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Making iPhone Obsolete

Posted in Gadgets, Puters on February 17th, 2007 by Lee

The Onion

Apple Hard At Work Making iPhone Obsolete

CUPERTINO, CA—Only a month after the much-heralded announcement of the iPhone, Apple CEO Steve Jobs confirmed that his engineers were…


iPhone prepares to destroy Q, Treo and you in June

Posted in Gadgets, Puters on January 10th, 2007 by Lee

Specifications Comparison:
Apple iPhone - 4.5 x 2.4 x 0.46″ 115 x 61 x 11.6mm
Motorola Q - 4.57 x 2.52 x 0.47″ 116 x 64 x 12mm
Palm Treo - 4.4 x 2.3 x 0.9″ 113 x 59 x 23mm

It is Half as thick as a treo and more compact than the Q.
It will cost $499 with a 2 year Cingular contract.
You will regret buying it. You will regret resisting it.
The iPhone has already won and it is mocking you.

The Apple iPhone

Certified & Certifiable

Posted in Misc, Puters on June 9th, 2006 by Lee

Someone passed two tests today to be a Veritas Certified High Availability Professional… Yes beotches!

The Q continued

Posted in Gadgets, Puters on June 5th, 2006 by Lee

I am in Veritas Clustering class at the moment in NYC and writing this post on my new smartphone, the Motorola Q. That’s pretty cool, in a nerdy kind of way.
But you can’t upload photos with the Q ie browser. I’m gonna have to look into that.

Bummer: Sun Cutting 5000 Jobs

Posted in Loot, Puters on June 4th, 2006 by Lee

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Being a UNIX admin is cool.  You're an expert in a valuable technical niche that's highly in demand.  You don't compete with college grads for jobs because they don't teach enterprise UNIX in colleges.

So the bottom line is you're highly paid and in demand… until shit like this happens.  When Sun lays off people it sucks because no hot-shot UNIX admin wants to compete with hundreds of laid off Sun Unix admins for jobs.

Unfortunately those are the breaks when you make your living working for other people.  Market forces and Sun layoffs can jeopardize your livelihood.  What's a nerd to do?

 Reuters Article

Symantec tells Microsoft, “Don’t Steal!”

Posted in Puters on May 21st, 2006 by Lee

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Symantec is suing Microsoft claiming Vista and Longhorn are based on Veritas Storage Technology that Microsoft does not have the right to use.  In addition, Symantec says that Microsoft tried to fraudulently patent Veritas IP.

Talk about poetic justice ;) Microsoft is being accused of stealing software.

Read the story on PCWorld  FT.com  InfoWeek