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Response: GTDAgenda.com online GTD webservice

By on April 11, 2009

In response to a comment from my blog post on the MacHeist bundle, ‘Dan’ wrote me about a service, GTDAgenda.com, which seems interesting. IF you are accustomed to a GTD (Getting Things Done) already, this may not be for you. This looks like an interesting organization web service, however I cannot vouch for it 100% as I have note read a lot about it.


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New Xserve Announced Yesterday

By on April 8, 2009

Until yesterday when Apple announced a new Xserve I had both forgot Apple made the Xserve and that they’re still being produced.

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But, these new Xserves do have amazing specs:

  • 1 or 2 2.26GHz+ Nahalem processors (the newest generation, also in the Mac Pro)

    • with:

    • 8 MB L3 cache per processor
    • tri-channel memory controller (on-die)
    • Hyper-threading te4chnology (that means up-to 16 virtual cores!!!!!!)
    • ‘Turbo Boost’ technology which dynamically powers off other cores when not in use to boost clock speeds of other cores
    • Full 64-bit support
    • SSE4 SIMD
    • Support for more effecient/faster virtualization technologies
  • Up-to 32GB of 1066MHz DDR3 ECC memory *as of Mac OS X Server 10.5, hardware is capable of more
  • Up-to 3 TB of hot-pluggable storage
  • Build-to-order with 128GB solid state drives as an option
  • 2 PCI-e 2.0 ports
  • 2 independent Gigabit networking ports
  • 2 750 watt power supplies (for redundancy)
  • Depending on model-Up to Quad-channel fiber channel 4GB connection(s)
  • …and of course, this is rack-mountable

wow…
Starting at $3499 CAD

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Hak.5 April Fools

By on April 4, 2009

I’ve been a bit behind on my tech podcasts, or atleast the video ones, and I’ve just got to the the Hak.5 April Fools’ Day episode (episode #507) which takes place in 1995. They talk about Windows “Chicago” 95, the SNES, Sega, the coming Song PlayStation, and how-to get free long-distance using phone tones. In the episode they mention a BBS at bbs.hak5.org, and well, I couldn’t resist.

I opened terminal and used the command telnet bbs.hak5.org and it actually worked! This uses the ancient telnet protocol, and they must have set-up a server. I’ve made a video of this:

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[UPDATE-19:26]Episode number is #507, not #90 as I had mis-stated.[/UPDATE].

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