Amazon has the Toshiba e355 for just $199.99, with free shipping to boot, making it the least expensive 64MB Pocket PC 2003 device available today. Toshiba’s docking connector sports a decent selection of available accessories, including several foldable and thumb keyboards, and while the e355 lacks Compact Flash and built-in Wireless, Toshiba more than makes […]
Archive for August, 2003
Toshiba e355 for Cheap
15Aug03Weblog Tools Suck
07Aug03I signed up for the TypePad trial before going to bed Tuesday, gave it a quick whirl before work in the morning and immediately submitted three support tickets. Kudos to Six Apart for making it simple to report problems and responding very quickly (Mena herself replied to two).
I feel the need the need to write […]
Here Lizard, Lizard
07Aug03Outsourced
03Aug03My old roommate just got back from India, setting up a new call center. Higher-ups in his company are now starting to look towards China because India has become too expensive.
My friend will be the last American IT worker with a job.
July Spam Stats
03Aug03Spam for the month of July plummeted to 1317. POPFile missed 13 spam messages (99.01%), and there were 17 false positives that included one personal e-mail and 13 from assorted Yahoo Groups mailing lists. In total, 39.7% of my e-mail was spam.
I believe that this is the first time that my spam intake has fallen […]
Treo 270 for a Song
01Aug03With a $200 rebate from Amazon and $100 from T-Mobile, the Handspring Treo 270 can be had for the low, low price of $49.99. That is a seriously sweet deal.
When my Nokia 3650 first arrived, I was disappointed by the speakphone performance — barely loud enough to use while sitting next to my PC, completely useless in the car and most outdoor situations. I’ve also found that the ringer can be difficult to hear when the phone is in my pocket.
As it turns out, […]
Firewalls Are Broken?
01Aug03Cory Doctorow recently wrote that firewalls are broken because they are predicated on the notion that trustworthy people are inside your network and untrustworthy people are outside your network.
Cory succinctly demonstrates some common network security failures, but his catchy headline is completely wrong. Firewalls are simply tools that implement security policy by restricting traffic […]
