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Bias is a wonderful thing

When Theo de Raadt went public last week with comments about bugs in the Intel Core Duo I believed everything he said - and for two reasons:(1) he's the key developer for OpenBSD - the most security aware small systems Unix available - and therefore highly credible on...

Tags: Media bias/incompetence, Linux, Hardware, General, Development, Apple

Blog posts 2007-07-06

The right way for Sun to deal with Wall Street

(Note this is a rerun - from May 2nd, 2006)Dear Jonathan and Scott:Want some free advice? Worth every penny it'll cost you....I talked yesterday about how well Wall street's advice has worked out for HP - a great company turned into history on the hoof. Those same analysts, however, have...

Tags: Sun, Media bias/incompetence, General

Blog posts 2007-07-03

Failing to cross the great divide

Last weeks series on the tendency of political and technological groups to barricade themselves among their friends drew this example - by "defconvegas" in reply to "Mactels carbon footprint" I wonder who came up with ACP and ACPI ACP...

Tags: General, Media bias/incompetence, Unanswered questions

Blog posts 2007-05-15

MacTel's carbon footprint

Heres the "Future" paragraph from an open letter, signed by Steve Jobs and posted on Apples site on May 2nd, discussing steps Apple has taken, or is taking, to develop and hold a green advantage over competitors including HP and Dell....

Tags: Unanswered questions, Media bias/incompetence, General

Blog posts 2007-05-10

The benchmark war: AMD vs. Intel

The last few weeks have seen a certain amount of name calling going on between some key AMD executives and people from, or representing, Intel. As I understand it, this all started whan some AMD people got upset because the press was buying...

Tags: Media bias/incompetence, General, Enterprise Policy

Blog posts 2007-04-12

AMD gets knifed - and in public too

The headline in Saturdays Calgary Herald read " AMD finds itself in financial peril" and that same story, by an "AP technology writer" named Jordan Robertson also found its way into numerous other newspapers including FoxNews The full story has about 970 words, lets look...

Tags: Media bias/incompetence, General

Blog posts 2007-03-15

ah, so what's a billion, or two?

Heres something directly from one of my favourite sources of tragi-comedy, the risks digest: Software error reportedly contributed to sudden Dow-Jones drop Wed, 28 Feb 2007 11:37:15 PST On 27 Feb 2007, the Chinese stock market experienced a 9% drop. This apparently...

Tags: Taxes, tax, Feb 2007, computer

Blog posts 2007-03-13