The New York Times had a great article on Google over the break. Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the founders of Google had built their computers and developed software that was more efficient than anything in the market at that time. They had done this to save money. Read the rest of this entry »
For those of you with iPods with the Dock Connection, there’s a cool little gadget worth looking into called the Pocket Dock Combo. What this little thing is is an adapter for your iPod with Dock connection to use any standard USB or Firewire cable. Previous generation Pocket Dock’s only allow a USB connection or a Firewire connection. This is a convenient for those of you that like to transfer data to and from multiple computers. It comes in handy because most people with have a USB cable already connected to their computer. Read the rest of this entry »
Apple updated its website today to include its new 17-inch MacBook Pro. It has very similar specs as the 15-inch Mac Book Pro, but adds the top end 2.16 GHz Intel Core Duo Processor as a standard option as well as Firewire 800 and an 8x Superdrive. Other features include 1GB of RAM expandable to 2GB, built-in iSight Camera, MagSafe Power Adapter, 256MB ATI Mobility Radeon X1600, Firewire 400, Bluetooth, and Airport Extreme all for the starting price of $2799. Read the rest of this entry »
With the Web 2.0 phenomenon in affect, people are feeling the investment fever they did in the dot-com era according to CNN Money. The Internet bubble had burst once before and many people thought it would never happen again. The next net boom may happen again. Read the rest of this entry »
Doug Maxwell posted a tutorial on how to improve the security of OpenSSH on your server installations. If you haven’t come across brute-force SSH attacks on your machines, you must be lucky. I have seen a few of these attempts on my own servers and none have been successful to my knowledge. Read the rest of this entry »
David Weiss, a software engineer at Microsoft, wrote a blog entry giving a tour of the Mac lab at Microsoft headquarters. He says they often have press events and special visits and some people are given a tour of the Mac Lab. Read the rest of this entry »
The details were accidentally leaked on the web by Seagate themselves describing their new 7200.10 series drives utilizing perpendicular technology. Two 750GB models have shown up on Seagate’s website as well as other 7200.10 drives ranging from 200GB-750GB. These drives all run at 7200 RPM and offer 16MB and 8MB buffers. Read the rest of this entry »
