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Adobe Flash Is Bad - Finally Some Sanity - Steve Jobs Thoughts On Flash

Jobs IpadFor many years, Adobe Flash has annoyed me to no end. Yes, I know it's the defacto standard for rich media and casual games, but it runs badly on mobile devices and is a pain in the @ss to get up on some educational Linux distros. It's proprietary... with all the problems inherent trying to mix it with Open Source.

Steve Jobs lays it out clearly as an artifact of the past. With HTML5's Javascript and native h.264 video support, who needs Flash anymore?

Embrace the change, developers, your life will be much nicer without Adobe's agenda to work around. - Kelley Graham April 2010 :)

Read the full article here- http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/

Apple iPad - Uber Slick + Affordable - The Real Costs

WiFi = $499
WiFi + 3G = $629

32GB Upgrade to enough disc space for a weekend full of movies = $729
3G Unlimited Plan, No Contract

Your're going to love it!, but you're addicted now and in 2 years you'll need version 2, which will be way better. Since you have no wireless contract and iPad v2 will cost the same as v1, why not upgrade?

3G 2 yrs @ $29 month = $696
TOTAL REAL COST NOW = $1429
TOTAL REAL COST IN 2 YEARS = $1429
TOTAL 4 YEAR COSTS = $2850

More good stuff at: http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/kit-eaton/technomix/ipad-will-hurt-your-...

iPad - Addictive

How To Generate Secure and Random Keys

 We use a 16-32 bit alphanumeric/punctuation key value. You can ...

Google Android Nexus One - Disappoints

Here's what you need to know - $530 Unlocked, $180 With T-Mobile.

Only one plan available at signup.

Google didn't learn with their underwhelming G1 launch... business as usual. It was rumored that Google would sell the phone at something close to cost... when will the open source (fairness?) model be fully adopted by a large company.

I'm sick of the mantra of the shamelessly greedy: 'The price is whatever the market will bear'.

Question for Google: Why don't you lead in business practice like you lead in engineering?

See the recommended links below for more.

Clearing Runtime Memory

Anonymous Al asks:

Do you know any PROGRAM to run from a Floppy Drive,CD-ROM
or a Flash USB Drive that permits "TOTAL" control of the
MEMORY ??... (both RAM and VIRTUAL...)and compatible with
NT (2k)systems and XP ??.........
Someone told ME that MICROSOFT has a COMMAND called
"ClearRam"...
... but i would like to use something... more specific.

This because in most Public Internet centers,cybcaffes etc etc... they have the system configured,cyclically,to
get (ROB)your session results,and ,with that,i cant agree...

Technobabble - Deep Thoughts on How Stuff Works

This collection of thoughts, may be hard for some to stomach... rest easy, it means you're not a geek, that's all.

If you have a question, no matter how esoteric, use the contact form to ask.

Google Wave - Not For The Enterprise... And That's Great!

If you're in mainstream business, Google Wave is probably not for you. Not now at least, but it is for our kids.

I've already laid out my thoughts on new media and The Destruction of the English Language and the Wave is just another logical step... Another application of collaborative tech to the complex issue of 'Dialog'.

Let it go... Shakespeare is long dead. Long live Shakespeare.

The creative evolution of Language is natural. I'm looking forward to whatever comes.

How to Fix Drupal Image Paths Using MySQL Commands

If you've been working with Drupal long enough, you've had to move your file system location. A few years back the place where you stored all uploaded files, images and other media, as well as where Drupal cached its cache was '/files'. For good reasons this was moved to '/sites/default/files'.

Now, this is all fine and dandy if you don't have a huge image gallery.

Controlling Your Public Appearance

danah boyd

I like this blogger. Her thoughts on public identity and social media are spot on. Too bad she's involved with Microcoft. Oh well, nobody's perfect. :)

Note the Recommended links on the left for several of her blogs.

 

CiviMail wget & Cron Annoyances

Wget can be really annoying... how can you completely suppress all possible output when running wget as a cron job.

PROBLEM
If you run CiviMail to check for outgoing mail every 10 minutres and you have many sites on a server, you can quickly fill your home directory with thousands of empty files creating a file descriptor problem if ignored for long enough. :)

See also the drupal module 'poormanscron' to take care of othe Drupal side of things. You will still need a 'real' CiviMail cronjob as it does not have poormanscron hooks.

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