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Software developer, system administrator and test engineer interested in tech. This blog will mainly contain tech related items that interest me. System Administration items will be posted on my main blog.
Disclaimer: This is a personal weblog. The opinions expressed here represent my own and not those of my employer.
Over the past several weeks, we (Rafael did most of the work, I shouted at him) built Geosense for Windows, a Windows 7 sensor driver that connects the location platform with geolocation service providers who include but is not limited to Google Location Services. These geolocation providers work by matching and triangulating known cell towers and wireless access points in its database to estimate a latitude and longitude, with remarkable accuracy and scope.
Steve Wozniak leaned over to Douglas Engelbart at The Tech Museum in San Jose on Saturday, to speak a personal tribute to the man who invented the computer mouse and who, back in the 1950s, began to conceptualize the possibility of a vast realm of information where people could zip around exploring almost any idea.
Today we call it the Internet.
"If all the leaders of the world — the presidents of all the countries, the CEOs of all the companies — were here in this room, you'd be my hero," Wozniak, who co-founded Apple Computer and helped create some of the first commercially successful personal computers in the 1970s, told Engelbart. "You'd be the one I would gravitate to."
The occasion was a crowded and jubilant 85th birthday party for Engelbart, the white-haired cyber-seer from Atherton whose ideas now shape the lives of billions of people each day.
When DVD Jon was arrested after breaking the CSS encryption algorithm, he was charged with “unauthorized computer trespassing.” That led his lawyers to ask the obvious question, “On whose computer did he trespass?” The prosecutor’s answer: “his own.”
The thing that bothers me most about the iPad is this: if I had an iPad rather than a real computer as a kid, I’d never be a programmer today.
This bothers me too. And it scares me.
In the past, I'd justify getting a macbook pro because even though Apple is closed you're still able to write software that is open on top. That was a mistake. Never an Apple product for me again.
