Our thinking


ZFS on Mac OS X… Not so much.

The writing was on the wall when it wasn't shipped with Snow Leopard, in fact Snow Leopard had even worse zfs support than Leopard did, and that's saying something. The ZFS project has been discontinued. The mailing list and repository...
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Way to go Optus…

What a great idea, release some pretty decent wireless broadband plans, with a decent amount of monthly data... for 12 months. Then, after 12 months, once you've got used to using your wireless data you get the wonderful gift to...
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Jeremy Clarkson on: idiots – BBC Top Gear

I really can't say it any better than this: Now let me make one thing absolutely plain. Dress codes are for the terminally stupid. Telling your guests what to wear implies that a) you are a megalomaniac or that b)...
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SBS loses Top Gear to Nine

What a great big salty bag-o-balls. Top Gear with even more ads (although if I see that Shannons ad one more time on SBS, I'm gonna scream), and the Aussie Top Gear to be hosted by a bunch of tools....
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Trust me…

How can I not post this? Windows 7 is not going to have any of the problems that Windows Vista had, trust me! While I'm at it, there are another two over here: PC News and Teeter Tottering.
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The best kind of advertising

I love advertising when I get something out of it. In this case, VW are advertising their new GTI. It will be an awesome car, but that's beside the point. VW have commissioned Firemint to create a customised version of...
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Date Orders – DD/MM/YYYY, YYY/MM/DD or MM/DD/YYYY

You'll get crazy Americans that say their middle-endian date order makes more sense because, as they claim, "That's the way you say it - October 21st, 2009"... But is it? They have that most American of all American holidays, the...
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Apple – Mac mini with Snow Leopard Server

Apple have finally acknowledged that the Xserve is rather overkill for a lot of environments where Apple computers are used. It's hard to see a 5-person design studio dropping the coin on an Xserve plus all the other associated bits...
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