Archives for March 2007

Flipstart PC : It lives

After a solid 2 years of silence, Vulcan appears to be ready to release the Flipstart PC.
jkOnTheRun has a hands-on video with a pre-release version of the device.
Gizmodo gallery of images.

Cell phones, private information, public places

While standing in line at Panera Bread last week I overheard a man ordering something over his cell phone. Due to the poor audio quality, he was speaking fairly loud and slow. When he was finished, and I’d gotten my order, I approached him and said, “Excuse me… You know, if I [...]

Sun Microsystems Gripes

Your new Solaris patching system is 90% sucky for paid customers and 100% awesome for you
The host sunsolve.sun.com is always sluggish or downright slow
The host osc-amer.sun.com is always slow (for years now). I’ve spent the last 30 minutes watching my support request form submittal time out. It’s not the first time.
Your documentation quality [...]

FRONTLINE: News War

“Drawing on more than 80 interviews with key figures in the print, broadcast and electronic media, and with unequaled, behind-the-scenes access to some of today’s most important news organizations, FRONTLINE correspondent Lowell Bergman examines the challenges facing the mainstream news media, and the media’s reaction, in News War, a special four-part series.”
I watched the first [...]