Archive for the ‘Technology’
Novell congratulates itself for selling soul to Microsoft
With a few blog posts by top execs, Novell ended out 2007 by admitting that cozying up with a monopolist, predatory company and invalidating all that is open source …was a great idea. Hey, they made off like a bandit with some sorely needed cash; who cares what the long term effects are on the [...]
Tech Writer Shocked to See Apple Xserves at CNBC
Yeah, well you can’t blame them of course… after all, they’re just the spokespersons for the industry, the tech know-it-alls right? In this video, Computerworld’s Lucas Mearian gets schooled by a system administrator at CNBC while getting a tour of the media giant’s 15 terabyte Apple Xserve RAID/Xsan setup. Makes you wonder if these writers [...]
No lookupd? No problem!
For quite a while now, Apple has dumped the old lookupd daemon and it may have confused some users. “How am I supposed to flush the DNS cache?” or “How can I restart DNS services without a reboot?” Fortunately, Apple now supplies dnscacheutil which takes care of everything and provides a great command-line interface for [...]
Microformats Plugin for Safari
Though there exists a CSS solution to do the same thing, this particular SIMBL plugin for Safari adds a configurable and intuitive microformats utility. One thing which may get annoying is the constant popping up of the “warning” window once a lot of websites start embracing microformats on every post or page.
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Creating blog posts from the iPhone
One of the great features of the Wordpress blogging platform is the ability to create new posts directly from an email message. In this particular example I’m creating this new article using my iPhone while sitting in a restaurant. Instead of using the web front-end to write the article, I’m using the phone’s built-in mail [...]
