Archive for the ‘Opinionation’ Category

Of Dropbear, Busybox, and passwordless SSH

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Little frustrates me more than a projects inability to properly document itself. You might think that this is something which is limited to the few pundits such as myself and that most people who report on technology don’t have such issues. I beg to differ. I have conferred with a number of my colleagues and [...]

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Apple isn’t all aesthetics, people!

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I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been reading an article or op/ed or whatever, and someone makes a comparison or allusion to Apple. These people clearly aren’t Apple people, but they aren’t the all out Apple bashers who think anything other than Windows is a festering lump of crap. They just don’t get [...]

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An Observation About Apple and the Anti-Trust Question

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I just got done reading Mark Gibb’s Backspin piece on the iPad, and I have to agree with him on a number of counts. Well, except one. Is Apple a monopoly in waiting? Is Apple on the fringes of Federal destruction because its violating Anti Trust laws? Are the wolves lingering in the trees waiting [...]

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Why Does Apple Deserve To Sell Servers When It Hates Enterprise?

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What did we do wrong? Was it something we said or something we didn’t do? What failing of ours was worse than all others to warrant you ignoring the fact that there is an enterprise market out there? Honestly, if its something we did, we want to know about it so we can make up [...]

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