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  1. Re:No Link? by aallan · · Score: 0, Redundant · on Apple Unveils 24" iMac

    ...and to the Mac mini page. Interestingly it looks like the mini now comes with Bluetooth and Airport Extreme by default, which is good. I never understood why they didn't do that originally...

    Al.
  2. Re:No Link? by aallan · · Score: 0, Redundant · on Apple Unveils 24" iMac

    ...and to the Mac mini page. Interestingly it looks like the mini now comes with Bluetooth and Airport Extreme by default, which is good. I never understood why they didn't do that originally...

    Al.
  3. No Apple Remote? by aallan · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Apple Unveils 24" iMac

    An interesting point is that the base 17-inch model no longer comes with an Apple Remote by default, you have to cough up another $29 to get that bit of Apple goodness. Fine for those of us that have quite a few of them lying around, but not so good for people buying their first iMac. An odd choice for Apple IMHO.

    Al.
  4. No, terrible news. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Google CEO Joins Apple's Board

    Schmidt's no Mac user, that's obvious at a glance. I mean, where are his tattoos? His piercings? I doubt he's ever been in a threesome, and he's probably never done a speedball in his life. What a dweeb!

    Mark my words: this guy's appointment to the board marks the beginning of the end. He will destroy Apple from the inside out. Just you wait and see.

  5. Old news... by aallan · · Score: 3, Informative · on Cell Phone Tracking In the UK

    This is such old news, it was initially worked over by The Guardian at the start of the month, and it even got picked up by Slashdot. But it was old news even then, you've been able to do this sort of thing for years. I've talked about it a lot in my blog...

    Al.
  6. Years of disappointment... by aallan · · Score: 1 · on Solar Sail News and Upcoming JPL Missions

    Sail enthusiasts have faced continued disappointment from the early days; with the failure of Znamya, to the more recent failure of the Cosmos-1 spacecraft. Lets hope NASA has more luck than everyone else, despite the recently announced budget cuts for science funding in favour of the manned programme.

    Al.
  7. Years of disappointment... by aallan · · Score: 1 · on Solar Sail News and Upcoming JPL Missions

    Sail enthusiasts have faced continued disappointment from the early days; with the failure of Znamya, to the more recent failure of the Cosmos-1 spacecraft. Lets hope NASA has more luck than everyone else, despite the recently announced budget cuts for science funding in favour of the manned programme.

    Al.
  8. Re:Maybe they're right by aallan · · Score: 1 · on RFID Injection Required for Datacenter Access

    That needs to be in the forehead, or the left hand, like this guy...

    Al.
  9. Tracking phones and ubiquitous data by aallan · · Score: 1 · on Cell Tracking on the Rise

    This has been rattling around various blogs for a couple of days now, even making an appearance in the Guardian. It's interesting that it seems to be being posted as "news", as there has been user level access to this stuff since around 1995 when digital networks started rolling out properly. I'm not sure what's going, presumably it's one of those meme things...

    Al.
  10. Mac related rumours? by aallan · · Score: 1 · on Flash Memory to Rival Hard Drives

    The rumours in the Mac community are hinting that key products were missing from the Steve's keynote speech due to supply issues with the new Intel Core Duo chips. I'm starting to winder whether it wasn't the Core Duo chips that were in short supply. There were predictions and rumours of "instant-on" hard drive less Macs based on flash chips in the run up to Macworld. Perhaps we still have "One more thing..." still to come?

    It'd certainly fit with my own speculations about the Mac Pro line...

    Al.
  11. Mac related rumours? by aallan · · Score: 1 · on Flash Memory to Rival Hard Drives

    The rumours in the Mac community are hinting that key products were missing from the Steve's keynote speech due to supply issues with the new Intel Core Duo chips. I'm starting to winder whether it wasn't the Core Duo chips that were in short supply. There were predictions and rumours of "instant-on" hard drive less Macs based on flash chips in the run up to Macworld. Perhaps we still have "One more thing..." still to come?

    It'd certainly fit with my own speculations about the Mac Pro line...

    Al.
  12. Mac related rumours? by aallan · · Score: 1 · on Flash Memory to Rival Hard Drives

    The rumours in the Mac community are hinting that key products were missing from the Steve's keynote speech due to supply issues with the new Intel Core Duo chips. I'm starting to winder whether it wasn't the Core Duo chips that were in short supply. There were predictions and rumours of "instant-on" hard drive less Macs based on flash chips in the run up to Macworld. Perhaps we still have "One more thing..." still to come?

    It'd certainly fit with my own speculations about the Mac Pro line...

    Al.
  13. Old news? by aallan · · Score: 1 · on Euro-Russian Manned Space Vehicle Planned

    I blogged this back at the end of 2004 when the Russians first rolled the Kliper mockup out. This recent BBC story does seem really weirdly timed. I figured something "new" must have happened but I can't seem to find anything. Someone had a press conference perhaps?

