By bfwebster on Feb 22, 2012 in Main, Product development | 0 Comments
I spent a little time over at Google Groups, searching the USENET archives for posts that I had made and found (among others) the following: ====================== From: crash!bwebs…@SDCSVAX.ARPA Date: Sun, 30 Jun 85 01:26:31 PDT Subject: 2MB Macintosh! Well, space cookies, I did it. In a fit of passion, I went down to Levco Enterprises [...]
By bfwebster on Nov 23, 2011 in Complex systems, Main, Management, Product development, Quality assurance | 5 Comments
This is actually a problem I’ve been dealing with — or, more accurately, ignoring and working around — for a few months, at least, so I thought I’d put a post up here to see if anyone has come up with an actual fix. Back in July 2010, I bought an Acer Aspire easyStore Home [...]
By bfwebster on Oct 27, 2011 in Main, Marketing, Product development, Surviving Complexity | 1 Comment
Last spring, I bought an Apple TV device to go along with a new large-screen TV in our living room. Setup was simple, and I kept discovering new things that I could do with it. It gets used a lot more than either the Blu Ray player or the DirecTV satellite box also attached to [...]
By bfwebster on Oct 5, 2011 in Art of 'Ware, Books, Business, Competition, Main, Marketing, Product development, Professionalism | 0 Comments
The second personal computer I ever owned[1] was an Apple II, with no floppy drive. I bought it, along with a small color TV, from my close friend Robert Trammel while we were both living in Houston sometime around 1980.We had already spent hours together programming on it, then carefully (though not always successfully) saving [...]
By bfwebster on Apr 15, 2011 in Complex systems, Main, Maintenance, Product development | 1 Comment
I love it when technology converges. The first key step was buying a Windows Home Server box last summer. It took me a while to get all the kinks out (read my review at the link), but since then it was worked pretty much trouble-free, 24/7. Not only do my various computers get backed up [...]