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Re: Mac OS X Operating System Market Share Bumping 10 percent (9.93%)

sol — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 17:14:21 -0000

Agreed. Hitslink reports have all been adjusted down by about 50%.
Number of users versus number of machines is another measure not
considered (lots of windows machines are in service, but aren't
primary machines). Mobiles market share is also an oddity since most
mobile devices have windows or mac using owner.

Re: People who hang the title “MIT study” on a student project are likely fake science writers

sol — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 08:57:51 -0000

The interesting point to the "study" is still important. From one's connections (at least the meaningful ones) one can ascertain preferences not discoverable through the individual. The study itself is just college a homework assignment and the outcome should be common sense.

The take away for those trying to retain privacy is that they can leave every detail of their online life blank, but having connections to non-blank friends will give them away. It's not rocket science, but it's another privacy element for novices to understand as they join social media.

Re: The Mac/PC dev/QA environment

sol — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 10:02:02 -0000

I've gone back and forth between a single codebase on my machine. I never
had a problem with speed, but for SVN repositories it became a bit
cumbersome. What I did to get around it was to only handle checkouts and
commits on the Mac. Originally I was trying to do this on the PC, too, and
was having trouble.
Let me know how it goes....

Re: The Mac/PC dev/QA environment

chw — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 08:15:29 -0000

sol, thanks for the prompt feedback. as i said, i tried it a long while ago and i haven't tested all the scenarios you mention. but it does have several hundreds of files that change a lot (collaborative env, automatic codegen) and we use incredibuild. it was my ideal scenario to maintain only a single code base on the mac, but the slow compile killed that effort then. i may revisit this approach.

Re: The Mac/PC dev/QA environment

sol — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 07:51:02 -0000

I find it faster than a mapped network drive, but slower than if the
files were on a local virtual disk. It's noticible for a major
project, but only on the first build or a clean and build.

Even for medium sized projects it works very well fe me without a
significant delay. What kind of delays are you seeing?

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Re: Switching from BlackBerry Bold to iPhone 3G S

twitter-4411321 — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 02:13:11 -0000

It would be really interesting to understand what exactly is worse in 9000 comparing to 3G S. Camera is not a biggest selling point for me. Anything else? Like speed, reliability, email, browsing? I do not care about toys-games-apps, but what I could miss is Kindle iPhone app...

Re: Switching from BlackBerry Bold to iPhone 3G S

sol — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:44:31 -0000

It was great and haven't considered switching back... At least not to the 9000. Future BlackBerrys may be competitive. I still have the 9000 and use it for testing of various mobile services from time to time, but it's definitely not a pleasure compared to the 3G S.

Re: IE6NoMore

sol — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 09:47:32 -0000

Dude - I'm advertising for the cause of blowing IE6 out. The statement is
still messed up.

Re: Setting up new mail notification on an iPhone using ONLY the Gmail web app

sol — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 09:48:46 -0000

Good point - getting part of the message also opens up the ability to
preview the pushed message. Plenty of times you don't even have to go to
your inbox.

Re: How-to: Post Flickr images with iPhone WordPress app

sol — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:25:13 -0000

Maybe the best way now is to add a blog to Flickr's image blog feature... I
haven't tried it yet. It would allow staying on Flickr's site the entire
time. I'll do a test post later.

Re: Google Voice Migration

sol — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:39:40 -0000

That's one of my favorite features. Makes telemarketing fears just go
away completely.

Re: How to replace the LCD screen on a Nokia N82

sol — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 12:23:13 -0000

It was a little tricky, but not bad. While you've got it almost at
that point take a few minutes (or more) to study how you'll pop it
off. It's rather easy and any damage from the disassembly will be to
the broken screen (that you're replacing anyway).

Re: How to modify RSS (Scripting News)

sol — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:54:03 -0000

We've been namespacing our own needs in to RSS from time to time, but often there is already an accepted namespace for what we need. For example, Yahoo!'s MediaRSS got us everything we needed for music and video playlists, in an accepted form that many RSS readers support. The same occurred for some financial reporting needs.

Don't reinvent the xmlns:wheel.

Re: Bug Tracking on the iPhone with JIRA Mate

sol — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:35:12 -0000

You listed your email address as that of the developer. Are you the developer? If so, please let us know more about it and what you're hoping to do with the application.

Re: The problem with instantaneous time travel relative versus absolute paths

sol — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:55:25 -0000

The big bang would have occurred at a specific point (or multiple points, if you subscribe to multiple bangs), and matter would travel outward from that point. It would have an origin that is absolute, but every other point would be relative based on an origin.

We don't know precisely, but we can make estimates based on the expansion and shifts in the universe. This isn't necessary however, since we can still make calculations based on our movement over time.

Another interesting thing is that atoms may also be expanding. Not only could someone end up in the wrong place, but they may also be larger or smaller (assuming the atoms didn't resize based on the time/location).

Re: Switched from iPhone 3G to Blackberry Bold because of two features

sol — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 11:27:38 -0000

It shouldn't reset it since the only change to the account is the data plan. Your iPhone data plan would be removed and the Blackberry service would be added.

Re: Obsolete skills

sol — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:46:10 -0000

Personally filtering the noise by reading every tweet and feed...

Really, Google Wave and Twitter's Search are about to make our over-friend-subscription tendencies a thing of the past. I'm subscribing more and more to search based feeds instead of individual bloggers. My news consumption is now an aggregation of search based aggregations.

Re: How to post images to Twitter and Flickr at the same time from an iPhone

sol — Mon, 18 May 2009 19:25:26 -0000

They will very soon... They recently fired up their own url shortener,
flic.kr. Expect to see some direct flickr use soon!

Re: How to post images to Twitter and Flickr at the same time from an iPhone

sol — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 08:28:06 -0000

Neat - I'll check it out.

Re: Google in my pocket during Bond Quantum of Solace (the Bolivian Desert)

sol — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 13:03:38 -0000

Fixed - thanks. (actually, it's Aston Martin)

Re: How to post images to Twitter and Flickr at the same time from an iPhone

sol — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 23:29:12 -0000

That's a great idea... Brilliant. I'm going to do that, too. Easier
than doing it to both addies.

There are plenty of services that will re-mail, so even folks without
their own servers should be able to do this.

Re: How to post images to Twitter and Flickr at the same time from an iPhone

sol — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:32:31 -0000

Sweet! I'll have to check it...

Re: CNN Does iPhone Right

sol — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:16:04 -0000

Must be analyzing the IP in addition to the user-agent. They do this
to prevent people from getting the audio and video for free (without
commercials).

Re: Flow - Jabber/XMPP as an RSS over HTTP replacement

sol — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:48:29 -0000

Hmmm, if it's real time and push based, for sure... I'm not real keen on
pull or polled systems. Got a link?

Re: 2009 Philadelphia Car Show

sol — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 21:53:24 -0000

I couldn't see the main system but it probably ranged between a Mac Mini +
20" display (~$1,200) to a Mac Pro + 20" display (~$4,000).

I like the move towards integrated Microsoft products and automobiles. This
was downright surprising. I do have to say that the video was running
beautifully smooth.