BurningbirdI had asked about a new hosting company on Twitter. My main interest was cutting costs, but I’m also having problems with my current hosting company. Frankly, I think the problem is all of the Ruby-on-Rails applications running—database access almost comes to a standstill at times. Regardless, the company also turned on PHP safe mode, […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Sheila Lennon asked my opinion on the Nova Spivack’s recent writing about Wolfram Alpha, and posted my response, as well as other notes. Wolfram Alpha is the latest brainchild of Mathematica creator, Stephan Wolfram, and is a stealth project to create a computational knowledge engine. To repeat my response: First of all, it’s […]
The Apple folks were able to replace the hard drive in my Powerbook quickly, and I picked it up last night. I noticed that they installed Tiger, not Leopard, and when I asked why, since I had Leopard, they said that they could only update to what was originally installed on the machine. I can […]
Apple has finally wised up to the economy and has rolled out affordable versions of the iMac, the Mac Mini, and MacPro. The Mac Mini could end up being a TV box killer, especially with the space and CPU. Unlike the AppleTV, you can have your iTunes, and Hulu, too. But it’s the iMac that interests […]
I have been focused on OpenID implementations lately, specifically in WordPress and Drupal. The Drupal effort is for my own sites. Until this weekend, I had turned off new user registration at my Drupal sites, because I get too many junk user registrations. However, to incorporate OpenID into a Drupal site, you have to allow […]