Island in the Net by Khürt Williams
Technology and Photography Musings. Established circa 2000.
My employer has never paid the Microsoft tax. Our email systems are based open standards technologies (IMAP and SMTP). We have a handful of email servers that support over 40,000 users with zero downtime.
Daring Fireball: Exchange ExchangeThe pressure isn’t going to be on Apple to license proprietary technology from RIM or Microsoft. The pressure is going to be on IT departments to support open standards like IMAP, which the iPhone supports.
A team of designers has come up with a rather cool design for a blood glucose meter. They are calling their Lime green pod shaped device, the Lima bean. Snazzy name. The device uses infrared technology. Get more information over at Medgadget.
This last sentence sums it up for me. I am reminded of my early days in computing writing games for my Commodore 64 using BASIC.
Blogs.UnixFu.Net » Blog Archive » Switched from Linux to Mac
There is a fundamental shift in tinkering/playing on the Mac versus Linux, you tinker/play to get things done, not to get things to work (for the most part). Sure it isn’t true all the time, yet there is enough of a shift where you can just focus on getting things done and being productive.
