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Monthly Archives April 2006

Moving On

Last Friday was my final day at Pure Networks. I spent about 7 months there. In the end, it just wasn’t the right place at the right time for me. What I wanted to do wasn’t very compatible with what Pure Networks needed done right now.
So now what? I’ve never spent [...]

Posted 18 April 2006 † Andrew § Personal ‡ Comments (1) °

Linux and World Domination

A fellow ex-Microsoft employee recently had this blog entry on why Linux is “10,000 bugs away from World Domination.” His premise is interesting but I’m not sure it is correct.
I got into open source while I was still at Microsoft. So I’ve been around it a little longer. He is right that [...]

Posted 10 April 2006 † Andrew § Technology ‡ Comments (3) °

Mac-friendly KVM

My Avocent SwitchView died on me last week. Two of the four ports would fail to work. It was a decent enough KVM but you couldn’t do hotkey switching nor did it support audio. And it always was a little flaky.
I’ve never really had a KVM that I loved. It took [...]

Posted 09 April 2006 † Andrew § Mac OS X ‡ Comments (0) °

Bootcamp

You just never know what they will do next. Apple has done the unthinkable - enabled Windows on an Intel Mac with a new product called Bootcamp. I’ve seen many different takes on this - some think it will grow the market, others think it will be the death of OS X. [...]

Posted 06 April 2006 † Andrew § Mac OS X ‡ Comments (3) °

Tiger Server

I managed to get a PowerMac Dual 2.0 GHz G5 for a really good price (actually, a ridiculous price). I already have a PowerMac Dual 2.7 GHz G5 as my main development machine. For my subversion/trac server, I had been running on an old Dell Pentium III 600 running FreeBSD or Ubuntu at [...]

Posted 01 April 2006 † Andrew § Mac OS X ‡ Comments (0) °

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