistration applications will be able to employ these Internet Explorer browsers [...]
