Published 2 years ago
in Blog.
Back in May, I made a post called “Akismet is fantastic!” That was back when Akismet had blocked a mere 1,062 spam filled comments. Today, I’m reaching the 14,000 mark. I post about this today, because yesterday Akismet introduced a bug in their statistics update that caused over 150 of them to not be filtered for me. My inbox was full — luckily 1) WordPress makes it incredibly easy to mark these as spam and move on and 2) They fixed the bug very quickly. Again, I never realize how wonderful it is until I’m without it for a few hours… I have added the Akismet spam counter on the bottom of the right column for fun.
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Published 2 years ago
in Blog.
Today, I installed the new Internet Explorer 7 RC1 build and quickly realized how ugly the site looked in IE7. I had used the Benevolence theme with nightlys from the WordPress CVS for quite some time — and discovered it was completely not XHTML 1.0 Strict compliant. So, I’ve decided to move up to WordPress with K2. I’ll hopefully have some time tonight to put some of the content and touches back. Please bear with me — this will be under some construction for the next few days…
Found this over on Neowin.net:
Microsoft has quietly released the latest test version of Internet Explorer 7.
The RC1 build includes improvements in performance, stability, security, and application compatibility. With this build, Microsoft has also made enhancements to the fit and finish of the user interface, completed CSS platform changes, added language support and included an auto-uninstall feature in Setup, which automatically uninstalls prior betas of IE7 making installing the new build even easier.
IE7 RC1 is available in English today, and all localized versions of RC1 will be available in September including Arabic, Finnish, German, and Japanese as well as the French and Spanish versions which will be available for the first time.
Microsoft is expected to finalise Internet Explorer 7 at the same time as Windows Vista.
I’ve been running the Beta 3 at work for sometime…time to update it! RC1 holds the build number 7.0.5700.6CO.
Download here
Published 2 years ago
in NetApp.
Our quarterly earnings report was released yesterday, and it looks like we achieved 39% year-over-year growth:
Sunnyvale, Calif. – August 16, 2006 — Network Appliance, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTAP), the leader in advanced networked storage solutions, today reported results for the first quarter of fiscal year 2007. Revenues for the first fiscal quarter were $621.3 million, an increase of 39% compared to revenues of $448.4 million for the same period a year ago and an increase of 4% compared to $598.0 million in the prior quarter.
Link: Network Appliance Announces Results for First Quarter Fiscal Year 2007
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Now, I wasn't fortunate enough to attend Apple's Worldwide Developer's Conference 06, but I did watch the video of the keynote. Before I go any further, I'd like to mention that I am both a Mac OS X fan as well as a Windows fan. But, I have to say that I was a litle disappointed in the preview of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. I mean, I know Mac OS X has some really great features to it that Windows needs to catch up on. I also know that they only gave a small preview of a small subset of the new features in Leopard. But, the entire new feature set included in Windows Vista is ridiculous! I'm very very excited about Windows Vista, and even after seeing the preview of Leopard, I'm kinda "ho hum" about it.
One of the things that really got me was Apple's constant references to Vista. They talked about how much Microsoft "wasted" on Vista R&D, how much copying went on, how they've had feature X for years, etc. One of the presenters even had the audacity to ask what Redmond's been doing all this time? Take a serious look at that list of new features above, then ask that question again. I encourage you all to read the latest post over at the Longhorn Blogs site, "Apple Shows Off Windows Vista Envy At WWDC." Robert McLaws does a pretty good job of summing up my frustrations as well…just a little more stern about it.
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This is hilarious. A few years ago when I started at IBM, I knew a guy who worked for Inrange. A few months later, he worked for CNT after CNT acquired Inrange for $190 million. I went back to school, and when I came back, he then worked for McDATA when they acquired CNT for $235 million. Now, it appears as if Brocade Communications is acquiring McDATA for $735 million. It looks like they want to be more competitive with Cisco Systems. So, just to recap Inrange -> CNT -> McDATA -> Brocade. A few years ago, that would've been all of the major fibre channel switch vendors — now all under the Brocade name.
View: BROCADE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS, INC. TO ACQUIRE MCDATA CORPORATION
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