I’ve been battling with the SFU NFS server for a while now. One mystery I haven’t solved with it it’s mapping of the ‘group’ owner of a file. In Unix, every file has an associated user and group, and these are stored in the file system. In Windows, each file has an owner SID, which […]
I’ve been pretty enthusiastic about IE7 since it came out. It seems faster, has tabs, and handles most websites pretty well. Recently, I’ve come to have a more negative view. Some of it is related to IE7’s UI quirks, some of it is just performance. Specifically: There’s not enough room for tabs (the bookmark buttons […]
Apple TV: meh. It’s still too locked into iTunes. I’ve already got a PC hooked up to my TV, which works fine, and I’m looking at a SqueezeBox to hook up to the Rhapsody catalog. Yea yea yea, the iPhone is cool. It’ll be great if all you did was browse the occasional webpage, send […]
I went into the Apple store for the first time in months today–a day before Macworld–and came away disenchanted and disappointed. Even as Macworld is about to begin, I can’t imagine anything that his Steve-ness bring into this world that would rekindle my enthusiasm about the whole Apple platform. It’s a rather depressing feeling for […]
It’s commentary like this that irritates me to no end. All these people going around acting like it’s a big flipping mystery why people don’t buy stuff of the iTunes Music Store. If you just thought about it for a second, it’s obvious. DRM. Price. Experience. Any way you spin it, the DRM sucks. It […]