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Gone fishing

My blog, along with all the old posts on here, is now here. 

Bizarre

Lonnie Lazar, on Jason Snell's bad experience with a new Apple monitor.

"Snell, of course enjoys a luxury many consumers do not, in that he can give his display back to the magazine’s lab and not have to worry about its cost or the space it may take up sitting unused in a corner or on a shelf. Average folk who’ve bought Apple’s new display and discovered after using it for a time that the glare is unbearable have far fewer options for doing anything about it."

Not to knock Lonnie, but this seems to me to be a really strange thing to write. It's part of Jason's job to test this stuff, so that he can tell people who might otherwise buy it and be disappointed about things like the glare. It's not "a luxury" - it's his job.

"The krona is dead"

Iceland joining the EU:

"The krona is dead. We need a new currency. The only serious option is the euro," said a senior Icelandic official.

I wonder how long it will be before the government admits the same is true of the pound?

Quote of the day

Irish ISP will disconnect Internet users after three unsubstantiated copyright claims - Boing Boing.

"You don't hear the record labels offering to have their Internet connections cut off if they send out three false copyright accusations."

I was right about Vista

Looking through some old work, I found this post - an article I wrote in 2005 for the Irish Times on Windows Vista, and why it was doomed to fail. I identified three key problems:

• Lack of effective (at the time) competition from Mac and Linux meant that Microsoft wasn't being pushed very hard to improve the system.
• Windows XP was "good enough" for almost everyone. 
• The real action was happening away from the desktop, with the mobile phone taking centre stage. 

  Not a bad prediction, when you think about it.  

TFL sure knows how to explain a route

Steve Jobs' health: How much should Apple reveal?

There is, unsurprisingly, a lot of talk about Steve Jobs’ illness. It’s understandable: Jobs is a person who thousands of Mac fans around the world think of more as a friend than just the CEO of the company whose computers they like. 

This devotion and concern often manifests itself in a simple idea: Jobs’ health is his own business, and anyone suggesting that Apple should release information about it should be ashamed of themselves. My friend Joe Wilcox is getting a lot of stick at the moment for suggesting that Apple has handled things badly, and needs to start being honest with its shareholders about the state of Jobs’ health.

I can understand both sides in this argument. Anyone who has had a friend or family member be seriously ill knows what an intense and terrible experience it is, and the natural inclination of anyone is to want to keep as much private as possible. This is doubly-true if the illness is life-threatening.

But, Steve Jobs is also a senior executive of a publicly-traded company, and with that role comes certain responsibilities. Steve has responsibilities to his shareholders – and, importantly, so do Apple’s board of directors.

The illness of a senior executive is a classic area where boards need to be strong, and work for the shareholders. It’s a tough time for everyone, but the role of the board, as I’ll explain, means they have to look at things in a way which is impersonal – and which some might find insensitive.

If your Add/Remove applications has no applications in it, here's what to do

It looks like there's an interesting bug in the current version of Adobe Air for Linux which, if you install it, can affect the Ubuntu Add/Remove Applications programme.

So, if you find that after installing Air, you have no applications at all listed in Add/Remove Apps, do this:

In terminal, type sudo update-app-install

If that doesn't work, reinstall the Add/Remove Apps application:

sudo apt-get --reinstall install gnome-app-install

This should do the trick. According to Rohit Kewlani of the Adobe Air team (posting in the above thread), this should be fixed in an upcoming Air release.