technology: March 2008 archives
Mosaic Communications circa 1994
[ rakaur on Mon Mar 31 at 04:19 PM // category: software, technology, web ]
Jamie Zawinski has put the old Mosaic Communications website from 1994 back online. It’s neat to look at, and the story behind it is even more interesting, especially what they had to do to get old browsers to be able to render the old page.
-- rakaur // 2008.03.31 @ 04:19 PM
Sony BMG Sued for Using Pirated Software
[ rakaur on Sun Mar 30 at 06:04 PM // category: software, technology ]
I guess they haven’t been eating their own dog food.
The small software company PointDev learned that Sony BMG was using a pirated license for one of its system administration tools. PointDev got bailiffs to raid a Sony property and they found pirated software on four servers.
-- rakaur // 2008.03.30 @ 06:04 PM
Steve Jobs Allegedly Insults Customer
[ rakaur on Sat Mar 29 at 09:48 PM // category: apple, hardware, technology ]
I found this story on digg, and it seems a little fishy. Customer spills water on a brand new laptop. While supposedly accepting full responsibility for the incident he for some reason “emails Steve Jobs” who supposedly somewhat insultingly replies.
The customer, an owner of a recently water-damaged MacBook Pro, called Apple customer care to get information about repair costs. Accepting full responsibility for the water damage, the customer was still subjected to confusing and contradictory information about the repair. Frustrated with his experience, he took matters into his own hands, emailing sjobs@apple.com (a widely acknowledged direct line to high-level Apple customer care).
-- rakaur // 2008.03.29 @ 09:48 PM
Music Bullshit of the Highest Order
[ rakaur on Fri Mar 28 at 11:25 AM // category: music, technology // comments: 1 ]
So, a while ago, someone thought “Hey, this whole suing everyone thing isn’t going so well. How about we just make ISPs charge everyone $5 per month, because everyone is stealing!” This is evil and bullshit of the highest order. However, apparently this has caught on, and people are actually considering it now.
Click here to read this entire entry.
-- rakaur // 2008.03.28 @ 11:25 AM
Large Hadron Collider to Destroy Planet
[ rakaur on Fri Mar 28 at 08:21 AM // category: technology ]
It looks as if people will continue to sue people over everything. Apparently everyone’s still terrified the LHC will create black holes and/or strangelets despite the fact that nothing like that has happened at Fermilab or any other particle accelerator.
The builders of the world’s biggest particle collider are being sued in federal court over fears that the experiment might create globe-gobbling black holes or never-before-seen strains of matter that would destroy the planet.
-- rakaur // 2008.03.28 @ 08:21 AM
Inside the Apple IIc
[ rakaur on Thu Mar 27 at 11:21 PM // category: apple, hardware, technology ]
PCWorld has an interesting look back at the “MacBook Air of 1984.” It’s on a million separate pages. They have no shame.
At 7.5 pounds, the Apple IIc portable computer was the MacBook Air of 1984. Ever wonder what makes up a vintage classic? We took one apart to find out.
-- rakaur // 2008.03.27 @ 11:21 PM
Comments Enabled
[ rakaur on Wed Mar 26 at 10:11 PM // category: software, technology, web // comments: 1 ]
Just as a heads up to anyone that still reads my blog, I’ve finally gotten comments to work properly. You shouldn’t have to register with anything to be able to comment.
Your comment will remain in a moderation queue until approved or marked as spam, as the case may be.
If anyone out there actually still reads my site, please leave a comment on this post to let me know.
-- rakaur // 2008.03.26 @ 10:11 PM
Dvorak Still a Jackass
[ rakaur on Wed Mar 26 at 12:14 PM // category: apple, technology ]
John C. Dvorak once again continues his time-tested tradition of making lots of money by making totally irrelevant points on random technology-related topics. He probably got angry because he lost his iPhone.
Stay tuned next week for his ten ad-ridden-page piece on how iPods cause 99% of traffic accidents because they make you dizzy from using the click wheel.
He’s like the Ann Coulter of the technology world.
-- rakaur // 2008.03.26 @ 12:14 PM
