One major change in OS X Lion is the addition of downloading Windows 7 Boot Camp drivers over the web. It’s something I’ve called for, for a really… really… really… long time. One nice thing about this feature (for Apple) is that it now allows Apple to get something it did not have before: usage […]
At the end of last week, KGO Radio announced they were terminating most of their on-air personalities. A few great voices like Dr. Bill Wattenburg are now off the air. Dr. Bill alone has been on KGO for four decades. That makes my career seem minute in comparison. The nice thing about KGO was that […]
I’ve moved away from Google FeedBurner. So, it’s time to update your feed URL. If your feed URL is http://christopherprice.net/feed/ then you’re all set. If not, you need to update to that URL. I’ll keep the old FeedBurner setup working, but you may be delayed by as much as several hours to get news. Yeah, […]
I saw a reply from Seagate to a person asking if the Momentus XT should be defragmented or not. The moronic offshore tech support email actually said that the user had to replace the drive, because it had been defraged. I’m not joking. Here’s the alleged email: ” Thank you for your inquiry to Seagate […]
I’ve been using the most recent Folding@home beta for a day or two, and I have to say, finally! Folding@home suffers from a problem that many projects do; the hardcore contingency of evangelists, users, and developers all switch to a beta that is buried away from the main site. Common users then download the latest […]
Apple has made a subtle late change to the branding for Mac OS X 10.7 “Lion”. If you look at Apple Support Documents, and the Apple product pages, they refer to the product as “OS X Lion“. Not “Mac OS X Lion” or “Mac OS 10.7”, simply “OS X Lion”. Note that this title lacks […]
I want to clear up some crazy hype that has formed around Apple’s acquisition of NeXT as of late. Since Steve Jobs’ passing, there’s been a lot of attention, and a bit of revisionist history about the past. Back when Apple was burying Copland, there was a hurry for a new platform. Basically, it was […]
Oh no, a blog post from Christopher about politics? Relax, this is about the media… I’m just going to use the most recent GOP Presidential Debate as a case-in-point. CBS News made a big blunder by hiding a key rule of the debate; people who were tanking in the polls, were going to be given […]
I was very saddened a few years back when self-heating coffee was pulled from the market. OnTech, the company that held the patents on the technology, ceased operations shortly after picking up Walmart as a customer. I was amazed, because that is the kind of critical-mass moment that technology companies look for; a solid, large […]
My interactions with Steve were typically very brief, mostly (thankfully not always) through intermediaries… friends, emails, and even campaigns. I did get much closer than most ever did, and I got to talk to him more than most ever dream. It brightens my day when he acknowledged (once or twice) that I was right. And, […]