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Drobo
I recently picked up a Drobo because like many other people in the IT world that know better, I haven’t been worried about backing up my data.
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On Android’s Market Share
Ever since Android was announced by Google a while back, Linux geeks everywhere have been hoping it would take a chunk out of the iPhone market. Though Android hasn’t really taken off as expected, hopes have been renewed recently with projections that the mobile OS would outpace the iPhone in the next year or two, especially with an armada of new phones intending to run it out of the box.
Personally, I doubt that Android will really dent the iPhone market. That’s not to say I don’t think it won’t be popular, I just think it will cut into a different mobile OS: Windows Mobile. Android and the iPhone do not really compete in the same arenas. The iPhone is a high-performance device with some core (limited) functionality. Android, however, is more of an all-purpose OS, as demonstrated by the diversity of hardware it can run on. To date, the all-purpose mobile OS has been Windows Mobile. In fact, it’s so all-purpose that the mobile checkout devices used by sales reps in Apple Stores run Windows Mobile.
As Android takes off, I’m guessing that Windows Mobile’s days are numbered. I haven’t heard anything about it in some time, and media share sometimes counts for more than market share. After all, if you looked around, would you guess that only 1 in 10 people use a Mac?
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The 5S methodology(Programming Style)
What is the 5S methodology?
5S is the name of a workplace organization methodology that uses a list of five Japanese words which, transliterated and translated into English, start with the letter S. This list is a mnemonic for a methodology that is often incorrectly characterized as “standardized cleanup”, however it is much more than cleanup. 5S is a philosophy and a way of organizing and managing the workspace and work flow with the intent to improve efficiency by eliminating waste, improving flow and reducing process unevenness.
– http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5S_(methodology)
Shall we dive a little deeper?
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Wolfram|Alpha Needs an Open Source Version
I’ve used Wolfram|Alpha for some in the past, but when it comes to actual, useful information, I can’t get it to give me much. It’s not hard to see why there aren’t results for every potential query: most people have strange interests and the few people behind the scenes at Wolfram|Alpha probably aren’t as weird as the rest of us. As clever as their software might be, it’s not going to anticipate people with strange hobbies. What does one do in that case? read more
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10/GUI and Reinventing More Than the Mouse
I stumbled onto 10/GUI over the weekend, a reimagining (not reinvention) of the traditional desktop. It has some interesting ideas, but most of all I’m glad to see someone is thinking about these things rather than just accepting the Old Ways.
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Watch NASA bomb the moon!
So tomorrow at 7:30AM EST you can watch NASA scar the moon at this location: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html
Yeah so here’s hoping it doesn’t crack in half and we have a real life armageddon on our hands because I don’t think Bruce Willis can help us out this time.
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Setting up for Python development in Ubuntu
I’ve been working on a Python graphics library and trying to do some development in Ubuntu. It wasn’t going well, and most of the development took place on Windows XP. Much of the difficulty in Ubuntu was trying to make Python see the library as an installed library. To do that in Windows, I merely put the code in C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\balthasar, but trying to do the equivalent in Ubuntu with the dist-packages folder was a mess and, I gathered, a really bad idea altogether.
Fortunately, there is a simple way to edit the .bashrc file in Ubuntu to add a home directory folder to Python’s search path. read more
