It’s that time of year again. Time to start training for the BikeMS ride. I have created a Meetup.Com group for training schedules and discussion. We will have our first meetup this Saturday at Mirarmar lake for beginning cyclists.
Check out the new site at: http://www.meetup.com/BikeMS/
I was looking at specs for quickbooks premier for a client of mine. I found this on Intuit’s web site:
Requirements
# Windows XP (SP2), Vista or 7
# 2.0 GHz Pentium 4 processor (2.4 GHz recommended)
# 512 MB RAM (1 GB recommended) for a single user, 1 GB of RAM for multiple, concurrent users
Seriously, I need 4 processors to run a single copy of an accounting package? This seems like way overkill.
Last week on the Ellen show, Ellen showed a clip of her trying to use an iPhone. It was a funny and self-deprecating bit. The next day on her show, she stated that everyone loved her bit, but “You know who didn’t like it? That’s right, Apple.” she went on to say “They thought it made the iPhone difficult to use”. She then apologized for her bit.
I am sorry, but it was a JOKE! I would think that Apple would recognize this and keep their lawyers locked up. I assume that Apple has a lot of say in what Ellen says on her show as the very next show she gave away iPads to several of her game contestants.
At least the bit is still on the web site:
I was drawn to Facebook several years ago because it offered things that no other sights offered. The most important thing was privacy and security. Over the last month, I have noticed that this is no longer the case. My personal information has been leaked out to third party web sites, my privacy settings have been changed to allow people to see stuff that was specifically blocked in the past.
I see all of this as a violation of ethics and the leadership at Facebook has violated my trust for the last time. I am no longer going to be participating in Facebook as a primary source of social networking. I will be maintaining my account, because I still find it useful. I will be limiting my use to cross-posting from my blog, general status updates and keeping tabs on my friends. I have removed all of my photos and personal information from the site (who knows if that will do any good as they probably have it sucked into a DB somewhere for fun and profit).
My photos will only be maintained on my personal gallery at: http://www.yourservice.com/photogallery/main.php.
My Blog can be found at: https://www.yourservice.com/blog
I strongly encourage those who care about their privacy as well as support only ethical business practices stop using Facebook. For more information on this, please read this posting from Jason Calacani: http://calacanis.com/2010/05/12/the-big-game-zuckerberg-and-overplaying-your-hand/
I think Facebook has a good product, but run by an unethical leader. The Internet does have a way of taking care of it’s own eventually and perhaps something new and better will come out.
People have asked me why I spend my time maintaining my own internet servers. The simple reply I have for them is: “I don’t trust anyone else” and it has served me well for almost twenty years. If I don’t like the policy or practice of my administrator, I only have to go to the mirror and slap him around.
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