I’ve got my copy of Snow Leopard pre-ordered, do you? One delightful change: Snow Leopard takes up less than half the room on a hard disk that Leopard did, and Apple says the average user who upgrades will free up about 7 gigabytes of space. On my 2008-vintage MacBook Pro, I gained back a whopping [...]
Mac OS X: Snow Leopard
August 26th, 2009 § 0 comments § permalink
Amazon VPC, a not so private private cloud?
August 26th, 2009 § 0 comments § permalink
My next post was going to start defining the security referee concept I came up with previously but something much more interesting happened today: Amazon Web Services announced their newest addition, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) which adds a new dimension to Amazon’s cloud service offerings. Based on the information available, Amazon VPC works much [...]
The need for a Cloud Computing Security referee
August 24th, 2009 § 2 comments § permalink
In the world of information technology cloud computing is the latest game in town, but currently we can’t even agree on the definition of the game, much less what the playing field looks like or the rules of the game. The referees, if they are out there, are in hiding. Still A lot of people [...]
Predictions on the upcoming Apple Tablet
August 14th, 2009 § 1 comment § permalink
There have been a lot of rumors on the upcoming “Apple tablet” and a few reports as to what it’s going to look like and be capable of but so far none of them have me totally convinced. Unfortunately I haven’t been able to totally convince myself either on what exactly this new device from [...]
The Impending Failure of the TechCrunch CrunchPad
August 12th, 2009 § 4 comments § permalink
Have you heard of the CrunchPad? It’s the brainchild of Michael Arrington of TechCrunch fame and despite having created what looks to be a very attractive device that would look great on my couch the device is going to be an absolute failure. Let me be clear, I’m not rooting for this failure. The folks [...]