Fusion io does the hard part

Fast, high-capacity flash drive Fusion-io’s impressive demo at DEMOfall07 piqued my interest (see Fusion io – great demo. Now comes the hard part.) and skepticism. They’ve announced some pricing and refined the specs. The ioDrive The ioDrive is a...

Sun/NetApp suit update

Some Christmas cheer Some, not a lot. According to Sun, there have been some significant changes in the mutual lawsuits: In November, the two parties agreed to litigate their mutual lawsuits in northern California instead of east Texas. They are litigating both the...

Why are the writers striking?

I gave up watching much TV about 20 years ago. Other than a general incomprehension of new popcult references from Seinfeld, Friends, Monday Night Football and such, I can’t say I’ve missed much. If it is really good, like Band of Brothers, I buy it on DVD...

What is Mandriva whining about?

We’ve all heard the story before: little company mugged by Microsoft. So I was inclined to be sympathetic to Mandriva’s complaint against Microsoft last week. Until I looked into it. Mandriva makes the sale They signed a contract to sell 17,000 notebooks...

The best bluesman you’ve never heard of

Meet Danny Rhodes and the Messengers For a small town in the mountains of northern Arizona, 2 hours from Phoenix, we have a great local music scene. Ms. Mojo and I are out most weekend nights dancing to live music. Our favorite bluesman is Danny Rhodes and the...