Back in the '90s, Apple's first effort building compact laptops (if you don't count the original PowerBook 100) was the PowerBook Duo, which combined a subcompact laptop computer module that could be used as a freestanding notebook for portability and road warrioring. It seems quite logical that the PowerBook Duo concept would be successfully revisited and updated, using a modern ultracompact laptop like a MacBook Air or PC netbook as its "core module."

Yes, we know, Macs are not intrinsically immune to malware attacks in a technical sense, but in practical terms they've thus far never been a top-tier concern for Mac users in practical terms. Not even close

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One way to clear OS X GUI glitches without a reboot or logout is to quit the Dock, since OS X will recognize that the Dock isn't running and helpfully restart it for you. Unfortunately, Apple has not seen fit to provide a handy, GUI-based means of quitting and restarting the Dock, analogical to the Finder Relaunch command in the Force Quit window, but you can do it yourself with a three-word AppleScript

An oldie but goodie from the way back machine (circa 1996).  There are more (i.e. references to BeOS and Mach), but this seemed like enough funny for a Friday morning heading into a long weekend.  Enjoy.

Here's a helpful tip for you. Do not allow any folder on your Windows server(s) to contain 800,000 files.

Here's a bit of good news for website hosts and publishers from the Texas Court of Appeals.

I have acquired several accounts over the years—16 gMail accounts to be exact. I was looking for a way to manage my gMail accounts from my Desktop with minimum effort, without giving up the native gMail features. What i found was Mailplane.

There have been many times over the years when we've had to call a customer to explain that their co-located server has crashed and won't boot due to what appears to be a disk failure.  Sometimes, the customer will inform us that this is impossible.  Why?

This is a bit of a blast from the past to be sure. In 2010 we often assume that by know everyone already knows the ins and outs of domain name registration, but that isn't always true so it can't hurt to put a little "refresher" out there for good measure.

So you've spent some money on a shiny new firewall, and you have it mounted nicely in the rack right next to your ethernet switch(es) and DSL/cable modem. You're all set, right?

Foursquare is a startup that is likely subject to the same kind of technical growing pains that Twitter has experienced over the last two years, so that's not terribly surprising. What struck me as interesting is that it appears that the Foursquare outage is the result of a power failure in the Amazon EC2 (cloud) facility in northern Virginia.