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 som...
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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 t...
Read post →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 T...
Read post →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...
Read post →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 her...
Read post →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 yo...
Read post →Anvil Shooting: using explosives to fire anvils -- yes, ANVILS -- into the air
Comrades, I present to you the unheralded but noble sport of "anvil launching" in which a brave athlete puts a crapload of black powder between two anvils, l...
Read post →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 desi...
Read post →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"....
Read post →Make: Online : Industrial robots showing off
And I, for one, welcome our new sub-millimetre precision robot overlords... Make: Online : Industrial robots showing off .
Read post →YouTube - Mark Watson takes on the Red Bull Glorious Days Project
Extreme sports photographer and Nikon Ambassador Mark Watson tells of the photographic adventure of a lifetime - capturing the spectacular Morning Glory clou...
Read post →Broken LDAP Database on Mac OS X Server
I had a client with a broken LDAP database on their OS X Server today. The power had failed and the UPS didn't do it's thing, so the power was yanked from th...
Read post →The Ad Contrarian: The Perfect Client Brief
Creative briefs from a client do not get any better than this... The Ad Contrarian: The Perfect Client Brief .
Read post →Resume: A Tale of Desire, Intrigue, and Formatting
Wow. A software developer with a strong preference for open-source tries and prefers commercial alternatives over open-source for page layout. There are some...
Read post →10/GUI - Is this the future of Human Machine Interaction?
Check this out: 10/GUI . The video gives a great overview of the concepts of 10/GUI - a new mutitouch GUI idea from R. Clayton Miller . He argues that multit...
Read post →So you think you can tell Arial from Helvetica? Quiz
Helvetica really does look quite a bit better than Arial, it's a smoother and cleaner design that is more pleasing to the eye. I scored 19/20 - the Mattel lo...
Read post →CSIRO earns $200m Wi-Fi windfall
CSIRO, having invented and patented some of the key technologies for high-speed wi-fi networking, has had their case held up in court and is on the receiving...
Read post →$10k to produce an iTunes LP?
Apparently Apple are charging artists or labels $10k to produce an iTunes LP (Album download from iTunes Music Store with cover artwork, full graphical inter...
Read post →I've tried to tech the tech, and it won't work
Interesting opinion piece by British Sci Fi Author, Charlie Stross concerning the downhill slide in scriptwriting for big-budget sci-fi TV series. To resolve...
Read post →SuperDuper!
There's a new version of the fantastic backup utility - SuperDuper! . SuperDuper is what you should be using if you're not using Time Machine, or if you're t...
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