Just as I was starting to work in Xbox at the end of 2004, a blog post by someone calling herself “EA Spouse” sent off a firestorm around EA’s practice of unrelenting death marches. Looks like this led to several lawsuits that have now been settled.
I didn’t stay long enough at Xbox to go [...]
April 25, 2006 – 12:56 pm
This article about ads in podcasts from Adage is disappointing to say the least. It’s too bad Apple couldn’t hold the line on this one. Hopefully it will be no more than just commercial podcasts like ESPN. They will kill the service if they put ads in pay-per-view content like TV shows. [...]
I wrote about how my old Avocent KVM died. I replaced it with an IOGear KVM that I’ve been very happy with. Before I got the IOGear, I sent a question to the Avocent support guys about whether they thought my old KVM was dead or not. Turns out, they were happy [...]
April 21, 2006 – 12:41 pm
MySQL continues to react to the post-InnoDB era with news on the new Falcon storage engine. I think they are doing a good job of straddling the fence. The InnoDB license was renewed and there is also talk of a Solid developed transaction engine. Whether playing all sides at once is a [...]
April 21, 2006 – 12:33 pm
I’ve been spending this week getting my development environment setup. I’ve always hacked around on stuff at home but now that I’m doing some independent development, it’s time to get serious about it. After spending a few days trying out various Linux distributions and some different software packages, I think I have my [...]
April 18, 2006 – 10:16 am
Last Friday was my final day at Pure Networks. I spent about 7 months there. In the end, it just wasn’t the right place at the right time for me. What I wanted to do wasn’t very compatible with what Pure Networks needed done right now.
So now what? I’ve never spent [...]
A fellow ex-Microsoft employee recently had this blog entry on why Linux is “10,000 bugs away from World Domination.” His premise is interesting but I’m not sure it is correct.
I got into open source while I was still at Microsoft. So I’ve been around it a little longer. He is right that [...]
My Avocent SwitchView died on me last week. Two of the four ports would fail to work. It was a decent enough KVM but you couldn’t do hotkey switching nor did it support audio. And it always was a little flaky.
I’ve never really had a KVM that I loved. It took [...]
You just never know what they will do next. Apple has done the unthinkable – enabled Windows on an Intel Mac with a new product called Bootcamp. I’ve seen many different takes on this – some think it will grow the market, others think it will be the death of OS X. [...]
I managed to get a PowerMac Dual 2.0 GHz G5 for a really good price (actually, a ridiculous price). I already have a PowerMac Dual 2.7 GHz G5 as my main development machine. For my subversion/trac server, I had been running on an old Dell Pentium III 600 running FreeBSD or Ubuntu at [...]