    Al.
  14. Re:CA doesn't get it re: GPL and "viral" by aallan · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Fun Stuff at OSCON 2005

    No, I think the CA stand in the exhibit hall made it very clear that CA just "doesn't get it", they were treating OSCON like a normal industry trade show rather than trying to sell themselves technically, which is pretty much the only way to do it at OSCON.

    Of course, if their exhibit hall stand didn't show it, their awful keynote talk surely did...

    Al.
  15. Re:No State of the Onion? by aallan · · Score: 1 · on Fun Stuff at OSCON 2005

    Did Larry Wall give a State of the Onion this year? I can't find any reference to it.

    Yes, Larry gave a State of the Onion talk during the Tuesday Night Extravaganza.

    Al.
  16. I was there... by aallan · · Score: 4, Informative · on Fun Stuff at OSCON 2005

    ...and blogged the conference, some of the more interesting bits below,

    Amazing conference, if you weren't there, you should have been...

    Al.
  17. I was there... by aallan · · Score: 4, Informative · on Fun Stuff at OSCON 2005

    ...and blogged the conference, some of the more interesting bits below,

    Amazing conference, if you weren't there, you should have been...

    Al.
  18. I was there... by aallan · · Score: 4, Informative · on Fun Stuff at OSCON 2005

    ...and blogged the conference, some of the more interesting bits below,

    Amazing conference, if you weren't there, you should have been...

    Al.
  19. I was there... by aallan · · Score: 4, Informative · on Fun Stuff at OSCON 2005

    ...and blogged the conference, some of the more interesting bits below,

    Amazing conference, if you weren't there, you should have been...

    Al.
  20. I was there... by aallan · · Score: 4, Informative · on Fun Stuff at OSCON 2005

    ...and blogged the conference, some of the more interesting bits below,

    Amazing conference, if you weren't there, you should have been...

    Al.
  21. I was there... by aallan · · Score: 4, Informative · on Fun Stuff at OSCON 2005

    ...and blogged the conference, some of the more interesting bits below,

    Amazing conference, if you weren't there, you should have been...

    Al.
  22. I was there... by aallan · · Score: 4, Informative · on Fun Stuff at OSCON 2005

    ...and blogged the conference, some of the more interesting bits below,

    Amazing conference, if you weren't there, you should have been...

    Al.
  23. I was there... by aallan · · Score: 4, Informative · on Fun Stuff at OSCON 2005

    ...and blogged the conference, some of the more interesting bits below,

    Amazing conference, if you weren't there, you should have been...

    Al.
  24. I was there... by aallan · · Score: 4, Informative · on Fun Stuff at OSCON 2005

    ...and blogged the conference, some of the more interesting bits below,

    Amazing conference, if you weren't there, you should have been...

    Al.
  25. I was there... by aallan · · Score: 4, Informative · on Fun Stuff at OSCON 2005

    ...and blogged the conference, some of the more interesting bits below,

    Amazing conference, if you weren't there, you should have been...

    Al.
  26. I was there... by aallan · · Score: 4, Informative · on Fun Stuff at OSCON 2005

    ...and blogged the conference, some of the more interesting bits below,

    Amazing conference, if you weren't there, you should have been...

    Al.
  27. I was there... by aallan · · Score: 4, Informative · on Fun Stuff at OSCON 2005

    ...and blogged the conference, some of the more interesting bits below,

    Amazing conference, if you weren't there, you should have been...

    Al.
  28. I was there... by aallan · · Score: 4, Informative · on Fun Stuff at OSCON 2005

    ...and blogged the conference, some of the more interesting bits below,

    Amazing conference, if you weren't there, you should have been...

    Al.
  29. I was there... by aallan · · Score: 4, Informative · on Fun Stuff at OSCON 2005

    ...and blogged the conference, some of the more interesting bits below,

    Amazing conference, if you weren't there, you should have been...

    Al.
  30. I was there... by aallan · · Score: 4, Informative · on Fun Stuff at OSCON 2005

    ...and blogged the conference, some of the more interesting bits below,

    Amazing conference, if you weren't there, you should have been...

    Al.
  31. I was there... by aallan · · Score: 4, Informative · on Fun Stuff at OSCON 2005

    ...and blogged the conference, some of the more interesting bits below,

    Amazing conference, if you weren't there, you should have been...

    Al.
  32. I was there... by aallan · · Score: 4, Informative · on Fun Stuff at OSCON 2005

    ...and blogged the conference, some of the more interesting bits below,

    Amazing conference, if you weren't there, you should have been...

    Al.
  33. I was there... by aallan · · Score: 4, Informative · on Fun Stuff at OSCON 2005

    ...and blogged the conference, some of the more interesting bits below,

    Amazing conference, if you weren't there, you should have been...

