I love this !!!

http://vimeo.com/24302498

On the day that Steve Jobs left this existince, a part of him entered the Techlab.

For the first time ever, I own an Apple Macbook.  It is not a matter that I am an Apple Hater. I just was not crazy about Apple’s almost draconian control over their systems.  But that was the past.  Ever since they moved to the Intel x86 architecture, based the new OS on BSD(I am die heard FreeBSD fan) and last but not least allowed for the dual booting with Windows 7, I had no excuse not to have one in my Techlab.

My take on the system is that it is very impressive and I now see why the Mac die-hards by this system.  As I am currently traveling(home in Antigua for Mom’s B-Day and some R&R), I must say that many of the features of the Mac have been a big plus.  The ability to ‘snap back on’ after you open it is almost a shock to me.  My Lenovo Win7 netbook creeps back on, even with an SSD drive.  Applicaiton installations is  very smooth. The terminal is a treat since I am command line junkie(I am at heart a developer after-all)

There is much more to explore in this new world that Steve has created and I hope to do justice by learning it and using it to innovate even more.

If you have any suggestions on things to do with the Mac Air, leave a comment.

One of my FreeBSD Boxes was showing some crazy activity.  This is what I found.

noc# uptime
6:32PM  up 203 days, 19 mins, 2 users, load averages: 47.84, 46.16, 45.26

Time for a reboot !!!

Ok Folks, Been a long time since I put down some stuff on layer8.

I have a number projects on the my desk that I intend to document and post. Keep an eye out !!

I developed this website to provide monitoring services and also to keep an eye on ISPs.  It is in Beta state, so be sure to check the logs to see changes.

www.ispwatch.net

Hey Google.

I would recommend that you renew your google.com domain.  The last thing we technology and Google users need to have happen is your reputation gets permanatetly tarnished by having google.com swipped by some lowly domainer !!

For the uninitiated, the domain google.com is slated to expire on 14th of September 2011. 14 years after it was registered in 1997 !

   Domain Name: GOOGLE.COM
   Registrar: MARKMONITOR INC.
   Whois Server: whois.markmonitor.com
   Referral URL: http://www.markmonitor.com
   Name Server: NS1.GOOGLE.COM
   Name Server: NS2.GOOGLE.COM
   Name Server: NS3.GOOGLE.COM
   Name Server: NS4.GOOGLE.COM
   Status: clientDeleteProhibited
   Status: clientTransferProhibited
   Status: clientUpdateProhibited
   Status: serverDeleteProhibited
   Status: serverTransferProhibited
   Status: serverUpdateProhibited
   Updated Date: 15-sep-2010
   Creation Date: 15-sep-1997
   Expiration Date: 14-sep-2011

To be successful in business, localize the atoms and globalize the bits, then scale up !!!!

—– Stanford Mings, Technologist

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A Tour of the Lab !!