Aug
08
2008
A few years ago, while in business school, we wrote a paper on Apple’s growth and their opportunity to take their 3-4% market share and turn it into a double digit market share. A few years later (now), it seems they are getting there. The popularity of their Intel-based MacBook Pros and and MacBooks has really made their climb possible.
You can read more about this at ArsTechnica.

Tags: Apple, arstechnica, business, Market Share, OS X
Aug
04
2008
xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe
You’d have to be a real geek to get this one. Thanks to Joe for showing me this. I couldn’t stop laughing for a few minutes.
Tags: linux, sudo, xkcd
Jul
30
2008
As I sit here trying to fix this computer that has the buritos and XP Security Center, I figures I’d try this out.

Tags: blogging, iPhone, mobile
Jun
28
2008
Paul Stamatiou points out that his internet connection was actually being maxed out with using 802.11g. He had to upgrade his network to 802.11n to get the full throughput his internet service provider offered.
Maybe Comcast will get us DOCSIS 3.0 pretty soon so we can at least have 30Mbit/s connectivity.
His connection speed:

Read his post, link is below:
My Internet Connection Maxed Out 802.11g - PaulStamatiou.com
Tags: 802.11g, 802.11n, Comcast, DirecPath, DOCSIS 3.0, Internet, ISP, Speedtest.net
Jun
26
2008
Good to see that the folks at Mozilla have made great strides to make Firefox a fantastic browser when it comes to memory management. It used to be that Firefox was a nasty memory pig.
Firefox 3 Memory Benchmarks and Comparison
Tags: Browser, Firefox, Memory Management, Mozilla, web