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Guy Kawasaki has broken into the top 100: I’m closing in.
Continue reading “top 100 (thousand), here I come”
Month: July 2006
Top PC manufacturers: Dell, HP, IBM, Google?
Technology a main tenet at Google:
He said he believed that Google was the world’s fourth-largest maker of computer servers, after Dell, Hewlett-Packard and IBM.
Interesting overview of how Google is simultaneously building a catalog of the various types of information on the internet and the physical infrastructure to make it possible. Hint: with $9B in the bank, they could buy a lot of what they’re building; from this, I assume no one else is doing it to their requirements.
A “headstrong indulgence?” People tend to forget that Mssrs Page and Brin have adult supervision in Eric Schmidt: he seems unlikely to countenance immature, wasteful behavior.
Discussion question
Ted Stevens would do with some schooling from Richard Stevens
It seems, though, that it’s his saying “tubes” and “a series of tubes” that’s provoking most of the derision. But network nerds the world over regularly refer to the availability of bandwidth in terms of fat or narrow pipes, which is essentially the same imagery. Odd.
To which I reply:
Imagery is fine but the esteemed senator seemed to really believe that the internet(s) is a modern-day pneumatic tube system, where there are real blockages and other artifacts of the physical world. The idea of packet switching and the reliability that is at the heart of the internet’s core protocols seem not to be understood. The pipes used by net nerds are metaphorical, yes, but I think most of them understand that.
I can accept that some of these people are out of their depth with anything more complex than a TV remote, but surely they can be briefed a little more completely/cluefully?
and
What’s somewhat ironic about this is that the canonical books on TCP/IP internetworking are known as “the Stevens books”: their author was “W. Richard Stevens.” Shame Ted’s staff didn’t know that.
interesting tidbit about FreeCycling/printer consumables
Actually, I suspect it has more to do with the price of ink cartridges. I see inkjet printers listed for free removal as complete, all but the color cartridge. The price of the cartridge is such that it must cheaper to get a new printer or at least not worth keeping around. Having looked for cartridges lately, I realize where the manufacturers make their money.
Some examples:
Working color printer. Currently needs new color ink cartridge, but black and white works just fine. Includes all cables, installation software, and manuals!
As far as I know, it works, however it does not have an ink cartridge. Includes both power and USB cords.
I have a printer, probably needs ink,but worked when we last had it out
Part of it has to be how quickly HP — the most popular maker of this too-good-to-be-landfilled stuff — obsoletes their products: makes it hard to find refills, perhaps, but it seems a day or two doesn’t go by without a working printer showing up, either needing ink or just needing to be gone.
the new patriotismÂ
From the 14(?) person rally denouncing the NYTimes Treasonous Travel section.Â
Seriously: the wingnuts could only get that many people to show up for this nationally significant debate . . .Â
Remember the immigration rallies of earlier this year? Multiple cities, hundreds of thousands per city?Â
word of the day: narcissism
I have loyalties that are greater than those to my party.
Then get out, already.
words to live by
Pimp My Code, Part 11: This Sheet is Tight:
Years from now, when you’re looking at your code, you should say, “Of course I wrote it that way — there’s no other decent way to do it,” and not, “What the hell was I thinking?”
I didn’t understand 10% of this but the last line? Yeah, I got that.
et tu, Rummy?
“The NY Times points cranks, radicals, al-Qaeda operatives and would be assassins to the summer homes of Cheney and Rumsfeld”:
“In an apparent retaliation for criticism of its disclosure of classified intelligence to America’s enemies, the New York Times June 30th edition has printed huge color photos of the vacation residences of Vice President Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, identifying the small Maryland town where they live, showing the front driveway and in Rumsfeld’s case actually pointing out the hidden security camera in case any hostile intruders should get careless (…)
Make no mistake about it, there is a war going on in this country.”
The damning thing about this is that Rumsfeld OKed the article, photographs and all: obviously he’s on the side of the jihadis or islamofascists or whatever we’re calling this week. Journalists, I think was the Hate Word for this week.
Seriously, read the rest: it’s amazing how rickety the houses of cards these bedwetters live in that a travel article has them crying treason. As if they know what treason is (beyond “whatever I don’t like” of course).
AppleScript/Mail.app bleg
Now that LazyWeb has been rendered useless, I’ll broadcast this over my much smaller network:
Is there some way w/in AppleScript to archive email programmatically? Say, all mail two weeks old or older gets shifted from the active inbox (deleted from the server to save time and quota space) to a local archive. Seems like it should be do-able.
Looking at it again, it seems there is a date received property for the message item. So I suppose opening a sorted mailbox and looking for items that are today – 14 days and passing that to a move command would work.