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Sunday, August 10, 2003 |
Switching to TypePadMacIT has moved:http://www.macit.org/9:58:11 PM  |
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Wednesday, July 23, 2003 |
MacPulseMacPulse.com - the mac web headline aggregator
Great site for an overall snapshot of the latest Macintosh info.
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Wednesday, June 4, 2003 |
Palm to acquire HandspringI thought they were joking at first!
from cnet: "Palm said Wednesday that it will buy rival Handspring for approximately $169 million in an effort to strengthen its grip on the market for handheld devices."
Getting the Handspring team back at Palm is great news, and if you don't know the whole story about how Jeff Hawkins invented the PalmPilot, it's quite interesting. David Pogue has written an excellent book about it - Piloting Palm.
I got a Visor Prism while they were still popular, but became disillusioned after Handspring dropped the Springboard module. I've had Palms too, but the news hasn't really been exciting - until now |
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Monday, June 2, 2003 |
ColdFusionTwo clients want us to host their websites. Problem--the sites are in ColdFusion. Solution--buy a PC and set up a ColdFusion server.
I've been using Lasso for years, so I don't think there will be much of a learning curve. I'm also not too excited about keeping two Lasso license$ current, so maybe it's a good time to get up to speed on ColdFusion.
Not that I'm looking at the moment, but it's hard to justify putting much time into learning Lasso when you NEVER see a job opening for people with Lasso skills. ColdFusion developers, on the other hand, always seem to be in demand.
I'm going to set up a development server on my Ti PowerBook using ColdFusion MX for J2EE on Mac OS X, since the ColdFusion server doesn't run on Macintosh.
Should be fun :)
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Friday, May 23, 2003 |
This bug is brought to you by the letter P"A bug, which appeared in an antispam rule update, began blocking and quarantining all incoming and outgoing messages containing the letter P" [more]
This is eerily reminiscent of Microsoft's patent on ones & zeros.
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Wednesday, May 14, 2003 |
Goodbye, MailwatchI've been using Mailwatch for a couple of years to scan all incoming mail for viruses before it gets to our Eudora Internet Mail Server. It's been working very well, except for occasional slow delivery.
Unfortunately, they've just implemented a $100/month minimum fee, which is twice what we've been paying. It may not seem like much, but every little bit counts.
I looked into various "appliances" for scanning mail in transit, but there's little Macintosh support and they're kind of pricey.
I'm already running EIMS' supplied attachment filters, which easily blocks most viruses, but I need to be reasonably sure that nothing will get through. Posters to the EIMS List recommend supplementing the attachment filters with Simple Text Filter, which stores its rules in plain text files that can be edited while the server is running. So, I purchased it ($75) and added OITC's STF Database as a starting point.
I changed the DNS routing for one of our domains to remove Mailwatch from the loop - we'll see how it goes.
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Sunday, May 4, 2003 |
Collagen lipsMy doctor changed my blood pressure medication last week (doctors can be kind of geeky too, changing stuff just to see what happens), and I woke up yesterday with a fat lip. It kept getting even bigger, so I did a Google search for the name of the new medication, and found this page.
It explains that "in instances where swelling has been confined to the face and lips the condition has generally resolved without treatment". The rest of the page is greek to me (well, Latin actually :) eicosanoids and polypeptides, including endogenous bradykinin...blah, blah.
I stopped taking it, and everything went back to normal - no more pouty lips!
It's kind of creepy that something can have such a dramatic, specifically weird effect on our bodies. Makes you wonder what's happening that you can't see.
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