135 Missions

A nice tribute to 135 missions of the NASA Space Shuttles, the last of which was in July 2011.

Twitter RSS feed

The new Twitter doesn't present an RSS feed any more but it's still there. It's now a 2 step process to subscribe to a feed.

1. Find the user account number by using the user name at http://www.idfromuser.com

2. Use the feed URL http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/USERID.rss where USERID is the account number from step 1

So far it's hit and miss for feeds, some work, some do not.

New Commodore 64

This is by far the coolest form factor I've seen for a Linux computer:

AnandTech: Commodore USA Announces C64x Extreme: Quad Core in a Classic Commodore Chassis

A quad-core Commodore 64? What's next, a dual-core VIC-20?

SMB Share Alias

I came across this great post on HomeWorks Blog on how to add an alias to a server share, which is a summary of MSKB 281308.

I have tested using a Windows Server 2008 R2 server for the share with multiple aliases. So long as the SPN is set, there have not been problems connecting to the share from any client from a current Windows 7 or 2008 R2 all the way back to Windows NT4.

Cheesy

Yes it's cheesy, and blatant marketing scare tactics, but it's still funny.

IE2 to IE9

A great history of Internet Explorer.

Operating system trend

I was perusing one of the many newsletters and came across some useful information from Google Analytics based on the anonymous usage data collected.

The 2011 trend for internet browsers has declined for Windows, down 5.1% from 2010 to 84.8%. Mac has increased 0.7% to 5.2%, Linux relatively unchanged at 0.7%, and Other has almost doubled to 9.3%.

I read the Other as smart phones, that increase is huge. I'll need to spend more time on my mobile style sheets...

Borrowed lexicon

I think I found a new term to use - instead of having to apply a hotfix, I'll need to deploy a fix in an Immediate Deployment Timeframe. Kudos to Raymond Chen for that bit of Microspeak.