Category: Technology

*drool*

I write software in my spare time, and at work. It's what I do. To a degree, it's how I make a living. When my shutdown tool ShutOff 2000 was cracked, I didn't bother writing a new encryption algorithm. I realised that it would take only 20 minutes to crack it again, compared to the hours it would take to write. Sure, it's potential lost income, but the basic good of people paying me money to use it has (if you'll pardon the pun) paid off.

At risk of annoying some agency in the United States of America, please take the time to read the related link.

At work we're getting a new hardware infrastructure to support growth in our department. Amongst blade servers and whatnot, we're also getting one of these. It's coming with 17 drives and 16GB of RAM.

The fancy new website for the National Traffic Information System (see related link), which is going live with a new system on Friday, had this to say. It was at 22:23 local time, three days before launch:

Firefox and Thunderbird are resource hogs. Then again, what else is there that works the same way across all current platforms?

In my ongoing quest to rid myself of relying on Windows, I've finally got network printing working from the iMac. Yay!