Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Technology”
The article, “Trading program sparked May ‘flash crash’” today (Oct 1, 2010) by Ben Rooney at CNNMoney.com confirms what I have feared for quite some time: there may be a good deal of ‘intelligence’ involved in the stock market, but very little wisdom. The article outlines how a computer program was monitoring a certain type of stock, which reached a …
Yes my friends, the time has come to be vigilant for low flying pigs. Why you ask? Well listen closely… very closely.. cause I’m only going to say this once. Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer said something that I actually agree with. Gasp! Ekk! Did I really just say that? Now, in case you haven’t been following along, it is really no …
That is the question I have to ask of all the media hype over this new trojan horse type attack on OSX the last couple days. http://wiredblogs.tripod.com/cultofmac/index.blog?entry_id=1415489 (link removed – article no longer available) I wrote a response to this article as follows: From article: “One more thing: there was talk a while back that Apple’s move to Intel chips …
First, we hear that GM is having problems and cutting back. Now, about a month later, we hear the same or worse news from Ford. Huge cuts and changes affecting tens to hundreds of thousands of employees. I feel very bad for these folks. While in my field, IS/IT, jobs can be had just about anywhere, the same is not …
AP writer Liz Austin reports on Thursday that Sony is being sued by the Texas Attorney General and a California-based digital rights group over their latest botch of an attempt at DRM (Digital Rights Management). I’m laughing by butt off on this one, but it is not because I’m some music stealing kid going, “Score another win for the pirates …
In the coming Windows Vista (the OS formerly known as Longhorn… Mmoooo!), Microsoft is promising the ability to access applications and desktops over the Internet without a virtual private network. Considering their past and current track record, is anyone but me just a tad nervous about trusting M$ to VPN their data around the internet? http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1842176,00.asp (active link removed – …
This topic, as the title states is somewhat of a rabbit track from what I was going to post. I WAS going to post the details of my stereo install this weekend in my Miata. I’m still going to do this, but it might take a while. To give you some idea how this all went, I’m debating between “Frankenstein …
