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Friday, 19 July 2002

Mac users outraged at iTools, upgrade taxes: Note to Apple, this is probably not the best way to encourage Windows users to Switch! The kudos Apple won by introducing a generous all-you-can-eat pricing for its server offerings has been lost by gouging its most loyal consumers. If you've been working with OS X since the public beta, your bill for the OS alone will have topped $400 by now. In the same period Microsoft has introduced one upgrade costing consumers $99 or $199 for the "professional" SMP-enabled XP. Steve Jobs really was risking hubris with so many barbs directed at The Beast at yesterday's keynote. 11:38:16 AM  comment []      Ugo wants to know about portable field types - here's my knowledge of Portable CLOBs (as well as a bit of insight into the power behind how the OFBiz EE works!) 11:32:24 AM  comment []      Apple software allows multiple, simultaneous syncs - looks like iSync is going to force me to get a new Sony mobile phone (my current Siemens SL45 is a piece of crap). 10:48:38 AM  comment []      James Hong of hotornot.com fame: "There is nothing more satisfying than someone asking, 'Whatever happened to you guys?'" 9:56:05 AM  comment []      headline headline headline. deck deck deck deck deck deck deck deck deck hahahahhaha. Do we think someone at Wired left some test data in their system? [Wired News] [Brett Morgan's Insanity Weblog] 12:48:45 AM  comment []      Charles and Fluffy the Dinosaur: I am sitting at work, hitting myself over the head with a plastic dinosaur called 'Fluffy'. Fluffy is our release token. You have to be holding him to integrate your code into source-control. Does anyone else do this? Are commit mascot's popular? My head would be sore if I had to do this every time I committed. Must be an IBM-WS-WSAD-VAD shop thing. 12:30:54 AM  comment []      Brett Morgan: I have spent the afternoon toying with SQuirreL. I must say, it is the most impressive java sql client I have used so far. I can see why it has been incorporated in commercial products. I have to say it does look very nice! How does it compare to DB Visualiser? [Brett Morgan's Insanity Weblog] 12:29:03 AM  comment []