    Al.
  34. I was there... by aallan · · Score: 4, Informative · on Fun Stuff at OSCON 2005

    ...and blogged the conference, some of the more interesting bits below,

    Amazing conference, if you weren't there, you should have been...

    Al.
  35. I was there... by aallan · · Score: 4, Informative · on Fun Stuff at OSCON 2005

    ...and blogged the conference, some of the more interesting bits below,

    Amazing conference, if you weren't there, you should have been...

    Al.
  36. I was there... by aallan · · Score: 4, Informative · on Fun Stuff at OSCON 2005

    ...and blogged the conference, some of the more interesting bits below,

    Amazing conference, if you weren't there, you should have been...

    Al.
  37. More Video Links by aallan · · Score: 1 · on Behind the Scenes At Google

    I found this video back in February, isn't this a dupe? Anyway my blog post about it also has a link to good paper on the Google File System written up for the 19th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, along with video of the talk the Google guys gave at the symposium.

    You might also want to have a look at my post on Eric Schmidt talking about Google to the Stanford Business School. The post also has a link to a video of Urs Hölzle talking to the University of Washington about clustering at Google.

    Both are worth watching...

    Al.
  38. More Video Links by aallan · · Score: 1 · on Behind the Scenes At Google

    I found this video back in February, isn't this a dupe? Anyway my blog post about it also has a link to good paper on the Google File System written up for the 19th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, along with video of the talk the Google guys gave at the symposium.

    You might also want to have a look at my post on Eric Schmidt talking about Google to the Stanford Business School. The post also has a link to a video of Urs Hölzle talking to the University of Washington about clustering at Google.

    Both are worth watching...

    Al.
  39. Some image captures from the live feed by aallan · · Score: 2, Interesting · on GlobalFlyer Completes Record-Breaking Flight

    For those of you who couldn't manage to scrape a connection to the live feed, and I know I had a lot of difficulty, I've put some images captures of the take off on Monday, the flight [1, 2] itself, the decent and of course the landing up on my blog.

    The machine these are sitting on once hosted three front page Slashdot stories simultaneously so I'm not too worried about posting this... err, I think I'll just mail my sysadmin.

    Al.
  40. Some image captures from the live feed by aallan · · Score: 2, Interesting · on GlobalFlyer Completes Record-Breaking Flight

    For those of you who couldn't manage to scrape a connection to the live feed, and I know I had a lot of difficulty, I've put some images captures of the take off on Monday, the flight [1, 2] itself, the decent and of course the landing up on my blog.

    The machine these are sitting on once hosted three front page Slashdot stories simultaneously so I'm not too worried about posting this... err, I think I'll just mail my sysadmin.

    Al.
  41. Some image captures from the live feed by aallan · · Score: 2, Interesting · on GlobalFlyer Completes Record-Breaking Flight

    For those of you who couldn't manage to scrape a connection to the live feed, and I know I had a lot of difficulty, I've put some images captures of the take off on Monday, the flight [1, 2] itself, the decent and of course the landing up on my blog.

    The machine these are sitting on once hosted three front page Slashdot stories simultaneously so I'm not too worried about posting this... err, I think I'll just mail my sysadmin.

    Al.
  42. Some image captures from the live feed by aallan · · Score: 2, Interesting · on GlobalFlyer Completes Record-Breaking Flight

    For those of you who couldn't manage to scrape a connection to the live feed, and I know I had a lot of difficulty, I've put some images captures of the take off on Monday, the flight [1, 2] itself, the decent and of course the landing up on my blog.

    The machine these are sitting on once hosted three front page Slashdot stories simultaneously so I'm not too worried about posting this... err, I think I'll just mail my sysadmin.

    Al.
  43. Some image captures from the live feed by aallan · · Score: 2, Interesting · on GlobalFlyer Completes Record-Breaking Flight

    For those of you who couldn't manage to scrape a connection to the live feed, and I know I had a lot of difficulty, I've put some images captures of the take off on Monday, the flight [1, 2] itself, the decent and of course the landing up on my blog.

    The machine these are sitting on once hosted three front page Slashdot stories simultaneously so I'm not too worried about posting this... err, I think I'll just mail my sysadmin.

    Al.
  44. Some image captures from the live feed by aallan · · Score: 2, Interesting · on GlobalFlyer Completes Record-Breaking Flight

    For those of you who couldn't manage to scrape a connection to the live feed, and I know I had a lot of difficulty, I've put some images captures of the take off on Monday, the flight [1, 2] itself, the decent and of course the landing up on my blog.

    The machine these are sitting on once hosted three front page Slashdot stories simultaneously so I'm not too worried about posting this... err, I think I'll just mail my sysadmin.

    Al.