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Mon, 29 Dec 2003

Outage

Here's what happened earlier today, according to our web hosting provider:


Today there was a outage for about one hour. The word from the Datacenter is that there was a faulty fiber in their connection which needed to be replaced without warning. They are finishing up the repairs and you may experience intermittent latency as this completes. We apologize for the probelms this has caused as it was out of our control.

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Worst Prediction of 2003

Rob Enderle said:

Apple is being driven out of every segment but consumer: Companies are driving out non-standard hardware and both increasingly view Linux as a better alternative platform and UNIX as a platform they don’t want to resurge on the desktop. The lack of management tools, pull back of key vendors like Quark and an anticipated drop in market share below 2 percent in 2003 are obsolescing this platform. Apple’s continued technical disadvantage against Intel is expected to force them to adopt x86 technology by the end of 2003.


Of course the G5 processor gave Apple a new hope, with speeds expected to reach 3GHz or higher in 2004.

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