Neal Stephenson pointed out something that struck a chord with me in “In The Beginning Was The Command Line”. He pointed out that car interfaces weren’t cursed with having to be “intuitive”; instead they made up steering wheels and gear shifts and all sorts of arcade controls. He expresses relief that cars weren’t invented in [...]

The new Wireless N router runs five times as fast as the Wireless G router with an indoor range of approximately 70m, twice that of the the wireless. The price of the G router is not incredibly expensive; at $180(US) it’s affordable to the average person. But does the average person/company need it? It depends [...]

To continue our examination of desktop computing systems of bygone years and their possible modern equivalents or emulations: Apple MacIntosh The famously boxy machine from Apple which truly defined the desktop computer for most of the 80′s. It was the first commercially successful desktop computer to sport the now-familiar graphical user interface, and use the [...]