I almost couldn’t write this post. My sides hurt from laughing so hard. This story about Google being outraged by the NSA hacking is absolutely hilarious! Seriously??? You run a business on a “free” OS on a joke-of-the-industry CPU and you are outraged you got hacked? I got news for you, the source is available to everyone. Much of the code which goes in gets written by people who are unemployed and may not even … If You Ran OpenVMS You Wouldn’t Have to Be OutragedRead more
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The Sad State of LifeScan and Bayer
I must give a nod to the post and title I’m ripping off: The Sad State of Diabetes Technology in 2012. It has been almost a year and not much has changed. Well actually, the things which have changed should have made the required course of action completely obvious. Microsoft canned the head of Windows. (Okay, he “left” two weeks after Windows 8 came out with no prior warning or hint from the company, no … The Sad State of LifeScan and BayerRead more
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Do Kids Know This Today?
I was sitting in my office checking email this Sunday morning when suddenly I couldn’t send email. Oh I thought, my email service must be down. No problem, I’ll check on my eBay auctions. Nothing. I enter the IP address of my HughesNet Gen4 device and run the little test it has, zero packet loss. Click the customer care link, nothing. Okay, now it’s time to call. Oh wait, I have this thing auto billing … Do Kids Know This Today?Read more
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Diablotek
I have picked up power supplies from time to time just to have spares. Yes, it’s not as bad as it used to be, but, I don’t like the thought of having a machine down waiting for something as simple as a power supply. An even sadder situation is going to WorstBuy and paying $90 for a power supply I _know_ didn’t cost $12 wholesale. My first indication of issues came while at a client … DiablotekRead more
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Free Nationwide WiFi
I was absolutely elated when I heard this story on NPR. Later there were many stories posted about it being “wish fulfillment” or “wishful thinking”. Personally, I don’t think it was either, despite the research done in the above link. I do believe it will happen, possibly not during this presidency, but I believe it will happen in the near future none the less. Why? Both the FCC and the general population are pissed at … Free Nationwide WiFiRead more