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ARM for OSX

Looking at the article from Jean Louis Gasseé regarding the Apple is going to move to ARM for laptops scenario, I think we can be certain that Apple has to be preparing for this as a contingency. As...

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Mac Pro CPU update.

Apparently I can’t leave well enough alone. After upgrading my Mac Pro 4.1 to a 3.2GHz quad core Xeon from the originally installed 2.66GHz quad core Xeon, I read about some who had upgraded their Mac...

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Money down the drain?

How long will Microsoft continue to dig itself in the hole with the Surface tablets? According to this article from citeworld, Microsoft has lost approximately 1.7 billion USD in the last two years...

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Synolocker update

Update 8-5-14 Apparently the only versions of the Synology DSM that are affected are the 4.3-3810 series or earlier. So if you are running a version in that series, run, don’t walk and update your OS...

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Brent Simmons on Social Media…

He makes a good point about social media sites: My blog’s older than Twitter and Facebook, and it will outlive them. It has seen Flickr explode and then fade. It’s seen Google Wave and Google Reader...

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Posting from Textmate 2.

Textmate 2 The blogging bundle still works in Textmate 2 and Yosemite, so I’m happy about that. For those of you that are wondering how to get it going with a WordPress blog, here is how you go about...

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Regarding iTunes…

Since everyone seems to be down on iTunes at the moment. I’ve since noticed that they removed the ability to see how fast a disk is ripping. One of the first things I do whenever I would get a faster...

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New Filesystem For next Mac OS!

As noted here it looks like Apple is finally going to be replacing the HFS filesystem with something more modern. It will have Copy on Write, Snapshots and Space Sharing (like ZFS). Also noted is that...

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Comcast Employee’s Walk out in Protest of Trump’s temporary immigration ban

As reported here, employee’s from Comcast, (usually seen as one of the most hated companies in the US) walked out in protest of the temporary immigration ban implemented by the Trump administration. Of...

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Well, Duh- Of Course the tech sector is using H1B Visas to lower American wages.

As reported by the Huff Po, Silcon Valley is using H-1B visas to pay lower wages to immigrants.  This should come as no surprise to any one in the tech or science industry. The article is well...

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