MacBook Air promotional outtake?

Posted on May 8, 2008 by Dave

I am fairly well known for my anti-OSX rants, not so much because it’s a more expensive hardware platform, more expensive software platform, or even because of the lack of user choice. It’s the community and the attitude that annoys me.

Don’t get me wrong, some of the “I’m a Mac” commercials are actually rather funny. However, just as often they seem to miss the boat. Where is the security guard following around the Apple guy after MacBook Air Hacked In Two Minutes?

So without further ado, I bring you:

Power outage, no phones

Posted on May 7, 2008 by Dave

This morning around 1:30am my power went out. UPSes failed shortly thereafter (unfortunately I haven’t been able to find the right cables to monitor the UPSes)

Power was restored late this morning, all of my Windows servers and desktops are fine, as is my BSD router. Unfortunately my Linux based PBX decided it doesn’t get enough love, the filesystem is rather corrupt looking.

As a result, all of my phones are currently offline. I expect to have some functionality up later this evening, but in the mean time, I’ll apologize in advance to anyone who can’t reach me.

To add to the fun, I did a firmware upgrade to my cellphone a few days ago, it’s still having some technical difficulties, so I may not be reachable by cell either, although that one will be fixed shortly.

Gas tax scam

Posted on May 6, 2008 by Dave

So I assume everyone reading this blog has seen at least one classic Nigerian 419 scam?

You know the ones, where you get a “I am Mrs Rekha D’Cunha from Kuwait. I am married to Mr.Sylvester D’Cunha who worked with Kuwait embassy in Ivory Coast for eleven years before he died in the year 2002.” and ends with an offer of a large sum of money if you’re willing to help them move an even larger sum of money?

Check this out, it’s absolutely brilliant!

We are top officials of the United States Senate Government who are interested in importation of oil into our country with funds that are presently trapped in the FEDERAL TRANSPORTATION TRUST FUND dedicated to improving transportation. We wish to send this money to overseas accounts in the MIDDLE EAST but cannot due to restrictions in Congress Transportation Equity Act requiring that this money must be spent to build roads, bridges and high speed trains.

So the question is, how exactly is this supposed to help? Reducing prices doesn’t help reduce consumption, and according to my memory of supply-and-demand 101, with a fixed supply, the only way to reduce costs is to REDUCE consumption, not increase it.

Oh well, stupid is as stupid does.

The Dave

I'd rather be phishing

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