Monthly Archives: January 2007

ps pipe grep: episode 9 (All the time)

January 31, 2007 – 4:00 pm

We’re back. Ben, Jason and Dave talk about OpenSolaris Build 56, Intel and Sun kissing in a tree; RSS readers…Vienna or NetNewsWire and some predictions for 2007. Here’s a direct link to the mp3. This week’s music: some of the soundtrack from arguably the worse James Bond film of all time: On Her Majesty’s Secret [...]

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"…control buttons fixed in plastic…"

January 19, 2007 – 10:22 pm

I am sure many of you know the origin of the quote. It’s from the introduction of Apple’s iPhone last week. Early into the introduction, Mr. Jobs said about the other smart phones on the market: They all have these control buttons that are fixed in plastic and the same for every application. [5’28”, iPhone [...]

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Joyent Core: Live

January 11, 2007 – 6:22 pm

We’re a couple months late (billing systems…), but now Joyent customers get all our consumer applications for a simple, low price. We call it “Joyent Core”. $15/month (or $99/year) gets you: Shared Hosting Account (from TextDrive) Includes 5 websites, 5GiB of space, 5 databases, 15GiB bandwidth On-line Backup and File-sharing (from Strongspace) 5 users, 5GiB [...]

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Nordstrom's Line of Cash Registers

January 4, 2007 – 6:02 pm

Nordstrom is a great chain of department stores in the USA. What began as a shoe store with enormous selection and fanatical service, expanded to provide a wide range of high-quality men’s, women’s, teen and kid’s clothing. I often gets calls from a salesperson at Nordstrom telling me about new stock that I may be [...]

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