Engineering words of wisdom

Engineering is about making tradeoffs. If you refuse to make the choice, then you're taking the cowardly route and ultimately are creating more work for your team. Instead of solving problems, you're creating them.

All because you're too chicken to make a hard decision.

- Raymond Chen

Google introduces free iPhone Syncing

Sorry Nuevasync, I really liked your product, but I'll have to try Google's version - since it's one stop shopping. Now the real question -- why would you pay $99 for MobileMe? http://www.google.com/mobile/apple/sync.html

Free TV

 So true -- media companies are behind this -- and consumers bought into it, hook line and sinker.

'real' IBM Model M keyboards -

Gotta get a real keyboard

Lovingly made in the USA -- who knew?

MacFUSE mounts UFS

Whee! Google's MacFUSE and the UFS driver saved my bacon. Needed to recover some stuff from a decommissioned FreeNAS (a FreeBSD based NAS ) server hard drive. Seems kinda uncool that I had to compile the driver myself -- I'm a developer and all - but sheesh.

MacFuse 2.0 seems more stable than when I tried my luck a year ago.

Modifier Keys

I must be the only Mac user on earth that can't remember the symbols for all the modifier keys --- why is the command key the only modifier that is blessed with it's symbol on the physical keyboard? Why aren't the modifiers just documented with their names in the menus?
Seems a little like hazing - or some other kind of secret knowledge that only real Mac users are supposed to know.

Are regular users supposed to know about modifier keys at all -- or are they supposed to stick to the mouse only?

Sure I can look them up -- but for some reason - my feeble mind can't remember what arrow thing is vs stair step thing.

Northern Virginia Bug Club

Looking for other VW owners in the Northern Virginia area to start a club. Can't believe there's no club already? or is there?

www.novabugclub.com