Social Pressure + More
Wednesday 26 April 2006 at 1:38 pm. Great post on the evils of Social Pressure over at Gaping Void. I'd blow it up and print it out to stick on my wall but its sure to offend someone
Rob points to a WebOS article over at zdnet in his blog with some pertinant comments. ArsTechnica points to the same article and links to another web based OS project that actually covers the basics rather nicely - Is there a WebOS in your future.
Some annoying suprises in Microsofts Vista OS - Endless Security Warnings. I guess they're damned if they do and damned if they don't. Warning the end-user of suspicious activity is always a balancing act between annoyance and security.
Wonderful architectural concept - library built from discarded aircraft bodies.
Interesting - Perils of publishing.
I could only answer 50% of these questions without having to think to hard about the answer - Scientists offer 10 basic questions to test your knowledge.
Geek heaven - A tour of Microsofts Mac Business Unit.
I used to spend an inordinate amount of time playing the first old Mac game on this page over the rudimentary PhoneNet network - Spectre. And then it was superceded by my Bolo addiction
Rob Janoff - Invented the Apple Logo.
Can't see this being acceptable for anything but the geekiest small companies - BYOL - Bring Your Own Laptop. Maintaining standards is hard enough without having to support unknown hardware/software too.
Interesting - How a manager treats a waiter gives a true indication of what they're like as a person.
Interesting - Microsofts web servers move to 64-bit.
A review over at ArsTechica for Silent Hill - The Movie. Almost sounds reasonable. The first two games were fantastic for creating a creepy atmosphere - like almost every game to movie translation its never going to be as good as the original but at least they've made a decent effort.
Post on the dire state of Mac OS X Backup Software. Does have a recommendation for a product which would appear to do the job quite well though - SuperDuper.
William Yeagerinvented the multi-protocol router back in 1980.
Handy - OpenBSD Tips.
The first release candidate for the fancy new Windows shell/scripting environment is available - Windows PowerShell RC1. Its development name was 'Monad' and the first Microsoft product to use it extensively will be Exchange 12 (eg it won't be in Vista).
Interesting - Datacenter Do's & Don'ts. Related - Xen in Action. Both articles found via OSNews .
