2007 In Review: Time Machine Version

by | Wednesday, January 3, 2007 | Future Tech | 3 comments

Any fool can write about 2006 in review. But I’m not just any fool. I’m going to review 2007 in advance. Well, just the little storage saturated corner of which I am inordinately fond. -CIOs realized they are at a significant cost disadvantage and started...

Troll Skirmish: ZFS on Mac

by | Wednesday, December 20, 2006 | Backup, Future Tech | 7 comments

Personal Update: I’m taking some time off from daily posting until January 2nd, 2007, much to Ms. Mojo’s relief. There may be some things I just can’t resist. Just don’t expect daily posts. Cheers, Robin I did a post on the /. Apple forum and...

ZFS On Mac: Now All-But-Official

by | Sunday, December 17, 2006 | Future Tech, SOHO/SMB | 5 comments

Update: It is official. See here. Then come back and read the rest of this post. Thanks to alert reader Oskar for the tip. French website Mac4Ever reports – thanks to Babelfish translation: . . . the few innovations of Leopard, one read these last months,...

The Internet Is The Message, Pt. II

by | Wednesday, December 13, 2006 | Future Tech | 2 comments

What McLuhan didn’t see coming Conversation. Bi-directional communication. All the time. Synchronous. Asynchronous. In text, video, image, sound. Not surprising. After all, he came of age in the age of mass media or, more precisely, mass one-to-many media....

The Internet Is The Message, Pt. I

by | Tuesday, December 12, 2006 | Future Tech

Marshall McLuhan’s aphorism, “the medium is the message,” is just as true, and misunderstood, today as it was 40 years ago. Yet the onslaught of “new media,” “social media” and “interactive media” makes the advent...