Category Archives: tech
Dogs don’t buy dog food
A customer is someone who buys software. A user is someone who uses software. When it comes to enterprise software, these stop being the same person. This is why enterprise software is so bad.
Pac-Man ate my RAID
[>....................] recovery = 2.5% (3836544/152247936) finish=35.1min speed=70370K/sec [>....................] recovery = 3.0% (4642752/152247936) finish=37.5min speed=65481K/sec [===>.................] recovery = 15.2% (23276800/152247936) finish=32.2min speed=66725K/sec [===>.................] recovery = 18.4% (28154624/152247936) finish=28.9min speed=71392K/sec [====>................] recovery = 21.5% (32802560/152247936) finish=28.6min speed=69451K/sec [=====>...............] recovery = 28.3% (43166336/152247936) … Continue reading
Excel is not a database
The New Organizing Institute Education Fund, in conjunction with the Funders’ Committee for Civic Participation released the 2nd Annual Survey of Civic Engagement Technology. The report is full of interesting information on how nonprofits (mis)(ab)use technology to manage their organizations. … Continue reading
Inspired by Cory Booker
The closing plenary of the Personal Democracy Forum — an hour long — was a great discussion between Cory Booker, Arianna Huffington, RNC tech chair Saul Anuzis, PDF founder Andrew Rasiej, NYT Times tech writer Nick Bilton and Tim O’Reilly. … Continue reading
rake task for extracting database contents
TIFF file dimensions in Ruby
Handling Rails errors: custom error pages, logging, notification
Disc name as user interface
I recently installed Windows 7. Having installed Snow Leopard many times, I was curious to see how it would compare. Before you even get started, you see an example of the little details Apple pays attention to, but Microsoft is … Continue reading
Xcode and the run-on sentence
Last night, I ran Software Update and updated Xcode. Here’s the description Apple provided: Xcode 3.2.2 is an update release of the developer tools for Mac OS X. This release provides bug fixes in gdb, Interface Builder, Instruments, llvm-gcc and … Continue reading
DNS weirdness
smokinhotprogressives.com was changed from 204.15.194.116 to .118. The change hadn’t propagated yet. $ host smokinhotprogressives.com smokinhotprogressives.com has address 204.15.194.116 smokinhotprogressives.com mail is handled by 50 shrub.ca. $ host secure.smokinhotprogressives.com secure.smokinhotprogressives.com is an alias for smokinhotprogressives.com. smokinhotprogressives.com has address 204.15.194.118 smokinhotprogressives.com … Continue reading