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I spent the day at the consultant's office today. The guy next to me was on the phone one moment and the next he had three network admins crawling all over him. Apparently they detected MSBlast on his machine. The scene was quite comical. Very shortly, the guy has a cluster of about ten people around him asking him how he contracted the virus. How the heck does he know? The guy couldn't even clean it up himself. The not so funny part came when on the network admins turned to me and asked, "Have you been here all week?" I replied, "No." "We'll have to work on your computer, too," he said. I said, "I don't think so." The admin had quite a surprised look on his face. He asked, "Why not?" I simply closed my laptop and pointed at it -- Apple. He said, "Oh." That's the last I heard of it. |
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Sun promotes new OS as secure alternative to Microsoft. Seizing the opportunity to criticize a competitor and promote its own operating system, Sun Microsystems on Wednesday opened up early registration for its Project Mad Hatter. [ InfoWorld: Top News]
It's about time someone focuses on Unix on the desktop, apart from Apple Darwinizing FreeBSD. We need another serious contender on the desktop. Personally, I'm sick of the free publicity that Microsoft gets with each bug that is uncovered. |
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I got my invite to bloggerCon today from Dave. I am very excited about it. The way the invite is written, I get the impression this is going to be the Woodstock of the blogosphere. The very first Woodstock, an event not to be missed. I am sure everyone attending will be blogging while they are there. This is going to be a trip. Everyone will be sitting there in the conference experiencing the same thing at the same time and will be writing their interpretation of what they are experiencing at the same time. Will everyone have the same interpretation? I think not, but that's the fun of it all. It's going to be one big cranial mess. |
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I received my new laptop from my new employer today, so it is back to Windows for the majority of my computational life on a daily basis. My Powerbook is still my weapon of choice, but I must use the weapons provided by the army for which I am now fighting. Getting beyond the Windows vs. Mac thing, I really can't complain about the machine. It is a IBM ThinkPad X31. It weighs 3.6 pounds, has a 12.1" TFT display, has a 1.4GHz Intel P4-M processor, 40GB hard drive, 1.2GB of RAM, integrated 802.11b, integrated Bluetooth, two USB ports, a Firewire port, one PCMCIA slot, a compact flash slot, an IR port, and an external CD-RW/DVD-RW. This thing is jammed full of features for 3.6 lbs. So, you see, I just can't complain. |
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I am a nonlinear system. There is only one of me. I must keep up with the data flowing through my life. Training my mind to handle different types of "traffic" simultaneously is key to scaling myself. I categorize traffic into three general buckets: low, medium, and high bandwidth traffic. What I mean by bandwidth is the amount of cycles I burn consuming traffic. An example of low bandwidth traffic is email, IM, and anything text based. Medium bandwidth traffic consists of one-way graphics, audio, and video based. High bandwidth traffic is direct human contact and two-way audio and video communication. The reverse is also true. I generate low, medium, and high bandwidth traffic. What you are reading right now is low bandwidth traffic I generated. Some of my other system characteristics are thresholds. How many conversations can I effectively carry on at once? How many IM sessions can I maintain at once? How much email can I process in a single hour, day, or week? How many pages of stuff can I generate in a single hour, day, or week that is not email or IM? How many iterations or transmit cycles do I have to go through before my stuff is ready for general consumption or broadcast? The final system component is the processing plant, or my brain. My brain dictates how fast the traffic gets processed and how many streams and combination of streams I can handle at once. My processing plant ultimately determines the aggregate velocity of my input and output. My processing plant is also the only thing I have control over. The bandwidth of traffic is fixed. Thresholds vary based on the total number of cycles available. Training my brain and busting through my thresholds on a regular basis is the key to scaling myself. |
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