Best App Description Translation

It can start even more prematurely.

Cisco SNMP Object Navigator

Available here:

http://tools.cisco.com/Support/SNMP/do/BrowseOID.do?local=en

Enter the OID or Object Name and you can look it up or browse the OID tree. Amazingly useful when used in conjunction with cacti.

A Look Back

The Info Highway - 17 Years Later

Philip Elmer-DeWitt's 1993 Times Magazine article annotated by Mike Halleen at the Producer's Guild of America site.

Annotated version

How to tell if a description of technology is dated

If the description includes some type of reference to physical media, there's a pretty good chance that the material is outdated.

When CDs first came out, it was touted that you could store 150 Bibles or 4.5 million characters on a single CD-ROM.

Now, these types of measurements are antiquated since we have a different perception of storage space as it relates to media. For example, we know a CD can now hold around 100 mp3's or a single feature film.

But even then, we no longer think in terms of optical storage at all, since a 4GB flash drive goes for less than $10.

Really digging this song for some reason.

Home Screen and iBooks

Home Screen

Wallpaper by mandolux.

iBooks Shelf

Almost looks like my real life bookshelf.

iPad Goodness

Got my iPad last night, and it's an amazing piece of technology. I've barely gotten much hands-on time with it between synching and letting everyone I know try it out.

It's pretty popular at home and at the office, so I'm going to put it through its paces and hopefully get out another post about it in a week or so.

BTW, this post was written on my iPad using a bluetooth keyboard.

Android Prototype from 2007

http://gizmodo.com/334909/google-android-prototype-in-the-wild

This what a "smartphone" was supposed to look like before the iPhone hit the scene.

(via The Log)

scp doesn't support resuming? Use rsync

Since scp doesn't support resuming an interrupted download, rsync is the way to go for getting files from one place to another. And it's other functions are pretty good too.

Here's the command:

     rsync --partial --progress --rsh=ssh  :/target/directory


If you're not using the default ssh port, then you can do --rsh='ssh -p3022'

The New Macbook

The New Macbook is now more powerful than my 2007 15" Macbook Pro, which was top of the line when I bought it.

• New Macbook vs 2007 15" Macbook Pro
• 2.4GHz vs 2.33GHz (Core 2 Duo)
• Up to 4GB Memory vs Up to 3GB Memory
• 256MB Nvidia GeForce 9400M vs 256MB ATI Radeon X1600
• 1066MHz FSB vs 667MHz FSB