Isotropic is …
... my personal blog.
Unless otherwise indicated, anything I write here is simply my personal, probably ill-formed, opinion and does not represent the views, beliefs, positions, or opinions of any other person or entity.
Monthly Archives: October 2009
29 Oct 2009
What you get without network neutrality
quink has provided us with an illustration of what happens if network neutrality disappears (reddit discussion):
click here for full-size image
28 Oct 2009
Neither rain, nor sleet, nor infinite loops …
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24 Oct 2009
Why TV robots are dumb
A funny bit of synchronicity — I found this xkcd comic, “More Accurate“, in my feed reader last night, right after I finished watching the final episode of “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles“. Such a shame TSCC was cancelled after only two seasons.
When we’re fighting high technology, we have to do more than just [...]
15 Oct 2009
Dogfooding, sabotage, or just system failure?
System Failure?
According to Roz Ho (a Microsoft VP) at t-mobile.com/sidekick (10/15/2009 1:00 AM PDT):
We are pleased to report that we have recovered most, if not all, customer data for those Sidekick customers whose data was affected by the recent outage.
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We have determined that the outage was caused by a system failure that created data loss [...]
12 Oct 2009
Installing Fedora 10 on SCSI/RAID
I’ve recently installed Fedora 10 on a few desktop systems without any problems. However, I did run into an issue on a Dell Power Edge 850 with a PERC 4/SE RAID controller. Note: this problem occurs on other SCSI systems as well.
The installation runs to completion without any errors, but, when the system [...]
10 Oct 2009
More on losing your stuff
Just got a text message from T-Mobile linking to this:
Sidekick customers, during this service disruption, please DO NOT remove your battery, reset your Sidekick, or allow it to lose power.
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Regrettably, based on Microsoft/Danger’s latest recovery assessment of their systems, we must now inform you that personal information stored on your device – such as contacts, [...]
09 Oct 2009
Quote of the day
“I’m a bad little girl, Friday Monday.”
05 Oct 2009
DLL Hell 2.0
One of my more popular posts, “Elimination of ‘DLL Hell’, correction of fatal flaws, and reinventing the Internet“, may need updating….
See “‘Side By Side Assemblies’ Bring DLL Hell 2.0” at Slashdot.
05 Oct 2009
You are their product
Brian Hurt explains why corporate media does apparently non-sensical things and is losing audience.
You see, he [Paul Graham, here] assumes that the customers of the media are their readers and/or viewers- that, by buying a New York Times, he is (one of) their customer(s). That the Newspapers are in the business of selling information [...]
03 Oct 2009
Sidekicks out planet-wide
My Sidekick 3 has been in two-dots mode since yesterday, which means I only have voice and SMS (text) services; the data network is down hard (no web, email, IM, etc.).
I didn’t pay much attention at first, since this does happen occasionally, but not for this long. You’d think that someone would send out [...]
