Vote for Tony
A vote for Tony Pierce is a vote for classy writing in the Best of Blogs 2004 awards. Although I have to note: Aside from the “Big Name Blogs” category, I have only heard of one of these blogs. And I’ve been in the blogosphere for four years and am currently subscribed to 304 RSS [...]
Gambling on a different scale
I happened to be looking up an old Sloan instructor, Todd Dagres, who had been an assistant professor in my entrepreneurship curriculum, working alongside Howard Anderson. Dagres had led Battery Ventures’ investments in Akamai and Qtera back in 1999, but in 2001 was calling the tech IPO market a “nuclear winter.” Now that there are [...]
New Apple enterprise products
Apple released a bunch of new enterprise-class products today, including single 2.0 GHz and dual 2.3GHz XServes, and Xsan, a new 64-bit storage area network file system which gives up to 64 clients simultaneous read-write access to a Fibre Channel storage network (with volumes up to 16 TB in size) operating at speeds up to [...]
Mac OS X Encrypted Mail: howto, pitfalls
A year or more ago, I quietly started digitally signing most of my outgoing email messages. This trick, made possible by the S/MIME support in Mac OS X’s email client, is about providing authentication—proof that the message came from me and not from someone spoofing my return address, like an email virus or spammer. For [...]
