From a phishing message I got in my email today: Hi gothmog, You have blocked your Facebook account. You can reopen your account at any moment by logging into Facebook using your old login email address and password. After that you will be able to exploit the site as usual. Kind regards, The Facebook Team [...]
A good architecture is consistent in the sense that, given partial knowledge of the system, one can predict the remainder. – Fred Brooks, Design of Design, pg. 143 I’ve been voraciously reading Design of Design, a new book of essays from Fred Brooks, author of the software engineering classic, The Mythical Man Month. I’ve been [...]
I am a big fan of John Gruber’s website Daring Fireball. He always has good information and I appreciate his opinions on technical issues. (And yes, I have been supporting him for years, I have a whole collection of t-shirts.). With the whole brouhaha surrounding AT&T’s new data plan pricing, I have been getting increasingly [...]
When we last left our intrepid hero (geek), had convinced myself that the new Western Digital drives with the 4kb block sizes operated perfectly fine under OpenSolaris, but that the frankenstein of my old server needed to be replaced. I figured if I was going to do this, I was going to do it right. [...]
A week or so ago, in my weekly status email from my OpenSolaris NAS, I got an unfortunate notice. status: One or more devices has experienced an unrecoverable error. An attempt was made to correct the error. Applications are unaffected. The last sentence is the welcome news that one gets from using cool things like [...]
February 10, 2010 – 5:18 pm
Twitter being the source of all good things nowadays (at least according to “social media experts”), I posted a question to my huge list of followers for ideas to write a blog entry about. Parsing through all the suggestion (1), I found the best idea from KT: tisfan: @gothmog talk about how you got into [...]
September 27, 2009 – 11:10 am
While I know that this will not be the solution to everyone who is having problems between Snow Leopard and various CIFS (SMB) server implementations, I wanted to post my solution with as many keywords that google would pick it up and hopefully help a few other people. The Symptoms: After upgrading my new Mac [...]
If you had asked me 10 years ago my thoughts on project management, I would have lamented the overly restrictive activities, rules, and heaven forbid processes. I have leRner since not that I was necessarily wrong, but that I was biased from a viewpoint of a company that had that natural, instinctive operation. The addition [...]
Good morning everyone. I thought I would share a technology solution to a problem I have been facing with calendars. Up until a year or so ago, I was generally anti-calendar. This was not really a technology problem, it was a bandwidth control one; it was my belief that if I had so many things [...]
For many years, there has been a trend in all industries to look to outsourcing as a method to “reduce costs” and “improve efficiencies.” In the software industry, this has given rise to large numbers of firms in countries where the cost of labor is low; India, Eastern block countries, Malaysia, etc. This is a [...]