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It’s all here.

http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2008/06/23/ten-big-new-features-in-mac-os-x-snow-leopard/

I’m just shocked and speechless. Pwned, even.

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I really can’t believe this hasn’t been pointed out before… so I guess I’ll do the dirty work and try to fan the flames of rumor.

This started when I read Paul Thurrott’s latest blog post, with which I could not agree more.

Then, I decided it’s time to blog about this and see if anyone had noticed:

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Why would you have a SIM ejector tool in the 3G box if they didn’t intend you to use it? The EDGE model has a SIM ejector hole, but there’s no included tool that I can recall…

Can I start a rumor? We’ll see.

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Today, our Blackberry reps came to visit for the quarterly meeting with our project. It’s always fun when these folks visit; they’re quite personable and wow, do they like to eat.

This time they brought along a fellow by the name of Jim from Boxtone. Boxtone is a monitoring system for RIM’s flagship product and it seems pretty interesting.

What was more interesting was the fact that his Vista laptop absolutely, positively would not get on the guest wireless. It would connect with a proper signal strength of 5 bars, but it would not get an address from the local DHCP server.

We spent about 30 minutes trying to unravel this mystery until it was finally decided to put the presentation on a thumbdrive and hook it up to the Mac. We ran the projector over to the Mac, got on the webex, engaged mirror view on the projector and the Macbook Pro and within seconds we were sharing his presentation out on the Webex with minimal effort.

And people like Paul Thurrott wonder why Vista isn’t doing well…?

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Mac, Microsoft, Vista

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WWDC 2008 is sold out. WWDC is sold out for the first time in history.

Guess who hadn’t gotten his ticket?

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Setup Entourage 2004 to connect to Exchange 2007 - Robbas Weblog

After reading this blog article and knowing that Entourage 2004 and Evolution both use webdav to talk to Exchange, I’m wondering if this information would resolve Evolution connectivity into Exchange 2007.  Those of you coming to this blog and seeking that info could give it a try, then comment below if it works.  Thanks

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I’ve just posted NO CARRIER Episode #2: Diagnosis: Penguin. Yeah, this is the one I said you open sourcers might like. It has the telling of a Linux success story, one that I’m sure many of you already understand the model, but perhaps the suits do not. Check it out!

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Those of you who read the open source parts of this blog may be interested in NO CARRIER Episode 2: Diagnosis Penguin. It’s a little over an hour long, but the second half of the podcast is dominated by an interview with a company who found Windows inadequate for their needs. It’s a wonderful Linux success story and there might be some lessons for entrepreneurs out there.

Give it a listen and spread the word if you’re one of those well-read Linux folks, please

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The late night gremlins have struck again…

…the first NO CARRIER podcast is now available for your tasting. We hope you enjoy it. We know it’s missing some fancy opening/close theme music, we’re working on that.

You may listen to the podcast over here:

http://galaxycow.com/podcasts/no_carrier/

…or, if you prefer, subscribe to the feed via:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/NoCarrier

We’ve submitted the podcast to the iTunes directory, so hopefully that will come about soon.

Enjoy!

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#477454 - Insulting source code - Debian Bug report logs

…ran across this bug filing in my morning travels.  What a scream.  I love it when nerds get personal and start using source code to do battle.  That’s one of my favorite parts of Linux - just think of all the copies of Debian floating around out there that contains source code like this (Warning: salty, sailor-esque language, as if readers of this blog haven’t run across it before):

===================================================================
— player.py (Revision 4026)
+++ player.py (Revision 4027)
@@ -287,7 +287,9 @@

def init(pipeline, librarian):
gst.debug_set_default_threshold(gst.LEVEL_ERROR)
- if gst.element_make_from_uri(gst.URI_SRC, “file://”, “”):
+ if gst.element_make_from_uri(
+ gst.URI_SRC,
+ “file:///Sebastian/Droge/please/choke/on/a/bucket/of/cocks”, “”):
global playlist
playlist = PlaylistPlayer(pipeline or “gconfaudiosink”,
librarian)
return playlist
daniel@bert:~/1/quodlibet-1.x$ svn log -r 4026:4027
————————————————————————
r4027 | piman | 2007-04-27 05:17:05 +0200 (Fr, 27 Apr 2007) | 1 line

player.init: Give a fake filename to trick GStreamer 0.10.12’s filesrc.
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plasma and the screensaver « ChaniBlog

So, while trolling the feeds and coming across Chani’s post about this screensaver… and what amounts to one of the stranger use cases I’ve seen in a while… there’s this discussion about some plans to integrate plasma widgets into kdescreensaver and whatnot.  Yeah, she has a use case to justify this sort of functionality and it’s a little odd.  All I have to say is that if I had friends who took it upon themselves to diddle with my laptop while I was away, I’m afraid homicide would be in order.

I’m just saying…

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