Archives: 2001 January
More on Broadband
January 12th, 2001, No Comments
I’m posting todays news from Mozilla 0.7. This version is another incremental improvement over v0.6. This version finally includes SSL support and it seems to work. On Windows NT, it crashes maybe once per hour or so. On my Red Hat 6.1/Intel box it has crashed a couple of times. On my newer Red Hat [...]
Verizon DSL Disaster Continues
January 8th, 2001, No Comments
GTE may have changed their name to Verizon but they still have the same really bad customer service. They could give Verio a run for the money when it comes to having the least helpful, most incompetent customer service. Several months ago I made the mistake of calling Verizon and asking if I could possibly [...]
New Nokia 8260 Phone
January 6th, 2001, No Comments
Well, I’ve finally replaced my old Nokia 6160 cell phone. The new phone is a Nokia 8260 in Electric Blue. It’s much smaller and lighter but has all the same features. I would have liked something that combined cell phone and PDA functionality but there’s not much available in the US like that yet. Maybe [...]
Technocrat: RIP
January 5th, 2001, No Comments
Looks like Bruce Perens is shutting down Technocrat. That’s unfortunate. Technocrat is one of the small number of news sites that I read regularly and it had a much better s/n ratio than Slashdot and Kuro5hin. And while I find there’s usually a lot of overlap between the other news sites, quite a few of [...]
Java Continues to Suck
January 3rd, 2001, No Comments
I was up late last night helping a client load-test a large web portal site they’re developing. The primary server is a Sun 250 with half a gig of RAM and dual CPUs. It runs Stronghold and the portal is a built on top of a bulky Java Portal architecture called Epicentric, which in turn [...]
Happy New Year 2001!
January 1st, 2001, No Comments
Happy new year and welcome to the 21st century and a new millennium! I’ve been on a news-posting sabbatical since the middle of November and now I’m back. After a year and a half of posting almost daily news updates, I needed to take some time off to avoid total burn-out. I’m pleased to report [...]
