Category: Computer

I updated my iPhone to version 2.0 of the software without any difficulty.  The phone went through a power cycle while it was connected to the mini, but other than that it went rather well.I thought it might brick itself for a while there, but it all turned out OK.I had gone out to Dinner…

Jocelyn Paine posted an entry on the Dr. Dobbs Code Talk Blog called, ((What ((is) with (all)) of (the) ()s?) Hmmm?).  I recall fondly the end of my Artificial Intelligence class in graduate school where Dr. Bonnie Bennett did utter the phrase, “Recursion is how God thinks.”  That may well be, but LISP is a…

Yesterday, Steve Jobs announced new Microsoft Exchange support in iPhone 2.0, and the upgrade of the .Mac service to support iPhone and push syncing with a new name, “MobileMe.”  I certainly hope that it isn’t a subliminal mind-fuck to all of us for: “Mobile Microsoft Enterprise.”Around the turn of the millennium, Microsoft released a version…

NO, ruby is not ready for the enterprise.  It’s not bloated enough.  The conferences don’t cost thousands of dollars.  It’s not full of joyless code zombies.  Ruby is a hacker language.  Like in the movie Hackers, they’re punk kids that steal credit card numbers, smoke pot and hang out at loud house parties all night. …

In our department, when the help desk gets a call that the blackberries aren’t working, they naturally look at the data warehouse server… Go figure.

In a 2-2-2 Speed Cabling competition, see how fast you can untangle six Category 5 Ethernet cables (2 x 7′, 2 x 14′, 2 x 21′) which have been tumbled in the clothes dryer on high for three minutes.  See Maybe I should schedule a competition for an IEEE Computer Society picnic meeting this summer.From…