Monthly Archives: May 2008
The Sweet Smell of Redmond…
I’ve previously talked about the horrors of the native document format in the Office 2007 (and now 2008 for Mac as well), OOXML. I’m not going to go through an extended talk about the nonsense that Microsoft has done to … Continue reading
See Me TV
I feel like I should start with a notice: This is not a product placement blog post. The image that you see at the head of this post is for a CCTV-like mirror. I was linked to these recently and … Continue reading
Counterfeit and Security
One of those batteries is fake. Can you tell which? Over the past few weeks more and more attention has been drawn to fake computer hardware that was sold to varying interests around the world. While fakes aren’t new (AMD, … Continue reading
It Just Works (Sometimes)!
Many drives are shipped partitioned to FAT. That’s great…for PCs. Heck, my Macbook could read it too, but doing so crashed my Time Capsule. I figured that it was probably FAT, and so just opened up the Disk Utility to erase the drive and partition it to HFS+ (Journal). Then I found out that this element of OS X has been broken for a long, long time.
Crap. Continue reading
